Viv Yau and Mark Dandy founded their own agency Bee Influence in 2018, with a huge range of experience in agency work between.
Viv took the jump after time at TBWA\Manchester and Gleam Futures. She has more than seven years of experience working in advertising and talent management, and worked alongside influential names such as Zoella, Tanya Burr, and Pixiwoo.
Mark was Social Chain’s influencer marketing manager, supporting high-profile brands including Nokia, Superdry, Pretty Little Thing and Boohoo.
Together, they decided it was time to bring the region a new and exciting venture in the form of their own influencer marketing agency.
What’s Bee Influence’s background?
Viv Yau: “Mark and I are both Northerners, and we’d both done our time in London for a while. Coming back up North seemed like a natural move for me, so Manchester was the obvious city for us.
We wanted to launch Bee Influence as we noticed there’s not an agency up north that focuses just on influencer marketing. There’s some great social and PR agencies in the North West who have an influencer marketing arm – but we spotted an opportunity to start an agency up here whose expertise is purely focused on Influencer Marketing.”
