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The hottest UK agency benchmarks and insights to guide your agency through 2022 and beyond. 

This year, thanks to the large number of agencies that took part in BenchPress, we’ve created three separate reports for you to get stuck into, with benchmarks for agencies over and under £1m turnover. Here are the topics we covered this year:

  • Financial performance
  • Recruiting and retention
  • New business 

Download all the 2022 reports here.

About BenchPress

In 2012, we began our agency benchmarking report – BenchPress. The aim was simple; to take an accurate snapshot of agency life in the UK and to share insight and analysis with ambitious agency owners. 

BenchPress has grown to become the largest survey of UK independent agency owners and is a great way to benchmark yourself against your peers. 

    What agency owners say

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    BenchPress is not one of those reports you scan and forget. It’s the insight you pore over and revisit endlessly. It is our balance, the benchmark for our business planning, and the re-alignment of goals to meet an industry that is in change.  I love that it isn’t just the broad brushstroke insight. It gets into the nitty gritty and helps us evaluate everything from our rates and new business performance, to talent retention and culture.

    Katy Howell
    CEO of immediate future

    Matt Scaysbrook, Founder and Director WeTeachCRO

    We genuinely look forward to BenchPress every year. It gives us detailed external validations on our strengths & weaknesses amongst our peers, and we use those insights to double-down on our positives & build plans to improve our negatives. And all of that makes us a stronger, more stable & more profitable agency for the year ahead.

    Matt Scaysbrook
    Director of Optimisation at WeTeachCRO

    Download all the 2021 reports

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