The last year has been a great year for CSI Media – a digital agency located on Crewe Business Park. Throughout the year, there has been a long list of achievements from industry awards and recognitions, staff achievements and overall proud highlights of the year.

CSI Media celebrated a steam of awards in 2016.  They have been awarded 2nd place in the 2016 National Drum Census produced by The Drum and the Recommended Agency Register (RAR) in the Elite Agency category with 1-25 members of staff. Also they were ranked 6th in Client Satisfaction and Financial Performance with 1-25 staff members. This year they have also been recognised in the 26-60 category placing 2nd for Independent Agency, 5th for Elite Agency and 30th in Financial Performance.

One of their clients, Motor Trade Delivery, won the Innovation and Design Award and were the Bronze winners in the Business of the Year Turnover up to £5million category at the North East Cheshire Business Awards 2016. Working with Robert Smethurst, Managing Director of Motor Trade Delivery who created and designed the website, CSI Media built the site and manage any day-to-day changes or technical updates.

Also, CSI Media were nominated in the Best B2B eCommerce category for the development of Cormar Carpets’ Trade Portal website at the eCommerce Awards 2016. Along with being a finalist at the RAR Digital Awards in the Mobile and Usability under 40 staff category.

Several CSI Media web developers completed Umbraco and Sitecore Content Management System training courses and the marketing team took the Google AdWords and Analytics courses. Both teams passed the final exam with flying colours. CSI Media are certified and specialise in Umbraco and Sitecore CMS and Google AdWords and Analytics.  Employees are committed to training and learning to ensure they stay up to speed in the industry.

In the summer, CSI Media celebrated a triple 10-year anniversary. Nick Taylor, Rob Machin and Dave Clowes have served 10 incredible hard working years. They are very grateful for all the hard work and dedication that they have put in over the last decade.

The year has also seen more well-known and large companies becoming clients of CSI Media. Some of their current clients include: Fred Olsen Travel, Priory Group, Mornflake, Delamere Dairy, Easygym, The Family Holiday Association, Motor Trade Delivery, Cormar Carpets and HF Holidays.

The ambitious agency has worked on a full suite of projects throughout the year from mobile apps to redesigns and build of fully responsive and SEO optimised websites; along with client retainers who wish to have continuous IT and marketing support. They also specialise in school websites with a sub-brand called Schools Cool, they have created and built 24 new school websites and currently have six in development.

Due to big client wins throughout the year, there has been a big recruitment drive for the company. This has seen 6 new starters in the design, development and marketing departments. The new employees are supporting the rapid growth of the company and client projects and retainers.

Richard Nash, Business Director, commented “This year has been one of our most successful years; however, we have been faced with several challenges throughout. Together, we have been able to overcome the problems and still saw growth. We have plenty more planned for 2017 with big name companies in the pipeline and a recruitment plan to expand our teams further. This year is going to be a big year for CSI Media.”

CSI Media are an innovative, ambitious digital agency based in Crewe, Cheshire with 18 years’ experience of designing and building websites. They provide a wide range of website, mobile, software and marketing solutions. Above all, they promise to offer you a service that you can trust - valuing openness, professionalism and honesty.