Phil Adams Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, London

I help you find the irresistible truth about your business that makes people buy from you, say nice things about you, and buy from you again. I give brand advice that’s simple, direct, and pragmatic. Lowfalutin®.

Edinburgh

SDI nurtures filmmakers to give voice to the voiceless and tell stories that give us a more enlightened and compassionate view of the world. The organisation has a progressive, feminist soul, for which I love it. I sit on the Fundraising and Marketing subcommittees.

I co-founded this not-for-profit production company to make documentary films about innovations in direct democracy. Politics as usual is unwilling and unable to tackle the defining issues of our time. Rethinking our approach to democracy is an essential component of an urgent systemic reboot.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Non-executive board member from May 2015. Non-executive Chair from December 2018 to September 2021. Puppet Animation Scotland (renamed Manipulate in 2023) is a Creative Scotland regularly funded organisation. It nurtures artists and promotes the subversive storytelling art forms of puppetry, animation and visual theatre.

London/Edinburgh

Head of a strategy team operating out of the agency’s London, Edinburgh and Cheltenham offices. The team comprised both generalist planners and specialists in SEO, CRM, content marketing and social media. It was exhilarating to have a team that taught me more than I could teach them.I advised clients including Baillie Gifford and the Scottish Government. I gave the occasional conference speech and wrote the occasional opinion column for The Drum.

Ten years as Planning Director for this swashbuckling digital agency. Setting the strategy agenda for the agency and for a team of planners and UX, SEO, and social media specialists. Insisting on work whose purpose was clearly defined and whose value was precisely measured, which was uncommon in the early days of digital marketing. Worked for clients such as Royal Mail, Molson Coors, AG Barr, Open University, BASF, and RBS on digital communications, eCRM and service design. Board director, pitch leader and regular public speaker.

I spent twelve years at The Leith Agency, the last six as Managing Director. In those days Leith was a fierce challenger agency which liked nothing better than giving London based competition a bloody nose. My time as MD coincided with A-list creative work, A-list pitch wins and steady growth in revenue and profit. I played a role in successful pitches and standout campaigns for the likes of Honda, Baillie Nicol Jarvie, Tennent's Lager, Standard Life, Grolsch, IRN-BRU, and Coors Light.

Account Director on the likes of Cadbury, Shell and Phileas Fogg. A brilliant schooling in strategy and creative quality control. Also very fortunate to work in a full service environment with some brilliant media planning practitioners before the whole media independent thing happened.