Jamie Riddell
I build digital digital businesses and invest in others
Jamie is a market leader in digital innovation for brands. As the former Director of Innovation for Cheeze Ltd. Jamie ensured his clients were constantly up to date with the future changes ensuring they were well positioned to benefit from the changes. [Media Week profile]
A regular speaker on future digital trends, Jamie is also the Technology Editor for DMi Magazine as well as former Apps editor of The Next Web
35 contacts2007 - 2009The UK's largest digital media agency.
We are a digital communications group that uses the principles of direct marketing to inform everything that we do.
We are not a marketing services group. We don't make investments in traditional marketing services businesses.
We specialise in digital communications.
We underpin our digital communications expertise with some of the best direct and data marketing people in the UK.
At the heart of our company is Digital Brain - a process which enables the real time integration of digital, direct and data. This helps us create unique contact strategies for each individual based on their historical data and real time interactions regardless of channel.
We call this 'real time marketing through real time channels' .
1999 - 2009One of the most experienced and innovative digital media strategists in the UK.
Jamie set up Digital Media Divisions for London Agencies The Media Business (now Mediacom), EHS and Grey Interactive between 1996 and 1999 before leaving to found Cheeze Ltd. in December 1999.
From the initial £5000 investment, Jamie [as one part of the original management] grew the agency to deliver £12m billing in 2006, with 30 staff in 3 offices around the UK.
2007 saw the agency's acquisition by the Digital Marketing Group PLC.
Jamie now consults for clients on various aspects of web marketing from advanced SEO strategies to content lead social media strategies. A constant digital innovator, Jamie is always at the forefront of trying new technologies, sites or gadgets to ensure his clients are always at the cutting edge.
A regular international speaker and commentator of web 2.0, Jamie writes sporadically on his own blog, ( innovationstation.blogspot.com ) as well as the Cheeze agency blog ( www.cheeze.com/news ) and occasionally at www.chinwag.com.
Jamie lives with his family in Suffolk.