Case Studies
A quick snapshot of the client stories we have written up over the last couple of years. We are especially proud of how long our relationships last, with many going back more than a decade and some clients returning more than six times.
Behind each story is the same approach: we identify the organisations worth your time, open conversations that would otherwise stay closed, and hand you qualified meetings ready to convert. The names span advertising, PR, digital, creative and integrated agencies, and the discipline behind every win is the same.
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Seventeen meetings. Five pitches. Three wins. All within the first six months, built on a relationship more than twenty years in the making.
Won: Scania · Stiga · Mountfield · 20+ year relationship
A dedicated, UK-led team of eight ran global outreach across three regions — sixty qualified meetings a month, for six consecutive months straight.
Approach: ICP clarity · intent data · tailored email · phone follow-up
Manifest supported this agency at a key moment in its development, from ambitious start-up to award winner — six meetings a month, four years, even through lockdown.
Won: Nah Foods · Doctify · The Cheese Geek · Meyer · Hatch Mansfield · Villa Maria · lastminute.com
This content and video production company came to Manifest looking for fast results. We started in November — by February, they had signed their first three new clients.
Won: Carbon Trust · Hitachi · Oxfam
This communications firm has entrusted its new business entirely to Manifest since 2018 — full pipeline opportunities across awareness, market-ready and live pitches, consistently, every month.
Won: Zurich AM · UBS · Revolut · BNP Paribas · Pyrex · Quilter · KIA
Originally Shoreditch-based, this agency moved to Amsterdam post-Brexit and kept Manifest on — over a decade of consistent outreach, three new clients a year on average.
Won: Converse · Kipling · Victorinox · Veuve Clicquot
This agency operates in one of the most specific niches in the industry. Manifest has supported them for over eight years with a constant flow of qualified new business, worldwide.
Won: Dettol (Reckitt) · Reckitt · Diversey · Interclean
ICP and buying-committee clarity, intent data, personalised sequences, and follow-up from ex-agency pros — thirty-five high-quality meetings over ten months.
Won: Hill's · Twinings
A specialist content agency for financial services needed a defined ICP, a way to stand out, and a pipeline that didn't compete with delivery.
Won: Aegon · Tatton IM · 7iM · St. James's Place · Robeco
A UK PR agency specialising in automotive technology and the circular economy needed a sharper ICP. Manifest paired firmographic targeting with personalised email and expert phone follow-up.
Sector: Automotive technology & circular economy PR
An advertising agency needed to stand out in the youth and children's sector. Personalised outreach and expert follow-up landed two six-figure pitches within six months — beating TBWA to one.
Won: Legoland Discovery Centre · Butlins
A UK branding agency needed a sharper ICP. Manifest layered firmographic targeting with personalised email and expert phone follow-up, generating ten funded pipeline opportunities in five months.
Pipeline included: Nike · Unilever · Mars · Nestlé
A Paris branding agency struggled to define its ICP in a competitive market. Manifest paired intent data with personalised email and expert phone follow-up, sustaining €5m of annual pipeline for three years running.
Sector: Branding, Paris
A Brighton creative agency in the youth sector needed a steadier pipeline. Manifest's outbound campaign landed them agency of record for HMV, then a new account with Nickelodeon.
Won: HMV · Nickelodeon
A storytelling-led branding agency needed a sharper ICP without disrupting client work. Manifest combined refined targeting, intent data and expert phone follow-up to generate an estimated £4m in pipeline within eight months.
Pipeline included: Whyte & Mackay · Aspinall Foundation · Hasbro
A digital agency blending marketing with psychology needed a steadier pipeline. Manifest built detailed buyer personas and paired tailored outreach with expert follow-up, landing two new clients with two more pitches pending.
Won: Instarmac · Mace — pitching: Blue Yonder · Redhat
A Leeds digital performance agency had a complex ICP and a crowded market to stand out in. Manifest mapped buying committees and paired data-intent targeting with personalised outreach.
Sector: Digital performance, Leeds
A London digital product design agency had no time or in-house outbound skills. Manifest filled the gap with ICP targeting, personalised email and expert follow-up, landing three major clients within a year.
Won: Accenture · EE · Vodafone
A Bristol digital transformation agency couldn't pin down its ICP or stand out. Manifest refined targeting with intent data and personalised outreach, generating £1.2m in pipeline and three new clients.
Won: Airbus + 2 more
A London luxury lifestyle PR firm had no time or in-house BD expertise. Manifest delivered fifteen qualified opportunities in ten months and four new client wins.
Won: Buddha To Buddha + 3 more
A fast-paced London martech firm had no time for lead generation and tech costs were prohibitive. Manifest clarified ICP and buying committee, booking forty-one meetings and fifteen proposals.
Sector: Martech — content localisation & deployment
A martech firm running a media arbitrage platform struggled to pin down its ICP. Manifest targeted companies actively searching for social advertising solutions, backed by intent data and follow-up.
Sector: Martech — media arbitrage platform
A premier UK media planning and buying agency needed a sharper ICP. Manifest's targeted outreach and buying-committee mapping landed Butternut Box, now running OOH and radio activity through the agency.
Won: Butternut Box
A New York branding agency under WPP Group needed a sharper ICP in a saturated market. Manifest targeted CMOs and Heads of Branding with tailored outreach and expert follow-up.
Won: Ole Mexican Foods · Bauducco Foods
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