Digital PR training for regulated in-house teams
A working day on earning coverage and authority in sectors most journalists approach warily. Your team leaves able to build stories, pitch them and handle the scrutiny that follows.
What the day covers
The spine of the session. The examples and the live accounts we work in are yours.
Finding a story a newsroom wants
Separating what interests your brand from what interests an editor, honestly.
Data that stands up
Running research that survives a journalist checking it, and knowing when yours will not.
Pitching from a regulated brand
Approaching desks that are wary of your sector, and what to lead with.
Reactive and newsjacking
Moving fast on a breaking story without approving something you will regret.
Building relationships
Why a maintained journalist list beats a bought one, and how to keep it current.
Handling the difficult follow-up
What to do when the coverage is not the coverage you pitched.
Module by module
Run in this order, because each one assumes the last.
Digital PR fundamentals
What earns coverage and links now, and what stopped working some time ago.
Story development
Building angles from your own data, expertise and customers.
Research and data
Designing a study that is methodologically sound enough to be quoted.
Pitching clinic
Writing and sending real pitches, critiqued in the room.
Reactive commentary
Setting up to respond within the hour, including pre-approved positions.
Relationships and lists
Building and maintaining a journalist database that is actually yours.
Measuring PR properly
Coverage, authority and business impact, without the metrics that flatter.
Your sector is the story, whether you like it or not
Taught with your market’s constraints built in.
Pitching from a regulated brand is a different job. A journalist’s first instinct is to look for the angle that makes you the problem, and a campaign that would be unremarkable from a retailer can become a story about gambling harm or mis-selling. The skill is finding angles that are genuinely useful to a newsroom, standing up the data properly, and knowing in advance which questions will come back.

From a scoping call to a team that can do the work
The same shape whichever discipline you book.
The people in the room are the ones doing the work
Our trainers are the specialists who run client campaigns in regulated markets the rest of the week. That is the whole proposition: when somebody asks what happens in an awkward edge case, the answer comes from having been in one rather than from the next slide.
Digital PR training, answered
Who is this training for?
In-house marketing teams, and the people around them who need to brief or review the work. We run sessions for complete beginners, for experienced marketers moving into a regulated sector for the first time, and for senior teams who want a second opinion on their approach. The scoping call sets the level.
Is the training specific to regulated industries?
Yes. That is the reason to come to us rather than a general training provider. Every module is taught with the constraints of your market built in, because the tactics that work in an unregulated sector are often the ones that get a regulated brand into trouble.
Where does the training take place?
At your offices, at ours in London or Essex, or remotely. Hands-on work needs your team in their own accounts, which works equally well in a room or on a call, though a full day in person tends to hold attention better than a full day on video.
How long is a session?
Most are a single day, or two half-days if taking a whole team off the floor at once is difficult. Shorter formats work for a single module, and longer programmes work when a team is being brought up from a standing start.
How many people can attend?
Up to about twelve. Beyond that the hands-on half stops working, because there is not enough time to get round everyone’s screen. Larger teams are usually better split across two sessions by level.
Do you certify attendees?
No. We are not an accreditation body and a certificate from an agency means very little. What attendees leave with is the deck, their own worked files and a written summary of what we found in their accounts.
What does it cost?
It depends on the format, the number of attendees and how much of the syllabus you need, so the scoping call comes before the quote. We would rather size it honestly than publish a price that turns out to be wrong for your team.
Can you train our team and run our campaigns?
Yes, and a fair number of clients do both. Training a team to brief and review well tends to make the agency relationship better, not redundant. It also works the other way round: some clients train up in order to bring work in-house, and that is a legitimate reason to book.
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Integrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026
Best Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026
Standout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026
Best Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026
Best New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025
Best Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024
Integrated Agency of the Year - SilverEuropean Agency Awards 2026
Best Use of Search B2C (PPC) Small (The Swallow Co.)European Search Awards 2026
Standout B2C Ecommerce Website of the Year (Stelrad)UK Digital Excellence Awards 2026
Best Integrated Paid Media CampaignUK Paid Media Awards 2026
Best New Business CampaignUK Agency Awards 2025
Best Use Of Search (Retail/Ecommerce) - SEOUK Search Awards 2024 Talk to us about Digital PR training
Tell us who needs training and what they already know, and we will tell you honestly whether a session would help and what it should cover.
