Winning Gold at The Drum Awards for Agency Business in the Business Growth category is The Romans. Here’s how, in its own words, the PR shop is spreading its wings globally.
This year has been a wild ride for The Romans. We lost five pitches, then won eight retainers in a row. We won two seven-figure accounts while two clients went bust. One of our top creatives quit for another agency, then boomeranged back two months later. The giddy highs and the dizzying lows have been hard to handle. Running a PR firm has never been more stressful/exhausting/ridiculously fun.
Despite the swirl and turmoil, the past twelve months have been our best yet as an agency. We’ve hoovered up some of the most exceptional talent in the world. We’ve stayed true to our D&I commitments. We’ve won more pitches than we’ve had any right to. And we’ve gone international, opening …