NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 03/05/12 — Award winning social media agency is launching in the U.S. with an office in New York, expanding We Are Social-s footprint to eight offices across five continents.
The launch follows the formation of regional hubs in São Paulo and Singapore last year. With its expansion to North America, We Are Social becomes the only specialist with truly global capabilities.
The agency-s initial North American client roster will include adidas and De Beers Diamond Jewellery.
is led by Managing Director Leila Thabet. One of the first senior hires at We Are Social-s London headquarters in 2009, Thabet helped grow the agency into the globally recognized brand it is today. In the UK, she led successful social media engagements for Coca-Cola, Unilever and Tesco, before moving on to develop and lead the social media practice at Isobar. She returned to We Are Social in late 2011 to spearhead the agency-s North American offering.
Robin Grant, Global Managing Director at We Are Social, said: “The opening of We Are Social New York rounds out We Are Social-s global offering. U.S. marketers looking for social media support on a global basis now have access to a proven agency partner they can work with. Leila was a big part of our success in London and she already has begun building a U.S. team to match the record of innovation and excellence of our other offices and address the increased appetite of U.S. based brands for We Are Social-s services in this market.”
With U.S. based marketers increasingly responsible for social media strategy and implementation at a global level, Thabet commented: “We will be able to service these global accounts from New York with support from We Are Social-s international offices. The U.S. leads the way in terms of marketers- use of social media, and the opportunity to work at both a local and global level with U.S. based brands is immensely exciting.”
We Are Social was founded in London by Robin Grant and Managing Partner Nathan McDonald in 2008. Since then, in addition to opening in New York, Singapore and São Paulo, We Are Social also has launched offices in Paris, Milan, Munich and Sydney. Employing more than 160 staff across its eight offices, We Are Social is the world-s largest and most recognized independent social media agency, with clients including Heinz, Smirnoff, adidas, HP, Unilever, Moët & Chandon, Kleenex, Heineken, PayPal, Nestlé and Hotels.com.
The agency has picked up more than 20 industry awards, including two WOMMYs, a Forrester Groundswell award, and EMEA SABRE-s 2012 Digital Agency of the Year. We Are Social-s recent “Get Well Soup” work for Heinz was named by Ad Age as one of the 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2011 and was one of the few campaigns featured in Ad Age and Creativity-s -Facebook 101: Are You Worth A Like?- trend report.
We Are Social is a conversation agency. We help brands to listen, understand and engage in conversations in social media.
We-re a new kind of agency that combines an innate understanding of social media with digital, PR and marketing skills. We are entirely focused on innovative, creative and effective social media marketing and communications and we like to think we are getting rather good at it.
We-re an independent outfit that started out in June 2008, and since then we-ve done great work, won plenty of awards and built an international team of over 160.
With offices in , , , , , , and we work with clients worldwide including Heinz, Smirnoff, adidas, HP, Unilever, Moët & Chandon, Kleenex, Heineken, PayPal, Nestlé and Hotels.com.
Pat Sloan
Sloan Hunt Communications
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