Corrie-Dee
Whaite.

Corrie-Dee Whaite is the founder of Corrie D Marketing, the AI and digital marketing agency she established in Kilwinning, Ayrshire in October 2011.

She has 35 years in advertising, copywriting, sales and marketing — twenty of them in corporate media, and the last fifteen running her own agency.

She knew at eleven that she wanted to run her own business. She started out studying Business Studies at John Niven College in Stranraer, decided within months it wasn't creative enough, and moved to Glasgow to take an HND in Advertising and Public Relations at Central College of Commerce instead.

Her career began in the local press in Ayrshire, selling display advertising and property supplements and training new reps how to sell advertising and write ad copy.

From there: The Sun at News International, Thomson Directories, then The Metro — where she was head-hunted by Associated Newspapers — and a final eleven years at the Daily Mail. She was deputy manager there by the age of 31.

She launched new sections in Scotland along the way: Auctions and Antiques, Business to Business and Franchising, Construction, Whisky, and Farming and Agriculture. She travelled the UK with the Daily Mail Franchise Show.

Thomweb is where the digital bug started. That was 1999, at Thomson Directories, when dial-up was still a thing and having email at your desk was new. They were putting clients' advertising into the online edition of the directory so businesses could be found online as well as in print — long before the search engines were doing it.

Every penny I earned went straight back into me. Salary, pension, redundancy — all of it reinvested into honing and perfecting the craft.

After a health scare forced me to take a year out of work, I spent that time learning AI properly. Every single day, for two years.

Most agencies are founded by marketers. This one was founded by someone who sold the advertising, at the sharp end, for twenty years — and then learned the AI game from scratch in 2017, long before most people had heard of it and years before ChatGPT and Claude arrived in 2023.

When generative AI broke into the mainstream, most agencies bolted it on. Corrie D Marketing rebuilt from the ground up instead, becoming one of the first agencies in the UK to operate as an AI-first studio — classical marketing craft fused with agentic AI, automated workflows and proprietary SaaS.

Today the agency builds CDM Smart AI Websites™, structured to be found by AI search engines as well as Google, and runs Done For You advertising across Google Search, Google Display and other RTB platforms, YouTube and ChatGPT ads — where Corrie D Marketing holds UK early access — plus video ads and video production.

Three delivery formats: Done For You, Done With You, and Do It Yourself.

It's like having your own in-house marketing team, without the cost of one.

No staff to hire, train or manage. No salaries, pensions, maternity cover, holidays or sick days. No expensive offices — and someone has to pay for those, which is usually the client.

Prices are packaged, so you know exactly what you'll pay before you commit. You use us when you need us.

Corrie-Dee is your project manager and your single point of contact, working with a hand-picked team of experienced specialists in their own fields.