YOUR GO-TO
TECHNOLOGY FIRST
CREATIVE PRODUCTION AGENCY
Cutting through the marketing noise to make your brand stand out from the crowd has never been more challenging or rewarding.
Whether you target audiences via print media or online, delivering your message effectively can take a lot of resources and not every business has them.
We do.
The award-winning, talented team at ec2i are experts at capturing, creating, managing and deploying a wide range of engaging media content and advertising across multi-channel touch points.
From creative photography and colour retouching to design and integrated workflow solutions, we have the big ideas and technical skills to deliver your brand strategy.
Regardless of whether your brand targets specific channels such as catalogues, or focuses on online, an e-commerce platform, digital-out-of-home (DOOH) or video, we are more than just a safe pair of hands.
We are brand content creation specialists.
What is the difference between creative agencies and production companies?
It’s a good question.
Traditionally, a creative agency comes up with ideas and concepts for various businesses’ advertising campaigns. Think Mad Men, though with considerably less smoking and a lot more diversity, equality and inclusion.
Production companies turn ideas for brand owners into content: from gorgeously-photographed catalogues and press ads to social media content and eye-catching video advertising.
At ec2i, we offer a range of creative services that are all enhanced by our bespoke marketing technology.
Because our team invests so much imagination, thought and expertise into all our projects, we consider ourselves to be a creative production agency.
What are the stages of creative production?
It goes without saying that the various brands we work with have different goals and aims. That means the process we use can change, depending on each creative job and the brand experiences required.
For instance, our expert team could be called on at the early stages of a branding project, perhaps to help with research in packaging design, planning a creative strategy, or brand development.
Their expertise in creative production may be needed by a new business looking to launch their first professional advertising campaign to engage customers across social channels.
Maybe a brand will use our production team’s keen eye for detail to ensure every single image or piece of video content, throughout their print communications and digital advertising strategy, is 100% colour matched.
There’s almost no end to the creative production services we can provide to maximise and optimise your advertising strategy before it goes out into the world.
Talent at our creative agency
Creative production requires providing an entire roster of value-added abilities to our customers, including problem-solving, flexibility and the ability to produce great print and video content under pressure.
As one of the top creative agencies, we make sure all advertising material created is 100% accurate; looks amazing to all audiences, cementing your brand positioning; and is published where you need it, on time and on budget.
Whatever brand activation you want to deliver, our team will help you get it done.
HOW OUR CREATIVE AGENCY TEAM HELPS YOU
So, how can we as a creative agency help you deliver cost effective brand consistency in your advertising campaigns across multiple channels?
Let’s break it down:
The Renaissance platform
Brands, publishers and marketers are increasingly feeling the pressure to create, manage and deploy print and digital advertising campaigns, quickly, accurately and efficiently.
The process of keeping all those brand activation balls in the air is more complex than ever, so there’s no wonder they call on creative agencies like ours for help.
We’ve got all the tools they need.
We spent years developing and honing Renaissance, and the result is a market leading, integrated multi-channel workflow production solution that works for all brand activations.
Our creative workflow solutions and production automation systems help brands meet those advertising challenges, on time and on budget. Renaissance covers:
- Production management
- Digital asset management
- Product information management
- QR-coded product tracking
- Adobe InDesign plug-In
- Bespoke solutions
Multi channel advertising services
So many brands publish integrated campaigns and branded communications across several channels, aiming to engage the widest possible audience with comprehensive and memorable content.
As well as helping brands create eye-catching and memorable content, our value-added creative production services ensure each platform is maximised for all your advertising and communications.
With support from our team, your integrated campaigns will reach your target audience, no matter where they are.
These channels include:
- Website content deployment
- Digital out-of-home (DOOH)
- Catalogue print PDF deployment
- Magazine print PDF deployment
- Book publishing
- Online deployment
Asset management services
The digital world runs on data, and nobody knows that better than businesses, brands and creative agencies.
Brands and businesses rely on data to identify target audiences for their digital communications and advertising campaigns, aiming to ensure their brand positioning.
As part of that production strategy, creative agencies like ours use data to manage assets and monitor the advertising content within those brand communications.
We cover:
- Image collaboration
- Approval with annotation
- Metadata search capabilities
- File conversion on download
- Workflow automation
- Secure archive services
Photography creative services
With almost 1,500 square feet of exceptionally designed studio space, our stylists and photographic production team can push the boundaries of print and digital creativity as far as your brand advertising strategy requires.
Our photography services include:
- Product photography
- Model photography
- e-commerce photography
- Invisible mannequin
- Moving image
- 360 orbital
- Video
- Press ads
- Social media content
Production services
Even the most experienced of brands or agencies can be intimidated by the prospect of launching a digital advertising campaign or communications strategy.
Overseeing more than one creative process and production service at a time can make it hard to stay focused on the overall branding goal.
Our production experts have got your back.
We will ensure that won’t happen with creative services including:
- Design and artworking
- Catalogue production
- Creative retouching
- Colour swatch matching
- Content proofreading
- Online proofing
Colour management services
Multi-channel branding strategies and marketing campaigns can be hugely successful for a wide range of companies but two things connect them all: quality and consistency.
Imagine the hours of creative effort put into a marketing strategy combining video production and photography, from both brands and a creative agency.
Now, picture the faces of all those creatives when they discover the colours in the video don’t match what’s in the photos. How will that impact your audience’s perception of brand consistency, now and in the future?
Put your branding strategy in the hands of our award-winning agency creatives, and that will never happen. Why? Because we offer colour management services including:
- ISO/FOGRA asset conversions
- File optimisation
- Colour swatch matching
- Certified proofing
- Print profile optimisation
- Monitor calibration
Where are you based?
From the offices of our creative branding agency based in Essex, we create print and digital content for a variety of national and international brands and their brand owners.
We’re one of the UK’s most innovative creative agencies because we take a technology first approach to every branding project, from eye-popping photography to eye-catching video.
Here’s what the team at our creative agency brings to the table:
Decades of experience
We have more than 20 years’ production experience across multiple markets, and a combined experience of much, much more.. We aim to exceed a brand’s production requirements every time.
A dedication to service
Our ‘right first time’ approach to every project is at the core of everything we do. As a production partner that is on hand whenever you need us, our agency always strives for perfection.
A passion for creativity
We’re a little bit obsessed (in a good way) with what we produce and love working with our clients. Everyone at our agency takes immense pride in their work, and our long-standing relationships with clients are a testament to that dedication.
An appetite for innovation
We’re thrilled that so many branding clients have experienced the added value of our in-house Renaissance platform for their projects, but our dedication to innovation hasn’t stopped there.
We’re always coming up with fresh ideas and are focused on new ways to be more creative, responsive, effective and supportive.
Our creativity goal is to help brands operating in multiple markets identify target audiences and bring their advertising strategy to life.
Let us be your trusted creative strategy partner
Our company was initially created by two keen colour craftsmen. They worked in a small, rented unit with a gallery camera, a makeshift darkroom, a plate-making coater and an exposure frame, with a few hand-made light tables.
Over the years, ec2i has evolved into an award-winning, technology-first, creative production agency, bringing our creativity and skill to a diverse variety of high-end brands including The White Company, Bravissimo, L’Occitane, and Arsenal FC.
We can do the same for you.
CONTACT US
Whether you want to chat to our team about a future advertising strategy, book our photography studio to bring a campaign to life, or need a stack of images urgently colour matching, we can help.
You can contact our creative agency by emailing info@ec2i.biz or arrange to drop by our Essex office at 19 Aviation Way Southend-on-Sea between 9am and 5.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Alternatively, you can fill in this contact form and we’ll get back to you straight away.
