James Reed: all about business 67. How to evolve your offering to grow a service-based business | Gregory Nice + Jack Stanton
How do you build a creative agency that cuts through in a crowded, fast-changing media landscape?
In this episode of All About Business, James talks with Gregory Nice and Jack Stanton, co-founders of NICE Productions. Together they discuss growing a modern creative agency in the age of social-first content, multi-channel marketing, and AI disruption.
Gregory and Jack share how they built NICE Productions from weekend side projects into a London-based creative agency producing campaigns across TV, social, radio, cinema, and out-of-home. They reflect on starting young, balancing creativity with commercial reality, and how long-term client relationships helped them survive industry shocks, from COVID, to strikes, and shifting media budgets.
The conversation explores how creative agencies can stand out in a saturated market, why multi-channel campaigns now matter more than single-format ads, and how low-budget, high-impact content can outperform expensive campaigns when it connects culturally. They also discuss the real impact of AI on creative work, why human creativity still matters, and how young people can break into the industry with fewer barriers than ever.
This is a candid conversation about building a creative business, staying relevant in a disrupted industry, and creating work that cuts through in a noisy world.
Timestamps
02:42 Launching Nice Productions
08:12 Rebrand to ‘Nice’
18:44 Standing out in a crowded market
22:05 AI disruption in content
37:53 Why big ideas cost big money
46:43 Turning virality into new business
57:34 Landing big clients
01:02:38 How they generate ideas
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