Top 13 PR Agencies in the UK

With an office in London and several other parts of the world, the team behind NinjaPromo offers strategic PR services to companies in fintech, crypto, and B2B. In fact, most of their team members started out in the media industry.

Channel V Media (CVM) is an award-winning communications strategy and PR firm. While they’re based in New York City rather than the UK, because of their record with Fortune 500 companies and tech startups, CVM is the preferred PR agency for London-based enterprise companies.

In addition to their track record with UK-based companies, CVM also has 41 global partners, giving them a competitive edge with European brands. Especially with companies looking to branch out with international marketing.

AMO provides sophisticated communications counsel for reputation management, M&A and capital market transactions, media relations, investor relations, and corporate crises. 

Although AMO is global, covering much more than just the UK, it has a significant presence there. AMO is an international network of strategic communications consultancies, providing best-in-class financial communications advice and counsel for corporations and institutions. The network was founded in 2001 by three like-minded corporate and financial PR agencies in London, New York, and Paris, who shared a common owner, Havas Group. AMO is still backed by Havas, one of the world’s largest global communications groups.

Maitland is AMO’s UK presence. Maitland/AMO is Europe’s leading financial, corporate & political communications consultancy providing trusted advice and strategic counsel.

London-based Hope & Glory has been on the scene for eight years now. They have a team of 75, and billings of just over £7m, a healthy 26% increase over the previous year. They focus on promoting consumer brands.

Hope & Glory has won a tremendous number of awards in its relatively short life. These most recently include Winner, Creative Agency of the Year at the Sabre Awards EMEA 2019, Winner, Independent Agency of the Year at the PR Moment Awards 2019, Winner, Large Consultancy of the Year at the PRCA Awards 2018, and Winner, Creative Agency of the Year at both the Sabre Awards EMEA 2018 and then the Sabre Awards Global 2018.

Ascendant Communications is a London-based Business Communications agency focused on supporting technology and services B2B clients. It helps businesses that sell technology and services to B2B customers gain awareness, traction, and sales in the market through a range of PR, AR, strategic communication, content, and online social media services.

They offer an arsenal of integrated business communication services, all aimed at boosting your credibility and recognition in key markets and territories. That includes defining your social media strategy, so you gain visibility in the online world of blogs, forums, and all things Twitter related.

Ballou began operations in Paris in 2002 but has since added offices in Berlin and London, which is now its headquarters. It is now an international communications agency working with high-growth companies across the technology sector and offers strategic communication services to some of the world’s most exciting technology companies.

It received fee income of £3.8 in 2018, so it is big enough to get clients from across the continent while still offering all the advantage of an independent boutique operation. 

In recent years it has expanded its offering from pure-play PR to include social media, social media marketing, SEO, graphic design, video, and animation. 

M&C Saatchi PR was launched in 2010 as a London start-up within the M&C Saatchi group. It has eight offices worldwide alongside a network of international partners across Asia-Pacific and Benelux. Since then, they have grown from a London start-up to a global network operating across EMEA and the US. 

In 2017, they won the CIPR Large Agency of the Year and PR Week Mid-Sized Agency of the Year awards. 

Octopus Group calls itself the Brand to Sales agency. They believe they help brands arrive at sales faster. 

Their Brand To Sales approach is brought to life through ten interlinked marketing, PR, research, and lead generation services, all delivered in-house, under one roof. 

They were founded in 2001 and now have  65 staff based at its Farringdon office. They help blue-chip, and fast-growth technology and professional services brands become famous and grow their sales. 

Their work covers messaging, brand ideation, design, digital, content, research & analytics, campaign planning, PR and social engagement, demand generation, and events & experiential. 

TVC Group, owned by The Economist Group, helps brands tell their stories through all means of content, whether it be words, pictures or moving images, building their clients’ reputations through emotional connections and solving their communications problems. They are an enthusiastic bunch of 51 media relations experts, broadcast specialists, experienced producers, and editors, from an eclectic mix of backgrounds, working from a Camden HQ and as well as an office in New York.

Harvard Public Relations is an award-winning communications agency for tech brands big and small. 

Harvard was the first specialist technology agency in the UK, established in 1979. Everyone that works there does so because they have a fervor and passion for tech. 

They cover both B2B and B2C businesses and happily work with start-ups to enterprises. They split their work into five categories: planning and strategy, creative, PR and AR, digital engagement, and demand generation.