This article contains a list of the top 10 PR agencies in Kenya. 

Public Relations (PR) is one of the most important departments in any company. Your PR company helps you avoid crises with your clients, who are the backbone of your firm. There are several Public Relations companies in Kenya delivering top-notch services across the country. Below is a list of the top 10 PR agencies in Kenya.

Top PR Agencies In Kenya.

 1. Smith Aegis PLC

Smith Aegis is an integrated full scope multi-disciplinary digital marketing, creative, and advertising agency. This company is an elite squad of alpha eccentrics, creative storytellers, and business minds. Together it mixes art and science to turn brands into favorites. True to their words, Smith Aegis PLC has managed to build enduring bonds between brands and humans.

Smith Aegis Plc was formed to create an environment for creative talent to flourish while ultimately providing its clients with the most innovative, creative, and flexible solutions possible. This agency believes that great talent will do great work, so it invests in people and allows them to shine. 

In PR & Communication, Smith Aegis PLC has services like:

• Public Relations
• Digital PR
• Communication strategy

Smith Aegis PLC manages the release and spread of information between an individual or an organization and the public to affect public perception. Public relations may include an organization or individual gaining exposure to their audiences using topics of public interest and news items that do not require direct payment. This differentiates it from advertising as a form of marketing communications.

Public relations aims to create or obtain coverage for clients for free, also known as ‘earned media,’ rather than paying for marketing or advertising.

2. Vartech East Africa

Vartech East Africa is a Public Relations agency that also specializes in  Marketing and Advertising located Nairobi-Kenya. One of the features that make Vartech East Africa stand out is an innovative technology to breathe life to brands and businesses. This agency also offers other services like:

• Media consultancy
• Advertising
• Marketing
• Media Production
• Branding
• Event

3. MCG PR

MCG PR was founded as space where smart, spirited people can bring ideas and make work they’re proud of. Working with MCG PR assures you of working with a group of people who are full of ideas, well-informed, and hard-working, which is a bit challenging to find in the industry today. The MCG team comes up with imaginative solutions to your digital and PR problems, then helps you deliver them. It also recommends the right strategy and tactics to educate, engage and enthuse your audience.

The agency is known for using smart, cost-effective means to get the action you want and then measure the results in a transparent and useful way.

4. Glass House PR Limited

Established in 2012, Glass House PR Limited has been employing an integrated approach to communications and PR. This ensures that all angles of a company’s story are aligned and delivered to key audiences in a clear, smart, and steady manner. The agency has worked with renowned brands globally and has been recognized immensely for its contribution to PR.

Glass House PR LTD is an independent Public Relations agency that brings together a mix of services and a customized approach for each client. Step by step, Glass House PR Limited has become Africa’s best PR firm by driving relentlessly for innovation and creativity.

This agency also offers other services like:

• Brand management
• Digital communication
• Media relations
• Crisis management
• PR training

5. Rococo PR and Media

Rococo PR and Media company understands that mass media is influential. In fact, engaged well, the mass media can turn around your fortunes overnight. Indeed, that’s why strategic media relations is a highly sought-after skill. Rococo PR designs and executes smart media relations programs. 

This team also will advise you on great media engagement strategies. Oftentimes, this agency produces your content for the media. Further, it organizes breakfast roundtables with journalists and makes sure your event, CEO, or project enjoys optimal quality media coverage. While at it, they scan for negative stories and correct bad press so that your reputation remains intact. 

Rococo PR and Media agency offers other services like:

• Writing services
• Communication strategies
• Digital marketing
• Public diplomacy
• Portfolio creations

6. Reach Creatives

Reach Creatives was founded in 2008 and have about 50 employees. Reach Creatives understand that customers don’t buy products; they buy perceptions and reputations. They buy certainty. They buy likeability. They buy from you because they heard about you. They buy from you because they liked and trusted what they heard about you. This understanding is one of the most powerful driving forces behind Reach Creatives’ success.

The Reach Creatives Ltd’s Pan-African Social Media Communications Experts have been helping organizations generate Publicity and build desired Reputations & Perceptions using the Internet and Social Media PR for close to a decade.

7. George Nelson

Established and incorporated in Kenya in April 2016, George Nelson Group provides high quality, cost-effective, and sustainability-conscious public relations and corporate communications solutions to commercial enterprises, non-profit organizations, and individuals in Kenya and the East Africa region, who may need immediate reactionary help, in-house capacity building or long-term management, in attracting, maintaining and effectively engaging with their stakeholders.

This agency has achieved these results by having a skilled, experienced team of experts who provide an all-encompassing program or a la carte to meet our client’s needs.

With a passion for impact storytelling, the George Nelson agency creates innovative solutions to exceed the expectations of their clients. 

This team manages and coordinates all projects in a network of skilled consultants. Their unique, cost-effective, and sustainability-conscious approach allows them to meet client demands for high-quality public relations and communications solutions in English and French, and Swahili.

8. African Elite Group

African Elite Group is a boutique PR agency, an innovative communication consultancy, and a digital marketing partner helping brands stand out, remain relevant and win the battle. The company’s mission is to be the leading PR and Digital solutions company in Africa, offering original and tailor-made creative concepts and events with the highest level of professionalism. Every product and service that African Elite Group has created is towards its mission. The agency is focused on having a strong and positive lasting relationship with all its clients, partner organizations, and associates.

This agency has a strong presence in Larger Eastern Africa in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Ethiopia.

9. WPP Scans Group

A WPP PLC has strived to be the best by pushing new frontiers as Africa’s leading marketing and communication group through culture-centric innovation, creativity, and collaboration.

WPP Scans Group is a full-service creative transformation company, focused on building better futures for its clients. With outstanding creativity, deep insights, and advanced technology, this agency brings together brilliant people to build dynamic, new, and lasting relationships between its clients and their audiences. The core capabilities leading this firm are: 

• Brand Stewardship & Communications, 
• Customer engagement & Experience
• Technology
• Commerce & Advisory
• Media Investment Management (Media, Content & Technology)
• PR, Influence & Government Practice
• Shopper Marketing &Engagement
• Consumer Research, Market Data & Insights

WPP has a physical presence in 25 countries in Sub Saharan Africa and 14 others, that is, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia Namibia, and Zimbabwe

The agency also has 12 Affiliates: Angola, Botswana, Congo, DRC, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan.

10. PMS Group

PMS Group has been offering Public RElations services to its clients for over 18 years now. The company has over 300 employees who work together to deliver quality services and products to their clients across the country. 

PMS Group boasts of being in the Top 100 Club of 2019. The agency also works with over 47 top-notch companies by providing quality and reliable public relations solutions. 

PMS offers other services like:

• Digital marketing
• Advertising
• Brand development
• Events and promotions
• Merchandising

Public Relations is a huge part of sales and marketing. Kenya has several other top PR agencies in Kenya, helping businesses thrive. To be featured in our new press or articles, contact us at Bizna Kenya.