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Nucco

Creative & Production

Make it beautifully simple

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Founded
2013
Employees
11-50
Offices
1

About Nucco

Nucco is a London-based strategic creative agency working across visual storytelling, brand development and business communications. Founded in 2013 under the name Nucco Brain, it began by producing narrative explainer films and bespoke animation for agencies, cultural organisations and growing brands. Its work has since expanded into strategy-led campaigns and communications for corporate and enterprise audiences.

The agency helps organisations explain complex subjects through a combination of communication planning, creative development and production. Its capabilities span brand positioning, audience insights, visual identity systems, scriptwriting, storyboarding, animation and live-action film. Digital work includes interactive reporting, data visualisation, augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. These disciplines support projects ranging from educational content and internal communications to public campaigns and employee engagement programmes.

From strategy to visual experiences

Nucco works across financial and professional services, technology, energy, engineering, retail and charitable organisations. Its projects translate technical information, business priorities and research into formats suited to different audiences and channels. Production can encompass a campaign’s visual language, animated characters, films, corporate presentations, social assets and interactive content.

The studio’s portfolio includes an immersive journey inside a nuclear reactor for EDF Energy, produced with UNIT9, and animation for Nike’s Kiss My Airs campaign projected onto the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Other work includes interactive content and data visualisations for J.P. Morgan’s e-Trading Survey, augmented reality campaigns for Nokia Mobile and HMD Global, and a virtual reality experience for RNIB that simulates sight loss. Its Rolls-Royce work includes internal communications animation and the character Rollo.

Nucco joined forces with UNIT9 in autumn 2017, becoming an animation and visual development partner within the production network while developing its direct-to-brand agency offering. It continues to operate with dedicated management and a distinct agency identity. The subsequent simplification of its public name to Nucco reflects its broader communications focus, while animation and visual storytelling remain central to its work.

More about Nucco

Leadership and founders

  • Mark Iremonger is Managing Director and Strategy Partner; Joe Hodgkiss is Creative Director; Mathilda Holmqvist is Creative Partner; Cassy Waugh is Client Services Partner.
  • The founders were Stefano Marrone and Pedro Victor Rocha do Espirito Santo. Marrone resigned as a director on 7 July 2022.

Operating model

Nucco describes a partner-and-associate model combining a senior core team with specialist associates. It deliberately limits its concurrent client roster to five accounts. Shared resources and costs with UNIT9 are presented as a way to reduce overheads.

Certification and workplace reporting

Nucco achieved B Corporation certification in March 2024. The research also records voluntary gender pay gap tracking, reporting an 8% median gap against an 18% industry comparison. Its 2023 impact report describes carbon-neutral, B Corp-certified cleaning supplier NuServe and investment in studio equipment.

Recognition and creative collaboration

  • The original animated short At First Sight received an Annual 2016 Winner recognition at Creativepool and international animation festival selections.
  • Nucco developed the preschool transmedia property Living with a Dragon with author Pierdomenico Baccalario and pitched it at Cartoon Forum.
  • The Applause was created with West End theatre veterans to raise awareness and support for live theatre venues during pandemic closures.

Notable credits

12 credits
  • The Spark — Mercedes-AMG Petronas
  • At First Sight
  • EDF Energy: Inside A Nuclear Reactor — with UNIT9
  • Nike: Kiss My Airs
  • Nokia Mobile / HMD Global campaigns
  • Living with a Dragon
  • The Applause
  • J.P. Morgan e-Trading Survey
  • The Shark Trust campaigns
  • RNIB sight-loss virtual reality experience
  • Rolls-Royce internal communications and Rollo character
  • Emaar Properties augmented reality and projection mapping experience

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