842 agencies indexed·Latest entry: 17 July 2026
Industry · 95 agencies

Sports agencies.

Sports marketing is the work of selling rights, sponsorships, fan engagement, and product for clubs, leagues, governing bodies, kit and equipment brands, and the betting and consumer brands that sit alongside them. It is distinct because budgets follow a fixture cycle, sponsorship is priced against rights-holder reach, and gambling-adjacent inventory now sits inside rules that are mid-transition.

At a glance
  • 95 UK agencies with sports experience
  • Across 22 UK locations
  • Reviewed 18 May 2026
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Mass Reach
Independent·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

At Mass Reach, we help ambitious eCommerce and B2B companies turn ad spend into predictable growth. We've partnered with leading global brands to accelerate revenue through Google Ads, Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads, supported by conversion rate optimisation to maximise ROI. Our work goes beyond campaign management, we build full-funnel growth systems that deliver measurable results, from lower custome

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DESIGN DPI
Independent·Leeds·2-10 Employees·Verified

DESIGN DPI a multi-award-winning creative agency based on the outskirts of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, offers an all-encompassing spectrum of services. Specialising in animation, branding, logo creation, website development, and tailor-made software solutions, we also excel in digital marketing strategies such as SEO, email marketing, and social media management.

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Launch Digital
Independent·Glasgow·2-10 Employees·Verified

Launch, a dynamic marketing agency, operates from strategic locations in Glasgow, London, and Ayrshire. What distinguishes Launch is its distinctive blend of imaginative creativity and digital expertise, generating progressive communication strategies whilst proudly maintaining its status as a family-owned enterprise offering a bespoke touch. Providing an extensive array of services, Launch specia

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Scoot
Independent·Glasgow·2-10 Employees·Verified

Scoot is a strategic digital marketing agency that prides itself on delivering bespoke solutions, specially designed to align with the unique goals of each of our clients. We offer a full suite of digital solutions designed to drive growth and transformation for your business. We create custom-built solutions that deliver results and drive value for our clients - no matter what that looks like. We

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Fishtank Agency
Independent·Leeds·11-50 Employees·Verified

Fishtank, a digital and creative agency in Yorkshire, UK, excels in metamorphosing corporate communication via compelling storytelling. By presenting groundbreaking solutions, they routinely secure enduring ROI for their clientele. Fishtank's distinctive edge lies in their dedication to strategic thought, use of data for business problem-solving, and proficiency in brand strategy, creative leaders

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Unit Digital
Independent·Sheffield·2-10 Employees·Verified

Unit Digital Ltd is a top-tier, Sheffield City Centre-based digital marketing agency offering comprehensive services. Distinguished by its distinctive fusion of creative agency sparkle and in-house team dedication, Unit Digital ensures a straightforward, results-oriented, and client-centric method. Comprising a close-knit group of seasoned industry professionals, they excel in engaging audiences a

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Zinc Digital
Independent·Northampton·11-50 Employees·Verified

Zinc Digital of Northampton, UK, is a leading full-range digital agency renowned for its distinctive, collaborative method. Their strategic partnership with clients cultivates bespoke designs and plans that amplify each business's unique selling points (USPs), ensuring standout design and potent marketing. Their dedication to providing premium digital solutions is apparent in their extensive servi

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K2L
Independent·Manchester·2-10 Employees·Verified

As a premier digital performance marketing agency, K2L Marketing is situated in the heart of Salford Quays, Manchester. The firm excels in crafting, escalating and rocketing aspirational lifestyle brands to the top, through bespoke strategies designed to optimise sales and leads. Renowned for its comprehensive approach, K2L Marketing works tirelessly with brands, helping them realise their ultimat

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Harrison Carloss
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Harrison Carloss, an innovative digital and creative agency, is nestled in the heart of Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. This agency is renowned for its unique approach to problem-solving, commencing each venture with a profound comprehension of the client's objectives and aspirations, enabling them to create bespoke solutions. Utilising their deep insights, they transcend limitations through compel

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Distinctly
Independent·London·11-50 Employees·Verified

Distinctly, a leading digital marketing agency based in Old Street, London, boasting more than a decade of industry experience. This agency sets itself apart by integrating creative ingenuity with data-driven analysis, fuelling significant growth for brands with ambition.

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Fly High Media
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Fly High Media, a premier digital marketing firm, is located in the heart of Cheshire with an auxiliary office in Manchester. As a one-stop solution for all digital marketing needs, the agency provides a wide array of expert services such as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay-Per-Click (PPC), social media management, and bespoke website design, all tailored to amplify a business's online footpr

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First Place SEO
Specialist·London·2-10 Employees·Verified

First Place SEO helps local businesses in London grow fast. We offer SEO services, Google Ads management, and website help to get you more customers. Our team knows how to get your business on the first page of Google in London. We use proven methods so you get more calls, leads, and sales. If you want to rank higher and beat your competition in London, First Place SEO is ready to help. Get found

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HeightOn
Independent·Brighton·2-10 Employees·Verified

Big On Better. At HeightOn, we do more than design and digital. We Switch On Business. Our hybrid agency integrates brand, marketing, and technology to deliver solutions that maximise brand impact, increase leads, and drive measurable results. Big On Growth We amplify brand visibility, enhance engagement, and turn clicks into conversions. Big On Strategy We don't just create; we solve, strategise

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Softhunters UK
Independent·Birmingham·201-500 Employees·Verified

Softhunters delivers innovative IT solutions that drive digital transformation, helping businesses stay ahead through smart automation, streamlined operations, and cutting-edge technology. Our recent projects showcase our commitment to excellence, blending strategy with technology to unlock growth and success in the digital age.

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Serotonin
Independent·Manchester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Serotonin is the performance marketing agency for brands that want to move faster and grow smarter. Founded by Dom Carter and Clair Heaviside, we bring over a decade of experience scaling brands across the UK, Europe and the US. We skip the jargon, the fluff, and the vanity metrics. What we deliver is clarity, pace and a commercial mindset-from forecasting and strategy through to media buyin

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Energy PR
Independent·Gloucester·11-50 Employees·Verified

Award-winning PR agency for B2B & B2C brands across the UK and beyond. In-sector PR expertise. Out-of-sector creativity. Combined to deliver standout results. We've got 30 years of PR expertise across every major sector. HR to home & garden. Environment to energy. We know each industry as well as a sector-specialist PR agency. Maybe better. But where specialist agencies only know their industry, w

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Frost Creative
Independent·Southampton·11-50 Employees·Verified

Searching for a result-oriented branding + creative consultancy? We are an award-winning, no-nonsense strategic and creative consultancy transforming what makes you unique into rocket fuel for growth. Our expertise crosses strategy, design, digital, print and the physical environment. Everywhere your audience goes and everywhere you need to be.

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Another Concept
Independent·Leeds·2-10 Employees·Verified

As a premier performance marketing agency, Another Concept, situated in the heart of Leeds, UK, excels in delivering a unique client-centric approach. Run by seasoned professionals, we pride ourselves on our transparent and candid communication. Our forte lies in devising bespoke strategies that render quantifiable outcomes, guaranteeing the utmost ROI by employing dynamic budget management.

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Odyssey New Media
Independent·Birmingham·11-50 Employees·Verified

Odyssey New Media, a prominent, award-winning digital marketing agency based in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. They boasts over three decades of accumulated expertise. Renowned for its strategic and all-encompassing digital solutions, the agency skilfully maximises digital marketing channels to fuel traffic, boost revenue, and improve marketing ROI. Offering an extensive range of services including: SEO, AIO, PPC, Social Media, Email Marketing, Website Development, App Development and more.

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Rubber Duckers
Independent·Winchester·2-10 Employees·Verified

Rubber Duckers is a culture-first creative agency founded in Hampshire, working with clients across the UK and internationally. We shape branding, websites, photography and video around the people behind each business, so the brand sounds like the founders, team and customers who actually know it.

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Bidmark
Independent·Leeds·2-10 Employees·Verified

Our digital marketing agency specialise in the strategy and delivery of a range of performance focused digital marketing services such as SEO, PPC, Paid Social and Display campaigns. Working closely with our clients ensuring everything is measured and tracked, we continue to deliver the results that matter

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Launch Studio
Independent·London·11-50 Employees·Verified

Launch Studio is a commercially led creative agency using design to make a difference. We work directly with founders, sales and marketing leads to understand your priorities, applying strategic thinking and creative execution so every investment in brand supports clear commercial goals. Our work spans identity systems, websites and campaigns, through to sales enablement, branded materials, print,

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Leads Brain LTD
Specialist·Manchester·51-200 Employees·Verified

Boost your local visibility with Google Business Profile optimization, SEO for small businesses, and responsive website development. We help businesses grow online with affordable SEO services, faster websites, and better Google rankings that bring in more local traffic and real leads.

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Leopard Co
Independent·Birmingham·11-50 Employees·Verified

We are Leopard Co! A new agency with a 20-year history created through two award-winning marketing communications consultancies - Big Cat and spottydog communications - joining forces. Now together, we offer clients a full service marketing agency with specialist skills across the marketing communications mix.

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Editor's note
Sports is one of the more specialist verticals in the UK agency market, with 94 agencies in this index positioning here. The category splits into five working shapes: rights-holder marketing for clubs, leagues and governing bodies (Premier League, EFL, RFU, ECB, WSL); sportswear and equipment brands with their own performance and lifestyle creative; sponsorship-activation specialists that sit between a brand and a rights-holder (Pitch Marketing Group, WeAreNinety, ISG Live, Treble, Playmaker, Rocket, Hedra); fan-engagement and membership tech work for apps, OTT and CRM; and talent or athlete representation that crosses into endorsement and campaign work. What makes the category distinct is that almost everything is paced by the fixture cycle. Campaign windows align to season launches, international windows, finals and broadcast schedules rather than retail or financial-year planning. Sponsorship is priced against rights-holder reach using Nielsen Sports and YouGov Sport media-valuation models, which means an agency's pitch lives or dies on whether the team can speak fluently about media value, share of voice on broadcast, and signage exposure data. And the regulated layer that touches the most commercial inventory is gambling: the voluntary 'whistle-to-whistle' ban on TV betting ads from five minutes before to five minutes after any live sport broadcast before the 9pm watershed has been in force since August 2019, and the Premier League's voluntary front-of-shirt gambling ban takes effect at the start of the 2026/27 season. The shifts in 2025 and 2026 are structural. The gambling-shirt transition strips £140m-plus of annual commercial revenue from the 11 Premier League clubs that currently carry betting brands on the front, and forces a redistribution into sleeves, perimeter inventory and naming-rights deals where gambling is still permitted. Women's sport is scaling fast: the Barclays Women's Super League title deal stepped up to £45m across 2025-2028 (the biggest in domestic women's football history), WSL2 attendances rose 108% year-on-year to 2,086 per game, and the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup final drew 81,885 to Twickenham with a BBC peak of 5.8 million. And the UK broadcast picture has fragmented further with the £6.7bn 2025-29 domestic Premier League cycle going to Sky and TNT (Amazon out), Disney+ taking the UEFA Women's Champions League from DAZN, and a long tail of OTT-only properties that the planner now has to map separately.
Common briefs
Sponsorship activation across a multi-year rights-holder partnershipMatch-day and fixture-cycle campaigns timed to a season scheduleWomen's-sport audience build for a new or growing propertyFan-app, membership and CRM growth for a club or leagueAthlete-led or talent-fronted brand campaigns with rights clearanceStreaming-rights launch for an OTT or pay-TV sports propertySponsorship valuation and rights-package commercial review
Regulatory landscape
ASA · BCAP · Gambling Commission · league codes
sponsorship rules in transition through 2026/27

Sports marketing sits across four overlapping regimes. The ASA enforces the CAP Code online and BCAP Code on broadcast, with extra rules on gambling and alcohol creative that touch any sport campaign with betting or drinks sponsors attached. The Industry Group for Responsible Gambling (IGRG) Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising, now in its seventh edition, supplements CAP and BCAP and requires 20% of operator advertising (broadcast and digital) to carry safer-gambling messaging. The voluntary whistle-to-whistle ban on gambling ads, agreed by IGRG operators in August 2019, prohibits betting advertising from five minutes before to five minutes after any televised live sport before 9pm; horse and greyhound racing are exempt, and lottery and bingo ads remain permitted in the window. The Premier League's voluntary front-of-shirt gambling ban takes effect at the start of the 2026/27 season, agreed collectively by all 20 clubs and the first such measure by any UK sports league. A separate four-principle code on safeguarding in gambling sponsorship is shared across the Premier League, FA, EFL and WSL. Gambling brands remain permitted on shirt sleeves and perimeter advertising. The Gambling Commission licenses operators and polices content rules through licensing conditions.

Specialist signals
5 signals
of real sports-sector experience
  • · Fixture-cycle planning fluency: media plans built around season launches, international windows, finals and broadcast schedules rather than retail or financial-year planning
  • · Sponsorship-valuation discipline using Nielsen Sports, YouGov Sport or sport+markt media-value models, with a clear view on broadcast share of voice, perimeter exposure and digital impressions
  • · Named rights-holder case studies with Premier League, EFL, WSL, RFU, ECB or a major rights-holder federation, ideally including activation work on a multi-year sponsorship
  • · Gambling-rule sensitivity: working knowledge of whistle-to-whistle, the 2026/27 front-of-shirt transition, the four-principle league code, and IGRG safer-gambling content requirements
  • · Women's-sport literacy that goes beyond a single campaign: audience profile, WSL and Premiership Women's Rugby fixture cycles, BBC and Sky distribution differences, sponsor categories where the female audience over-indexes
Sector watch-outs
5 to watch
in any sports pitch
  • · No fixture-cycle planning in the campaign timeline, with media flighting that ignores the season schedule, international windows or competing finals weekends
  • · Sponsorship discussion in pure consumer-reach terms with no Nielsen Sports or YouGov media-value figures, no broadcast share-of-voice modelling, and no perimeter or signage exposure data
  • · Gambling work shown with creative that would not clear whistle-to-whistle, or a 2026/27 plan for a Premier League shirt sponsor that still has gambling on the front of the kit
  • · Women's-sport pitch that treats the audience as a smaller version of the men's-game audience, with no view on the distinct sponsor mix, broadcast pattern or commercial-revenue trajectory
  • · Fan-data work that treats supporter records like generic consumer data, with no awareness of league rules on data sharing between clubs and sponsors, GDPR consent for under-16 fan-club members, or IFAB and league restrictions on commercial use of in-stadium and broadcast imagery
Frequently asked

What brands ask about agencies for sports.

5 questions our editors get most often, answered honestly. No agency-marketing speak.

Curated by humans

There are three rough bands. Activation retainers for a single brand running a sponsorship programme across one major property sit between £8,000 and £30,000 a month, depending on whether on-ground experiential, athlete-talent fees and content production are inside scope. Multi-property programmes for global consumer brands (FMCG, automotive, financial services) sitting on Premier League, F1 or rugby rights routinely run £50,000 to £150,000 a month with separate production budgets per asset. Rights-holder marketing for a club or governing body is usually a hybrid in-house plus retainer model in the £100,000 to £500,000-a-year range. Sponsorship rights themselves sit on top: Premier League front-of-shirt deals run from around £8m to £60m a year, the Barclays WSL title deal is £15m a year across 2025-2028, and the 2025-29 UK Premier League broadcast cycle is worth £6.7bn across Sky and TNT.