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The Audience, Messaging & Strategy Agency
Powered by Psychology

Cognition is the only marketing agency to combine audience insight, messaging and strategy with a mastery of psychology. 

Everything we do is powered by behavioural economics, psychology and the expertise of our Scientific Board.

Our evidence-based approach is delivering results for organisations of every size in more than 30 countries.

What we deliver:

  • Effective audience insights based on robust science and psychology.
  • Messaging frameworks that create clarity and truly differentiate.
  • Brand strategies that unleash demand and deliver lasting value.
  • Marketing strategies that drive growth.
  • Employer brands that build empowered internal teams 

 

 

A survey of CMOs conducted by PwC found that the perfect balance between science and creativity delivers 2x performance improvements on revenue and 3x on brand. 

Cognition delivers that perfect balance.

 

Our services

Rooted in behavioural science and guaranteed to deliver lasting results. 

 

Audience
insight

Still relying on personas? We use psychology to unlock the decision strategies of your audiences.

Messaging
& creative

Tired of not standing out? Only compelling, human messaging can cut through AI content saturation.

Strategy
& planning

There’s thorough, and there’s Cognition thorough. Trust our decades of experience in building meticulous marketing plans.

Employer branding

From company values to cultural change programmes, we build the employer brand your people deserve.

When it comes to blending science and creativity, no other agency gets close to Cognition.

Dave Howard - Marketing Leader
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case studies

Cognition built a coherent marketing strategy that aligned with our goals and a clear path to execution. We could have taken it to anyone to execute but given the quality of the work we had seen it was an easy decision to use them to deliver it.

Benjamin Collins - Managing Partner, Connex Partners
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case studies

Cognition helped us to drive a wholesale reappraisal of our approach to marketing, including implementing inbound marketing tactics across the global WSE network.

Ivan Croxford - Head of Marketing Programmes Development, Wall Street English
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case studies

On the basis of effectiveness and good measurement now in place we can start to have some creative fun.

David Saunders - General Manager, Jaguar Land Rover
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case studies

Cognition’s ability to translate our complex technology into simple, compelling propositions was incredibly impressive. They developed all the creative to take two new Blatchford products to market and the campaign engagement has been excellent.

Emma Marsh - Marketing Manager, Blatchford
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case studies

Our
work

Blatchford

Multi-channel campaigns for life-changing products.

JLR

Driving a return on ad spend of over 400%.

Connex Partners

Creating a sophisticated marketing strategy from scratch.

Transform your brand and creative with psychology.

Our culture

More than a marketing agency. 

We are psychologists, neuroscientists, artists, playwrights and published authors. But more importantly, we’re the kind of people you want to do business with. Endlessly supportive. Occasionally challenging. Always inspiring.

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us

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The Leadership Team

Meet our team of marketeers, creatives & psychologists.



Let’s start the conversation

Intrigued by our approach? Curious to know how Cognition can support your specific challenges? Submit the form to start the conversation. 

 

Alternatively, you can reach out to us at: 

hello@cognitionagency.co.uk

Birmingham: +44 121 368 7521
London: +44 20 4586 1470