HARROGATE BOROUGH COUNCIL
“Cicada delivered a series of business roadshows in the spring of 2019 ahead of the UCI Road World Championships. They took care of every detail from venue sourcing and arranging speakers; marketing the events and creating appropriate content. The Cicada team were excellent throughout and helped to ensure that we delivered high quality events around the Harrogate district.”
SUE BRANDOM
INWARD INVESTMENT OFFICER
LUPTON FAWCETT LLP
“As a full service Yorkshire Law Firm, Lupton Fawcett has many key messages we wish to get through to our target media, as well as out over our social media platforms. The Cicada team was able to understand our business and our needs straight away, and commence generating great results for us immediately.
They come up with solid, innovative, fresh ideas, that get us strong coverage. Most importantly though, they are lovely people to deal with.”
NEIL CORMACK
HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING
PFF GROUP
“Cicada has, as ever, been superb to work with – you have all made a significant impact on raising the profile of PFF Group, our divisions and colleagues.”
SUE HOWARD
MARKETING MANAGER
ADGROUP
“We decided to use Cicada to raise the profile of a number of group companies. They quickly understood their different briefs and added a lot more in the way of constructive ideas to the mix and then wrote a number of well publicised PR stories. Overall we were really impressed with their services and I would definitely recommend them.”
ANDREW WALKER
CEO
YORKSHIRE POST
“The team at Cicada is first-rate in every way. Friendly and helpful, they fully understand how journalists work and what we need. They respond quickly and efficiently to requests and understand the importance of deadlines. Their creativity in coming up with story ideas is impressive and has been immensely helpful over the years. Did I mention they are a joy to work with?”
SHARON DALE
PROPERTY EDITOR
TRACTOR FEST
“I just wanted to thank you for all your work in promoting the Tractor Fest event. We had a record number of visitors over the weekend despite the mixed weather and the event’s success is undoubtedly down to the PR and marketing campaign. We filled Ripon market square with 200 tractors on Saturday with lots of excited spectators and our social media feeds are buzzing!”
STUART GILL
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
GYLES BRANDRETH
“Brilliant, Jane. Now I’ve featured in Yorkshire Life I feel I’ve arrived! On we go!”
GYLES BRANDRETH
CARTER JONAS
“I just wanted to thank you and the Cicada team. You all played an integral role in helping Carter Jonas achieve such a fantastic result and your hard work, persistence and passion is very much appreciated. You’re all stars!”
PIPPA MURRAY
HEAD OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
BALTZERSENS & NORSE
“People often mention to me upon meeting that they have seen Baltzersen’s and Norse in the Harrogate Advertiser a lot, we actually aren’t in it that much anymore but when we were getting some help from Cicada Communications they did an excellent job of doing that.”
PAUL RAWLINSON
OWNER
LORIEN ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS
“We have worked with Cicada for almost 20 years. They have developed a strong profile of our growing business as an international engineering design and project management business. They have helped us to identify and develop article ideas and comment opportunities. Their professional advice, writing skills and media contacts enable us to generate engaging content in the media, website and social media. I would recommend Cicada to others in business.”
MATTHEW HIDDERLEY
HEAD OF SALES & MARKETING
FINANCE YORKSHIRE
“Cicada write high quality press releases and work alongside our private sector partners to create stories that achieve substantial media coverage in regional business media, local newspapers and national online platforms. Cicada has managed our website and social media to a level that has allowed us to reach a significant audience at a regional and national level.”
ALEX MCWHIRTER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS
“Cicada has provided PR and media relations services to the Institute of Directors for more than a decade. They work closely with our in-house communications team, responding quickly and efficiently to requests for written and edited content which is always on brief. Our longstanding relationship with Cicada and the role it plays in raising awareness of our services is highly valued by the IoD.”
JONATHAN GELDART
DIRECTOR GENERAL
FAIRFAX HOUSE
“The committee has been pleased with the publicity that has been generated during this period thanks to Cicada. Just to conclude Jane – my thanks to you and the team for some great publicity and what you have helped deliver.”