Harleys Global

Where are the places in Bristol that most inspire creative people? 💡

From arthouse cinemas to Victorian typography, join us on our ‘muse cruise’ as we explore the parts of Bristol that get the team at Harleys feeling creative 🚢

Read our latest journal entry.

Inspiration City Bristol is one of the UK’s most creative cities. We spoke to the team to discover what it is about the city that gets their ideas flowing.

Summer is almost here, and what better way to prepare yourself than to read our top tips for travelling from our film crew! ☀️

1. If you're flying, keep an eye on your phone's time zone setting so you don't lose your bearings – or miss your flight! ✈️

2. For travel hold-ups and quiet afternoons, pack a simple card game – our recommendations are Dobble, Uno and Monopoly Deal.

3. Keep electrical items near the top of your bag for security checks and leave plenty of room in your luggage to take some snacks home. When travelling via Sweden, our crew bring back plenty of Kex chocolate bars! 🍫

What are your top tips? 🤔

We're looking for a Business Development Representative – take a look at the role on the Bristol Creative Industries job board! 💻

Looking for a creative, marketing or digital job in the South West?

There are more than 20 vacancies on our jobs board including roles from Torchbox, JonesMillbank, Noble Digital Performance, Bray Leino Events, TMW Unlimited, and Harleys Global

See all the jobs here: http://buff.ly/3hAvTuJ

Our team have plenty of ‘hidden talents’. Not only are we creative at work, but we are creative at home too! 🎨

Check out the passion projects that inspire us, keep us curious, and fuel our creative brains.

- Stacey bakes delicious bread
- James is a skating king
- Beccy sews hair scrunchies
- Jon creates pottery masterpieces
- Sarah felts figurines
- Toby is our Dame
- Chloe leaves us in stitches
- Russ is the Master of Film

Just look how cool these are! 🫖

We’re big into creativity, as you may know,
So we thought we’d give collaborative poetry a go.

We asked members of the team if they'd lend us a hand,
Taking first-line inspiration from Eliot's The Waste Land.

Writing one line per person, and one line at a time,
Creativity was the theme, and it all had to rhyme 😉

It’s another day at the Creative Cities Convention, where we’re attending some really insightful talks for the TV and film industry 😀

The panel sessions have covered a great range of topics, from sustainability to consumer habits, and we’ve had some exciting conversations with like-minded producers and creators.

It’s so great to be part of these creative conversations! 💭

Bristol Beacon

Do you know the marketing myths that could be affecting your content strategy? 🤔

We’ve curated a list of five myths that you need to stop believing if you want to build a marketing strategy that has an impact ❌💥

Read them here in our latest Journal article:
https://harleys.agency/journal/marketing-myths/

5 marketing myths that could be affecting your content strategy. We’ve curated a list of some marketing myths that you need to stop believing if you want to build a marketing strategy that has an impact.

Happy Easter from the team at Harleys! 🐰🌼

We’ve been working around the cluck on these spot-the-egg images.

Can you find all of them all? Comment below and tell us where they’re hidden. 👇

We will be closed from Friday 29th March until Monday 1st April.

There’s no stopping us! 🏃

We’ve always got a great stash of behind-the-scenes shots of the team working hard on a few recent filming projects – here are just a few from 2024 so far.

Did you know it’s Day?

To celebrate, we just had to put our writers to the test – on average, our Content and Strategy teams spotted the mistakes in each of these images in about 4 seconds.

How fast can you spot the mistakes? 🕵️‍♀️

What’s the best way to ensure that key messages are absorbed by potential customers at an industry event? 🤔

Explore our findings in our blog on how to supercharge your event pitches and discover how to create content that your audience will remember!

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https://harleys.agency/journal/supercharge-event-pitches/

How to supercharge your event pitches | Harleys Global When it comes to events, how can digital apps help engage your potential customers on a new level?

A chilly start to 2024!

Nick and Ken recently took a trip to to visit some of our international clients and captured some very picturesque views! 🇸🇪 ❄️

Looking forward to the next trip.

Who runs the world? That’s right, project managers 😎

Check out our latest journal entry about project management and why PMs are such a vital aspect of an overall campaign.

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harleys.agency/journal/who-runs-the-world-project-managers/

Harleys Global | Who runs the world? Project managers Do we really need project managers? Read why they are so important to your overall marketing strategy.

Help us settle an internal debate 🎨

Using the new Harleys ‘H’, we asked the team to create a piece of art to celebrate our 40th year 👁️

One of our animators, Jon, created this magic eye art but only some of us can spot the H.

Can you spot it? Or does it not exist?

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Sometimes, trying to get the perfect photograph or piece of footage can lead to our team posing in ways we didn’t expect! 🤣

Here are some of our favourite snaps of the talented team, doing whatever it takes to get every film we make and photo we take just right 🎥

As you may know, we’ve revamped our branding and website to give us a 2023 makeover, in celebration of our 40th anniversary 💅

As part of this, we’ve asked some of the Harleys team to create an image using the new Harleys H with whatever material they liked.

The brief was open, and the team created some fabulous designs and animations 🤩

Can you guess where the inspiration comes from?

Gamification – the application of game-playing elements to encourage engagement. It’s been a creative buzzword for the last couple of years, but what about storyfication? 📖

Our latest journal entry discusses using the art of storytelling to deliver more effective corporate training. After all, who doesn’t love a good story? 🤔

https://harleys.agency/journal/storytelling-in-training/

Harleys Global | Why storytelling is the way forward Discover how using storytelling can transform your corporate training program into a positive narrative-driven tale.

At Harleys, we offer hybrid working which allows the team to collaborate in the office but also get all the benefits of working at home 💻

But that doesn’t mean the Harleys team is working at home alone. More often than not, our four-legged colleagues also join our team meetings 🐈🐕

Take a look through our extended Harleys team and let us know what job title you’d give your pet.

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Spooky things are happening in Harleys today! 🎃

Of course, we had to dress up and have a lunchtime quiz, or should we say a Harl-oween quiz 😂

Happy Halloween!

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Artificial intelligence is becoming a big part of our everyday lives. 🤖

We’re tackling one of the big topics today – how will impact creative agencies? 🧠

Read our opinion in our journal 📚

https://harleys.agency/journal/should-creative-agencies-be-adopting-ai/

Should creative agencies be adopting AI? | Harleys Global We explore whether ever-evolving AI is here to help creatives, or to take advertising and marketing out of human hands.

We’re showing off now 😉

Our recent batch of 12 awards have arrived from across the pond for our storytelling and in-house film production skills. We’re so pleased with how they look! 🏆

Thank you to all of our friends and clients for the ongoing support throughout the year. Roll on next year.

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It’s ! 😄

In honour of Frodo and Bilbo’s birthday, we got the Harleys creative writers together to create some tricksy . We think our teams have proved they can work to any thrown at us!

Can you crack our puzzles? 🧠 If you need a helping hand, the answers will follow.

Mario Kart at work? 😲

We’ve started an in-house monthly gaming club, where anyone at Harleys can join in and have some FRIENDLY competition 🎮

However, these game faces do suggest otherwise 😂

Have you visited our journal yet on the brand-new Harleys website? 🤔

This entry is all about the impact of video and how to make the most out of video content 🎥

Over the next few months, we’ll be filling in our journal with our thoughts on current trends, tips and tricks for your marketing strategy, and tools to supercharge your campaign.

https://harleys.agency/

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It’s a UK on Monday next week, and we are looking forward to taking the extra day to recharge our batteries💡🔋

The team have shared some photos of the fun and creative activities we’ll be getting up to with our extra day.

Our offices will be back open as usual from Tuesday 29th August.

It’s ! So, alongside our ongoing 40th anniversary celebrations, we asked the team to submit a photo on the theme of ‘40’ 📷🎉

The brief was totally open to interpretation, with some images that are obvious, some less so!

Where is the 40 in all the submissions? 🤔

Today is national ! 🎤

To celebrate, we challenged our creative teams to come up with their best jokes ✍️

Here are the ones each team picked – we hope they make you smile!