Future Publishing

A Strategic, Multi-Brand Partnership Driving Growth Across Events, Awards, and Publications

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A Strategic, Multi-Brand Partnership Driving Growth Across Events, Awards, and Publications

As part of the Future Publishing empire, Decanter is one of the world’s most respected wine magazines, blending expert knowledge, tastings, education, travel, and industry insights. With a diverse portfolio spanning print, digital, premium subscriptions, and live events, Decanter needed a comprehensive strategy to better understand, engage, and grow its audience across multiple channels.

Our work with Decanter started with a specific challenge—marketing a new event in New York, despite the magazine’s historically UK-centric audience.

Rather than focusing on a single project or publication, we work across marketing, data strategy, audience insights, event support, and commercial success, ensuring that each brand meets its unique growth objectives.

Future brings us challenges across their events, awards, magazine content, and digital platforms, and our role is to apply our 4D process to deliver solutions—whether that’s driving audience engagement, increasing exhibitor demand, enhancing customer experience, or refining commercial sales strategies.

Strategy

Our work with Future spans multiple marketing disciplines and business objectives, covering:

  • Marketing Strategy & Audience Development
    • Developing psychographic personas, refining audience segmentation, and optimising targeting strategies across brands.
    • Crafting data-driven content strategies, ensuring that editorial and commercial teams
      are aligned with reader and advertiser demand.
    • Driving demand generation and lead acquisition, growing audiences for both
      publications and events.
  • Commercial & Event Growth
    • Supporting exhibitor sales and commercial advertising strategies, helping Future
      monetise its audience effectively.
    • Providing data provision and lead generation to ensure events attract high-value
      exhibitors and attendees.
    • Enhancing customer experience at shows and awards, providing admin and
      customer service support to ensure seamless engagement.
  • Multi-Platform Execution & Performance Optimisation
    • Managing paid and organic campaigns across social and digital platforms, ensuring
      publications, events, and awards reach the right audiences.
    • Supporting Google Analytics, CRM integrations, and data analysis to optimise Future’s
      marketing performance across brands.
    • Delivering bespoke reporting solutions, allowing Future’s teams to track event
      sign-ups, content engagement, and subscription growth.

Delivery

Our partnership with Future Publishing is ongoing and highly collaborative, adapting to the unique needs of different brands, events, and campaigns.

Multi-Brand Marketing Consultancy

We worked across 20+ brands, ensuring that strategies were tailored to each publication’s unique audience and business model. We aligned content, commercial sales, and audience insights to maximise both engagement and revenue.

Comprehensive Event & Awards Support

We provided strategic marketing and lead generation for major events like the Homebuilding Show. We supported the Livingetc Style Awards, ensuring seamless execution and industry-wide recognition. We also managed customer experience and administrative support for exhibitors, advertisers, and event attendees.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Creating custom reporting and audience insights by blending data from Google Analytics, CRM platforms, and marketing campaigns, while optimising Future’s digital performance to ensure that content strategies align with subscription growth, engagement, and monetisation goals.

Making It Matter

Our work with Future Publishing is about more than just individual campaigns or short-term marketing fixes—it’s about long-term strategic impact across multiple brands and business units.

  • Increased lead generation & exhibitor demand, supporting the commercial success of Future’s events and shows.
  • Optimised audience segmentation, ensuring content, awards, and advertising efforts reach the most valuable readers and attendees.
  • Stronger engagement across digital and print, ensuring Future’s publications remain at the forefront of specialist media.
  • Seamless event and award execution, enhancing customer experience for both exhibitors and attendees.

By working as a trusted partner across Future’s entire ecosystem, we provide strategic insight, marketing expertise, and hands-on execution—ensuring that whatever the challenge, we deliver solutions that drive results across publications, events, and digital platforms.

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