Agencies
Grayling
Company Name: Grayling
Website: www.grayling.com
About Grayling
Our international reach enables us to provide fully integrated communications across every major market. Our local presence allows us to create effective, bespoke programmes in every region.
From the global citizen to the local community, we integrate our activities and we influence.
Grayling is committed to delivering the highest standard of communications services to our clients, through effective use of data-driven insight, creativity and experience. Armed with powerful ideas we execute across multiple channels and devices, worldwide, at unprecedented speed. We describe this as the Grayling Effect.
Our clients operate in a wide range of sectors including Energy, Environment & Sustainability; Healthcare; Technology & Telecommunications; Consumer Brands; Financial Services; Transport & Logistics and Government & Public Sector. Leveraging our network of highly qualified and experienced consultants ensures our work across sectors and geographies is always exceptional.
Hill + Knowlton Strategies
Company Name: Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Website: www.hkstrategies.co.uk
About Hill+Knowlton Strategies
H+K Strategies UK works to improve every one of our client’s brand value, reputation and bottom line. We do this by creating insight driven, narrative content delivered through multiple channels. Our work shapes conversations and educates on issues. We directly engage audiences to drive advocacy, inspire action, mobilise constituents and mitigate reputational risk.
H+K Strategies has more than 200 years combined experience working in the media, agencies, and as clients in-house. They lead 230+ of the brightest and best people in our business to provide clients with clear strategic advice, standout creative ideas, and outstanding results. In 2010 we became the first (and are still the only) large UK agency to organise ourselves around industry sectors, providing our clients with deep knowledge into their industry alongside a breadth of service expertise. Sectors we specialise in range from consumer packaged goods, energy + industrials, financial + professional services to food + drink, retail + leisure, public + third sector, sports and technology. Each sector team includes corporate and consumer communications, digital and social media, government affairs, stakeholder communications and issues and crisis management. A fully integrated approach that ensures our clients’ programmes can have maximum impact. Our client satisfaction is 92%.
Ogilvy
Company Name: Ogilvy
Website: www.ogilvy.com
About Ogilvy
Here at Ogilvy we pride ourselves on the ethos CAN meets DO.
Clients come to us with a broad range of business challenges and problems and we formulate a specialist team around them to transform their business. This isn’t just about coming up with great ideas, it’s the execution, the measurement and the ability to start a conversation around these ideas that place our clients ahead of their competitors. Our building has been designed to ensure teams are fluid, 100% agile and can be combined in an infinite way to best suit our clients’ needs. These bespoke teams are formed from experts across the marketing field; PR, Content Creation, Video Production, SEO, Customer Engagement & Advertising, all sharing in the Ogilvy culture – no warring tribes.
We couple our ability to dream up big ideas with a commitment to delivery, our bespoke teams share a common operating system that runs right across every discipline and every specialism- when we say we DO it means we deliver across all channels, fast. Our collaborative way of working has been designed to extend prototyping from products to all kinds of creative ideas, from all corners of the agency. Born from the desire to ‘think & do simultaneously’, Makerspace provides the opportunity for ideas to be brought to life through products, content, experiences, films & apps – & furthermore tested & given feedback on, in house early in the creative process. With the relationship between making & creating at the helm of Makerspace, clients are given the opportunity to capitalize on culturally relevant ideas with minimal downtime.
We are always open to conversations about new challenges – whether that’s within the UK or across the globe with 538 offices, over a third in the BRIC countries, we are ready to help you expand wherever you need or want to. And you can find out more about our network here.
If you would like to know more about where CAN meets DO get in touch.
Team Farner
Company Name: Team Farner
Website: www.teamfarner.com/
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About Glass House PR
Glass House PR brings together a mix of services and comes up with a customized approach for each client. Our integrated approach to communications ensures that all angles of a company’s story are aligned and delivered to key audiences in a clear, smart and steady manner. We provide the expertise, industry experience and the network needed to effectively manage today’s corporate reputations. We help companies and organizations clarify and refine their brands and position them for recognition and acceptance by their target consumers. At Glass House PR, we do not throw stones, we use them to build strong brands through cutting edge PR solutions.
thenetworkone
Company Name: thenetworkone
Website: www.thenetworkone.com
Thenetworkone provides customized networks of independent agencies for a growing number of leading international companies. Clients have included Alliance Boots, Audi, Bacardi, Dyson, Exxon Mobil, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Lego, Lufthansa, Nokia, Prudential Asia, Rosetta Stone and Technogym.
thenetworkone also helps independent agency networks and individual firms to develop their own business, through providing international partners, resources and professional development programs.
thenetworkone now works with more than 800 individually accredited marketing and communications agencies in 106 countries, including more than 200 PR firms; as well as a growing number of independent agency networks.
In 2012, thenetworkone was the Founding Sponsor of the Independent PR Firms Forum at the Holmes Global PR Summit in Miami and in 2015 became a Founding Member of the ICCO Direct membership program.
PROI Worldwide
Company Name: PROI Worldwide
Website: www.proi.com
About PROI Worldwide
PROI Worldwide harnesses the collective power of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurial communications firms. By sharing global insights and best practices, PROI agencies remain best in market trendsetters, supporting the drive to deliver the most impactful communications campaigns for their clients. In 2020, PROI encompassed 80 partners with 6,900 employees in more than 165 cities and 55 countries. With combined revenue of more than US$913 million, PROI ranked 5th among consolidated communications groups, and was the only one that is based on a unique partnership of independent business people.
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Riverside Strategy
About Riverside Strategy
Educational Institutions
School of Communications & Reputation
Company Name: School of Communications & Reputation
Website: https://www.scoreindia.org
About SCoRe
The School of Communications and Reputation (SCoRe) is the only independent institute of Public Relations created by the Indian PR industry. Founded in 2015, the institute is dedicated to uplifting talent in the Indian PR profession through education, training, and research. SCoRe’s 10-month PG Diploma in PR and Corporate Communications handpicks and trains youngsters from across the country to become powerful PR consultants, and has trained thousands of PR and corporate communications professionals in various competencies with over 3000 professionals globally trained in AI for PR since 2022. The institute also drives India’s only Accreditation in Indian PR with the Public Relations Consultants Association of India (PRCAI), and creates whitepapers in collaboration with PR firms.
USC - University of Southern California
Company Name: USC - University of Southern California
Website: https://annenberg.usc.edu/research/center-public-relations
About SCoRe
The USC Center for Public Relations’ mission is to connect corporations, agencies, academics and students to define the future of our industry and to develop those who will shape it.
Strategic Partners
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
ICCO has always sought to align with the foremost international institutions that share ICCO’s values of free media and ethical PR, as well as driving forward issues important to our members including ESG and purpose. Our official partnership with UNDP, signed in November 2023 is a significant recognition from UNDP of the central role PR and Comms expertise will play in achieving their goals. In turn it is a recognition from ICCO members, of the power we have to cause real change.
UNDP is the largest United Nations agency leading the fight against climate change with 6000 projects across 170 countries. ICCO is a federation of national and international PR membership bodies, with over 3000 agency members across 82 countries.
ICCO is an expert advisor to the Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an international organisation whose stated aim is to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 47 member states, with a population of approximately 820 million, and operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros.
The organisation is distinct from the 27-nation European Union (EU), although it is sometimes confused with it, partly because the EU has adopted the original European Flag which was created by the Council of Europe in 1955, as well as the European Anthem. No country has ever joined the EU without first belonging to the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe is an official United Nations Observer.
Professional Partners
AMEC, the International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication has grown to become a global trade body for agencies and practitioners who provide media evaluation and communication research. AMEC’s purpose is to define and develop the industry on an international scale with better professional standards for both companies and individuals. AMEC has a membership base in over 40 countries.
AMEC is ICCO’s Strategic Partner on educational initiatives in the field of PRmeasurement and evaluation. Together, we have launched the PR Professionals Guide to Measurement in June 2013.
Global Women in PR (GWPR) is a worldwide membership organisation of national networking groups whose members come from agencies, in-house and independents.
Founded to connect, champion and support women in senior PR and Communication roles, Global Women in PR is a not-for-profit organisation driven by a desire to change the landscape for women working in PR industry.
A key focus is the issue surrounding leadership and understanding why, when the global PR industry is two-thirds female, that in the boardroom the figures are in complete reverse, with men occupying 64% of seats at the boardroom table. GWPR tackles issues from flexible working practices to pay incentives and the working environment.
Associate Partners
The European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) is an autonomous organisation with nearly 500 members from 40 countries interested in advancing academic research and knowledge in strategic communication.
Several cross-national and comparative research and education projects are organised by affiliated universities. In order to spread new methodologies and research results, EUPRERA organises a highly regarded annual congress each autumn in collaboration with a selected university or college in Europe.
The Museum of Public Relations is the world’s only museum dedicated to the global PR profession. Based at Baruch College, NYC, it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit educational institution. It collects, preserves and exhibits artifacts, correspondence, and film–plus 700 books– documenting the development of the field worldwide. Each year, it hosts hundreds of visitors, and also offers free events—such as Latino PR History (Sept. 27). Its Facebook page is followed by 8200 professionals from 65 countries
Founded in 1956, the Institute for Public Relations is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation dedicated to fostering greater use of research and research-based knowledge in public relations and corporate communication practice. IPR is dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations.™ Create, curate, and promote research and initiatives that empower professionals with actionable insights and intelligence they can put to immediate use.
European Association of Communication Directors (EACD)
The EACD is a leading network for communication professionals across Europe, dedicated to fostering collaboration, sharing expertise, and promoting excellence in the field. Since 2006, EACD has supported communicators in navigating transnational challenges, building cross-border networks, and driving impactful, strategic communication in a globalized world.
The International Declaration of Communications Professionals (INTERDECOM) and Research for a Healthier, Viable, Better World, brings together communications groups from around the world who want to play a positive and unified role in response to the most pressing global threats of current times. In this shared commitment, communication specialists and academics publicly pledge to use their communication expertise and bonds of solidarity to help regenerate hope and guide the vision of a healthier future that values and protects nature and our humanity.
Media Partners
Leading media partner: PRovoke Media
PRovoke is the authoritative voice of the global public relations industry, dedicated to proving and improving the value of public relations by providing insight, knowledge and recognition to public relations professionals.
PRovoke was founded in 2000 by Paul Holmes, founder and chair, who has more than two decades of experience writing about and evaluating the public relations business and consulting with both public relations firms and their clients.
PRovoke delivers against its mission by providing the most sophisticated reporting and analysis on public relations trends and issues, along with an extensive global footprint of events and awards.
Strategic is the online magazine for PR and communications professionals, showcasing industry expertise and the value of PR in driving organisational success. It provides a platform to educate, influence, and connect leaders, fostering collaboration, enhancing reputations, and advancing communications as a recognised strategic function at the leadership table.
ICCO has a number of carefully chosen sponsers: the leading providers of services to the PR industry, as well as foremost industry experts with whom we collaborate on research and events.
Opinium is an award-winning insight agency with teams in London, New York, Amsterdam, Cape Town and with global reach.
- They help brands tell better stories about who they are and what they stand for. From early stage ideation to brand health monitoring, Opinium research enables clients to determine the right things to say to the right people at the right time.
- Opinium helps brands, agencies, charities, and academic institutions inform and shape public conversations. From the serious to the lighthearted, their research brings the views of the public to bear on major debates. They work closely with clients to develop trustworthy and headline-grabbing research.
Media Monitoring and Analysis Partner: CARMA
For over three decades, CARMA have helped organisations leverage media intelligence to navigate and understand today’s disrupted media landscape, act strategically, operate effectively, and demonstrate success. CARMA help clients capture, monitor, analyse and interpret relevant content and data, empowering them to make better business decisions and prove ROI.
M&A Advisory is a central London based mergers and acquisition specialist advising on company sale and acquisition in the global PR, marketing communications and Martech sectors. With a 25-year heritage, the practice is built upon excellent market knowledge, sound business experience and the highest possible deal completion rates. The team are all experienced professionals and business practitioners who deliver a high quality, cost-effective advisory and execution service. There is a focus on maximising value by ensuring a strong cultural fit and an outstanding business proposition.
M&A Advisory can advise on the right timing, find the optimum partner, consider all cultural and business issues, and recommend the best path to value. Whether there is a need to establish how much a business is worth, how much value can be added before a sale, what buyers are looking for, or deal with unsolicited approaches, M&A Advisory can help.
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