Monthly Archives: October 2017

TLA sponsors Media Rocks charity concert

The Lead Agency was among the proud sponsors of the first Media Rocks concert last night, which took place at Omeara in London last night.

The event was held in aid of MS Trust and organised by data activation company Captify. Billed as a Battle of the Media Bands, the sold-out event featured talented musicians who work in the advertising, media and digital industry.

Media Rocks winner

The line-up included acts from Maxus Global, Manning Gottlieb, Harvest Digital, MEC, Total Media and OnlineMediaExperts. While musical styles ranged from old school hip hop to alternative indie rock to metal.

The winning band

The judging panel featured Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett, Radio X DJ Maz Tappuni and Captify’s own Dom Joseph, who was once a professional drummer. After much deliberation, they declared Total Media’s band Phelanto & the Vials the winner.

It was a brilliant event for an important charity, so well done to the Captify team, to the bands who took part, to everyone who bought tickets and our fellow sponsors.

Team TLA complete Manchester Half Marathon for charity

Team TLA completed the Manchester Half Marathon on Sunday – the second of our three endurance challenges to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Last month, our team took part in a gruelling three-day cycle from London and Liverpool and we have the full New York Marathon coming up in November.

This time, however, it was 13 miles on foot around the city of Manchester and we had four TLA teammates taking part: Abel, Anton, Neil and Phil.

the lead agency team
The running club (from left to right): Anton, Phil, Neil and Abel.

They did it! All four of our runners completed the race in fantastic times:

  • Abel – 1:52:02
  • Anton – 1:49:47
  • Neil – 1:17:38
  • Phil – 2:07:09

They coped brilliantly and, while there are some stiff limbs and sore feet around the office this morning, they assure us it was worth it. Well done to the fab four – we’re feeling proud!

This brings us nicely to our amazing and worthy cause: Macmillan. To date, we’ve raised £3,669 for Macmillan via our JustGiving page and we are doing everything we can to get that fund higher.

If you’re able to make a donation, however small, it will be greatly appreciated by not only everyone taking part in our three challenges but the whole team at The Lead Agency.

For those who have done so already, thank you so much. We’re making a difference!

TLA Just Giving for Macmillan