Advisory
From briefing to creative evaluation, we help your marketing teams understand the critical role that creativity plays in delivering brand growth and improve creative.
Advisory /
Tailor-made research, training and briefings designed to transform your business
For Brands /
Brilliant, effective communication that grows brands and drives sales starts with marketers that are both clued-up on creativity and motivated. That’s why our reports, webinars, workshops and consulting services are as impactful as they are illuminating. Three ways we can help:
Strategy /
Crack your priority communications challenges
We can identify brilliant benchmarks with the right learnings for your brand. From boosting your brief to shaping your strategy, our advice and insights are rocket fuel for creativity. You can be sure the Contagious lens on your challenge will bring a breakthrough, whether it’s from a webinar you’re watching, a workshop you’re attending, or from reading one of our rapid response 48h OnDemand reports.
Learning /
Continuously inspire and engage your marketing community
If you want to bring the outside-in and keep pace with the ever-evolving industry, we can keep your marketing team at the forefront. Our year-round plans will ensure that you’re alert to and tackling the most important industry changes and trends, through programs of briefing, workshops and newsletters.
Capability /
Get the best, most effective work from your partners
We don’t mean to boast. However, we will. We’re the driving force behind the creative transformations of some of the world’s most successful brands. We’ve helped them build creativity as a competitive advantage at a time when creative effectiveness has never been more needed. If you’re interested in learning how to apply our unique combination of training, tools and communications to your business, please get in touch.
For Agencies /
We help you work better and faster. We're an extra team of brains on hand to inspire and provoke both your team and your clients.
Strategy and Learning /
Creative fuel and insight to help you build brilliant brands
Whether you’re pitching new business or looking to keep clients happy, our commentary on the industry will keep you ahead with emerging creativity. When a rapid response is required, our 48h On Demand service will unlock new thinking, fast. Regular helpings of our briefings will ensure your team is equipped to navigate a changing landscape.
Don’t just take our word for it /

Lucy Roberts, Director of Marketing Operations, Nike Northern Europe

David Nobay, Founder/Creative Chairman, Marcel Sydney

Alex Brunori, Head of Creative Agencies, Google MENA

Kamel Ouadi, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, PUIG

Maria Mujica, LATAM Chief Marketing Officer, Mondelēz International

Cinzia Morelli-Verhoog, Former Global Director of Marketing Capabilities, Heineken International
Case studies /
Climbing up the creative ladder /
Heineken International
Contagious helped Heineken’s Global Commerce University develop a tool to evaluate creative work. We trained marketers around the world on how to use the Heineken Creative Ladder, embedding a common language for creativity across the business. Our work was instrumental in helping the business develop more creatively capable marketers who were able to get more effective, growth-driving work from their agencies.
Keeping a fragrance giant on the scent /
PUIG Fashion & Fragrances
We helped PUIG, home to fragrance brands such as Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera and Paco Rabanne, with its digital transformation journey. As a long-term member of Contagious, PUIG regularly checks in with Contagious advisors for analysis of industry trends, updates on disruptive startup businesses and counsel on refining its marketing strategy.
Helping Spotify to sing to the right tune /
Spotify
We worked to inform, inspire and invigorate Spotify’s marketing teams about the most pressing trends affecting their business and how brands around the world are using creative marketing to capitalise on those shifts. Our interactive and engaging sessions explored the multi-faceted challenges facing today’s brands, equipping Spotify marketers to not just understand these developments, but to translate that understanding into actionable strategies and advantages in the marketplace.