Prohibition is a content marketing agency in Leeds, based at Victoria Wharf on Sovereign Street. We plan, write and film content for brands across the UK, including Interflora, Oxford University, Freeths and Fentimans. We have won more than 45 industry awards, and Best Use of Content at the PRCA Awards is one of them.
Good content has one job. It has to get in front of the right people and make them do something. So everything we make is planned around where your buyers already look, and most of it gets a push from PR, social or paid media once it is live. We also run a PR agency in Leeds, which is why earned coverage turns up in so much of our content work.
Content marketing in Leeds, at a glance
- Our office is at Victoria Wharf, Unit 4 Sovereign Street, Leeds LS1 4BA.
- We make strategy, website copy, guides, white papers, video, podcasts and social content.
- Our clients range from Yorkshire brewers to national law firms and universities.
- Our Freeths video and animation campaign produced around 950 leads.
- Call 0113 430 4160 or email info@prohibitionpr.co.uk to talk it through.
What our Leeds content team makes
Everything starts with a plan. Our content strategy services work out who you need to reach, what they already read and watch, and where they find it. Then we make what the plan calls for.
Website content and SEO copy that answers the questions buyers type into Google.
Guides and ebooks useful enough that people will swap their details for them.
White papers for B2B brands selling to technical buyers.
Video production, from explainers and animation to filmed interviews and live streams.
Podcast production from the people who make our own show, Embracing Marketing Mistakes.
Infographics that turn complicated data into something people will share.
Email and social media marketing that keeps the content working after launch day.
Content marketing results from real clients
The fairest way to judge a content agency is by its work. These four were led by content: video, animation, a content hub and a launch shoot.
Black Sheep Brewery, Masham
Black Sheep launched Burrow’s Blonde in support of rugby league legend Rob Burrow MBE, with 10p from every pint going to his trusts. We storyboarded the launch day at the brewery and organised the filming, so Black Sheep had video and photography ready for its social channels. We also built a social toolkit for guests and dropped samples to Leeds-based media.
The launch earned 44 pieces of coverage reaching 14.6 million people, including the Daily Express, the Yorkshire Post and BBC Radio York. Mentions rose 274% on the previous period, the coverage brought in a trade order from Wigan Warriors, and Burrow’s Blonde became Black Sheep’s fastest ever selling bottle.
Freeths, national law firm
Freeths wanted in-house lawyers and general counsel at large corporations to hear from James Hartley, the lawyer who led the subpostmasters’ case against the Post Office. We built a LinkedIn Live event around him. We wrote the script, made a teaser animation and an interview-style promo, filmed and streamed the event, and ran the social campaign that filled it. Over 1,100 people attended, they asked nearly 70 questions, and the event produced around 950 leads.
Fentimans
We promoted the Fentimans annual Market Report as a B2B lead generation campaign, through a content hub, a series of creative videos and paid advertising. The campaign won gold at the CIPR Awards for Corporate and Business Communications Campaign.
Oxford University, Saïd Business School
We made a thought-leadership animation and graphics series for the school’s “Business: the next 25 years” content, featuring academics including Paul Polman. The school shared it on its own channels, so we don’t hold the numbers. We do know it led to further strategy projects with the school.
For Interflora, too, our storytelling blog and video content shifted corporate consumer perceptions of the brand.
PR that carries the content further
Some of our best results come from content and PR working as one campaign. For Black Sheep, “Drink Cask Beer” earned 60 pieces of coverage and reached 11 million people. It won the Digital and Social Media Award at the PRCA DARE Grand Prix in 2023. For Astonish, a press office built on expert cleaning tips produced 115 pieces of coverage in six months, and 90% of them linked back to the Astonish website. For Big Zuu’s Drip, the “Drip Curates” artist collaborations gave the press a culture story, and it ran across national, lifestyle and cultural titles.
What our clients say about working with us
“They’re a bunch of friendly people who feel like a natural extension of the marketing team.” David Sharples, Communications Manager, Black Sheep Brewery (review on Clutch)
“They’ve been impeccable from start to finish.” Marketing Manager, Fentimans Ltd
How we run a content programme
We start with your brand strategy, because content without one just adds noise. If you have one, we work from it. If you don’t, we help you pin it down first.
Discovery comes first. We find your ideal customers, the content they consume and where they consume it.
Then we agree the strategy: the goal, the audience and the few topics you can credibly own.
Then we write, design and film the pieces the plan calls for.
Publishing is only half the job, so we pitch stories to journalists, promote through social and email, and turn strong pieces into new formats.
We report on leads, email opens, click-through rates and coverage, and change course when something isn’t working.
Content that Google and AI search can use
Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode now answer plenty of “who should I hire” questions before anyone clicks a link. Those answers draw heavily on your own website. So we write pages that answer the question in the first sentence, back claims with real numbers, and mark them up properly for search engines.
Coverage on other sites matters here too. For Astonish, 90% of 115 articles linked back to the brand, and each one is a mention that search engines and AI tools can read. If AI visibility is your main worry, our AI search optimisation team can check where you stand.
Why brands pick a Leeds agency like us
We make content from our base in Leeds. Our work has taken Yorkshire stories into national press, from Burrow’s Blonde in the Daily Express to the Yorkshire Post and BBC Radio York. In 2025 we were a double finalist at the PRmoment North Awards, for Potter Space and Yorkshire Cancer Research. In 2026 we won the Charity and Not for Profit Award at the PRCA DARE Awards for Martin House Children’s Hospice.
Across the agency we have won more than 45 industry awards. They include Best Agency at the PRIDE Awards, Best Integrated Campaign at the Prolific North Awards and Best Use of Content at the PRCA Awards.
We are a CIPR member agency. Since August 2025 we have also been part of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, with partner agencies in 110 offices across 45 countries. A Leeds team can run your content and still reach audiences well beyond Yorkshire.
We also offer PR, social media, video, SEO and paid media, so the content can run through all of them from one plan.
Questions people ask before hiring us
How much does content marketing cost with you?
There is no standard price, because no two programmes need the same things. The cost depends on how much you need made each month, whether video or podcast production is involved, and how much paid promotion sits behind it. Tell us the goal and a rough budget, and we will tell you what it can realistically cover.
What do we actually get from you?
A content plan built around your buyers, then the content itself. That can be website copy, guides, white papers, video, animation, podcasts, infographics, email and social content. We also promote it through PR, social and paid media, and report on what it produced.
Do you work alongside in-house marketing teams?
Yes. David Sharples, Communications Manager at Black Sheep Brewery, wrote on Clutch that we “feel like a natural extension of the marketing team”. If you have a brand strategy already, we work from it.
How do you measure content marketing?
We agree the measures before we start. Usually that means leads, email open rates, click-through rates and website behaviour in Google Analytics. Where PR is part of the programme, we also report the coverage and the links it earns.
Will our content show up in AI search?
Nobody can promise a mention in an AI answer. What we can do is build pages that answer buyers’ questions in the first sentence, mark them up with structured data, and earn coverage on other sites that AI tools read. For Astonish, 90% of 115 pieces of coverage linked back to the brand’s website.
Do you only work with Leeds businesses?
No. We work with clients across the UK, including Freeths, Interflora and Oxford University. We also work with Yorkshire brands such as Black Sheep Brewery in Masham.
Can you make video as well as written content?
Yes. For Freeths we wrote the script, made a teaser animation and an interview-style promo, and filmed and streamed a LinkedIn Live. For Black Sheep we storyboarded the Burrow’s Blonde launch and organised filming for its social channels.
Talk to our content team in Leeds
Call us on 0113 430 4160, email info@prohibitionpr.co.uk, or visit us at Victoria Wharf, Unit 4 Sovereign Street, Leeds LS1 4BA. Tell us what you want your content to achieve, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.
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