Ovide Agency

What Ovide Agency does

Ovide Agency BV (KvK 83537600) is an independent European public relations agency headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with regional offices in Antwerp, Belgium and Madrid, Spain. The company delivers creative PR campaigns, media relations, strategic communications, and reputation management to consumer-facing and enterprise brands, positioning itself around the thesis that "headlines travel further than ads" and that brands should earn attention through ideas, stories, and culture rather than paid advertising. Its disclosed client roster includes Netflix, Airbnb, Eurostar, Snapchat, Porsche, Just Eat, Royal Swinkels, TopNotch, Catawiki, Odido, SodaStream, Sonos, Dirk, and Swapfiets, spanning entertainment, hospitality, transport, technology, automotive, food delivery, beverage, e-commerce, retail, and consumer electronics.

The underlying offering is a single, unified professional services product (PR and communications), executed by locally staffed teams in each market and consolidated under one European brand. No proprietary technology platform, API, SDK, or AI capability is disclosed; the agency's value lies in creative expertise, media relationships, and local cultural insight. The business model is professional services revenue from client engagements, project-based and/or retainer in nature, with pricing custom and quote-based; no public pricing exists. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, with new business sourced via direct outreach to brand and marketing decision-makers, supported by organic social (Instagram, LinkedIn), website content (Cases, About, Career pages), and email inquiries.

Ownership is founder/partner-led, explicitly independent of any global holding company, with no disclosed venture capital or private equity involvement and no funding rounds in the record. Headcount is not disclosed; the only openly listed role is an internship in Utrecht, while Belgium is shown with "no open positions," suggesting a lean boutique operating model. Operating geographies are limited to Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain, with no global footprint claim. The company is currently operating, with a live website, active social channels, and an open recruitment funnel.

Name

Ovide Agency

Legal name

Ovide Agency BV

Website

https://ovide.agency

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ovide Agency BV is an independent European PR agency headquartered in Utrecht with offices in Antwerp and Madrid, delivering creative campaigns, media relations, and strategic communications to enterprise brands such as Netflix, Airbnb, Porsche, and Snapchat across consumer and technology industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Relations Services

NAICS

Public Relations Agencies (54182), Public Relations Agencies (541820)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro industry

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Integrated Full-Service Creative Agencies

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Advertising, Marketing & PR Services/Advertising Agencies (Full-Service/Creative)

Keywords

• Public relations services
• Media relations
• Creative PR campaigns
• Strategic communications
• Brand reputation management

Headquarters

HQ city

Utrecht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PR and Communications Services: Professional services revenue generated through PR agency engagements with brands. Services include creative campaigns, media relations, strategic communications, and reputation management across European markets. Revenue model typical of agency services, likely project-based and/or retainer arrangements with ongoing client relationships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ovide Agency provides public relations services to enterprise brands, including creative campaign development, media relations, press release writing, influencer outreach, reputation management, and strategic communications. The agency focuses on helping brands earn attention through ideas, stories, and cultural moments rather than through paid advertising. Services are delivered by local teams in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain for clients across European markets.

Product overview

Ovide Agency is an independent European PR agency that offers a single, unified PR and communications service rather than a modular software platform. The agency provides creative campaigns, media relations, and strategic communications across three markets (Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain). Their core offering centers on helping brands lead conversations through cultural moments and earned attention, with campaign case studies demonstrating their work across various clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PR Agency Services End-to-end public relations and strategic communications services for enterprise brands, including creative campaign development, media relations, press release writing, influencer outreach, reputation management, and cultural moment creation, delivered by local teams in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.

Named customers14 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Edelman: Largest global PR firm with extensive European operations. Competes with Ovide for the same marquee consumer-brand PR business and offers integrated paid/earned/owned capabilities that Ovide cannot match as an indie.
• Weber Shandwick: Global PR network (IPG) with strong consumer-brand practice and pan-European coverage. Directly competes with Ovide for brand-side PR briefs and offers a broader communications portfolio to the same enterprise clients.
• FleishmanHillard: Global PR network (Omnicom) with deep European presence including offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain. Overlaps directly with Ovide's core markets and competes for the same enterprise brand retainers at a significantly larger scale.
• Ketchum: Global PR and communications firm (Omnicom) with strong consumer-brand practice in Europe. Overlaps with Ovide on creative campaigns for enterprise consumer brands, with broader integrated capabilities.
• Brunswick Group: Global corporate and brand communications firm with European roots and broad sector coverage. Comparable to Ovide in serving international brand and corporate clients with strategic communications, but at a materially larger scale.
• Hill+Knowlton: Global PR network with long-standing European presence across multiple markets including the Netherlands. Competes for the same enterprise brand and corporate reputation briefs Ovide targets.

Direct peers

• Manifest: London-based independent creative PR and brand communications agency serving global brands with earned-media-led campaigns. Comparable to Ovide in indie structure, creative-campaign focus, and target client profile (consumer-facing international brands).
• Hope & Glory PR: London-based independent creative PR agency known for culturally distinctive campaigns and a strong consumer brand roster. Closely comparable to Ovide in positioning as an indie, creative-first shop competing against holding-company networks on cultural-campaign briefs.
• Clarity PR: London-headquartered indie PR agency focused on technology, challenger, and consumer brands across European markets. Comparable to Ovide in indie structure and emphasis on earned-media-driven campaigns for ambitious growth-stage brands.
• M Booth: US-based creative PR agency built around earned-media storytelling and brand campaigns for global brands. Comparable to Ovide in its "headlines travel further than ads" thesis and its emphasis on creative campaigns over paid advertising.

Market position

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ovide-agency
• Instagraminstagram.com/ovideagency

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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