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Goud Uberconnected and sister agencies merge into one agency brand: GUC Agency

Larissa van Haasteren

on 30/10/2020

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Following the merger between Goud Activatie and Uberconnected in 2016, the agency has made a quite lot of progress. Goud Uberconnected (brand campaigns, activations and social) experienced considerable organic growth. Moreover, the agency acquired Icemedia (digital), Redmint (retail) and DIFR (experiential) subsequently. At the start of this year all agencies were housed under one roof at Surinameplein, Amsterdam. Managing partner Brian Hirman: “At GUC Agency, campaigns, content, conversations and experiences all emerge from a single central strategy and an all-encompassing creative idea. We believe that this is the way for brands to truly come alive. Both through mass media and social media, in the digital domain as well as in-store. To realize this vision we’ve invested considerably over de past few years in the necessary specialist expertise and in the integration of that expertise in the account teams. Being housed under one roof has definitely sped up this integration process. Continuing under one joint agency brand – GUC Agency – is therefore no more than a logical next step.”

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