About

We are UM Central, one of the UK’s leading media agencies, comprising nearly 100 expert media planners and buyers across four offices in Birmingham, London, Bristol and Leeds.

We are proud of our strong team culture at UM Central, which has led to long standing, deeply collaborative client relationships and award-winning work, from Cannes Lions and Media Week, to The Drum Awards, Thinkbox, the UK Socal Media Awards and more.

We look at the world of media quite differently – and our clients are seeing the results. We are a data-driven, strategy-first agency and we believe Media is Everything at the intersection of Culture, Commerce, and Content. Therefore, we’ve reimagined what a modern media agency needs to be to help our clients navigate this new complexity.

We talk about people as humans, not targets or data; unearthing transformative insights that help power the media solutions that will positively drive perception and behaviour change.

Our integrated, media-neutral approach to delivering brand or direct response messages allows us to deliver the most impactful combination of media channels. Whether we’re working digitally through SEO, PPC and Display marketing or via offline channels like TV, Print, Radio, Door Drops or Out of Home advertisements.

If you are interested in speaking to us further and discovering how we deliver best-in-class media planning and buying solutions for our clients, please do get in touch.

Our leadership team

Our clients

  • Acer
  • Electoral Commission
  • Cross Country
  • Dexcom
  • VAX
  • Pink Lady
  • Brittany Ferries
  • Good Energy
  • Crumpton Oaks
  • Avis
  • BioCare
  • DHL
  • EMR
  • English Heritage
  • KETER
  • Network Rail
  • Ryobi
  • Cleveland Clinic
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Our extended family

We sit within McCann Central, the UK's #1 creative community, comprising 520 people across the UK, as well as being part of UM Worldwide, a global media agency committed to empowering brands to their full growth potential through the power of patterns by opening a brand’s aperture and rejecting black and white marketing decisions.

UM’s borderless and boundless global network operates in 100+ markets, across 120+ offices with 3,000+ employees. We build our teams around our core values of Community, Courage and Curiosity, amplifying the full spectrum of our unique talents to drive our shared success.

Furthermore, we are backed by the power of IPG, our global holding company, which provides us with advantageous media rates, and unparalleled access to data, intelligence and the world's best tools