There’s a version of March that looks like a normal working month. Briefs, pitching, production shoots. But when you actually list it out: a borehole launch in coastal Kenya, a live interview on enterprise AI, rural Welsh polling on Sky News, a sustainability week with 2,500 leaders…

This is where attention actually lives. Short-form video - making up about 90% of internet traffic. At Woodrow, we’ve built something new: a service for short-form video, built for the feeds the world now watches. We’re calling it Vertical Influence.

Global shipping is easy to ignore. Until it breaks. ⛴️And in a crisis you either hold the line, or you lose it. At Woodrow we prepare teams and guide decisions when every move is under scrutiny. If you're thinking about how ready your organisation is, or dealing with an issue now, get in touch.

Woodrow Director and Head of Campaigning & Influence, Sophie Woollands, has been shortlisted for PRWeek UK’s People & Places Awards.

Part of the incredible talent of our agency,  this is a well-deserved nod to someone already delivering at the highest level.

For a firm founded in 2018 with no external investment, that has grown through COVID, built teams across London, Africa, and New York, and taken on the biggest debates in public life, that means a lot.

To be recognised on a list like this, alongside the legacy names of our industry, is huge.

How is it that the shortest month is our longest Monthly Wrapped ever? February was packed with so much great work. Have a read and see what we’ve been up to....

At Woodrow, we're bringing together some of the sharpest voices in media to explore how our industry is changing.

This week: a packed room at Woodrow HQ for Steph Bailey in conversation with Steph Spyro of the Daily Express – or, as we called it, Steph Squared.

What a start to 2026! Our first monthly wrapped of 2026 is now live, in a new blog format

Once a year, Woodrow hits pause for Brand Day. Not to slow down, but to look up. With Nairobi on the line, and our London and New York team in the room for the first time. One conversation across three cities, on where we’re going next.

We downed tools for a proper break over the holidays. But before we did, we packed in more than a month’s worth of standout work and a few festive celebrations too.

This week, our New York team hosted an off-the-record dinner on the kind of impact that rarely makes headlines, but is quietly reshaping the world.

We brought together leaders from the corporate sector, foundations, NGOs, and philanthropy for a candid conversation at Parcelle in Manhattan.

Imagine your CFO is deepfaked. Last week at our London HQ, we partnered with Polpeo to run a fast-paced crisis simulation on deepfakes and cyber intrusion, pressure-testing how teams make decisions when misinformation spreads at speed.

November wrapped: global client work team-led workshops, and media moments.

Great to see our CEO, Charlie Tarr quoted in City AM with Ali Lyon on why this COP30 feels very different from a comms perspective.

We are proud to be shortlisted after our strongest year yet driving bold, international work across climate and impact.

October was a month of momentum and milestones moments, from launching Woodrow’s Impact offering to celebrating our 7th birthday.

Misinformation. Polarisation. Who can you trust?

At our Impact Roundtable, Global CCO Steph Bailey sat down with The Times’ Aubrey Allegretti to discuss trust, truth, and journalism today.

September was a month of global momentum. Our teams delivered major campaigns from Dakar to New York and drove standout work across climate, tech, and purpose.

Our New York team is growing…
We’re excited to welcome Colin Hart to the Woodrow crew. Colin joins our New York dream team. With our London and Africa teams, we're creating a network for nimble, forward-thinking comms.

August was a month of  fresh energy, with the launch of our New York office.

3 big wins this quarter. We'll be working on challenges that are hyper local to our London HQ, all the way to issues that cross borders.

Join us in entering the PRWeek UK x People Like Us Pay Gap Study.

Watch Luke apply Orwell’s six rules to comms in 2025, and his own additions here:

See the photos from our annual London picnic, an afternoon of catching up and taking in our favourite London view.

Download the full summary report from Woodrow’s roundtable at The Economist’s Sustainability Week US.

Each agency from the PRWeek UK Top 150 has received a star rating related to disclosure of Living Wage, parental leave policies, and gender & ethnicity pay gaps.

25 UK PR firms have received the top 4* rating for transparency in PRWeek UK's new Transparency Report - while 30 received zero stars.

Momentum. Focus. Fun. We said it in January. We're still living it in July. See updates here: our work, growth and team.

Last night, we picked up a PRovoke Media SABRE Africa Award. Our winning campaign marked the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy’s 20th anniversary - not just a milestone, but about a race against extinction.

Last week, Woodrow brought together leaders across comms, policy and legal for a fascinating panel on how disinformation is reshaping reputation management.

Steph Bailey has joined Woodrow as our Global Chief Client Officer. With experience at some of our industry’s leading agencies, from FleishmanHillard to Weber Shandwick, she brings serious firepower to our leadership team.

As Executive Assistant to our CEO, Rachael ensures the London office runs like clockwork. We’re loving the positive energy she’s brought to the team.

Woodrow has been recognised In PRWeek’s Agency Business Report as 'one to watch' as we grow in the US. Since 2018, Woodrow has grown to a team of 30 consultants in London and six in Nairobi, with revenue of $4.53 million in 2024. Now, we’re expanding he’s across the pond to New York.

Zain brings agency finance experience from We Are Social and Taylor Herring (Publicis). From running our managing accounts with the SLT to streamlining systems, he’s helping drive smarter, sharper operations.

Proud to share that Woodrow won Best Campaign (Association category) at the EMEA SABRE Awards for our work with the CLA. This was a campaign to make rural Britain unignorable — and it did. From FOIs that revealed forces tackling rural crime without torches, to polling that shifted party leaders’ priorities — and taking on Treasury figures that downplayed how inheritance tax would hit farmers — we built a media strategy that changed the conversation. 70,000 farms affected, it turns out. Not 500.

The former MSL UK chief has joined Woodrow to advise clients on sustainability and impact strategies, as part of his new venture, Chapter 2.

We’re bringing Chris McCafferty on board as a senior partner for sustainability and impact to advise multinational brands, corporates, institutions and growth businesses.

Woodrow has been named one of PRovoke Media’s Top 50 Agencies in the UK. PRovoke Media’s lists of the Best Public Relations Agencies in EMEA is an authoritative selection of premier PR firms based on interviews conducted by editors, supplemented by market knowledge developed over decades covering the global public relations business. The Best Agencies lists are an evolution of the Agency of the Year process that PRovoke Media has undertaken for many years in all regions of the world.

We’re hugely excited to announce former CEO of Edelman UK and ex-global CEO of Ogilvy has joined our New York office as Executive Board Advisor. He’ll be advising senior leadership and the boards of our U.S. clients, supporting CEO Charlie with our expansion in America, and ensuring we attract the best talent in the country.

Woodrow has appointed former agency and in-house fintech leader Isabel Wood as its new managing director. Wood (pictured) joins from her recent venture as part of the founding team at fintech start-up Communion, after spending four years as chief communications officer at mortgage fintech Habito, where she led the business to Series E funding.

Why are two in three investors considering dropping their maritime investments? In 2024, sustainability factors increasingly underpin financial markets’ decision-making. For shipowners and operators, maritime technology companies and other players, this can be a challenge. Woodrow’s deep strategic communications experience in the maritime sector means we can help. 

Fast-growing strategic communications agency Woodrow has launched an emerging technologies practice, with experienced tech firm founders embedded into the firm to offer a hybrid of business and communications advice to tech entrepreneurs. The Woodrow Emerging Technologies team is made up of strategic comms professionals alongside tech founders and advisers who have worked with the likes of Nike, Puma, Universal, and MoonPay. 
 

An advocacy group has launched to address the mental health challenges faced by men working in the PR industry. The Third – so named because men account for roughly one-third of the comms workforce – aims to bridge the gap in mental-health awareness in the industry. The advocacy group will focus on promoting open dialogue and building a supportive network for men across a fragmented agency landscape. The initiative has been launched by Charlie Tarr, founder and chief executive of Woodrow, and Oli Bradley, managing director of Words + Pixels. 

UK comms consultancy Woodrow and Paris-based Taddeo have announced a strategic partnership to expand their work across the UK and Europe, and internationally. The partnership will enable Woodrow and Taddeo to take part in joint projects, exchange teams, and expand client bases in the UK and EMEA as well as the US. The collaboration aims to “enhance knowledge- and network-sharing” between the London and Paris consultancies while improving access to clients. 

In a statement, Woodrow said Donaldson will work closely with chief executive and founder Charlie Tarr and be “central to guiding the strategic direction of the consultancy, providing decades of expertise on international expansion, talent acquisition and service innovation”. 

Why communications leaders have forgotten their why, how diversity and inclusion starts with your company culture, and the advice younger professionals should adhere to. We recently spoke with Charlie Tarr, Founder and CEO of Woodrow – one of Europe’s fastest-growing communications consultancies – about his journey to impact-driven comms, and the biggest changes he’s seeing in the industry.

The fast-growing strategic comms firm has appointed David Karega to lead expansion in the region, including major philanthropic clients. London-headquartered strategic communications consultancy Woodrow has appointed former Ogilvy leader David Karega to lead its practice in Africa. Karega (pictured) had been at Ogilvy Africa since 2019, latterly as deputy managing partner for PR and influence. In his time at Ogilvy, he delivered campaigns for the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Bolt, Twitter, Standard Chartered Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and has also led communications work for the Mastercard Foundation and the Global Fund.