Welcome

Adventures With Words is a creative digital marketing agency based in East Sussex, founded by Rob Chilver.

With over 25 years combined experience in arts and entertainment marketing, we’re here to ensure that you and your book, event, social media, newsletter or subscription product gets the attention and engagement it deserves from your ideal target audience.

Get in touch with us today.

OUR SERVICES

Meta advertising

We will work with you to meet your campaign KPIs across Facebook and Instagram, setting up best-in-class ad targeting based on your consumer insight, Facebook pixel data, retargeting and lookalike audiences.

We will optimise ad performance throughout the run and produce an end-of-campaign report with a deep-dive into your results as well as recommendations for future ads.

X/Twitter advertising

Join in with the conversation and promote your titles to an engaged and active audience on Twitter.

We’ll help you build custom audiences to retarget for more effective conversion to purchase, as well as monitoring and optimising ads throughout and producing an EOC report with guidance for future campaigns.

Google and YouTube advertising

We can run PPC, Display and video advertising across Google and wider websites as well as YouTube with our managed ad campaigns.

TikTok, Reddit and Pinterest advertising

Perfect for non-fiction titles such as cookery, travel or lifestyle, reach new audiences and readers with one of our managed TikTok, Reddit or Pinterest ad campaigns.

Training for your teams

Whether it is Meta advertising for beginners or a session on advanced skills, we offer training to teams on taking their paid social media advertising campaigns to the next level.

Social read-a-longs

We can curate and manage social media read-a-longs, across Instagram and TikTok. We will manage the campaign from start to finish, including carefully selecting and contacting the influencers taking part to creating the prompts and social media assets.

Activations

From building up excitement for forthcoming cover reveals to generating influencer activity for the latest book to screen adaption, we can mange all aspects of your online activations.

WhatsApp Campaigns

Take your communication with readers to the next level with an interactive WhatsApp element. Or getting started with your WhatsApp Business account? We’re here to help.

Social media filters

We can create bespoke Instagram and TikTok filters that readers will love and share.

WORK WITH US

Get in touch with us to discuss your latest project.

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RECENT PROJECTS

NEW FOR 2024!
Full campaign planning and execution

We can plan and manage full marketing campaigns from start to finish, working with you on the initial planning and insights, internal reporting, author liaison, running paid and organic social elements and working with any external partners.

FREE TOOLS

UTM Link Builder

Use our UTM builder to build trackable links for social, newsletters and more that will appear in your Google Analytics dashboards.

Meta Ads Naming Tool

Use our free tool to ensure that you keep your Meta ad campaign names structured and easy to understand.

QR Code Generator

Need to generate a QR code? Use our free tool to create your own downloadable QR code for use in campaigns.

NEWS

Kate Neilan joins Adventures With Words

Kate Neilan joins Adventures With Words

As his digital marketing agency, Adventures With Words, nears three years old, Rob Chilver has again expanded the team, adding award-winning marketer Kate Neilan to his roster, on a part-time basis. Joining Chilver, who will continue to offer advanced paid social...

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Wimbledon BookFest unveils 2023 Festival lineup

Wimbledon BookFest unveils 2023 Festival lineup

Kate Mosse, Ben Okri, Clive Myrie and Anne Enright are among the lineup for the Wimbledon BookFest, taking place between 12th and 22nd October 2023. Rick Stein returns once again and will appear at a post-festival event staged at the New Wimbledon Theatre. A number of...

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Grace Latter joins Adventures With Words

Grace Latter joins Adventures With Words

Just over two years after going freelance with his digital marketing agency Adventures With Words, today Rob Chilver shared the news that influencer Grace Latter will be joining the team. Latter, who will be taking on work on a freelance basis, will be focusing on...

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about us

Since 2020, Adventures With Words has worked with more than twenty publishers and imprints, helping them achieve four Sunday Times hardback fiction #1s and four Sunday Times paperback non-fiction #1s, as well as many TCM and Kindle bestsellers. In addition, Rob ran social media advertising for How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie, the campaign for which was shortlisted for Marketing Strategy of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022.

Rob Chilver has nearly fifteen years’ experience in the book industry. He has worked across bookselling, digital marketing and content marketing, with roles including online merchandising and social media management for Waterstones.com, running campaigns for bestselling authors at Headline and Bookouture and leading on digital marketing for Wimbledon BookFest. His innovative campaign for One Pound Meals, the first cookbook by Miguel Barclay, won the Adult Non-Fiction category at the Book Marketing Society awards.

Kate Neilan has worked in marketing since 2015. Her roles have spanned sales, publicity and marketing, responsible for full-funnel campaign ideation and implementation for B2C and B2B, from awareness, preorder, retailer engagement and lead capture through nurture and education to conversion and upgrade. She has worked across the full modern marketing channel mix, taking in OOH, print, display and programmatic, paid search and paid social, as well as radio, audio, TV streaming and real-world stunt guerrilla activity. She ran the marketing for the first six books by million-copy-selling cookery author Rukmini Iyer, and her campaign for Iyer’s The Roasting Tin Around the World was shortlisted for Marketing Strategy of the Year at the British Book Awards 2021.

Influencer Grace Latter recently joined the Adventures With Words team. Grace is focusing on copywriting, social media and newsletter consulting, and Instagram and social read-a-longs.

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