Big questions,
meet big thinking.

We cut out unnecessary process to help you answer your biggest questions, fast - always focused on unlocking growth and looking for the sharpest way through, whether at a business, brand or comms level.

We keep the thinking close, with senior strategy, insight and problem-solving in-house, then pull in the right specialists to bring ideas to life.

Founded by Dino Myers-Lamptey in 2019, The Barber Shop is a welcoming place, best suited to disruptor brands with ambition or traditional brands in transition.

Our work

  • Drove awareness and admissions to Escapes, a National Lottery initiative bringing free independent cinema to unengaged audiences.

    Role: Campaign Strategy, Media Planning & Buying, Audience Targeting

  • Conducted in-depth audience research to help Sky Media develop a compelling new go-to-market positioning.

    Role: Research & Insight, Strategic Consulting, Brand Positioning

  • Redefined COAT's marketing strategy as they grew from start up to scale up and helped extract maximum value from media deals.

    Role: Marketing Strategy, Media Strategy, Media Buying, Strategic Consultancy

  • Hosted a series of workshops for TikTok to help the brand strategy team build its internal culture, set goals and define key focus areas.

    Role: Creative Workshops, Inspiration Sessions, Business Coaching

  • Deployed tactical OOH to disrupt and steal the show at the Labour Conference, amplifying Oxfam’s “Inaction Isn’t Working” campaign.

    Role: Campaign Strategy, Media Planning & Buying

  • Combined our industry expertise with an in-depth research study to help Global better understand the market view of its digital audio proposition.

    Role: Strategic Consulting, Research & Insight

  • Brought women into the conversation to help Triumph Underwear develop a new global brand positioning.

    Role: Brand Positioning, Consumer Research & Testing

  • Made sense of a complex crypto proposition and launched Cudo Ventures Mainnet to developers and consumers.

    Role: Campaign Strategy, Creative Development, Media Strategy & Buying

  • Launched new beauty products in proximity to key retail stores and luxury product buying audiences.

    Role: Media Planning & Buying

  • Honed ClientEarth's creative messaging by creating and testing multi-variants using our AI powered research platform.

    Role: Creative Development, Research, AI

  • Launched Fulham Football Club's £300m+ riverside development as a destination venue through hyper local OOH and digital campaigns.

    Role: Campaign Strategy, Media Planning & Buying, Destination Marketing

  • Repositioned Parkinson's UK as a challenger brand, using TV to emphasise the urgency and dramatise the breakthroughs in research.

    Role: Brand Strategy, Media Strategy, Media Planning & Buying

  • Launched drinks range with hyper targeted and personalised campaign to coincide with Sainsbury’s listing, increasing rate of sale and gaining national distribution.

    Role: Media Strategy, Media Planning & Buying

  • Ongoing brand maintenance, shopper marketing and new product launches.

    Role: Media Planning & Buying

  • Partnered with Wallpaper to create a design contest across Europe, endorsed and judged by the editor.

    Role: Media Partnerships

  • “The Barber Shop are the sharpest minds I’ve ever worked with. They helped us find our way through a path that had always been there, we’d just never been able to see it.”

    Eszter Szijarto, Triumph Underwear

  • “Working with The Barber Shop is like standing under a waterfall and being drenched in inspiration and clarity.”

    Lisa Batty, TikTok

  • “The Barber Shop give us high level strategic thinking and always challenge us to see things from a different angle (in a good way).”

    Zohra Vermani, Parkinson’s UK

  • “We have a great working relationship with The Barber Shop. They get our values and purpose and work as a tight team.”

    Simon Coley, Karma Drinks

  • “The Barber Shop have been great to work with. Their brilliance is that they combine sharp thinking and knowledge with relatability and warmth. I have never left a meeting without feeling inspired and energised.”

    Karin Seymour, Sky

Are you a disruptor brand with ambition or a traditional brand in transition?

If so, we’d love to discuss how we might be able to help.

Phone
+44 (0)203 885 2660

Email
letstalk@wearetbs.com

Address
New Wing
The Exchange
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA