Behind The Bubble – Wendy Mattock

We are a fun team made up of an array of exciting personalities. Find out more about the faces behind the team in our Behind The Bubble Q&A.

Wendy Mattock – Senior Account Director

What was your first job? My first ‘grown up’ job was as Marketing Assistant at a software development company, where I learned many of the basics of real-world marketing. My very first job was behind the till at my local newsagent.

What did you want to be when you were growing up? I wanted to be a courier – someone who looked after people when they travelled, solved their problems abroad, got to travel to far-flung destinations and wore a natty uniform. Unfortunately my vision of being a courier was from the 1950s-60s golden age of glamorous travel, while my reality would have been being a holiday rep at 1990s Club 18-30…

Soundtrack of your life? It’s too hard to choose one for my whole life so far… for this current chapter, Adventure of a Lifetime by Coldplay was out just when we were preparing to move to Dubai, which seemed quite apt.

Biggest pet peeve? People who don’t put their trolleys back in the trolley bay in the supermarket carpark. It’s not hard, people!!

What is one thing you’re learning and why is it important? Something I’ve been learning for many years, and still need to remind myself, is that sometimes ‘it just is’. At school it was frustrating maths theory and language rules that I couldn’t get my head around, now it’s directives or rules that makes no sense. I have to stop saying ‘but why?’ and acknowledge that, in most (though not all!) instances, life is easier when you can accept that ‘it just is’ and move on.

Favourite phrase; English and another language? My son and I nearly always do the Monica/Rachel ‘Got the keeeys?’ bit when leaving the house… (“You said you HAD the keeeys!”). Arabic: Yalla habibi! (Let’s go, guys!)

What is your guilty pleasure? A good Netflix/Amazon box set that none of my family wants to watch; sneaking episodes while they are out or busy, trying and failing to measure out episodes to make them last longer. Current favourite: Friday Night Lights.

What is your most used emoji? The ‘OMG/are you serious??’ eyes-wide-open face (which, now that I’ve looked it up, doesn’t mean that at all!) 😳

Do you have a hidden talent? I have a ridiculously good memory for actors’ past roles and can generally answer “What was he in before?” and “Why does she look familiar?” when watching films or TV. I can also fold a crisp packet up into a tiny triangle. Both life-changing talents, you will agree.

What is your favourite thing about being a Bubble? The other Bubbles! They are such a great team of hardworking, FUN people who are a pleasure to work and play with.

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A Few Kind Words...

Andrew McKinlay, Marketing Director, Avolites

All amazing, just grateful I know I can rely on Bubble to get the job done brilliantly.

Tanya Rai, Marketing and Communications Manager, Pebble

Team Bubble are an extension of our own team. They are wonderful to work with, reliable, get the job done and gain great exposure for our business in key publications.

Mike Ward, Head of Marketing, Singular.live

Since we first started working with them, our team at Bubble have acted very much like an extension of our team. They work with us to try and help us achieve our goals and we very much feel that they have our interests at heart as well as having our backs when we need it!

Gavin Bunker, AE Live

Bubble were fantastic throughout the whole process and helped us deliver a successful event to celebrate our 30th corporate anniversary with industry peers.

Robert Cloudt, Synchronized

Bubble has been tremendously helpful to bring our marketing communication to the next level, very responsive and thinking with us together on the rightful messaging and timing across different media’s. Definitely a recommendation in case you need a well balanced media agency to help you out.

Carla Molina Whyte, Farmerswife

Working with Bubble Agency for a tradeshow has been truly amazing. The bubble team is incredibly helpful and talented. We are very happy with the results and with all the coverage we got prior and during the tradeshow!

Silvia Candido, Ateme

As usual, we were super busy before and during a tradeshow this year. What a luxury to have Bubble take care of our media relations and our social media accounts! We saw a surge of followers on LinkedIn and got good coverage in a number of publications.

Meg Travis, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services, Director, Global Head of Marketing & Communications, Entertainment Services

The Bubble team made everything easy at MPTS! From advising before the show, to facilitating client and press conversations during the show, to making recommendations on how to make the most of the connections we made there - we rely on Bubble as a key strategic partner for our sales and marketing teams.

Dan Pike- Covatic

Bubble brought their significant experience of NAB to support Covatic in kicking off a big US push at the Show. Their support was holistic, assisting us before, during and after the show and well appreciated. We had a successful show, gaining high profile new sales leads and even winning a Product of the Year Award - thanks in no small part to Bubble’s assistance with the application An experienced, credible team and a joy to work with.

Éva Szász – Lightware Visual Engineering

We’ve been working with Bubble for a couple of months now and luckily we found a common voice right away. They always have an easy, quick understanding of what we need and are delivering not only the materials we want, but more and more PR opportunities, in a proactive way. Bubble have been instrumental in raising awareness of Lightware in the run up to ISE and did a great job faciliting us onsite at ISE too including securing and conducting press appointments and manning our social accounts.