Gender data for founders, directors and leaders is provided by The Data City based on declared officer titles at Companies House and the UK Government definition of Persons of Significant Control. The Data City does not use machine-learning to estimate gender. A women-led agency is defined as a company with more active women directors than men directors. A women-founded agency is one where women were appointed as directors within two years of the company being incorporated.
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83p in the pound: Gender pay gaps across the UK’s largest agencies
Exploring the gender pay gap within the UK’s largest agencies and what it means for the sector. In collaboration with gender pay gap consultant Lynda Harvey.
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The language trap: How agencies describe themselves and what it reveals about differentiation
A collaboration between Agency by Agency and Treacle to explore how similarities in agency descriptions can make it hard to stand out from the crowd.
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Time to scale-up: How 861 agencies are driving disproportionate sector growth
Just 3.4% of all active agencies qualify as scale-ups, yet they generate a quarter of sector turnover and employ more than a quarter of the workforce. What makes these agencies different?
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