It’s dawned on me that rbl is 15 years old this month. Sadly we’ve been too busy to stop and do anything about it, a great problem to have! It’s been an amazing journey from very humble beginnings when I sat down in my living room and started life as an independent freelance brand consultant….

A perfect storm in the Higher Education sector that has led many highly respected institutions to take a long hard look at their strategy, their brand and their wider communications activities. A global marketplace Both undergraduate and post-graduate students have much greater choice in where to study and an increasing number opt to study abroad…

We’re really proud to have worked with the Commonwealth Games Federation over the past year as they rebrand to Commonwealth Sport. Read the full story here.

So you’re thinking of holding a strategic brand review. Something has changed in your business, your organisation has new goals or your audience’s needs have evolved, so you need to react and a brand review is the natural next step. A procession of agencies have presented their approach to you, all involving some research and…

We live in an age of unprecedented access to information, open peer-to-peer dialogue and freely-offered opinion. Brands operating in this world are no longer able to control their narrative. Customer feedback and complaints are not dealt with privately behind the closed doors of a customer service department; they are offered publicly for other customers and…

Today marks a milestone event in our calendar – the new rbl office is up and running! It’s been a labour of love, but everyone but everyone at the agency has played a key role in making it happen.    We spent the weekend putting finishing touches to our fantastic new home, and this morning,…

On Tuesday 20th August 2019 we are moving offices. But we’re not going far. In fact we are just moving downstairs to a much larger suite in Marlborough House. Over the past few weeks we have been fitting out a new studio space that will provide us with a home for our growing team over…

In the second instalment about working at a growing brand agency, Rhiannon Lowe, rbl’s Account Director, shares her experience of a significant transition. I never thought I’d work in an agency. Yet here I am, four months after joining rbl brand agency, feeling it’s been one of the best career decisions I’ve made. My nervousness…

Brand communications often have to be very consistent and compliant. Outputs usually have to follow a series of quite complex brand identity guidelines designed to ensure that disparate executions work together to build recognition and maintain quality standards. So it’s a breath of fresh air when a project comes along and you’re asked to break…

We have two fantastic new roles in our expanding team and are looking for exceptional candidates who want to help us deliver nationally and internationally significant brands and campaigns for clients that include the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Sport, The University of Warwick, NFU, Severn Trent, Innovate UK, Motorsport UK and many others. We…