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We’ve been shortlisted for two search awards

We’ve really happy to say that we have been shortlisted for two awards at the UK Search Awards – one for our SEO work for Mental Health Foundation, and one for being (hopefully) the best small PPC agency in the UK! Best Use of Search – Third Sector Our SEO

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Why we are joining the Conscious Advertising Network

As an agency that creates online advertising campaigns for charities, you’d expect us to care about the ethics of our work. And of course, we do. But the truth is the advertising industry as a whole needs to do more. A lot more. And we at Platypus want to put

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7 cultures that digital needs to thrive

By now, you’re familiar with the old adage that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. So familiar in fact that it probably makes you think more about breakfast than strategy at this point.  It still holds true. You can have the best plan in the world, the finest strategic minds working

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We’ve launched with message-based therapy app, Spill

From 19 September 2019, the Platypus Digital team will have access to Spill, the message-based therapy app making mental health support more accessible and preventative, by enabling its users to message with a qualified therapist for free. Agency life is synonymous with high stress and burnout. We want to show

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Why strategy is harder for charities and how to do it right

Here’s a nice simple question – what is strategy? You’d think it was easy. We talk about strategy every day, in meetings, at conferences, even ‘eating strategies’ in the pub. But when I posed this very question on Twitter and again in the Third Sector PR & Comms group on

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6 reasons your charity should invest in digital marketing

Like a lot of teams within charities, digital and digital fundraising teams are often funded by unrestricted funding. That’s funding that was given to the charity to spend it as it sees fit. Often, that money was raised by truly dedicated fundraisers. Like, incredibly dedicated. They got up at 5am

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