About - Pitch

Pitch is a creative marketing agency that gets brands with big ambitions to reach bigger audiences through people’s biggest passions

We offer creative marketing services across sponsorship, PR, social media and content creation, using people’s passions to put some of the world’s most ambitious brands in the spotlight by creating work that doesn’t just capture attention, but capture’s people’s hearts.

Founded in 2002, our sustained success has been built upon our culture of passion, creativity and ambition, and our proven track record of creating campaigns and delivering marketing campaigns that make the biggest possible impact with the most amount of people.

For brands who want to grow, we think it’s time to #thinkbigger

Meet the Team

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How we reach

bigger audiences

Pitch’s in -house, industry-leading insights team has developed proprietary, proven methodology to enable our campaigns to reach bigger audiences, using our bespoke, “Four P’s” framework to understand people’s biggest passions, the purpose that motivates them, demographic profile, and their online IRL presence.

People

What is their demographic portrait?

Passions

Which passions can we engage with?

Presence

Where do they turn up, watching screens, turning pages?

Purpose

How can we support their values?

Meet our team of PR, partnership and branded content production specialists bursting with passion, creativity and ambition.

Henry Chappell Founding Partner Creativity | Cantona | Catching waves

Rebecca Martin Deputy MD Woman | In | Sponsorship

Chris Allen Managing Director Cricket | Chameleons | Campaigns

Lucy Hutchinson Head of PR PR | Ballet | Steak

Theo Philips Head of Production Passions | Purpose | Places

Alex Harrington Finance Director FIFA | EBITDA | Trash TV

Kirsty Roxburgh Senior Strategist Strategy | Insights | TikTok dances

Maria Nicolaides Head of Marketing Pitch | Knitwear | Below Deck

Jack McCombe Senior Account Director Passions | Purpose | Places

Rosie Davis Account Director Harry Styles | Nuggets | CrossFit

Dan Russell Senior Account Director Partnerships | Golf | Beer

George Williams Account Director PR| Creativity | Sport

Tim Maddin Account Director Comms | Sport | Chess

Ryan Lissamore Art Director Design | Creativity | Jurassic Park

Lucy Cadel Account Director

Daisy Jarvis Senior Account Manager Dungarees | Street Dance | Torquay United

Holly Stoker Senior Account Manager Partnerships | Cricket | Travelling

Olly Abbott Senior Editor and Animator Documentary | Editing | Beer

Jack Spicer Senior Account Manager Partnerships | Languages | Chelsea

Amy Robinson Senior Account Manager Creativity | Travel | Golden hour

Alex Mills Senior Account Manager PR | Running | Thrillers

Seb Floyd Account Manager PR | Percy | Priestfield

Tim Le Breton Senior Account Manager Cricket | Cooking | Blackburn Rovers

Paddy Tyldesley Digital Account Manager Creativity | Film | Social

Jeremy Nestor Account Manager Gunnersaurus | Guinness | Gallagher Brothers

Dani Gray Senior Account Executive

Stella Thompson Production Manager Content | Creativity | Frisbee

Grace Meyrick Senior Account Executive

Olivia Erwin Senior Account Executive ABBA | Espresso Martinis | Pokeballs

Harry Allen Account Manager Reading | Aldershot | Bracknell

Shalini Moodley Operations and Talent Manager Planning | Contouring | Food

Dario Zicchi Senior Designer Cars | West Ham | Wings

Eva Howells Mid Weight Editor Cinema | Travel | Dogs

Harry Gibson Account Executive PR | Boxing | MMA

Aris Liu Management Accountant Numbers | Gardening | Antiques

Natalie Goodall Junior Account Executive Creativity | Exploring | Research

Jade Tsang Account Assistant Storytelling | Golf | Baguette

Edna Castor Accounts Assistant Finance | Family | Travel

Our

History

Launch of Pitch PR

Pitch was founded in 2002 by Henry Chappell as the UK’s first creative comms agency specialising in sport

2002
Pitch goes global

Pitch undertakes its first global campaign, taking ABN AMRO into the Volvo Ocean Race

2005
Relaunching Wembley

Pitch appointed by The FA to oversee the comms for the reopening of Wembley Stadium

2007
Williams and Nadal walk on water
Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal play tennis on water to kick off the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami

2008
Pitch appointed by the NBA
On a Pan-European comms account that continues to this day

2009
The world interviews David Beckham
For the first time ever 19 countries across 5 continents took part in a live interview with Yahoo.com

2010
London 2012
Pitch is appointed as the comms agency for LOCOG and the London 2012 Olympic Games

2011
Meet the Superhumans
Pitch joins forces with Channel 4 to create the award-winning London 2012 Paralympics campaign

2012
The launch of BT Sport
Pitch appointed to launch the challenger broadcaster and remains the retained comms agency to this day.

2013
Heineken Champions League
Pitch appointed by Heineken to activate its UCL partnership through engaging comms and content.

2014
Red Bull gives Pitch wings
Pitch appointed by Red Bull and continues to be its retained PR agency to this day

2015
Heineken James Bond
Pitch activates Heineken’s campaign for the James Bond ‘Spectre’ movie, including an exclusive screening and afterparty.

2015
Switching Saddles
Pitch wins multiple awards for the groundbreaking Betfair campaign to transform Victoria Pendleton into a competitive jockey.

2016
Pitch Marketing Group
Pitch rebrands as Pitch Marketing Group and diversifies to include specialist PR, Partnerships and Production units.

2016
Defender to Contender
Pitch creates a news sensation with Rio Ferdinand, as a sequel to the hugely successful ‘Switching Saddles’ campaign

2017
Beats by Dre
Pitch appointed by Beats as its retained PR agency, and continues to be so today.

2017
Stonewall Rainbow Laces
Pitch coins the award-winning ‘Make Sport Everyone’s Game’ campaign to promote Stonewall’s Rainbow Laces initiative

2017
Salute the Lionesses
Pitch conceives and creates the ‘Salute the Lionesses’ campaign in partnership with Little Mix to promote the UEFA Women’s Euros

2017
Team for Pirlo
Pitch conceives and delivers an international World Cup campaign for Uber Eats and McDelivery

2018
Hyundai For the Fans
Pitch creates and delivers an international integrated campaign to cohesively activate Hyundai’s partnership with five football clubs

2018
Yokohama Drive For More
Pitch completes a two-year global campaign activating Yokohama’s title sponsorship of football club Chelsea FC

2019
Formula One
Pitch wins a competitive pitch process to become the new retained global PR agency for F1

2020
Pokémon TVC
Pitch launches its first TV ad campaign for Pokémon’s ‘Master The Ball’ campaign which runs throughout the UEFA Euros tournament

2021
It’s a cinch
Pitch is appointed as the integrated marketing agency for the UK’s biggest emerging challenger brand

2021