Blog archive

How to win when the cookie crumbles: top takeaways from our LDF event

The cookie’s crumbling, but performance doesn’t have to. At our first Leeds Digital Festival event, we unpacked life after third-party tracking, from smarter data strategies to digital activations that earn attention (and opt-ins). Missed it? Grab the recap right here!

Dot All 2025: What’s next for Craft CMS?

Our Head of Development headed down to sunny Lisbon for Dot All 2025; the official three-day conference for Craft’s increasingly international community. Here are the key takeaways for clients, agencies and developers.

Why digital activations are the future of travel marketing

At the ABTA Travel Marketing Conference, we explored how digital activations help travel brands boost loyalty, capture smarter data and create memorable experiences. In this video, Will and Greg share key opportunities.

From fixtures to footfall: a Craft CMS agency success story

See how our Fanzo-Craft CMS integration transforms live fixture data into SEO-friendly pages, boosting visibility, bookings, and engagement across headline matches and niche competitions.

The HFSS ban: Is it time to rethink your recipe for digital success?

The HFSS ad ban might be delayed, but it’s not going away. When it lands, it’ll reshape how food and drink brands market online. This blog breaks down what HFSS means, what’s changing, and how to future-proof your digital strategy now.

Your guide to creating high-performing social media content in 2025

Social media isn’t standing still in 2025. Discover what’s driving performance this year, what your content needs to cut through in the noisy social space.

Fast, flexible, and powerful: Why we’re a Craft CMS agency

When it comes to managing a website, cost, ease of use and flexibility are key. That’s why we at Engage love Craft CMS - a platform that strikes the perfect balance between functionality, powerful performance and user-friendly design.

Building a multi award-winning agency: An interview with Founder Alex Willcocks

What makes a multi award-winning agency? With four shiny new trophies on the shelf, we sat down with Founder, Alex Willcocks, to discuss.

Is your website ready for the European Accessibility Act?

The European Accessibility Act takes effect in June 2025. Learn what it means for your website, what’s at stake for your business, and how to get compliant.

Looking for a WordPress alternative? Here’s why Craft CMS is the upgrade you need

At Engage, we believe in delivering digital experiences that demand attention. Craft CMS gives you the freedom to do just that; without the bloat, limitations, or plugin maintenance often associated with WordPress. Here’s why Craft CMS is the choice your future self will thank you for.

Engage partners with ABTA: Driving digital engagement for travel brands

Engage is now a proud member of ABTA, the UK’s leading travel association. Why ABTA? Because we know what works in travel. For years, we’ve helped travel brands like Jet2holidays use gamified digital activations to drive engagement, boost bookings, and capture valuable first-party data at scale.

Engage X BlackBook Motorsport

We’re excited to announce our partnership with BlackBook Motorsport, bringing Engage’s digital activation expertise to the world’s leading motorsport businesses.

Fact vs. fiction: 5 common misconceptions about gamification

Gamification doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. Some see it as a gimmick, others think it’s just for younger generations, and many assume it’s either complex to implement or tricky to measure. The truth? It’s anything but.

Our digital marketing predictions for 2025

From the seismic shift in search behaviour to the increasing adoption of AI, we asked our team to share the trends shaping the future of digital. Here’s what you need to know to stay ahead in 2025.

Mobile wallet vouchers: Put your brand in your customers’ pocket

Research suggests that suggest the average consumer spends over 3 hours a day on their phone, every single day. Wouldn’t it be great to slip seamlessly into that daily routine? Enter mobile wallet vouchers: a more convenient, flexible, and personalised approach to customer engagement.

How to boss Black Friday and boost your bottom line

We’ve gathered the team’s top tips to help you boost visibility, engagement and importantly, sales - on Black Friday and beyond

Gamification for fundraising: A guide for charities

Discover how gamification can supercharge your charity’s fundraising efforts, boost volunteer engagement, strengthen corporate partnerships and more.

Proudly employee-owned: An interview with Engage Founder and Owner Alex Willcocks

​We’ve just become employee-owned, something we’re incredibly proud of. It’s going to boost us as a business, with our employees having a real say in how we do things going forward.

Engage becomes 100 percent employee-owned

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Engage is now 100% employee owned.

Unveiling the future: Reflections from Craft Conference Barcelona

We’ve just got back from Dot All 2023; a three day in-person event that brings together the international Craft community.

Craft CMS: A powerful tool for building multilingual sites

With Craft CMS, you can easily create and manage multiple language versions of your website, with each version having its own unique content and settings.

The power of Craft CMS plugins

We explore some of the best Craft CMS plugins, why you should use them and the best way to find and install them.

Level up your brand activations with gamification

Find your next brand activation campaign with Engage’s gamification marketing ideas. From spin-the-wheel to classic quizzes, you’ll capture, engage and convert your customers.

Achievement unlocked: Improving customer loyalty with gamification

Learn how you can add an extra level of fun to your marketing strategy and keep your customers loyal with our gamification and activation tips.

Ctrl+Alt+Level Up: The benefits of gamification for next-level digital marketing

Want to supercharge your digital marketing strategy? Learn all about the benefits of gamifications and activations and how they can work for your customers!

National education charity, the EEF, choose Engage

We love to partner with organisations with purpose and help them achieve their vision faster, which is why we’re delighted to announce our latest partnership with the Education Endowment Fund.

Craft CMS vs other CMS platforms: a comprehensive comparison

From website accessibility, security and design, to SEO, speed and price, there are lots of variables to consider when replatforming your website. So we’ve created this ultimate Craft CMS comparison to help you choose the right CMS.

Google Business Profile: beginner local SEO guide

Want more visibility in local search for your business? Our SEO team have put together a whistlestop beginner’s guide to Google Business Profile to help you out.

15 website accessibility tips & solutions

Our developers have put together their top tips for website accessibility. Read on to learn about making your site as accessible as possible and tap into new and loyal customers your competitors have forgotten.

A motion designer’s guide to using Wiggle Expressions in After Effects

After Effects expressions - how to use code in After Effects to save time in your motion projects.

5 ways to use AI in marketing

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a game-changer in the world of digital marketing, here’s 5 ways it’s making an impact.

Perfect presentation

At Engage, we’ve been offering presentation training to our team for anyone that wants to improve their public speaking skills, hone their presentation technique or boost their confidence. To put their newfound skills to the test we spoke to Carrie Barrett, our resident social media executive and meme queen extraordinaire on her top tips for nailing the perfect presentation.

Putting the interest in Pinterest

Pinterest is one of the largest website traffic drivers in the world. It’s 80% more viral and 3x more effective at generating leads than Twitter.

WhatsApp for customer service?

Did you know that brands have slowly been turning Whatsapp into a customer service machine?! With 2 billion users, it has more than double the user base of Facebook Messenger. And people trust WhatsApp more than other messaging apps. Do you use it?

AR filters: Benefit or curse?

​Whether you’re on Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok, chances are you’ve dabbled in playing with the augmented reality filters. So what are these AR filters, and why are they so popular?

Reels vs TikTok - What’s the difference?

Trying to decide between Instagram Reels vs. TikTok? You’re not alone.

Cyber Essentials? We’re certified.

Engage has now achieved the Cyber Essentials Plus certification. Cyber Essentials ensures businesses like ours have the right controls in place to mitigate a whole range of cyberattacks.

All Agency Day - April 2022 edition

It’s All Agency Day again, a time for everyone to come together for creative collaboration and an all-around good time. The day included a one-time opening of Dave’s Vegan BBQ Shack, taskmaster games, and post-work drinks at Belgrave. Oh and some work in between! ​​

Let’s BeReal. A new social media app?

A new social media app for people who hate social media? Yes, you read that right. Introducing Be Real that promises a more authentic, healthier social media interactions.

Spicing up Grace Foods UK’s digital strategy

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been appointed by leading, global world food supplier Grace Foods UK to support their growth plans.

Some royally good news

CATCH, one of the charities we support via Elympics and work with to develop their Superstars app, has had a very special visitor this week. The surprise visit was from none other than His Royal Highness Prince William The Duke of Cambridge.

The little Black Friday Book of Secrets

We’ve consolidated all of our expertise and crafted some delightful nuggets of information and inspiration that you can easily take away to use in your Black Friday strategy.

What’s Apple doing now? iOS 15 and email marketing

Apple has recently released a new iPhone operating system. Say hello to iOS 15. This update has introduced features to increase user’s email privacy which now limits the data that senders can gather on open rate, location and IP address. Open-rates are dropping and usable data is changing. So what can you do about it?

Steaming ahead with Veetee’s digital strategy

We recently started working with microwave rice brand Veetee, building them a brand new ecommerce website and re-launching their digital presence with a focus on social content and paid advertising.

Dishoom appoints Engage as digital partner

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been appointed by restaurant group Dishoom to build and then scale their new ecommerce platform, providing an enhanced shopping experience for their customers.

How to prepare for Google’s new page experience algorithm update

There’s a new Google algorithm update coming up… In mid-June, the page experience update will finally be rolled out.

Proud to be a B Corp™

Following on from our blog post last August, we’ve just this week had the fantastic news that we’ve achieved B Corp certification.

People development through coaching

When Engage created its People development and Culture (PdC) team in 2019, we had a vision that stretched beyond simply helping our colleagues to achieve their professional goals - we hoped to support their personal growth too.

How to prepare for the end of Broad Match Modifiers in Google Ads

Google Ads is sunsetting Broad Match Modifier keyword. We share 5 steps to help you prepare for the merger between BMM and Phrase Match keywords.

What lies in store for digital in 2021?

2020 was the year that the world needed digital more than ever, and has had a huge impact on how consumers will interact online in the future.

Digital marketing in the run up to Christmas: what do hospitality brands need to know?

Why the hospitality sector should be investing in digital marketing right now, and how it can be used to engage customers and generate revenue in the run up to Christmas.

Our journey to BCORP certification

Becoming a certified BCORP indicates that your business meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

Teaming up with THIS Institute to help the NHS

We’ve recently been appointed by The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute to work on a project to improve the quality and safety of healthcare in the NHS.

How to be more like Yorkshire Tea - The importance of authenticity and Share of Voice as a challenger brand

In this digital age, we are overwhelmed by choice and overloaded with advertising, so brand authenticity is the key to gaining Share of Voice (SOV) and growing in the market.

How to build a Chrome Extension: A beginner’s guide

Building a Chrome Extension can be a quick and easy activity to brighten up your browser.

6 reasons why we made the switch to Figma

Earlier this year our design team made the switch to Figma. We wanted to share what we think are some of its best features, how they benefit each of our teams, and why we’d recommend making the switch.

Now’s the time to implement dark mode on your website

Originally created to improve readability and reduce eye strain in darker surroundings, dark mode has leapt into popular use for other reasons as well.

How we create high performance onboarding user journeys

This Easter we launched a campaign for Jet2holidays called Easter Break. It was a fantastic success. I’ve outlined a few key points which we think make all the difference when designing your campaign onboarding user journey.

What Instagram Guides could mean for digital marketers

Last week Instagram launched Guides, a new content feature that could offer exciting new opportunities in social media marketing.

Communicating with empathy

Chris takes a look at how we communicate using empathy. Now more than ever, we must have a good understanding of each other if we are all to succeed.

Kindness is the key in trying times

Heidi looks into the theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week

The importance of a personal development and coaching culture

Dave looks at what a ‘personal development and coaching culture’ is, why it’s important and how do we start to create one

Engage takes on The 2.6 Challenge

We’re going to do our own take on the 2.6 challenge and give our charities a little bit extra during these tough times.

4 simple strategies to monitor smart shopping campaigns

Monitoring your smart shopping campaigns can be hard, especially when there are less opportunities to tweak and refine performance. Or are there?

Why now, more than ever, Leaders must Lead

As business owners and leaders, this is probably (and hopefully) the closest we will get to our generation’s WW2, and at the end of it we will all have to look at ourselves in the mirror, and each other in the eye, and ask ourselves; did we do we did the right thing?

ISO 27001: A path to better information security

A look at ISO 27001 and information security; how it can be (continuously) improved and how we can place it right at the centre of an organisation to give it the appropriate emphasis.

How to focus, stay fit and have fun when working from home

With the whole Engage team now working from home for the foreseeable, we’ve been busy collating everyone’s top tips for making WFH life that little bit easier, under the headings of Focus, Having fun and Staying fit.

Our plan for COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Like the rest of the World, we’ve been closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and continually assessing our response as the situation unfolds. Read more about our response in this post.

Engage graduate from Google Elevator Programme

Read about how we’ve been handpicked as one of a select group of just 30 agencies from across the UK to take part in Google’s prestigious Elevator Programme.

Living the ethos of the Taylors Sustainability Hub

Digital trends brands can’t ignore in 2020

Digital is an integral part of everyday life, and the advances in technology and tools show no sign of stopping. With so much opportunity and so many options out there in 2020 for brands in the digital space, we’ve pulled together the digital trends and strategies that just can’t be ignored.

Which programmatic advertising model is right for your client?

In a world of ad fraud and brand reputation risks, what exactly is the right way to buy programmatic for your brand? There are two main options advertisers can use which are available to everyone, and the pros and cons of each one of them can determine which one’s a match for your brand.

District Chief Superintendent’s Commendation

As 2019 draws to a close and we get ourselves ready to enter a whole new decade (gulp!) it’s great to be able to post one last bit of good news before we power down for the festive period.

6 times digital was a little too much like Black Mirror in 2019

We’re big fans of all things digital, but in recent times even we have to admit it’s bordered on the dystopian.

How to create a content strategy that will excite and convert

Content is still king; find out how to craft a content marketing strategy that will convert readers into buyers…

5 vector mask tips using the pen tool

Vector Paths and Anchor Points can be a bit difficult to master at first, but with a little practice you can join the true professionals in the ring.

Is your checkout SCA ready?

Strong Customer Authentication comes into force on the 14th September 2019. Is your shop ready for it?

Taking a seat with Asana

We made the decision last year to move from from our custom project tracker to Asana. Here’s what we learned and what we changed.

Speeding up Docker on MacOS

If you’ve moved your development environment to Docker, you might have noticed your web application stacks might be slower than a native environment you’ve been used to. We look at ways to improve Docker performance on MacOS.

Improve your website’s performance and score 100 on Google PageSpeed Insights

Pinpointing speed bottlenecks is the first step you should be taking when trying to improve the performance of your website.

Instagram hiding likes: Everything influencer marketers need to know

Instagram are officially testing hiding likes from photos, apparently in a bid to ease ‘engagement anxiety’ - but what does this mean for influencer marketing?

The mobile web is broken - but it doesn’t have to be

The state of the mobile web, from a user experience point of view, is largely broken; page weights are high, adverts fill our screens left, right and centre, and information consumption is generally more cumbersome than it needs to be.

15 Visual Studio Code extensions for faster web development

A list of extensions to help you become a faster and more efficient web developer. Cut corners, keep your focus on the things that matter, spend time on the basics and make fewer errors.

Announcing our new Elympics charities

As we enter the fourth year of our Elympics campaign, we’ve freshened things up a bit by selecting two new worthy causes.

Optimise queries and speed up your Laravel application

Three simple tips that can improve sub-optimal queries and speed up your Laravel application.

Are you ready for Leeds Digital Festival 2019?

23rd April 2019 marks the start of of this year’s 10 day Leeds Digital Festival and it’s set to be the biggest and best yet. Just make sure you book events early to avoid missing out!

Smashing targets: our year 3 Elympics results

For our third year of Elympics we set a target of exercising our way to £8,000. How did we get on?

Our software engineering principles

We’ve always followed a set of software engineering principles here at Engage, but we thought it was time to share these so that everyone can see our approach to technical problem solving.

Why you need to include podcasts in your content marketing strategy

The BBC declared 2018 the year of the podcast, but, whilst independent content creators have been jumping on the bandwagon, brands and marketers are missing an opportunity by not including podcasting in their strategies…

Simple character animation in After Effects

A tutorial explaining some simple animation techniques to give life to characters!

6 unique ways to organise & upgrade your Instagram feed

Read our top tips on how you can curate your own beautiful Instagram feed.

8 digital marketing trends you can’t ignore in 2019

As we move into 2019, digital marketing is evolving at an ever-increasing rate, making it all the more important for us to keep our eye on the ball. Take a look at the digital marketing trends you can’t afford to ignore in 2019…

4 time-saving Sass functions you should be using

When CSS preprocessors arrived on the scene they were a breath of fresh air and provided us with a suite of incredibly useful abilities way above those included in ‘vanilla’ CSS. Over the years, the UX team at Engage have developed a library of functions and mixins which we use on a daily basis. Here are some of our favourites.

Utilising GitHub’s STRTA pattern with Docker

How implementing Docker & Scripts To Rule Them All has changed our local development process

What’s the deal with NFC?

Near Field Communication (NFC) allows smartphones to communicate when brought into close proximity with each other.

How to drive website actions with YouTube

According to Google, globally, video will represent 82% of all consumer Internet traffic by 2021. Both an impressive and an unexpected prediction, this statistic leaves advertisers only 2 years to take YouTube more seriously.

Finding the big idea: 10 tips for an effective brainstorm

We all love a good brainstorm, but there’s a skill to using brainstorm time efficiently that is often underestimated. So, how do you ensure your brainstorms produce your best and brightest ideas? We like to think we have it down to a fine art…

A look inside our annual staff survey

Read all about how we approach our annual digital staff survey including the questions we ask

7 tips for designing for Pinterest

Pinterest is considered one of the world’s biggest social networks, with over 200 million monthly users. When designing for Pinterest, there are a few tricks to have in mind that can help your Pins reach their full potential…

A post #ad world: What next for influencer marketing?

Here are a few of the things influencer marketers can learn from Listerine to make sure our influencer marketing campaigns shine…

Take me to church

It’s no secret that we love a good excuse for a party at engage, and this month we held our 4th annual summer social…

Engage shortlisted for ‘Inspired Spaces North 2018’ award

It’s been a year since we moved into our new home, and what better way to celebrate than having the space nominated for an award!

Getting dirty down on the Farm

We spend a day away from our screens helping Lineham Farm improve their facilities for future intakes of disadvantaged kids.

Why long-tail keywords are the future of digital advertising

With the rise of voice search, advertisers should be turning their attention to long-tail keywords to keep up with the trend.

How we simplified our development process with a new workflow

Recently, we introduced a new workflow into our development process when building websites. We have released the solution as an open source package for Laravel.

The 21 Day Challenge - Completed!

21 days may not be long enough to build a sustainable habit, but it definitely gave us something to think about - and we’ll be back next year to try again!

The 21 Day Challenge

This month, we’ve been undertaking our first 21 day challenge here at Engage HQ.

IGTV: What is it & why it’s cemented Instagram as the #1 app

All about Instagram’s latest feature IGTV, how to use it and why it makes Instagram the leading social media app

Playing video inline on iOS

Finally, after years of waiting, videos on iOS no longer have to play in full screen

Code in the Dark 2018

More smoke, more lasers, and more heavy music as Engage attempts to take the Code in the Dark trophy for a third year in a row.

6 Tips for design graduates applying for a job in digital marketing

Breaking it into the digital industry can seem a lot more daunting than it really is. Competition might be huge; but with talent, ambition and a will to learn, it’s far from impossible!

Mobile-first Indexing: What you need to know in 2018

The day has finally arrived. Google has announced that ‘mobile first indexing’ is now rolling out. Here’s what you need to know.

Elympics year 2: The results

As our second year of Elympics comes to an end we take a look back over the last 12 months to see how we fared, and whether we managed to beat last year’s total.

How to create Low Poly Art in Adobe Illustrator

It’s a process you may need to practice, but with this tutorial, you’ve got all you need to know!

The best digital marketing campaigns of 2017

As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite campaigns from 2017…

After Effects tips & tricks every animator should know: 02 - Advanced Text Animation

We’re back to discuss another powerful feature of After Effects - Advanced Text Animation

The Rise of Meme Marketing

​What are they? Where do they come from? And how can digital marketers take advantage of this social phenomenon?

‘Dam… you were great!

To celebrate our 10th year in business we hopped on a plane and went to experience the best that Amsterdam has to offer. Did we all make it home? Read on to find out.

Facebook Store Visits

What are store visit adverts and how do you set them up?

After Effects tips & tricks every animator should know: 01 - Clipping Paths

Combining web fonts

We’ve all been there; when you absolutely love a font and you’ve dropped it into your designs, only to find out it’s missing a certain special character…

AWS CloudWatch - Reporting on RAM, Disk Usage & More

Amazon Web Services instance reporting is missing some key metrics by default. In this post we’ll look at how we can use CloudWatch to monitor some extended metrics.

Our 3rd chapter begins…

Today marks a hugely exciting milestone for us, as contractors arrive on site and make a start on a 3 month office fit-out project that’s been months in the planning.

Don’t repeat yourself, use the Laravel service container!

Let’s run through how you can bind something to the Laravel service container and pull it out in a pre-configured state later in your application.

Getting setup on Sublime Text 3 (2017 Edition)

Following this relatively simple guide, you’ll be coding like a pro in no time and as with all things, step one is installation…

Elympics: The final results are in!

As our 12 month challenge comes to an end, we take a look back at how far we’ve come.

A year with Atom

After switching from Sublime Text to Atom I share my thoughts and conclusions a year on.

Brands to watch out for in 2017

Who’s going to be dominating the digital space this year? Here are our brands to watch out for in 2017…

How to keep vector illustrations crisp & HD ready for animation in After Effects CC

EM vs REM vs PX – Why you shouldn’t “just use pixels”

Holi Days is Back!

How brands are using Facebook Live

Facebook Live is a fantastic way to get high reach, engagement and brand visibility without any advertising spend. In a time where algorithms make brands struggle to get their post seen by even their own fans, this highlights the importance of Facebook Li

5 modern snow effects for your website

Yes, I went there and it’s not even December.

Improving our Front‑end workflow with Gulp

Gulp allows us to benefit from the huge variety of front-end tools available by providing a powerful and efficient system for combining and automating them.

15 key takeaways from Social Media Week London

Didn’t get a chance to attend Social Media Week? No worries, here are the top 15 things you missed. Read on…

Shape morphing with After Effects

Ever wondered how to morph shapes? Specifically in After Effects? In 12 simple steps? Wonder no more.

Let’s give a big hand to brand! 3 BIG reasons to do it.

The Engage Summer Social 2016

​What happens at the Engage Summer Social, stays at the Engage Summer Social. Right? Wrong.

Social media video guidelines: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram

You’re wrong, there is a fold

CSS animations: Bringing websites to life

Everyone knows that GIFs are great, but they can have very large file sizes meaning longer loads times and a poorer user experience. So, how do you create animations that are both complex and efficient?

To Snapchat, or not to Snapchat?

Despite the hype, there’s still plenty of marketers out there who just aren’t sure whether to jump in and take their first snap. Let me tell you what we think…

Designing for larger screens

10 awesome sources for design inspiration

Custom blade directives in Laravel 5

Anyone who uses Laravel as a framework day to day already knows how great Laravel’s blade syntax is, and it’s been made even more powerful recently with Laravel 5 due to the addition of custom blade directives.

Engage crowned back-to-back Code In The Dark champions

10 Sass (SCSS) mixins you should be using in your projects

Save yourself time and stop repeating so much code, with help from a set of Sass ‘mixins’ taken from the Engage Front End Baseplate.

How to make 3D GIFs in two simple steps

Add some depth to your GIFs and follow this quick tutorial to get you started.

Snapchat update: Video calling, the sand timer and everything else you need to know!

Content Shock, and what you can do about it…

Motion prototyping

Ready to take your static wireframes to the next level? Here I’ll show why Team Engage have embraced the motion prototype as a key weapon in our design arsenal.

How to use UTM tracking in Google Analytics to track your social campaigns

A quick run through about UTM tags and why you should be using them to track your social campaigns

A guide to Customer Match in AdWords

​You’ll never guess what Google has done now! - A guide To Customer Match in AdWords

Back to the Future of Web Design

Brands to watch out for in 2016

With digital activity increasingly taking a bigger share of many brands’ overall marketing budgets, 2016 is set to be another year of forward progression for the industry. We had a little think in the Engage office about some brands we expect to move into

Bringing content to life with cinemagraphs

A day in the life of an intern

For today’s post we’re going to hand the blog reigns over to Heather who’s been working with us over the last 3 months as part of her placement year on the Multimedia course at Leeds Beckett University.

We need to talk about vertical video

Engage named #1 Elite Digital Agency by the Drum

We’re hugely proud to have been crowned the #1 Elite Digital Agency for 1-25 staff in the 2015 Digital Census, published by The Drum.

Google testing expandable sitelinks for mobile search

Google continues to test their mobile interfaces to make them more simple to navigate and faster for users to get where they want to online.

Introducing Attention to digital™

Read about our process of defining and trademarking ‘Attention to digital™’ and also what the difference actually is between the ™ and ® symbols

Ain’t no party like an Engage Summer Party!

2015 saw us hold the first ever Engage Summer Party. It promised to be a memorable day of games, music, dancing and drinking - and certainly didn’t disappoint!

Google Adds ‘Save to Maps’ Feature to Location Knowledge Box

Google has tweaked their location knowledge box now allowing you to save locations directly in the SERPs.

Using Google Tag Manager to Add Schema (Structured Data)

Using structured data is the best way to help search engines make sense of the information on your site and now it’s even more simple to implement thanks to tag manager.

Photoshop Artboards

Better late than never

Adobe’s Latest Photoshop CC Update Compresses ‘Save For Web’

If it ain’t broke…

InstaLeeds

The Rise of Emojis

Emojis are taking over the social media landscape. We take a look at some of the best emoji campaigns out there…

Slack: One month in

We recently started using Slack App as part of our day-to-day process. One month on, see how we’re finding it.

CSRF Protection with Ajax and Laravel

Chris takes a look at protecting applications using Ajax and Laravel.

Insights into restaurant mobile users

We’ve sifted through over 1 million mobile restaurant website visits to our Pocket Diner product to give you some useful insights into the browsing habits of restaurant customers on a mobile device.

Facebook Groups

The the paint still wet on Facebook’s new Groups app, we take a look at what it actually does and what it could mean for social marketers

Designing Interactive Experiences For Generation Z

Twitter is the new call centre

Social media has fast become a primary channel of customer service; a fact which can’t be ignored by companies who want to improve their performance on the major social platforms.

Are your emails mobile friendly?

Want to further maximise your inbox–impact? Read on to find out how a bit of mobile ‘TLC’ could dramatically improve your engagement and click–throughs…

A brand-new launch for Whitbread Inns

Read about our latest launch for Whitbread’s new pub dining concept, Whitbread Inns

How many fonts is too many fonts?

In this post Jamie looks at the importance of resisting the temptation to use too many fonts in your website designs

Where we’re going, we don’t need pixels…

Switching to Sublime Text

In this blog post we’ll talk about how to make the shift to using the fantastic Sublime Text for all your coding needs

Best Social Campaigns of 2013

An introduction to SVG

Google Analytics tips & tricks

Taking back control of Adobe Photoshop

Web typography showdown

Axure: Rapid wireframing (and a bit of prototyping)

Leveraging the power of Sass

Is responsive web design really the future?

Our 5 tips for a more useable CMS

My favourite tools for getting the job done

An introduction to using Facebook’s Open Graph protocol

Power up with APIs

Tutorial: Building a website for the iPhone

Fancy a change of scenery? Try our new style switcher