Klaxonn

It's been a pretty fantastic (and a tad busy!) year at Klaxonn. We've onboarded new staff, new fabulous clients and even won a trophy or two... I couldn't be prouder of what we're building, here's just a flavour of what we've been up to this year... Huge thanks, as always, to the incredible people that make up Klaxonn, our dream clients and all the support we've had from so many wonderful industry friends. You all know who you are, thank you. We're looking for more people to join the team, so if you like what you see, get in touch! Something tells me it's going to be big(ger)...📣📣📣

📣 Klaxonn = Small Consultancy of the Year at the PRCA Awards 📣 Last night, we attended the last industry awards of the year, and by golly did we finish strong. We won Small Consultancy of the Year. At just 22 months. Nuts. That makes us the winning agency for both PRCA Dares "Best New Consultancy" and the PRCA Nationals. There's been a few other wins and nods along the way too, thanks to PRWeek UK, UK Sponsorship Awards & Newsletter and the UK Agency Awards. Huge thanks to all the judges, all of our amazing clients (you know who you are!) but the biggest thanks of all to the amazing people who make Klaxonn what it is...particular shout out to Nick Russell, Josh Habib, Katie Lloyd - talent you can only dream of when you set up. Thank you. Our first step into the awards world, and somehow the shelf is already full. It's been quite the year and we're only just getting started.

Last night, Klaxonn had the pleasure of hosting a media preview night at Light Cycles, an immersive experience created and produced by Moment Factory in collaboration with our client Fever, the leading live entertainment platform. Media were taken on a nighttime journey that celebrates the natural world through five art installations, complete with cutting-edge projection mapping, lighting effects, and original musical scores. The weather behaved with a (very) cold, but dry (hurray) evening. Broadcast, nationals, regionals all turned out to see the UK debut of the world renowned experience and I have to admit, I’m feeling a little bit festive now.

Absolutely thrilled that Klaxonn was recognised at last night’s PRWeek UK Awards. Not even two years old and we’ve taken home silverware in the New Consultancy of the Year category. We set out with a clear proposition; we’re the agency for experience brands. We’re doing exactly the kind of work we want to do for quite literally dream clients. Extremely proud. Also, turns out that putting up a shelf was a good investment.

We spend so long in this industry competing against each other for clients, ideas & people, we thought we'd find one more thing to add to the list....football. And so Friday saw the fourth edition of the PR Cup, the five-a-side tournament organised by Ready10 and Klaxonn which was the biggest and best yet. 31 teams and 250 PR people came together to have a kick about and raise over £13,000 for the Taylor Bennett Foundation in the process. A brilliant afternoon that is now a fixture in the industry calendar. If you came down and played, THANK YOU. If you didn't, see you next year. A big, big hats off to all the agencies who joined in but special thank yous go to markettiers for their generous sponsorship (ensuring that every penny of the sign up fees went to charity), Koray Camgöz Natasha Ferguson Gabrielle Thuesday at TBF for their support, the guys at Powerleague Shoreditch and our brilliant internal team of Joseph Eskenazy Nick Russell Chloe Phillips Aman Malhi Nader Ghahreman Josh Collins who made this event such a success. And congratulations to Deliberate PR for their well-deserved victory. We may have a spin off or two in the next year (netball, anyone?) but hope to see you all and more next year!

It's the morning after the night (10 nights) before, and the Klaxonn team are reflecting on another fantastic year with British Marine running the PR & Comms for the Southampton International Boat Show. During the last ten days, over 100,000 people visited the 55th edition of the show. More than 10,000 people got out on the water experiencing all the show had to offer from a full spectrum of watersports and boating experiences to interactive marine workshops, informative and engaging talks, sustainable boating innovations, luxury lifestyle exhibits, family-friendly entertainment and boats galore. Klaxonn led the charge on creative, talent & influencers, earned media, at-show press accreditation and media management. We've had such fun this year, with creative campaigns such as "Chipwatch", where we hired Rufus the Hawk to protect visitors' chips from sneaky seagulls, AND "The Boatles" which celebrated a joint anniversary of 55 years since the iconic Abbey Road album cover by recreating the picture in a way only we could. If that wasn't enough, we also worked with some famous faces, from Below Deck Sailing Boat fan favourites Captain Glenn Shephard and Daisy Kelliher, to Rob Rinder, who judged the show's inaugural "Stand Out" awards... and of course, the show welcomed HRH Princess Anne. The dust is still settling but latest stats show 34 nationals, 30 broadcast pieces, 20 print articles, nearly 40 listings and quite literally hundreds more. We welcomed 150+ media to the show, across broadcast, national, regional and more. We hit a client dream of having BBC News do the weather report live from the Marina on opening day and ITV filming two full features (and doing the full sport report) live from the show too. Also, for anyone who cares, our team step count was on average 30,000+ steps a day and not one blister between us. Experts. The most incredible show for a truly fantastic and welcoming industry, thanks as always to the dream team of clients Adrien Burnand Emma Slater Lesley Robinson Luke Henderson

What are the secrets to launching a new comms agency these days? PRWeek UK's latest Beyond the Noise podcast features guests who have done just that: Aimée Jacobs of Klaxonn and James Hayward-Browne of Bottled Imagination. Both agencies are nominated for New Consultancy of the Year at the PRWeek UK Awards. From culture and recruitment to the office and marketing, the duo speaking frankly about the challenges of building their businesses in the early days and what they have learnt. There are great tips for would-be founders and anyone interested in running a modern comms agency. Thanks to Aimee and James - have a listen (link in comments) #PR #Comms

⚽ 48hrs to go ⚽ Registrations for the PR Cup 2024 shuts this Friday 13th September, so don’t miss out on being part of the industry five-a-side tournament.   The event is taking place on Friday 27th September at Powerleague Shoreditch, with all funds going to the Taylor Bennett Foundation.   If you want the chance for your agency to be crowned as the football champions of the PR industry, you can register your team on the Taylor Bennett Foundation website, but be quick as we only have a few spots left!   For more information and to sign up, go to https://lnkd.in/eRN5h38f markettiers, Taylor Bennett Foundation, Klaxonn

Great ideas come from odd places sometimes. This one started with Aimée Jacobs shouting "SEAGULLS" in the middle of a Klaxonn creative session for this year's Southampton International Boat Show. We started with a simple enough insight: seagulls nick a lot of chips. We did some research and it turned out they've nicked enough chips to stretch from Southampton to Canada, so yes, they nick a lot of chips. We wanted the show to be a safe space for people (and their chips), so we hired the world's first 'Head of Seagull Security'. We brought in Rufus the Hawk, a wing-fluencer in his own right, best known for patrolling the skies over Wimbledon every year. One photoshoot with the hardest working talon-t (sorry) I've ever worked with, and we've landed BBC, Telegraph, the i, Daily Star on launch day. Great work from the team, and more to come. Special shout outs to Elena Nolan and Josh Habib, and to Emma Slater and Adrien Burnand for trusting us with our left-field ideas.