London  /  Earned media for Nordic, European and US startups

99% of PR is pointless.

We do the other 1%. No stunts, no photo calls, no surveys of 2,000 adults. We build stories that journalists want to write and investors want to read.

Placements
The Telegraph
A 91-year-old D-Day veteran returns to the town he liberated, in virtual reality
Forbes
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and Fishbrain track rare species together
Washington Post
America's longest-married couple give love advice through Handy
The Atlantic
Podcasters on Acast adopt America's dying words
The Guardian
A robot from No Isolation makes a sick teenager Everton's matchday mascot
The Guardian
25,000 Forza Football fans deliver a verdict on FIFA
Coverage earned for clients. The highlight is the client.
25Specialists in the team
2Continents, one newsroom
150+Startups, funds and scale-ups
Seed to unicornThe stage we work across
01 / Approach

The 1%.

What we leave to other agencies
  • Stunts in Trafalgar Square
  • Polls of 2,000 adults
  • Staged photo calls
  • Awards entries as a strategy
  • Releases nobody asked for
  • Insulting a journalist's intelligence
Six ways to spend a retainer and earn nothing
Ride the news

We put clients inside the story of the day.

A breaking theme has a short window. We know which desks are covering it, what they still need, and how a client answers that need. Turnaround runs in hours.

Make the product the story

The functionality is the news, not the round.

Founders, users and the thing itself carry more weight than a funding announcement. We find the angle a reporter can build a piece around, then we build the proof.

Compound the momentum

One hit becomes a run of coverage.

After the first placement we convert attention into founder profiles, product reviews, stage time and a presence at the events that matter to your market.

02 / Work

Campaigns that reported themselves.

Each of these started as a client capability and ended as a news story with a byline attached.

VR for VeteransRemembrance Day

A D-Day veteran walked back into 1944.

Working with the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the French tourist board, we sent 91-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Frank Mouque back to Armentières in virtual reality, and let the town thank him.

40+International titles, plus UK and US television
Telegraph  ·  150,000 video views
FishbrainSweden

Anglers became a federal conservation network.

We engineered a partnership between an angling social network and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, so app users could log sightings of at-risk birds and animals.

150+US news sources, partnership ongoing
Forbes  ·  Fortune  ·  New York Times  ·  Washington Post  ·  Fox News
HandyNew York

America's longest-married couple took over a feed.

John and Ann Betar, together since 1932, answered Valentine's Day questions on domestic bliss through a home services app that had a point to prove about the home.

#1Most-read article on the Washington Post that day
40 US and UK titles
ClueBerlin

The world named what it will not say out loud.

With a leading women's rights group we ran the largest global survey into attitudes towards menstruation, and catalogued the euphemisms women choose or are handed.

100Countries responding, covered in most of them
The Guardian  ·  global syndication
AcastStockholm, US launch

Podcasters revived dying American words.

To mark a US launch, we partnered with the Dictionary of American Regional English and asked leading shows to each adopt a near-extinct phrase and put it back into circulation.

1Launch experiment, four continents of pickup
Wall Street Journal  ·  The Atlantic  ·  Guardian  ·  WNYC
Forza FootballSweden

Football supporters audit FIFA, once a year.

With Transparency International we survey 25,000 fans on what they make of football's governing body. The results publish as an official report, then travel.

25,000Fans surveyed in each annual round
BBC Sport  ·  CNN  ·  Sky News  ·  Newsweek  ·  Forbes
03 / Clients

Who we have put in the news.

Nordic, German and US companies use London as the gateway to the English-speaking world. We run that gateway.

Sweden
Scania/Sting/Acast/Mentimeter/Toca Boca/Budbee/Exeger/Lifesum/Northzone/Volta Trucks/X Shore/Doconomy/Soundtrack Your Brand/Pophouse/Cellink/Trine/Bokio/Winningtemp/ClimateView/Milkywire/Spiideo/Worldfavor/Mynt/Curity/J12 Ventures/IntuiCell/Nordic Air Defence/Hyper Island/Swedish Institute
Norway
Kahoot/Oda/Gelato/No Isolation/Huddly/Otovo/Promon/Hystar/Summa Equity/Strise/Tise/Nofence/Databutton/nShift/Oslo Business Region/Two/Sensorita
Germany
Babbel/SumUp/GetYourGuide/Blinkist/Clue/Wooga/Instagrid/Skoove/Steady/HolidayPirates/Faircado/Euroatlas
Denmark, Finland, Iceland
Peakon/Contractbook/Female Invest/Reaktor/HappyOrNot/Enfuce/Next Games/Compensate/Meniga/Sidekick Health/Crowberry Capital/Kara Connect/Treble
UK and US
Quizlet/Skillshare/Handy/Playtika/OMERS Ventures/Gigs/Doccla/DappRadar/Pets4Homes/Paebbl/32Co/Bullhound Capital/Considerate Constructors/Ephos
04 / Team

Twenty-five people who read the news before you do.

Founder

Benjamin Webb

Founder and Managing Director

Deliberate runs as one newsroom across the UK and the US, split into business, technology, consumer, news and creative teams. Clients get the desk that fits the story, and the same people on the call every week.

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Kim MackayHead of Business Operations
Connor BattyHead of Business Media
Sam HearneHead of Technology Media
Bella BissettLead Creative
Steve DyeSenior Account Manager, Technology
Levi BucklandSenior Account Manager, Business
Oli GriffithsAccount Manager, Consumer
Adam TaylorAccount Manager, Technology
Charlie CookeSenior Creative Executive
Laura GaneSenior Account Executive, News
Eliza GrantSenior Account Executive, Consumer
Will MackintoshSenior Account Executive, Business
Tim RedigoloAccount Executive, Technology
Imogen OrlebarAccount Executive, Business
Jasmine SilvesterJunior Creative Executive
Emily ChapmanJunior Account Executive, Technology
Kit BeilbyJunior Account Executive, Technology
Rosie Nicholson-GrimeJunior Account Executive, Technology
Brusk ErceJunior Account Executive, Business
Emily PeeblesJunior Account Executive, Business
Thomas CassidyJunior Account Executive, Business
Poppy PattenJunior Account Executive, Consumer
Emma GrayJunior Account Executive, News

We hire people who can spot a story before it becomes one. If that sounds like you, send something we would want to read.

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