Get to Know Us
Our Story
Ripe Digital Agency started off as three Postgraduate Advertising students at Bournemouth University with a passion for food and hunger for digital marketing at heart.
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Fast forward to 2021, we have created a digital marketing agency to define and sharpen your vision and to help you bring it to life in a way that connects emotionally with your audience. Our aim is to bring brands into the spotlight ensuring you receive the best coverage possible.
We’re passionate about helping you find your creative voice. We guide our clients through the minefields of modern business, helping them thrive in a fast-changing world. In so doing, we leverage each company’s unique strengths to build a personalized roadmap to success.
What We Stand For
Quality is our Recipe
Vision
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We want to help businesses fulfil their full potential and make that dough.
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Mission
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Our passion is to cater to your good taste through delicious digital marketing.
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Values
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At Ripe, we value the same things in food as we do in business: diversity, partnership, quality, ethics and having fun.
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We value diversity across all stakeholders as well as our veggies.
We believe that partnerships lead to business success, that is why strong relationships with our clients is important, just like cheese and good wine.
We make sure to produce the highest quality work just as we appreciate high quality meals, to ensure fantastic results.
We reinforce strong ethics in both our business practices and our customers, and only support ethically sourced produce.
Lastly, we love having fun and experimenting both in the office and in the kitchen.
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Slogan
Bringing effective digital marketing to the table.
Meet the Team
Get to Know Us
Salome Despicht
Creative Director
Salome is the Creative Director of Ripe. Her role at Ripe is creating user focused experiences, taking into consideration brand and business needs, and aiming to bring the creative vision and execution efficiently. Her ethos lies in her passion for helping brands succeed. In her spare time she enjoys listening to her collection of vinyl records and playing with makeup.
Marisa Joshi
Digital Media Manager
Marisa is an experienced Digital Media Manager that handles the visibility, execution, and communication of a client’s campaign across various media platforms and development of site creation. Driven by her passion for the digital online world, she also takes pride through SEO, SEM, campaigns, content marketing, digital tool analytics, and social media monitoring, in order to provide brands with the best awareness and prominence. Her goals are to ensure digital opportunities are maximised by integrating into all marketing plans and to track how a site’s content affects its readership.
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Frederico Pizarro
Content Writer
Frederico Pizarro, aka Fred in the UK and Pizarro in Portugal, is one of the creative minds behind the content that gives life to brands. Frederico studied Advertising and Marketing at Coventry University and to refine his view of the market of advertising, he decided to take a masters degree in Advertising at Bournemouth University. He likes to be original and innovative and that gives a special spark to the ideas that he brings.
CSR
Incorporating CSR into one's business is considered to be the best way to address the Triple Bottom Line, or in other words putting people and the planet above profit.
Here at Ripe we highly subscribe to this way of operating as a business and brand and therefore we commit to giving back to the community in every way we can.
We donate a percentage of our yearly profit to various charities such as Hope For Food and the Bournemouth FoodBank.
We also partner with ReFood which is an industry leader in food waste recycling. We encourage our clients to consider their food and plastic waste and where possible associate them with ReFood to help deal with the waste.
We additionally volunteer as a company every Thursday at Hope For Food, which is a local charity and soup kitchen in Bournemouth aiming to provide the basic essentials for those in need.
We understand our role both within our local area and the planet and we give every effort in every way we can to reduce wastage and help those in need.