Oliver Morrison

Oliver Morrison

CEO & Founder

An experienced business and digital leader, Olly has an extensive track record of working to develop businesses through smart strategic thinking. With a strong reputation for providing outstanding solutions, he’s an advocate for exacting standards and focusing on performance outcomes.

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From St Pancras to Shoreditch: The Filter Winter Team Event

As a fully remote agency, the Filter team is spread across the UK and Europe, so when we get the chance to come together in person, we make sure it counts. Our latest team event brought us to London for a day that had everything: good food, great company, a genuine contribution to the community,...

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Another Award for the Filter Team at the 2025 Drum Awards

We are delighted to have claimed the Digital Experience: Platform/Tech Partner of the Year Bronze Award at the 2025 Drum Awards.

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The Speed Paradox: Rethinking Agency Value in an AI-Native World

The agencies that survive won't be the ones with the most AI tools. They'll be the ones who work out what humans should actually be doing when AI handles the execution.

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9 Years of Filter: Growing with Purpose, Delivering with Impact

As we celebrate nine years of Filter, we're proud to reflect on how far we’ve come, from an ambitious startup to an award-winning digital agency of 45+ people, leading the way in WordPress innovation.

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We Attended Evolve[25], Here’s What Stood Out

From Alan Turing to agentic AI, decentralised platforms to regulatory landscapes, here's what we took away from one of Evolve[25].

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Elevating WordPress with Personalisation: Bringing Advanced Customer Experiences

Want to transform your WordPress site with advanced, personalised customer experiences? Discover how PersonalizeWP bridges the gap between simplicity and powerful personalisation.

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Filter Donates to House of St Barnabas Supported by The Apollo Opportunity Foundation

Filter is delighted to have made a substantial donation to the House of St Barnabas, aiming to positively impact those in need during the holiday season.

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How The Digital Landscape Is Changing

Join us for a deep-dive into the interesting statistics provided by the recent report from We Are Social, exploring how the digital world is evolving in 2023. As a digital solutions agency, our team are always interested in new developments from within the digital community. That’s why we always enjoy examining reports such as the...

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How TeamSport Are Improving Their Customer Experience

We recently had the pleasure of working with the dedicated team at TeamSport on their digital strategy and customer experience.

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Filter Festivities & Giving Back

As the festive season comes to an end, we wanted to conclude the year by explaining how we celebrate the holidays at Filter. As the year comes to a close and we all start logging off for the holidays (or for a much needed break to recharge if you don’t participate), we wanted to explain...

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We’re Growing, Introducing The Filter Senior Management Team

This year has been an exciting time for our team here at Filter, we’ve grown considerably since the beginning of the year and we’ve welcomed some talented individuals to our agency. The Filter team has grown considerably since the beginning of the year and recently, we have appointed a new Senior Management Team to help...

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Are You Making The Most Of Web 3.0 Opportunities?

Web 3.0 seems to be on everyone’s mind as we move closer towards the new year but what exactly is it? Following on from the recent Agencynomics event, we have collected a few thoughts on Web 3.0 and the key topics surrounding it. This years Big Event aimed to demystify the main topics relating to...

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We’re Logging On To Agencynomics 3.0

Filter CEO, Oliver Morrison, will be virtually attending Agencynomics 2022, focusing on web 3.0. Keep reading to find out more about the event. Our CEO, Oliver Morrison, will be virtually attending the Agencynomics event on the 8th November 2022. This years Big Event (Agencynomics 3.0) will focus on Web 3.0 and encourage discussions surrounding its...

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What We Learned At Restaurant And Bar Tech Live 2022

We asked our team what they learnt after recently visiting RBTL22 in London. Keep reading to find out what they took away from the hospitality technology event. Our CTO Paul Halfpenny, Head of Production (Sarah Vaughan) and Business Analyst (Darryl Smith) recently visited the Restaurant & Bar Tech Live 2022 at the ExCeL in London....

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Restaurant & Bar Tech Live 2022

A few of our team will be attending the Restaurant & Bar Tech Live event in London on the 20th October. Keep reading to find out more about the event. Filter CTO, Paul Halfpenny and a few other team members will be visiting this years Restaurant & Bar Tech Live event in London on the...

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Our Experience At The Technology For Marketing Show 2022

On the 29th September, we visited the TFM22 event in London. Keep reading to find out about our experience at the conference, our top speakers and what we got up to on the day. The Technology for Marketing Conference took place from the 28th to the 29th September 2022, at the ExCeL in London. Our...

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4 Ways To Combat Skills Gaps In Your Workforce

Modern businesses face a number of common challenges and in a new series of informative articles, we will be tackling the big issues affecting a wide range of sectors. To start with, we’d like to explain a few ways that businesses can combat skills gaps/shortages. According to search.co.uk, “three-quarters of businesses are impacted by skills...

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Why We Launched Filter

In this article, our CEO Oliver Morrison, explains the story of why Filter was created. As we’re hurtling into the second quarter of 2022, it felt like a good time to reflect that Filter has become central to not only my life but also a supportive and enabling foundation for our clients, as well as...

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Support For Ukraine

We are encouraging people and businesses to support Ukraine in any meaningful way that they can. At Filter, we are deeply alarmed by the intensification of fighting in Ukraine over the past week. We’re a small team with strong values and shared principles on how we want to operate and be as people in life....

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Why Digital Agencies Must Have Strong Company Values to Succeed

It’s vital for digital agencies today to have a strong set of company values, in order to attract the best talent, satisfy their clients, and achieve success. With that in mind, we’re excited to announce the launch of a new internal company handbook for our team here at Filter.

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The Benefits of Being A WordPress VIP Agency Partner

We are thrilled to announce that Filter have become a WordPress VIP partner, securing it’s place within the enterprise WordPress ecosystem. Becoming a WordPress VIP agency partner is a significant development for Filter, supporting our future focus on delivering scalable enterprise solutions. Having gone through the WordPress VIP vetting process, we demonstrated our skills, experience...

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Filter named as WordPress VIP Agency Partner

We are thrilled to announce that Filter have become a WordPress VIP partner, securing it’s place within the enterprise WordPress ecosystem.

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Best Mobile App Award

We are delighted to announce that the hard working Labs team at Filter have won themselves a Best Mobile App Award, an international award recognising great apps and app developers. We are delighted to announce that the hard working Labs team at Filter have won themselves a Best Mobile App Award, an international award recognising...

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Filters Alternative Christmas Giving

2020 has been a year of extraordinary uncertainty, isolation and apprehension, testing the resilience, resolve and patience of us all. Usually, for us, Christmas is a time for giving cards and gifts of gratitude and thanks to our clients and stakeholders alike.   This year, as it’s like no other, we have collectively decided as...

Inside Out Awards

Filter Champion The Very Best In Digital Experience

Filter are proud sponsors of this year’s Inside Out Awards, the only Awards to showcase and very best of the UK’s in-house creative teams. This week Filters CEO Oliver Morrison had the privileged of gaining exclusive access to all the entries submitted to this year’s Best Digital Experience Category.   Principal Judge for the Digital...

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Filter Deploy New Updates For Heritage Brand, House of Garrard

Last week Filter launched a series of new developments to the House of Garrard website. Working in close alignment to the Garrard Marketing team the scope of work included updates to the site navigation, category, product and engagement ring pages.   The main enhancements and upgrades have included:

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Seoul Bird Ready To Fly

A new South Korean fast-casual restaurant has been launched, bringing delicious flavours of South Korea to Westfield London Shopping Centre, Shepherd’s Bush. Seoul Bird is built on the foundations of Korean cooking and flavour. Created by Judy Joo and Andrew Hales, the fast- casual new restaurant offers the best of Seoul’s street food from Korean...

Inside Out Awards

Inside Out Awards

Filter are delighted to be sponsoring this years Inside Out Awards. Showcasing the very best of the UKs in-house creative teams. Filter are delighted to be sponsors of this years Inside Out Awards, the UK’s only awards for in-house creative teams. Now in their 8th year, these awards have seen over 400 entries, 56 award...

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WordCamp Europe 2020 Goes Online

The Filter team watch, listen and learn from this year’s virtual WordCamp Europe. WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. Designed and organised by the WordPress community, these events have become a key date in the diary for our team.   The 8th annual WordCamp Europe 2020 Online took place earlier this month...