Bio

Founded in 2009, Southerly is a creative content agency and content marketing specialist that aims to "promote and grow businesses through creative, forward-thinking storytelling, and building, designing and developing innovative websites". The blog is housed within the main website, the team are based in south London. Jonathan Bright is an experienced journalist and according to work peers has "an uncanny knack of finding a uniquely creative angle in any situation". He is Creative Content Lead at Southerly and "he loves coming up with and shaping extraordinary campaign concepts, constantly looking for inspiration to make them more engaging". He’s also an MC, rapper, performance poet and singer in his spare time. Previous posts on the site include Need to engage Millennials? Try engaging yourself; That Moment When Branded Digital Content Became More Trusted Than Print and TV, Is Employee Engagement for Millennials Even Possible, and Is My Brand Digitally Mature?. Posts aim to chime with current topics of the day and content is written with the aim of being engaging and thought-provoking. These posts are added several times a week. PR opportunities include possible case studies and reviews - they state: "We are a content agency, not journalists. We run a blog and we're interested to receive information relevant to the topics we write about (marketing, content, communications, social media, recruitment marketing, employee engagement and internal comms)..." so coverage is not possible, but content is useful. The team can be reached via email. Awards: 2018 - UK Blog Awards, PR, Marketing and Comms. - Business (nominated)  2017 - UK Blog Awards, Pr, Media, Marketing And Communications (nominated) 2017 - UK Blog Awards, Digital And Technology (winner) 2016 - UK Blog Awards, PR, Media, Marketing & Comms (winner) 2016 - UK Blog Awards, Digital & Technology (nominated)