Nice little mention in PR Week today, as Rise at Seven clinch agency of the year... article below...

UK PRWeek Awards 2022.
Best Agency (outside London) - Winner – Rise at Seven

This award goes to Rise at Seven, whose approach of combining PR with SEO has paid dividends.

Launched during the pandemic by Carrie Rose and Stephen Kenwright, in just three years Sheffield-based Rise at Seven has grown into a major player. It now has 140 employees and offices in London, Sheffield and Manchester.

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April 2022 saw the opening of Rise at Seven’s first US office in New York and the agency boasts clients such as Interflora, boohoo, GoCompare, and Parkdean Resorts. The agency was the fastest growing in the PRWeek Top 150 2022, with revenue quadrupling to almost £4m in 2021 and the size of its team doubling from less than 50 to more than 100. Revenue is continuing to soar, reaching £6.8m in 2022 – a year in which Rise at Seven made £1.5m in profit.

The secret of its success? A client offering combining PR with SEO to increase brand awareness and digital impact, according to Rose. The past year has seen it continue to win big name clients, such as Revolution Beauty and Dermalogica. And the agency has attracted some big names to its ranks. Dave Bennett, the former global managing director of Exposure and Freuds director, joined as comms director in March; and the agency appointed Ben Topliss, ex-design director at IMA-Home, as head of design in May.

In a bid to stay ahead of the pack, Rise at Seven recently built a tool that extracts thousands of searches from its clients’ internal site search analytics and matches them to Google Trends. This informs activity in a fraction of the time compared to traditional insight processes.

The judges said

The niche this agency serves feels very current right now, and the growth and culture Rise at Seven has achieved in just a few short years is really quite astounding.