PMLiVE Top 40 Creative Healthcare Agencies

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2021

Swordfish Advertising

AGENCY STATEMENT

We are an award-winning, specialist, multi-disciplinary healthcare agency, specialising in strategic and creative brand solutions for pharmaceutical clients in the UK, Europe & Internationally.

  • Agency description
  • We are Swordfish Advertising: an independent, award-winning creative communications agency, specialising in health.

    United by our shared desire to improve the landscape of healthcare for patients and professionals alike, we create insight-driven campaigns that change the way people think and act; campaigns that change people’s lives for the better.

    We combine expertise in strategy, planning, data, tech and creative, alongside specialisms in science and medicine to deliver innovative solutions that overcome complex healthcare problems. Our teams go above and beyond to set the pace and lead the way, so that our client’s brands thrive and the people they serve do too.

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  • 2021 Agency Data
  • 2020 awards
    Total staff
    25-49 staff
    Billings from UK creative healthcare work
    Healthcare staff
    40-49 staff
    Total agency billings
    Agency age
    Between 15 and 20 years
    Social media footprint
    Status
    INDEPENDENT
    Approximate percentage of advertising, branding, creative or design work in the UK healthcare market
    90-100%
  • This information was supplied or confirmed by Swordfish Advertising. Bar charts are indicative only, with 100% being the maximum score allocated across all agencies. Billings from UK creative healthcare work are not a subset of total annual billings, and so may show a higher rating.

  • Ranking factors contributing to agency score
  • This chart shows the relative factors that contributed to the agency's overall ranking.

  • Awards
  • PMSociety Awards 2021 - BRAND CAMPAIGN - Mulpleo Brand Campaign - Finalist
    PMSociety Awards 2021 - BRAND CAMPAIGN (£50k and under) - Mulpleo Brand Campaign - Finalist
    PMSociety Digital Awards 2020 - CRAFT: FILM - SWARM Real Patient Stories - Bronze
    PMSociety Digital Awards 2020 - EFFECTIVENESS - GLOBAL TO LOCAL - Methofill SelfDose E-Detail - Optimising global assets to keep the ’little things’ local - Finalist
  • This may contain additional awards supplied by Swordfish Advertising that were not included when generating this year’s T40 - please see methodology to find out which awards schemes were included.

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