Maritime Marketing & Media
that brings in enquiries
A maritime marketing agency for ROV and AUV operators, subsea engineering firms, offshore survey and renewables suppliers, shipbuilders and marine engineering businesses. Most are businesses of 5 to 100 people with a launch, a show or a new website in the next six months, and nobody in-house with the time to run it.
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A few of the maritime businesses we’re set up to help.
What maritime businesses come to us with
Pick the one that sounds most like you.
Brand, content and social strategy that puts your track record, safety record and certifications in front of the people assessing tenders.
A website that puts your certifications, fleet and capability where procurement teams look, with clear pages they can find in search.
3D animation that shows subsea equipment and operations clearly, without needing a camera in the water.
Film, photography and aerial footage of trials, launches and vessels, planned around your schedule and the conditions.
Search engine optimisation built around the services, equipment and vessel types you actually offer, with results tracked.
Stand graphics, film and follow-up campaigns planned together, so conversations at the show turn into enquiries afterwards.
Branding and design that match the standard of your engineering, while keeping the detail buyers need.
A clear plan, then one team to deliver it, so marketing happens without taking over your week.
Where maritime marketing budgets go wrong
Things maritime businesses often get wrong, and what we do about them.
Launching the website before the content
A new site with three capability pages, no specifications, no downloads and no project examples looks finished and brings in nothing. We plan the content first and the design around it.
Filming before the product is ready
The expensive mistake is a second shoot. We settle where the film will be watched, what state the kit is in and what can appear in the frame before anyone books a crew.
How to avoid reshooting your product filmTurning up at a vessel or a yard without the paperwork
Filming at sea, in a port or on a defence site needs permissions, inductions and a plan for what cannot be in shot. Without them the crew gets turned away and the day is lost.
How to film on vessels and defence sitesLeading with the catalogue instead of the operation
If you run the equipment as well as sell it, that is what sets you apart from a reseller. It goes at the top of the page, with footage from real jobs to prove it.
Atlantas Marine case studyExpecting enquiries in month one
Buying cycles for engineered equipment run for months. The early signals are different: the right companies on the site, the right people downloading and following. We tell you which signals matter in the first quarter and which to ignore.
A show with no plan for afterwards
Stand graphics are the cheap part. Conversations at Oceanology, Seawork or UDT only turn into anything if the follow-up is written before you go.
Everything under one brief
Four service groups, each run by specialists, all working to the same brief and reporting to one point of contact.
Marketing Strategy
A marketing plan for getting your track record, certifications and capability in front of the panels and buyers that award offshore work.
Media Production
Vessels, sea trials, launches and facilities filmed properly, with 3D animation for the subsea work cameras can’t follow.
Digital Marketing
A website and search presence that puts your certifications, fleet and capability where procurement teams can find them.
Design
Branding, capability documents and trade show graphics that match the standard of your engineering.
Where your brief goes
With a typical agency, your brief is passed along and handled by whoever is in-house. With 50DEGREES, one lead who knows maritime puts it in front of the right specialist for each job.
Why specialists beat generalistsYou brief a lead who knows your industry.
Why maritime businesses choose us
We know maritime
Founded by a former Royal Navy Marine Engineer Officer, with a team that includes technical specialists. Multibeam versus side-scan, or class society versus flag state, doesn’t need explaining.
Meet the teamOne brief, one team
Marketing strategy, design, digital marketing and media production planned together, with one point of contact from first call to sign-off.
How a project runsResults you can point to
We agree what a result looks like before work starts, record the baseline, and report back on what moved and what didn’t.
What you can hold us to50DEGREES was founded by Jack Abbiss after eight years as a Royal Navy Marine Engineer Officer, so ships, sea trials and marine engineering are familiar ground.
Results you can point to
Defence · MaritimeUnderwater Technology Brand Launch
Defence · MaritimeDefence & Maritime Engineering Brand Relaunch
Defence · MaritimeEvent Film for the First Steel Cut on RFA Resurgent
Defence · MaritimeProduct Launch Film for an Underwater Robot
MaritimeSuperyacht Charter Film for Kismet
“50DEGREES have delivered us a fantastic rebrand and website. Highly recommended for all things media production, websites and marketing/social media strategy.”
Atlantas Marine · Google review
Offshore survey companies, subsea and marine engineering firms, and manufacturers of marine equipment and navigation technology, in the UK and internationally.
Yes. Marketing won’t replace a strong tender, but it makes sure the panels assessing it already know your name and can easily find your track record, certifications and capability.
Yes. 3D animation can show subsea equipment and operations that cameras can’t follow, alongside film of the vessels, trials and facilities that can be shown.
No. You can start with one piece of work, such as a film or a new website, or bring us the whole plan. Either way you keep one point of contact, and each piece is made to fit with the rest.
With a free discovery call. We talk through what you’re working towards, what’s getting in the way and what a sensible first step would be, then follow up with a clear proposal.
