James Whatley is Head of Social Media at Soho Square, the Ogilvy agency dedicated to integration. He leads social business across multiple clients and spends his days developing new and exciting ways to create meaningful connections between brands and consumers.
Previously he was with 1000heads, where as engagement director, he helped establish the agency’s reputation as one of the leading word of mouth consultancies in the world. He has won, or led teams that have won, multiple awards for campaigns such as Nokia/Tron: Legacy, F-Secure and N8 Producers.
Before that James worked on several telecommunications start ups as community + social lead on SpinVox, Mippin and Mobizines.
Career highlights include: launching The Dark Knight Rises Lumia 800, 2011; named in PR Week’s ‘Power Book’ as one of the most influential people in PR, 2010; winning and completing the Lucozade social media challenge, to become their global social media reporter for 2009; working with AIDS & HIV awareness charity, The Staying-Alive Foundation, on the world’s first voice-powered social network ‘Stand by What You Say’ and then again with ‘Telling It Like It Is’ at theMTV the European Music Awards, 2008.
You can read his personal blog at http://whatleydude.com
Or follow him on Twitter @whatleydude
Specialties: Blogger Relations, User Experience, Viral Marketing, Social Media, Mobile Convergence, Community Building, Branding & Identity, Turning Messages into Conversations.
Hear James in Show Nine talking about how companies are using trends in consumer preferences to change the way they advertise and promote goods.
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