What Follows
Portfolio - selected workCommunications strategy & publicity

For the people worth paying attention to

Communications strategy, publicity and profile-building for exceptional individuals and businesses. Strategy led by Hannah Martin, delivered with a wider team of PR, marketing and content specialists who plug in as the brief needs.

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30+ leaders advised

Across technology, politics and campaigning - on publicity and communications strategy.

Tier-one press

Financial Times, The Sunday Times, Le Monde, TechCrunch, the Observer, the Atlantic, Vogue.

A team that plugs in

Senior PR, marketing, content and event specialists brought in per account, with no agency overhead.

Selected projects

Projects across health, finance, work and cultural programming

01 Case study

Jobbatical

2-year retainer - launching and scaling the UK market

Full-stack PR support to launch and scale Jobbatical, a B2B global mobility platform for tech and finance companies, into the UK market.

BBCITVThe TelegraphDaily MailThe TimesTechCrunchThe Observer
Observer feature on the Jobbatical CEO
10X
Coverage growth in 12 months
150+
Pieces of targeted coverage
<3 yrs
To thought leader on global hiring
Highlights
  • Messaging and positioning for the UK market
  • Corporate and consumer campaign with marketing support
  • 10X increase in coverage in under two years (150+ pieces)
  • Skilled-migration campaign covered in the BBC, ITV, Mail, the Times and the Telegraph
  • Nurtured a bank of media-ready user testimonials
  • Spokesperson profiles and media training
02 Case study

Alternaleaf

2-year retainer - launching and scaling the UK market

Positioning and messaging to protect and promote the brand in a taboo, highly competitive industry, with customer testimonials that remain central to media, social and out-of-home campaigns.

BBCThe MirrorThe TelegraphITV
Alternaleaf patient-story campaign on the Underground
+420%
Coverage growth, Q2'23 to Q2'25
120
Pieces of targeted coverage
80%
Of coverage linked to site
Highlights
  • Corporate and consumer campaigns across UK nationals and broadcast
  • Report on women's health and medical cannabis cited in a Westminster debate
  • Introduced patient stories across press and social, now the in-house strategy
  • 20+ media-ready testimonials and spokesperson training for clinicians
  • Regional push driving an 8-10X increase in regional website traffic
  • Key messaging, crisis communications and leadership advisory
03 Case study

Your Juno

UK market launch - six-month PR plan

A financial education app designed to close the gender money gap. The objective: launch Your Juno into the UK market with top-tier business and consumer press.

Financial TimesBusiness InsiderStylistGlamourTechCrunchSifted
Financial Times feature on the Your Juno founders
FT + App Store
Front page on launch day
+80%
Increase in launch-day traffic
Results
  • Feature in Business Insider plus multiple hits across consumer press
  • Six-month PR plan delivering hits across UK consumer and business pages
  • Frequent coverage in Stylist, Glamour, the FT, TechCrunch, Sifted and podcasts
  • Led to a corporate partnership with the Financial Times
04 Case study

MakeLoveNotPorn

8-week campaign · ongoing strategic consultancy

Raising awareness around the launch of the sex education platform with an exclusive data-led campaign in The Times, and a sold-out event with Jameela Jamil, Emma Louise Boynton and Cindy Gallop.

The TimesThe Sunday TimesThe GuardianBBC PanoramaHuffPostStylist
Panel event for MakeLoveNotPorn
1M+
Accounts reached
$80k
Raised via crowdfunding
What we did
  • Reactive press office on pornography, sex education and online misogyny
  • Influencer campaign event with Jameela Jamil, attended by the Guardian, BBC Panorama, Stylist and Glamour
  • Research and data-led campaign covered by The Times, Sunday Times and HuffPost
  • Podcast placements with Davina McCall and Paul Brunson, plus an SXSW London mainstage slot
05 Case study

Unfabled

6-month project - post-seed launch and beyond

Launching health and wellness platform Unfabled into the UK healthtech market following its seed funding round, with an exclusive in Business Insider.

Business InsiderTechCrunchStylistCityAMFemtech trades
Unfabled founder portrait from the brand photoshoot
180M+
Readers reached
+80%
Website traffic on launch day
25+
Pieces of coverage
+10%
LinkedIn followers
What we did
  • Refined messaging to speak to both consumer and corporate audiences
  • Positioned Unfabled as the answer to the gender health gap
  • Founder photoshoot and personal branding
  • Founder media briefing, training, opinion and commentary writing
  • Speaking engagements at NY Femtech Week and SXSW London
06 Case study

SXSW London

Six-month project - programming and journalist engagement

Programming tier-one journalists into the six-day SXSW London programme, and advising the senior team across healthtech, AI, politics and culture.

FortuneForbesMIT Technology ReviewNew York TimesBloombergCNBC
Esther Perel on the SXSW London mainstage
6 days
Of programme curated
Tier one
Journalists booked as moderators
What we did
  • Booked journalists as moderators for speakers including Esther Perel, Michelle Obama and OpenAI
  • Curated and advised the senior team on the programme
  • Organised an oversubscribed media event with journalists from leading global titles
  • Advised the in-house PR team on which speakers to push
  • Measured and reported on overall PR engagement
Services at a glance

How we plug in

Publicity & Communications

For companies and individuals
  • Goals, vision & mission
  • Positioning & key messages
  • Media relations & strategic communications
  • Speaking engagements & events
  • Company updates and announcements
  • Bylines & opinion piece writing
  • Investor relations & funding announcements
  • Crisis communications & mitigation
Who it's for: companies and leaders building awareness and credibility in a new or existing market, with a plug-in team ready to go.

Programming & Event Production

Panels, conferences & live events
  • Technology & cultural programming
  • Artist liaison & management
  • Customer and stakeholder engagement
  • Budget management & event production
  • Communications, PR & marketing around the event
Who it's for: individuals and companies planning in-person events, with 10+ years in event management and securing speaking slots.

Headline campaigns

Insight-driven, expert-supported campaigns that create key moments through the year, built with internal teams.

Real life stories

We nurture real-life success stories into the hard-hitting headlines journalists can't ignore.

Digital PR

A press office that jumps on the news, using key terms and SEO to close competitor gaps and build relevance with LLMs.

Founder profiling

Access to our network of journalists, experts, campaigners and policymakers to build lasting influence.

Who you work with

Hannah Martin

Communications strategist & founder, What Follows

I'm a communications strategist. I set the strategy, the positioning and the messaging, then stay close to the delivery - the press you land, the stages you speak on and the story that holds it together.

Around that strategy sits a wider team of senior PR, marketing, content and event specialists who plug in per account, so the resource matches the brief rather than an agency retainer.

Before launching What Follows in 2022 I shaped PR and content for unicorn company Wise, and spent two years in strategic communications at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. I've since advised 30+ leaders across technology, politics and campaigning, and led journalist engagement for SXSW London 2026, booking journalists from Forbes, Fortune, the BBC, the New York Times and Vogue to lead conversations with Esther Perel, Michelle Obama and OpenAI.

Hannah Martin
Next steps

If you're looking for a communications partner motivated by your mission, let's talk.

In a 30-minute call we'll explore your objectives, timeline and the best format for partnership.

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