Umpf is a UK-based, nationally-respected, creative PR agency with many top PR agency awards to its name. We have a PR team in Leeds, a PR team in London and a PR presence in the South West of the UK
What makes a top PR agency is open to discussion. If you’ve got an agency in mind, you could ask their current clients what they think of their PR agency (a good agency will not mind if you ask for a client reference).
As a first port of call, have a look at the quality of their PR work via their case studies.
And see what PR awards they have won; PR awards are by no means a guarantee of finding a top PR agency, but you’ll know that their work has been peer reviewed and compared against other PR campaigns in that sector.
Umpf has won three PR stunt of the Year awards and numerous PR agency awards including ten ‘Agency of the Year’ awards.
For client campaigns we have been awarded more than 80 industry accolades over the years. Click here if it’s an award-winning PR and social media agency you’re looking for.
For the last 15 years Umpf has been a consistent name in The Prolific North’s Top 50 PR agencies, see the 2025 Top 50 PR Agencies table (and you can read more about Umpf on Prolific North).
In January 2026, PRmoment published its first-ever PR Work Rankings – Umpf was 6th in the Top Ten agencies list. Using scoring data from two years of entries to the PRmoment Awards (2024 and 2025), its table ranked the work from the best PR agencies in the North of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We created The Top PR Agencies UK, a table – ranked independently by PeerIndex – of the main agencies in the PR industry across the UK.
It was designed to show a snapshot of the key agencies working within PR (not including in-house professionals) and is ranked according to influence by then ranking tool, PeerIndex.
PeerIndex is no longer, but it was designed to help users understand online reputation, rating your ‘social capital’ through “topic-based authority rankings”. The service analysed publicly available data (your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and, now, Quora public profiles) to create a picture of your authority and activity on a given subject.
We tried to include the major agencies in the list; Please note the agency criteria for entry, below, when teh table was produced.
This table was inspired by Andrew Smith’s original PRWeek Power List.
Entry criteria
*First and foremost it is for PR agencies which are based in the UK, so international agencies with a global profile have not been included. However, UK-based branches of these international agencies are eligible provided their profile is UK-specific
*Whilst some agencies do not have a corporate profile, and instead use a leading figure from their agency as spokesperson, we have not included these people as we want it to be about the agency and not the individual (for individuals please see the original PR Week Power Lis)
