Dave Waters Email & Phone Number

Low-fat. It’s the healthy option: (think leaner, faster, and better quality than large-scale corporates.) Watermill is a unique advertising agency built for the clients of today and the future. Founded by renowned creative director, Dave Waters, and top commercials producer Bertie Miller Watermill brings together advertising creative and production expertise for big brands. This is a very different agency model, no middle men or work experience juniors, you deal directly with Dave and Bertie on everything. A straight to source, fast and flexible collaboration focused on effective advertising. We are a full creative and production service. For 118 118 we wrote the strategy, the ads and then produced all of their content. The results were so good that they asked us to help them with a new product 118 118 MONEY. We launched it and it’s fast becoming the biggest part of their business. For UKTV we launched two channels, for ebookers.com we did all the advertising across Europe and gave them a vast set of assets that they're still using today. We not only write and produce all the ads for the Rare Tea Company, we also designed their entire range of packaging. And sometimes we don’t just do the comms and design the logo, we actually name the brand like we did for Charm. We’re happy to provide concepts to explore strategies, provoke and inspire. This year we’ve worked with: Brompton, CHPT3, HM Govnt./NHS, Rare Tea Company and the BBC We adapt to different types and sizes of briefs, budgets and timelines, providing greater speed, lower cost and more control for the client interested in impactful, effective advertising that they can be proud of. And as Bertie and Dave handle everything personally they even answer the phone themselves. Give Bertie a call on 07770 576753‬.

I founded Duckworth, Finn, Grubb, Waters with Gary (Duckworth), Mickey(Finn) and Paul (Grubb), 3 of the brightest, nicest men I've ever met. We started the agency to focus on advertising rather than business as we'd all become a bit jaded with agencies selling out. We were the only agency to launch with a TV ad and we all worked best for big, blue-chip brands. We started with no business and quickly won the London Fire Brigade, Duckhams oil and then became the only non international agency to handle Pizza Hut. We were a top twenty London agency for 18 years. We launched the most succesfull car company ever in the UK, we were the only agency to win an effectiveness Grand Prix for the Government and the people who worked there were absolutely awesome. I wish I still worked with them all now but pretty much everyone went on to have incredible careers in agencies all over the world. In the end Mathew Freud bought the company. He is a charismatic genius and subsumed dfgw into his Freud brand and frankly there was nothing for me to do there anymore. So I called up Bertie Miller who I'd just finished designing the Body Zone of the Dome with.

Seven fabulous years working for Dave Trott and Gordon Smith. They taught me everything I know about advertising. (Do brilliant work and everything else doesn’t matter). They gave me my own office, a car-park space, a Porsche to put in it, more money than I could spend and a seat on the board of a public company. For all of that I love Dave and Gordon but what makes them Gods in my eyes is the ads they let me make. In an era of golden work, GGT made the best ads in London. After that there was nowhere to work but my own agency.