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Rachael Hesno

Journalist at Prolific North Email for stories/tips: [email protected] Tel: 07763741043

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Agency

The Prolific North Top 150 Agencies 2026: Full list revealed

The Prolific North Tech Awards 2026 shortlist revealed
Awards and Events

Revealed: The Prolific North Tech Awards 2026 shortlist

Agency

Revealed: Prolific North’s Independent Agencies to Watch list 2026

Reign - agency Altrincham, Danielle Hewitt and Simon Rigby
Agency

Manchester agency rebrands and boosts senior team with double hire after rapid first year

Agency

Alliance of Independent Agencies backs Prolific North’s new Top 150 Agencies ranking and event

Top 150 ranking Prolific North
Agency

Last chance to enter Prolific North’s inaugural Top 150 Agencies ranking

Agency

Introducing Prolific Radar: Help us map the North’s creative, digital and tech sectors

Brand

Reach CEO warns of more job cuts as publisher shifts away from ‘volume’ after revenues and traffic plunge

Agency

Just days left to enter Prolific North’s Independent Agencies to Watch list 2026

West Yorkshire - Regional Tech Champions GRAFT Prolific north, backed by BHP
Graft

Prolific North brings GRAFT Regional Tech Champions initiative to West Yorkshire

Top 150 ranking Prolific North
Agency

Submissions now open for Prolific North’s inaugural Top 150 Agencies ranking – find out how to enter

Graft

Andy Burnham urged to ‘back British tech’ as industry leaders warn UK is at a ‘precipice’

Latest Features

Features

CTO Debrief: Northern tech leaders tackle AI, difficult conversations and the realities of leading change

Features

Inside Greater Manchester’s changing tech investment landscape and where it heads next

Sarah Colling, Northern Healthcare
A Week in My Life

A Week in My Life: Sarah Colling, People Director, Northern Healthcare

Features

What changes when a tech business scales? Manchester’s industry leaders on growing pains, investment and what comes next

A Week in My Life

A Week in My Life: Liam Augur, Senior Designer, Propaganda

Features

Meet the Liverpool founder who wants to do for construction what AI giant Harvey has done for the legal sector

Creative Powerhouse

‘Everyone has a different version of what good looks like’: Inside some of the North’s rising independent agencies

A Week in My Life

A Week in My Life: Richard Anderton, Head of Education, Sync

Features

THE AGENCY BLUEPRINT: What clients really want (and where agencies are missing the mark)

Kate Heath Gaia Learning (1)
Features

‘Let’s talk big about this’: How a personal mission to support neurodivergent children bloomed into fast-growing edtech Gaia Learning

Verity Fox
Features

How I Became: Verity Fox, Managing Director, Dominion

The North’s femtech funding gap: Do the figures tell the full story? Pictures: four female leaders who speak of their experiences in this piece
Features

The North’s femtech funding gap: Do the figures tell the full story?