Six signals.
Every brand about to spend.

BrandBnk watches 20,000+ UK brands across six buying signals and checks every one every day. When they light up, you're first to know.

From signal.
to signed brief.

01

We check. Every day.

BrandBnk checks 20,000+ UK brands every day: company filings, the trade press, insolvency notices, their own job boards, YouTube and Instagram.

Companies House · Trade press · The Gazette · Job boards · YouTube · Instagram
02

You get the alert first.

When a brand crosses our intent threshold (a combination of signals that mean they're about to spend), it lands on your dashboard. Email alerts are coming soon.

Dashboard · Email alerts coming soon
03

You pitch at exactly the right time.

Arrive with context. Reference the signals you've spotted. That's a completely different conversation from a cold outreach with no reason to reach out.

Signal context · Timing window · Suggested angle

The six buying signals.
Each one predicts spend.

Each signal is rigorously selected because it actually predicts creative spend, not just brand activity.

01HIRING

Hiring Signals

Infrastructure means budget. Budget means opportunity for the creative teams that pitch first.

When a brand posts for a Head of Brand, Senior Creative Producer, or Influencer Marketing Manager, they're not filling a seat. They're building capacity for a campaign that hasn't been briefed yet.

BrandBnk monitors job boards continuously, flagging the roles that signal creative spend is imminent. A key hire often comes weeks before the first agency brief.

Weeks before the brief lands
Example
Stride Athletica
Hiring 3 Creative Directors across EMEA
Early window
02FUNDING & GROWTH

Funding Rounds

A funding announcement isn't news. It's a signal. Series A through C brands are building, and they need agencies to help them do it.

Funding rounds usually come with a growth plan, and marketing is near the top of it. The later the round, the more channels a brand tends to invest in at once.

The optimal pitch window is within two weeks of a funding announcement, before agency inboxes flood in. You arrive informed and ready. Everyone else arrives late.

Pitch within 2 weeks of announcement
Example
Clearpeak
£4.2M Series A closed. Marketing push imminent
Budget unlocked
03AD ACTIVITY

Ad Activity

A brand switching on paid ads, or suddenly posting far more than usual, means budgets are moving. Get in front of the decision-maker before the next campaign is briefed.

BrandBnk spots the moment a brand adds Meta, Google, TikTok or Pinterest ad tracking to its website, which means paid ads are about to start. It also tracks YouTube and Instagram against each brand's own normal pace, and campaign news in the trade press. Together they tell you a brand's campaign machine is firing, and they'll need creative support for what comes next.

The move: don't pitch the campaign they're running. Pitch the next one. Position yourself as a strategic partner, not a vendor responding to the last brief.

Checked through the day, on your board the same day
Example
Tidewell
Added Meta and TikTok ad tracking to its website this week
Ads starting
04LAUNCH

Product Launches

New product lines, market entries, and store openings mean fresh creative briefs. The launch window is when agencies win the most new work.

When a brand enters a new product category, they need creative partners they've never worked with before. Existing agencies don't have the right experience. The playing field levels.

The weeks between a product announcement and launch are your pitch window. BrandBnk catches the announcement the day it happens.

Pitch between announcement and launch
Example
Loopwear
New premium product range live. Agency search underway
High intent
05DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Digital Footprint

A landing page redesign. A new social handle. A follower spike. These aren't vanity metrics. They're signals that something bigger is coming.

BrandBnk tracks changes to brand digital footprints: website redesigns, new social account launches, significant follower growth, and brand refresh activity.

An identity shift needs creative, digital, and strategic support across every touchpoint. Spot it early and pitch with context before anyone else connects the dots.

Spot brand shifts before the brief exists
Example
Dashpan
Full brand refresh underway. New visual identity detected
Full scope
06OPPORTUNITY

Opportunity Briefs

Unlisted agency searches surfaced through hiring language, social signals, and market intelligence, before they appear on brief boards.

Not all briefs go public. Many brands reach out quietly through hiring signals and internal language changes. BrandBnk reads between the lines.

Every opportunity on your board comes with the story behind it: what happened, how strong the evidence is, the timing window, who to contact and a suggested angle for your pitch. You show up already knowing the story.

Pitch angles included with every brand
Example
Brew Theory
Q4 campaign brief live. Unlisted agency search
Unlisted edge

Stop searching.
Start pitching first.

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