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April 2, 2019

Marketing agency Buzzbar is reshaping the marketing industry

Drop-in marketing service Buzzbar is a cross between an Apple store, a coworking space, and a marketing agency for bootstrapped startups


Carly Minsky

7 min read

Courtesy of Buzzbar

When we dropped in to see what the buzz was about at London’s new pay-as-you-go startup marketing agency, we didn’t know quite what to expect. There’s no obvious comparison which captures Buzzbar’s new type of business model: a physical store for startups to walk in and get to work with marketing creatives straight away.

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