06 Sep 2021

Catch joins the Sideshow Group

We are excited to announce that Catch has joined the Sideshow Group.

Sideshow are one of the UK’s fastest growing agency groups with over 300 talented staff across a highly connected family of specialist agencies that together provide digital services ranging from experience design to conversion rate optimisation.

Catch have been acquired to bring our much sought-after skillset of strategy, user experience design and technical build services to the group.

Jonathan Smith, Managing Director and Founder of Catch said: "We’re thrilled to join Sideshow Group’s talented team. Their established range of services is complementary to our own and will help bolster our offering, enabling us to create more success for our clients. We’re looking forward to starting this new chapter of Catch as part of one of the UK’s fastest growing independent agency groups."

Joining Sideshow will enable Catch to;

  • have the backing and support of a vibrant group of entrepreneurial agencies, while retaining our own unique brand, people and ways of working
  • offer additional complimentary digital services to our clients
  • provide more support and training opportunities for our teams
  • attract and retain the best people in the industry
  • super-charge our growth

Tony Hill, Founder of the Sideshow Group said: "This is a great new partner for the group. Jonathan and the team at Catch are outstanding at what they do, and this will raise both our technical and design proficiency considerably. We are looking forward to working together across many exciting projects and delivering industry leading digital experiences for our clients."

Sideshow Group was advised by Lewis Silkin and Eight Advisory. Catch was advised by Waypoint Partners, Brachers and Loucas.

30 Nov 2018

Data driven personalisation

As Acquia partners, we’ve worked with their Lift product for several of our clients, employing the platform in different ways.

Acquia Lift allows us to gather the insights we need to create and deliver targeted, in-context experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty.

Our most recently launched project (now live in beta) leverages and extends Lift and Content Hub to provide a truly personalised browsing experience for Institute of Physics members.

IOP’s personalised platform

Using the Content Hub component of Lift, we syndicate content from a range of the IOP’s digital properties, all built on different platforms. As Lift only accepts content from Drupal sources, we created a Drupal-based proxy - called CHAP (Content Hub API Proxy) - which passes the content up to the Content Hub platform for syndication. 

That content is then displayed alongside on-site content on the IOP’s new web platform (designed and built by Catch). There, members can log in and - using our simple onboarding process combined with the all-new global taxonomy we devised - personalise their experience with the IOP.

See Acquia Lift for The Institute of Physics at http://beta.iop.org, or get in touch with us to learn more about how we can deliver targeted, in-context experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty for you.

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