# Social Element

> Social Element is a remote-first global social media agency founded in 2002. It combines community management, social intelligence, strategy, creative, influencer marketing, paid social, brand protection, training and consultancy for multinational brands, using human judgment alongside AI and third-party data. After 23 years as an independent company, it was acquired by multilingual content group MarketFully in December 2025; the brand and leadership team remained intact.

- **Founded:** 2002
- **Headquarters:** Remote; registered office in London, United Kingdom
- **Founders:** Tamara Littleton (Founder; adviser after the 2025 acquisition)
- **Products:** Community management, Brand protection, Social intelligence and strategy, Creative and innovation, Influencer marketing
- **Notable:** Won Leadership Team of the Year at The Drum Awards for Agency Business in 2021., Retained nearly all clients through the first pandemic year while winning Visa, Peloton, Parkinson's UK and Olafur Eliasson and recording above-target profitability., Scaled from 150 to 300 people in six months during an earlier growth period.

## Products & services

- **Community management** — Always-on engagement, customer-service integration, user-generated-content activation and crisis response across brand communities.
- **Brand protection** — Readiness guides, crisis simulations, moderation and multilingual 24/7 escalation designed to keep brands and communities safe.
- **Social intelligence and strategy** — Social listening, audience analysis, sentiment work, strategic planning and social playbooks informed by proprietary methods, third-party data and human analysts.
- **Creative and innovation** — Social-first concepts, agile content, creative sprints and campaign platforms built from community signals.
- **Influencer marketing** — Influencer identification, contracting and campaign management designed to give brands credible access to established communities.
- **Paid social, experiences, training and consultancy** — Paid distribution, real-world activations, bespoke workshops and advisory support for in-house teams.
- **Brand Currency Index** — A study and diagnostic scoring system combining 12 weighted social metrics; its public index covers 477 brands, 1,186 handles and 16 industries.

## Achievements

- Won Leadership Team of the Year at The Drum Awards for Agency Business in 2021.
- Retained nearly all clients through the first pandemic year while winning Visa, Peloton, Parkinson's UK and Olafur Eliasson and recording above-target profitability.
- Scaled from 150 to 300 people in six months during an earlier growth period.
- Reported answering 707,000 inbound Oreo messages in one year, escalating 59,000 alerts and scaling the team by 36%.
- Its contribution to the Dr Pepper and creator Romeo conversation was part of a campaign that won a Cannes Silver Lion and generated a reported 4.1 billion earned impressions.
- Ranked 14th out of 100 in an Inspiring Workplaces global ranking cited by the company.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — MarketFully acquired Social Element for undisclosed terms; founder Tamara Littleton moved to an advisory role and Ashley Cooksley became CEO, with the brand and leadership retained.
- **2026** — The company launched the Brand Currency Index, ranking 477 brands and 1,186 social handles across 16 industries using 12 weighted metrics.
- **2026-06** — Its Strategy & Intelligence team began weekly World Cup Community Intelligence reports using its Brand Currency methodology and data from Talkwalker, Perplexity and wider sports reporting.

## Links

- Website: https://thesocialelement.agency/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-social-element/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Soc_Element
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/socialelementagency/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/SocialElementAgency

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Last updated: 2026-09-23