Most Outstanding PR Agency
Napier is an outstanding B2B PR agency. Launched in 1984, Napier was one of the first agencies to specialize in the electronics market. Today, we offer a complete portfolio of PR and marketing activities, combining extensive experience with a vast amount of market intelligence to design and implement creative campaigns, which drive our clients’ commercial success.
Why Should Napier win this award?
As a PR agency, our team is a mix of marketing professionals, engineers and technical journalists, which form a team of experienced individuals whose deep understanding and expertise allows them to deliver technical market insight across the industry.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Napier has adapted its approach both internally and externally to support clients in maintaining the same level of PR budget. This included embarking on a re-structure within the organization, choosing to absorb Armitage Communications (which was acquired in 2019) to begin working fully under the Napier brand; splitting the team into key areas of expertise: Content, PR, Digital and Operations, to make it easier for clients to access the talent across the whole company.
With this new structure, Napier was able to introduce several new PR tactics, identifying a need from clients that wasn’t being fulfilled due to travel restrictions and the cancellations of trade shows.
This included expanding our digital services offering, by developing and launching our BoothCloud platform. Designed specifically for the B2B technology industry, BoothCloud enables us to rapidly deploy virtual trade show stands for our clients, providing a reusable booth with low development cost and cost of ownership. Other new PR tactics included working with key publications to secure interviews on specialised podcasts and enhancing PR with Google ad campaigns.
Our innovative and proactive approach resulted in maintaining or growing all clients’ budgets as well as being successful in winning several new clients including Pelion, Foundries.io, Fluke, Hydronix, Raltron, Wittra, Eaton Hydraulics, and EFFECT Photonics.
Achievements
Although we have faced the tough challenge of adapting to a full virtual approach, whilst implementing a new team structure, Napier has still attained several noteworthy achievements.
This includes being named as a Rising Star agency in the B2B Marketing UK Agencies Benchmarking report 2021. Ranking as number three on the B2B Marketing UK ‘Rising Stars’ league table, we also appeared in B2B Marketing’s top UK agency list and in the fastest-growing 15 agencies.
In the past year, we have also expanded the marketing activities for the agency, launching our own webinar and podcast series, after recognizing we needed to adapt to a virtual approach and ensure we were still providing clients and prospects with the latest guidance and insights into key marketing trends, and integral topics.
We have continued to generate fantastic results and overachieve on our KPI’s to deliver a tangible measurable return for our clients. Some examples include:
- Achieving attendance from 36 tier one editors and securing 67 high-quality pieces of coverage for Yokogawa on a virtual product launch.
- Securing 37 pieces of coverage across Europe for Vicor to ensure maximum exposure from one case study.
- Localizing US Google ads campaigns to enhance PR activities for Microchip, resulting in an 8x investment in ROI.
Overall, Napier is an exceptional B2B PR agency. Alongside our unique four-step process, our new structure has strengthened our extremely talented and enthusiastic team, ensuring we provide clients with a higher quality of work, which is reflected in our clients’ decision to maintain or grow budget levels throughout the pandemic.