Big+Bold, the Belfast-founded creative agency and Northern Ireland’s first Certified B Corp™, has been named a finalist for Best Small Agency in Ireland at the 2026 Irish Digital Media Awards.
Now in its 23rd year, the Digital Media Awards is one of Ireland’s leading platforms for recognising excellence across the creative, tech and media sectors, drawing several hundred entries annually from agencies, brands and in-house teams across the island.
Big+Bold was founded in Belfast in March 2023 on a provocation: that the creative industry had grown too comfortable, too quick to deliver the expected and too slow to demand better. Three years on, the agency has built its studio placing strategy before execution and working across Belfast and Dublin around a single working line: good enough, isn’t good enough.
The agency’s client list spans national institutions to global fintech, work united less by sector than by an expectation of more from the people delivering it.
“This one belongs to the studio,” said David Nurse Managing Director of Big+Bold. “Every finalist on that list put something in the world they believed in, and to be named alongside them is great recognition of how far we have come in a short space of time. It’s for the team who make the work and the clients who back it enough to let us make it properly.”
Winners will be announced at the Digital Media Awards ceremony in Dublin on 9 October 2026.
About Big+Bold
Big+Bold is a Belfast-founded creative agency and Northern Ireland’s first Certified B Corp™, with offices in Belfast and Dublin. Founded in March 2023, the agency works across strategy, creative, content, UX, web development and digital for clients ranging from national institutions to global fintech. Be Bold.
