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Kevin Gibbons

CEO, Co-founder

Kevin Gibbons is founder and CEO of Re:signal – a strategy-driven SEO and content marketing agency in London. 

Winner of 15x UK/EU Search Awards, he was named search personality of the year at the UK Search Awards (2018) and listed in BIMA’s top 100 people shaping the digital industry (CEO and leaders category) in 2019. 

He has helped to grow Re:signal into a fast growth digital marketing agency, as recognised by Deloitte Fast 50 UK & EMEA (2017) and the FT 1000 fastest growing companies in Europe (2018). Working with clients including Expedia, Auto Trader, Pottery Barn and Deloitte. 

Kevin has spoken at over 100 events internationally over the last 10 years, including; Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Pubcon, ClickZ / SES, BrightonSEO, SAScon, State of Search, Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC), Content Marketing Association (CMA), Performance Marketing Insights, SEMCamp and many more… 

Columnist writer at Econsultancy, Search Engine Watch, The Drum, Fast Company and Search Engine Land. Judge at US / MENA Search Awards, The Drum Content Awards and DADI Awards. 

Kevin’s presentations can be found on Slideshare.

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Announcing Re:signal’s new senior leadership team

We’ve got some exciting news to share!

Our senior leadership team is now fully formed, meaning we have some promotions and strategic changes to announce…

  • Kevin Gibbons remains CEO and Founder, setting the company vision
  • Hannah Butcher has been promoted to Managing Director, implementing the company vision
  • Elizabeth Rowe moves into a full-time role as Talent and Human Resources Manager, focusing on talent attraction and employee experience
  • Khushal Khan will look after the SEO product and team as our Head of Strategy
  • Rachel Dexter has been promoted to Head of Operations, with a focus on client experience

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We’ve been quietly working away, and have experienced fast growth over the last 6 months in particular, and have a clear plan on how we fully intend to keep this going.

One important lesson I’ve learned over the years is you can go fast alone, or you can go further together.

It’s also a case of what got us here, won’t get us there –

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KPMG: UK travel sector trends 2021

Undoubtedly, 2020 has been a tough and unprecedented year for the travel industry.

In order to assess the impact and find out what is likely to happen later this year, I spoke with Will Hawkley (Associate Partner, Global Head of Leisure &

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Ross Hudgens (Siege Media) – top of funnel content marketing

Last week I had a great virtual conversation with Ross Hudgens, founder/CEO of Siege Media, to discuss content marketing approaches in order to drive organic growth:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_fn7hkvZy0Q

  • Intro: 2:10
  • Approach to identify top of funnel content opportunities: 3:49
  • Venn diagram of making content marketing work: 5:52
  • Combination of SEO perspective and what would attract links: 8:43
  • “Campaign spike”
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Introducing our eCommerce SEO (UK) Report 2020

We’re very excited to launch our eCommerce SEO (UK) 2020 report today. This has been a big project for us over the summer, where we’ve put together:

  1. Trends of the retail sector in 2020 and outlook for 2021 and beyond, with insights from KPMG’s Head of UK Retail, Paul Martin on the.
  2. Expert SEO views on the impact of Covid 19, plus how you should be adapting your strategies –
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KPMG: UK retail sector trends 2020 & forecast 2021

Last week, Paul Martin, Head of UK Retail at KPMG kindly joined myself for a video interview to talk about the trends of the retail sector in 2020, what’s to come in 2021 and where we should be focusing our attention/efforts in order to be successful. 

Trends of 2020:

It’s a fluid situation. We experienced the first instances from a health perspective from January, and of course, from a global perspective, things are changing country by country since. 

  • Retail in the UK is a £395bn industry. The store shutdown during March and April had a large negative impact on retailers. 
  • In April/May, we expected a 5-6% overall annual decline in annual sales.
  • After a more buoyant Summer (June, July, and August) even though we still expect a decline, the performance was much better than expected, and we now believe the annual outlook is more likely to be 1% drop. 
  • Heading into the final golden quarter, this is so important for performance. Especially with furlough unwinding, we have lived in a protected bubble for a certain amount of time, and we’ll expect to see a negative financial impact from the end of October. 
  • Retail can’t just be looked at in its entirety. 
    • If you look at the food category or home, they have faired very well. 42% of all food pre-covid was consumed out of home, large parts of that economy have come to a significant standstill. More consumers are now eating at home, so the grocery sector in some cases have seen double-digit increases. 
    • Furniture, Home-wear, DIY (specifically over the summer) have also seen positive uplift. 
    • On the flip side, some categories have experienced a more challenging environment –
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