Liberty Communications is an independent UK technology public relations firm founded in 1998 by Dee Gibbs and led since the 2020s by CEO Elena Davidson. Based in London with a New York operation, Liberty has built a 27-year specialism in technology and telecommunications PR — winning Gold at the 2024 Marketing & PR Brilliance Awards and Silver in 2025, with a client base split roughly 75% UK and mainland Europe / 25% United States.
Originally published November 2012. Updated June 14, 2026.
Snapshot
Founded: 1998 by Dee Gibbs (in-house tech marcomms operator before founding Liberty)
Awards selection: 2024 Gold + 2025 Silver Marketing & PR Brilliance; CIPR Excellence Awards 2022 (STEM); European Agency Awards 2022 Best PR Campaign; UK & European Agency Awards 2023 (Best D&I Initiative); PR Week Best Places to Work (prior winner)
The Business Story
Dee Gibbs founded Liberty Communications in 1998 after a career as an in-house global marketing communications operator across the technology sector. The thesis came from her seat as the buyer: too many PR firms over-pitched in the boardroom and under-delivered in execution; the senior practitioners visible at the pitch meeting were rarely the ones doing the work three months later. Liberty's structural answer was a flat, senior-heavy boutique where the people in the room at pitch stayed in the room afterward.
The agency grew to roughly £2 million in fee income by the early 2020s — a scale Liberty has deliberately held rather than expanded past. The split is approximately 75% UK and mainland European clients, 25% United States. Sectors are concentrated in technology and telecommunications: enterprise software, mobile networks, broadband infrastructure, cybersecurity, SaaS, and emerging tech (agentic AI, B2B operators).
The New York operation, announced in 2012 and operational from 2013, was Liberty's first US-owned venture — Dee Gibbs's choice to hire local US personnel rather than parachute UK staff reflected a working belief that local market knowledge of the US tech and telecoms landscape cannot be exported from London. The model has held: the New York office remains the US anchor.
Why Liberty Communications Matters
Most multinational PR firms structure around scale. Liberty structured around restraint: a deliberate ceiling on fee income, a senior-only practitioner model, a boutique-first ethos. The result is one of the longer-lived independent tech PR firms in the UK — 27 years operating, multi-award-winning, surviving Brexit, the pandemic, and the consolidation cycle that absorbed many of its peers.
The agency's award sweep in the 2022–2025 window — CIPR Excellence (STEM), European Agency Awards, UK Agency Awards, Marketing & PR Brilliance Gold and Silver in consecutive years — reflects the rare position of an independent surviving and winning in a category where most independents either get acquired or scaled into something less recognizable.
Telecommunications and mobile PR: network operators, mobile infrastructure, telecoms vendors
Media relations: UK, European, and US trade and business press
Show support: Mobile World Congress, IBC, industry summits
Strategic counsel: positioning, narrative development, investor and analyst comms
2012 Coverage (Historical Anchor)
The original November 2012 EPR coverage of Liberty documented the agency's New York operation announcement — at the time positioned as a response to growing demand from Liberty's North American-based clients for local market support under the Liberty brand. Founder Dee Gibbs told EPR that "New York is the first city in which we will deploy a Liberty-owned venture, but this is just the start." Fourteen years later the New York office is operational, the agency remains independent, and Gibbs's working belief about local hires — that sending UK staff "means local knowledge of the market and the technology landscape just doesn't exist" — has been validated by the agency's sustained US presence.
Liberty Communications is an independent UK technology public relations firm. The agency specializes in PR and communications for technology, telecommunications, mobile, and B2B SaaS clients, with offices in London and New York and clients across the UK, Europe, and the United States.
Who runs Liberty Communications?
Founded in 1998 by Dee Gibbs, who continues as founder. The current CEO is Elena Davidson.
Where is Liberty Communications based?
London, United Kingdom, with a US operation in New York that opened in 2013.
What awards has Liberty Communications won?
Gold at the 2024 Marketing & PR Brilliance Awards, Silver in 2025, CIPR Excellence Award winners 2022 (STEM category), European Agency Awards 2022 (Best PR Campaign), UK Agency Awards and European Agency Awards winners 2023 (Best Diversity and Inclusion Initiative), among others.
What industries does Liberty Communications specialize in?
Technology, telecommunications, mobile, enterprise software, B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, and emerging tech including agentic AI.
Is Liberty Communications independent?
Yes. Liberty has remained an independent boutique since its 1998 founding, deliberately holding its scale rather than pursuing the consolidation path that absorbed many UK tech PR peers.
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