Ektron eats into the agency market by partnering with Bite

Ektron and Bite announce partnership to provide Ektron Professional Services expertise through global agency Bite. Bite is a global integrated marketing services firm that helps companies develop differentiated positions, build digital footprints and win in the marketplace.

“At Bite, a fearless and boundless philosophy is at the heart of everything we do. We promote individuality, thrive on creativity, reward top performance and pride ourselves on being honest with each other and our clients.” Says Dan Kersch, Global Board Member at Bite

Bite believes the customer landscape has permanently changed. The future will be built around ‘always on’ strategies, telling long content-rich stories with many lightweight components. If brands want to lead their industry or indeed change the world, they must adopt new cultures, skills, processes and technologies to thrive in an always on environment.

“The Ektron & Bite partnership is very significant for Bite, a business traditionally known for

PR services, which through the merger of digital marketing agency Bourne in 2012 is now

positioned to deliver a wide range of digital services, that in partnership with Ektron, cater

for exactly what our clients, and the marketplace, are asking for," says Dan Kersh

At Bite, they live by five values:

Courage: Speaking up and offering an opinion, internally and with clients. Don’t be afraid

to take risks, even if you fail.

Passion: Biters have an attitude based on energy, enthusiasm and purpose. They don’t

accept mediocrity.

Creativity: Original ideas can be pragmatic as well as off-the-wall. Biters find simple yet

unexpected solutions to problems.

Teamwork: Their teams are built on trust and respect. They work together in a transparent

and supportive way.

Fun: They are irreverent, humourous and spontaneous but never unprofessional. Fun

comes in many forms.

Bite has twice featured recently in the Sunday Times top 100 small business list.

“Bite is committed to ensuring that we have a fun working environment and that people are

motivated to come into work. We have fantastic offices which are close to Hammersmith

and Chiswick and encourage a close working team environment. This is why we also offer a

bottle of champagne for every completed year of service with us, a birthday cake and wine

for everyone’s birthday (as well as the day off) and drinks on Bite every Thursday, which has

gained the nick name ‘Thirsty Thursday’. We also host 3 company parties each year for

Biters to celebrate our birthday, summer and Christmas.” Says Dan Kersch

Work life balance is important to everyone at Bite and for this reason they promote a

number of initiates throughout the company.

From an outsider looking in, managing and on-boarding agency partners in EMEA, I asked a

key ‘Biter’ to provide some more information on working at Bite:

Andy Tomlinson – Senior Creative Whizz

What do you do?

“I am Senior Designer at Bite. I am responsible for designing and creating campaigns for

Bite’s full client range including websites, e-commerce, e-marketing, and anything else that

is online and digital. I make sure that our designs are highly usable and accessible to both

the end user and the client. My role involves liaising with clients and account managers on

briefings and presentations as well as ensuring that the final digital campaigns are to the

right specifications and to the highest standards.”

How long have you worked for Bite?

“I have been at Bite for roughly 9 months”

What gets you excited at work?

“The excitement at work can come from many places, the initial concept/visual for a project,

the briefing to the finished piece. It can vary from project to project, which in itself is

exciting.”

Favourite project in the last year and why?

“Being senior design I get to work on a wide range of projects at Bite, each one might be

created using a different medium. So sometimes I will do straight digital design, the next a

piece of animation. It’s actually hard to pick one piece. I am very happy with the outcome

for an EMEA wide event promotion and lead generation campaign we developed for

StorageCraft. This project was great in that I had the scope to design and create the whole

visual look and feel, from websites and email through to stand design and exhibition

animations. The client liked the designs so much she asked me to incorporate the look and

feel into different textiles for her to have in the office and at home! I'm currently working on

an animation for a new mobile phone product which when completed will be very nice.”

What are your best career accomplishments / achievements?

“So far in my career I have been lucky enough to work with and for some great companies,

who have all produced different styles and types of work. From film animation studios

through to digital marketing at Bite. This has provided a wide range of projects and skills

which have helped me reach the position of Senior Designer, this to me is my best

achievement so far. Next up Creative Director role!!”

From an Ektron perspective, We’re delighted that Bite has decided to invest in training and

skills to become an Ektron Certified partner. By combining the expertise that Bite has for

delivering high quality multilingual web projects, combined with Ektron’s best of breed

solutions for multi-national organizations, provides a compelling offering to new customers

requiring brand, PR and web management therefore accelerating their brand presence

further.

Contact :

Adrian Lloyd – Strategic Alliances, Partners & Channels Sales Director

adrian.lloyd@ektron.com