CHI & Partners, London

  • 7 Rathbone Street
  • London W1T 1LY
  • United Kingdom
  • Phone: 020 7462 8500
  • Fax: 020 7462 8501
  • Country Phone Code: 44

Philosophy & Competitive Advantages

In 2001 Clemmow Hornby Inge set out to change the rules and create a new model agency founded on producing Big Ideas for Ambitious Brands and then bringing them to life across all media. It worked. In 2010 CHI&Partners are now the UK’s leading independent full service agency. We offer fully integrated marketing solutions. We are a full service agency, with a broad, eclectic mix of practitioners who develop media-neutral ideas and execute them in the most appropriate channels. It’s one seamless team of people who are both specialists and generalists - expert in their respective communication disciplines, but fluent in them all. Our specialisms cover everything from advertising to digital to direct to design to point of sale and media buying & planning - all under one roof. At the heart of our success is a unique process designed to find those Big Ideas. We created it, developed it over time and it now forms the core of the agency and our manifesto for the future. In a nutshell: As people stop watching traditional advertising and start interacting with media, brand communications that fail to get consumer participation are increasingly wasted. This means our clients need big ideas for their brands that are so powerful, so entertaining, or so useful that people won’t skip past – in fact they will pass them on to others. This means understanding new consumer behaviours. It means going beyond engagement – to the facilitation of brand participation. To achieve this all communications disciplines need to work together, not in silos. The consumer is our partner, not our target. Instead of ‘advertising in’, it needs to be ‘product out’ – getting consumer participation with the brand at all touchpoints, and almost certainly these days putting digital at the heart of the communication. This is how we work at CHI&Partners. We don’t just advertise our clients’ brands – we get them talked about and interacted with - unleashing the power of participation.

Network Description

WPP own a minority stake in CHI&Partners, this gives us access worldwide to the WPP network. CHI&Partners has offices in London and New York.

Trade Organizations

Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
Marketing Society (MS)
Account Planning Group (APG)
Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM)