A key driver of new business growth for a global PR agency

The Client: Citizen is a global PR agency with integrated expertise across PR, creative, strategy, digital and experiential marketing, with 10 offices across North America and Europe and clients including P&G and Nestlé Canada.

New Business Development team: "Pearlfinders has become an invaluable part of our toolkit. Its accurate, in-depth data ensures we're connecting with the right decision-makers, saving us valuable research time. By combining reliable contact information with actionable intelligence, Pearlfinders enables us to uncover new opportunities more effectively, making it a key driver of new business growth for our team."

Essential to how a leading communications group discovers new business

The Client: Accordience is a distinctive communications group bringing together five best-in-class agencies (CDR, Cirkle, Grayling, Movement and Red Consultancy), with clients including Visa, McDonald's and HSBC.

Senior New Business & Marketing Manager: "Pearlfinders has quickly become an essential part of how we discover and connect with new business at Accordience. It's not just a list of names, it's smart, analyst-led insights that give us the full picture: brands' priorities, shifts in strategy and the people we actually need to talk to. It saves our team hours of digging."

Reducing time spent sourcing contacts, with insight into brand priorities

The Client: Active International is a global Corporate Trade company that provides solutions for businesses looking to optimise their assets and reduce costs, with nearly 40 years of experience in media barter and Corporate Trade.

John Charlesworth, Director of Client Relations: "Pearlfinders has proved valuable to the team at Active International. The database allows us to reduce time spent on manually sourcing relevant contacts, while the insights reports give us a window into brands' priorities and act as valuable conversation starters. We've found the interface intuitive and look forward to continuing to work with the platform over the coming years."

How Pearlfinders enables the UK's leading experience-day retailer to uncover fresh opportunities

The Client: Founded in 1999, Buyagift has grown into the UK's leading online gift experience retailer. Pearlfinders is used by its corporate team to engage organisations with its corporate gifting and reward solutions.

Buyagift's commercial team: "Pearlfinders has become an invaluable part of our partnership strategy at Buyagift. It helps us identify the right brands at the right time, particularly those with active budgets and an appetite for creative collaboration. The platform saves us hours of research each week and consistently uncovers opportunities we wouldn't have come across otherwise. It's like having an extra member of the team focused purely on opportunity spotting."

Connecting with the right brands with greater precision

The Client: Golley Slater is a national integrated agency located in Cardiff, Cirencester, Leeds and London with global reach through ICOM. Clients include P&G, Coca-Cola, Mitsubishi and Nationwide Building Society.

Group Marketing, Campaign Manager: "The Pearlfinders platform has enabled our team at Golley Slater to connect with the brands we want to work with more effectively and with greater precision. We seamlessly import the data into our HubSpot CRM and have been genuinely impressed by its accuracy. The platform's curated prospect lists also spark ideas for new segments to target."

Creating new pipeline opportunities for a data-driven marketing agency

The Client: For 25 years, PDV has been providing data, insight and media planning solutions as one of the UK's leading data-driven direct marketing agencies.

Associate Director, Sales: "Pearlfinders is a useful tool not just for business development but insight too. The reports and briefings are extremely valuable for insight and knowledge, especially when it comes to making an impact with businesses we want to engage with. The insight combined with the contact information has supported PDV in creating new pipeline opportunities over a few years now, as well as saving our team huge amounts of time."

An essential tool in the day-to-day operations of a boutique creative agency

The Client: Reach is a multi-award-winning creative social agency retained by PlayStation, Netflix and a major global entertainment franchise, engaging a growing audience across gaming, film and entertainment.

Paul Jeffries, Co-Founder: "We have subscribed to Pearlfinders for many years and it has been invaluable in providing me with data and insights. It allows us to identify organisations focussed on reaching our core audience. It saves me countless hours of research and provides the precision we need to identify the right opportunities quickly and efficiently."

Sales insights that enable dialogue for a global content agency

The Client: Cedar Communications is a leading global content and commercial marketing agency with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Madrid, part of the BBDO/Omnicom Group. Clients include British Airways, Tesco and Eurostar.

Commercial Director: "Pearlfinders is a very useful resource for company news, trends, and updates, all of which lead to useful sales conversations. This information is in one easy-to-use platform which saves us trawling through the trade press. We have no hesitation in renewing our subscription each year."

A game-changer for a fast-growing new PR agency

The Client: Born in 2020, Hound is a new breed of PR agency, working across some of the world's biggest brands, including Disney, Tesco, Google, Unilever and Amazon Prime.

Lewis Wilkins, Director: "Pearlfinders has been a game-changer for our lead generation efforts. Its extensive database and advanced search features have saved me countless hours of research by providing high-quality leads tailored to my needs. The real-time alerts keep me in the loop, while the detailed prospect insights have significantly improved my conversion rates."

Essential to the new business approach of a leading branding agency

The Client: StormBrands is an independent creative and branding agency specialising in design and brand identity, with clients including Tropicana, Morrisons and Asda.

Ciara Gara, Business Development Manager: "Pearlfinders has become a very useful platform to my role within business development. Their sales intelligence platform provides just the right amount of information, allowing me to stay in the loop with what is going on without spending hours searching. As well as saving me time, Pearlfinders helps me identify new prospects to connect with."

Targeting clients and prospects more effectively for an experiential agency

The Client: Brands At Work is an award-winning experiential communications agency specialising in the creative design and delivery of marketing and event communications, with clients including Novartis, Deloitte and Sage.

Erica Pew, Client Services Director: "Pearlfinders' daily digests and great lead lists have helped us with our upcoming campaigns. The daily analyst reports have also enabled us to target clients and prospects more effectively."

Unlocking sales opportunities for a global brand and design collective

The Client: Agency TK is a global brand and design collective that defines, builds and grows remarkable brands, combining the sophisticated and the beautiful to launch big ideas.

Matt Carrington, Client Partnership Manager: "Pearlfinders helps our marketing agency stay on top of the latest industry trends and gain valuable contact information for key decision makers at some major brands. We would certainly recommend the platform if you are looking to unlock sales opportunities and be armed with valuable insight."

Quickly gathering information on potential opportunities for an iconic creative agency

The Client: BBH is a creative agency obsessed with making your brand more valuable, and the IPA's Effectiveness Agency of the Year. Notable clients include Tesco, Audi and Samsung.

Lucy Hilton, New Business Account Director: "I really appreciate the reports you have on Pearlfinders, how all key info I need is distilled in one place and key contacts added. It just really helps when trying to quickly gather information on potential leads and opportunities."

Integral to the new business approach of a global experiential agency

The Client: Momentum Worldwide helps brands imagine, create, curate and manage their Total Brand Experience, working with American Express, Coca-Cola, Mondelez and Microsoft.

Ben Buckstone, Growth Manager: "Pearlfinders is a key element in Momentum's new business approach, it's become an integral part of my day-to-day prospecting activity. The reports are invaluable in ensuring we engage with the right brands, and the trend-focused briefings give a great snapshot of opportunities and movement within different sectors."