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Opinions, advice and new perspectives from the frontline of social impact, arts, culture and sport communications.
How to Grow Your Organisation/ Movement
How can you manage and grow your organisation? By focusing on community. Build relationships that last, empower supporters to act, and use tools that make growth sustainable. NationBuilder software provides the infrastructure to make this possible — ensuring your organisation doesn’t just grow in numbers, but grows in impact.
What does your audience really want (and how to give it to them)
How does emotion and instinct impact on audience behaviour and how can a creative communications agency impact on consumer choices.
Maximising Earnings
Following their win at The Euros there’s now a great opportunity for some of The Lionesses to maximise their earnings outside the game by astute management as well as negotiating better contracts at club level.
Building trust with your audience
There’s a powerful antidote to audience apathy with organisation communications: radical transparency.
What a T-Shirt Taught Us About the Campaigning Mindset
When the Prime Minister warned Britain could become “an island of strangers,” an idea took shape. This blog reflects on how a simple T-shirt became a fast, creative response — and what it reveals about the campaigning mindset that even small teams can adopt.
Tackling the Kindness Deficit
What are some of the factors driving ‘the kindness deficit and what is bak doing to combat it in our own campaigns.
The Kindness Deficit
The kindness deficit, myth or fact and how is it impacting on campaigns?
How we turned the election Green
“The (Wales)Greens have quietly had a fantastic (2024) election. Though they won no seats, they secured 4.7% of the vote having only got 1% in 2019. While Welsh turnout fell 10%, the total people voting Green went from 16K to 62K.”
Take your school into the future
Discover how our agency revitalised one of education’s most prestigious institutions with a bilingual brand refresh and communication strategy —boosting school spirit, sparking online engagement, and celebrating a thriving, inclusive community.
Grow your festival fan base from 0 to 1.5 million.
Explore how we created—and grew— the fanbase at Gwyl Wal Goch Festival for Football Lovers from scratch, blending nostalgia with forward-thinking messaging to stand out in a crowded market. From iconic visuals to a robust social media strategy, we built an audience of nearly 1.5 million world wide.
bak to film?
Why are so many young filmmakers now turning from digital back to film. At bak this is the second project we’ve co-produced on 16 mm in the space of a year, with yet another in the pipeline. We seem to be carving out a space for ourselves in the field of ‘film’ production.
Global means local
Local knowledge is everything. It’s not just about knowing the language or being interested in the culture and history of a particular place, it’s about having in-depth local knowledge about modes of communication, the tastes and prejudices of different market segments, the tone of voice, sense of humour, cultural reference points, metaphors, idioms, traditions. In-market expertise is essential. Here are a few tips if you’re looking to break into new markets.
Not all you **** is gold.
How do you get your press release to cut through a saturated market? Here’s some advice that might help you get your message out there.
#SaveOurSteel
At a time of increased geo-political insecurity, does the UK government intend to shut down a key strategic industry, getting rid of our capacity to produce steel from scratch?
Why make a promo film?
Here’s a short checklist to help you think about your film and how you can make the maximum impact with your video content.
What’s gone wrong with Rish!?
When your comms team isn’t listening to the mood music outside the room, creative communications can go very wonky. Here’s a light hearted deconstruction of the PMs Christmas video.
Films with Purpose
It’s nearly a year since we were fortunate enough to win the Smiley Charity Film of The Year Award. In the meantime we’ve often been approached by organisations wanting a short film of their own. The question that we always ask any prospective client is ‘What’s the purpose of the film?’.
Culture: A matter of life and death
Without a vibrant, dynamic and ‘vital’ culture, what is the point of small nations?