Millions of people come to Bath every year to admire what it built. United Press makes sure they, and the buyers, investors and customers beyond the city, can find what you have built too, in named national, West Country and lifestyle publications confirmed in writing before any work begins.
Your story, presented to…
A sample of the titles we place Bath businesses in
Guaranteed · confirmed in writing · since 2001
Dear Bath business owner,
You work in one of the most photographed cities in the world. Visitors queue for the Roman Baths, stroll the Royal Crescent and fill the cafés on Milsom Street. They go home with hundreds of pictures. Most of them never learn your name.
It is a strange kind of loneliness, running a brilliant business in a famous place. The city gets the headlines. Your spa, your studio, your practice, your restaurant or your software company quietly does excellent work, and the buyer in London or the customer planning their visit simply doesn’t find you.
We think that should change. For more than twenty years, United Press has helped businesses step out of the background and into the publications people trust. This page shows you exactly how we would do it for you.
With warm regards, the United Press team
To: the customer who
hasn’t found you yet
Anywhere in the UK
& beyond
Postcards fade. Published coverage keeps working. Start with a free media plan and see where your story could appear.
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United Press is a UK PR agency, established in 2001, that places Bath businesses in named publications with guaranteed publication. Clients choose from national titles such as The Times (DA 92, DR 91) and Evening Standard (DA 93, DR 89), West Country papers such as the Somerset County Gazette, Wiltshire Times and Salisbury Journal, business titles including Entrepreneur UK, and lifestyle titles such as Luxury Lifestyle Mag UK. Every placement is confirmed in writing before work begins, most stories go live within a few days to two weeks, and each client receives the live link and a short report.
Bath’s own local outlets, local radio and regional TV decide their own coverage, so we pitch those as earned coverage alongside your guaranteed titles, and we always tell you which is which.
Being based in a famous city should be an advantage. For many owners it feels like the opposite. These are the six problems Bath clients describe to us most often.
People search “Bath” and find the Roman Baths, the Abbey and Jane Austen. Your business is buried beneath centuries of history.
Coverage that ties your name to what you do, not just where you are, so searches for your service find you first.
Tourists love your shop or restaurant, then go home to Leeds, Lyon or Los Angeles and cannot remember what it was called.
Articles they can find again when they search, share with friends or plan their next visit.
Just down the road, a much bigger city attracts most of the regional business and tech attention.
National and business titles that put a Bath firm on the same page as competitors from anywhere in the country.
In a World Heritage city, signage and frontages are carefully controlled. You cannot simply shout louder on the street.
Let publications do the shouting. A feature reaches far more people than any sign on a listed building.
Recommendations built your business, but they only travel as far as your existing customers’ friends.
Independent coverage acts as a recommendation from someone the reader already trusts.
Ask ChatGPT for the best spa, lawyer or agency in Bath and it names the businesses it has read about.
Consistent coverage across titles AI tools read, so you become part of the answer.
Bath is famous for its Georgian doors, and behind each one is a different kind of business with a different reason for wanting coverage. Open the door that looks most like yours.
A new menu, a restored room or a wellness experience, featured in a luxury or lifestyle title.
An expert comment or founder story in a lifestyle title, backed by a local paper.
The maker behind the shop, and why they chose Bath, in a lifestyle title.
Thought leadership on a question your clients are asking, under your name.
A founder profile or funding story in a national business or tech title.
A behind-the-scenes feature on a real celebration (with permission), timed for engagement season.
A head teacher’s view on a national education issue, plus a local story on pupils’ achievements.
The family behind the orchard or dairy, in a Somerset or Wiltshire paper.
Scores shown as DA/DR. Explore more on our restaurant and venue launch PR, health and care PR, fashion PR, education PR and retail PR pages.
When a Bath business fills in our form, we do not reply with a brochure. We reply with a plan that answers five questions, in plain English, so you can decide with confidence.
Visitors planning a trip, locals choosing where to spend a Saturday, buyers in London, investors, graduates or couples planning a wedding. Each audience reads different titles, and the plan starts here.
A clear audience summary and the reason each chosen title reaches it.
Most owners undersell themselves. A restored building, a founder who left London, a first export order or a new treatment can all make excellent stories.
Two or three angles we believe editors will accept, with our recommended lead.
We explain why a lifestyle title may suit a spa better than a national paper, or why a Wiltshire paper may reach more of your customers than you expect.
Named publications with DA, DR, region, labelling and typical go-live time.
Timing can double the value of a story. A hotel feature before the summer, a gift story before the Christmas Market or a founder profile before a funding round.
A suggested timeline built around the dates that matter to you.
Coverage is most valuable when it keeps working: on your website, booking pages, proposals and social channels.
Simple ideas for turning each article into lasting trust.
If guaranteed PR is not the best route for your goal, we will say so. Sometimes a single local story, or earned coverage alone, is the smarter first step.
An honest recommendation, with no obligation and nothing booked until you say yes.
Bath sits where Somerset, Wiltshire and the Cotswolds meet, and your customers live across all three. These neighbouring newspapers can all be secured with guaranteed publication, each shown with its Domain Authority (DA) and Domain Rating (DR).
Bath’s own local papers and websites are not on our guaranteed list, and we will never pretend otherwise. What we can do is pitch your story to them as earned coverage, alongside guaranteed placement in the neighbouring titles above, which reach the towns and villages where many of your customers live.
For many Bath businesses, the most valuable coverage is not local at all. It is a national or lifestyle feature that visitors, buyers and investors find long before they set foot in the city. West Country titles above publish with a discreet note marking partner content, and we will show you exactly how that looks.
Step a few miles outside Bath and you are in some of England’s most productive countryside: Somerset’s dairy herds and cider orchards, the Mendip hills, Wiltshire’s chalk downland and the Cotswold sheep country to the north. Every spring, the Royal Bath & West Show at Shepton Mallet brings that farming world together.
Yet the farms that supply Bath’s restaurants and farm shops rarely get credit for it. A producer with a great story, a farm shop that needs visitors from the city, or an agri-food brand looking for stockists can reach the right readers with the right titles. We think about farming PR in three terraces, from the local valley up to the wider world.
Readers who can drive to your gate this weekend.
Titles read in the country’s great farming areas.
Major agricultural news sites for exporters.
Terrace three lists Australian agricultural news sites, a strong fit for West Country businesses exporting genetics, cider, cheese, machinery or expertise. Independent UK farming trade magazines decide their own coverage, and we pitch them as earned coverage. Scores are DA/DR. See our agriculture PR agency page for more.
A cider or apple juice maker reviving old varieties and supplying Bath’s bars.
A herd that now makes cheese, ice cream or yoghurt sold at the farm gate.
A young farmer taking over the family land with fresh ideas.
Wildflower margins, hedgerows and soil health that readers want to understand.
Prizes and launches at the Royal Bath & West Show or a county show.
The chef–farmer partnerships behind the city’s best menus.
Bath’s calendar is packed with moments that make editors and readers sit up and take notice. Most of our titles go live within one to two weeks, so plan two to three weeks ahead of the moment you want to catch.
SpringMarch to May
SummerJune to August
AutumnSeptember to November
WinterDecember to February
Got a date that matters, such as an opening, a festival stand or a funding round? Tell us on the form and we will build your plan backwards from it.
These are the titles we reach for most often when building a plan for a Bath client. Filter by type, compare authority scores and see the typical time to go live. The full list of 1,679 titles is on our publications we guarantee page.
| Publication | Type | Best for Bath businesses in | DA | DR | Go-live |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Independent | National | Founders, sustainability, social impact | 94 | 91 | ~2 weeks |
| Evening Standard | National | Reaching London buyers, investors and weekenders | 93 | 89 | ~1 week |
| The Times | National | Professional services, premium hotels, leaders | 92 | 91 | 1–2 weeks |
| New Statesman | National | Education, policy and heritage thought leadership | 83 | 84 | 1–2 weeks |
| Entrepreneur (UK) | Business | Start-ups, scale-ups, founder profiles | 92 | 91 | ~1 week |
| Investing.com (UK) | Business | Wealth, fintech and investment stories | 90 | 89 | ~1 week |
| Female First | Lifestyle | Wellness, beauty, books and lifestyle brands | 78 | 72 | 1–3 days |
| ABC Money | Business | SME finance, advice and professional firms | 67 | 73 | 3–5 days |
| The Up Coming | Lifestyle | Restaurants, bars, arts and culture | 65 | 71 | 3–5 days |
| London Loves Business | Business | B2B firms winning London clients | 59 | 72 | 1–2 weeks |
| Tech Round | Tech | Software, games, digital and creative firms | 50 | 76 | 1–2 weeks |
| Luxury Lifestyle Mag UK | Lifestyle | Boutique hotels, spas, weddings, premium brands | 49 | 71 | ~3 days |
| Bournemouth Echo | West Country | South coast customers and visitors | 81 | 75 | 1–2 weeks |
| Oxford Mail | South | Oxfordshire buyers and the M4 corridor | 77 | 76 | 1–2 weeks |
| Daily Echo | South | Southampton and Hampshire | 77 | 74 | 1–2 weeks |
| Swindon Advertiser | West Country | Jobs, engineering and M4 businesses | 70 | 71 | 1–2 weeks |
| Somerset County Gazette | West Country | Somerset customers, food and farming | 61 | 68 | 1–2 weeks |
| Dorset Echo | West Country | Dorset tourism and coastal business | 61 | 70 | 1–2 weeks |
| Salisbury Journal | West Country | South Wiltshire families and firms | 60 | 66 | 1–2 weeks |
| The Weston Mercury | West Country | North Somerset coast and tourism | 59 | 62 | 1–2 weeks |
| Wiltshire Times | West Country | Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge and Bath’s commuter towns | 58 | 58 | 1–2 weeks |
| This Is Wiltshire | West Country | County-wide Wiltshire audiences | 57 | 52 | 1–2 weeks |
| Stroud News and Journal | West Country | Makers, independents and the Five Valleys | 57 | 59 | 1–2 weeks |
| Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | West Country | Cotswold towns and rural businesses | 55 | 57 | 1–2 weeks |
| Cotswold Journal | West Country | Cotswold hospitality and shops | 49 | 42 | 1–2 weeks |
| North Somerset Times | West Country | Clevedon, Portishead and Nailsea | 48 | 49 | 1–2 weeks |
| Hereford Times | Rural | Farming, cider and rural enterprise | 60 | 67 | 1–2 weeks |
| Evesham Journal | Rural | Growers and horticulture in the Vale of Evesham | 52 | 54 | 1–2 weeks |
| Farm Online | Farming | Agri-tech, genetics and livestock exporters | 57 | 68 | 1–2 weeks |
| The Land | Farming | Arable and machinery exporters | 53 | 70 | varies |
| Business Insider | Global | Exporters and international growth | 94 | 92 | 3–5 days |
| Fortune | Global | Leaders and ambitious scale-ups | 92 | 91 | 1–3 days |
DA = Moz Domain Authority, DR = Ahrefs Domain Rating. Scores and timings change over time, and publications keep editorial control. Some titles add a discreet note or partner label, which your plan confirms before you choose.
Like the five arches of a Georgian bridge, every step carries you safely to the other side. You approve every one, and nothing is booked until you say yes.
Fill in the short form. Tell us what you do, who you want to reach and any date that matters. It takes about a minute.
Within 24 hours you receive named titles with DA, DR, go-live times and our honest recommendation.
Our editorial team writes it with you from a short call or notes. You approve every word.
We confirm each title and its go-live window in writing, so you know where and when.
Your story publishes. You get the live link, screenshots and ideas for making it work harder.
Whoever you choose, tick these off first. Our own answers are shown in green, so you can compare like with like.
Want to know more about how we work? Read about United Press, or see our guaranteed press release publication and press release distribution services.
This is an illustration of how a campaign can unfold, not a real client story. It shows how one relaunch can reach visitors, locals and the trade in a single week.
The owners of a small Georgian townhouse hotel send us a few lines: new rooms, a new chef and quiet weekday nights.
A free media plan arrives: one luxury lifestyle title, one national, one West Country paper.
A short call becomes a feature about restoring a listed building for modern guests. The owners approve it.
Each title and go-live window is confirmed in writing.
The fast-publishing lifestyle title goes live, just as couples plan weekend breaks.
The link goes on the website, Instagram, the booking page and the Google Business Profile.
National and regional features follow, building a picture that search engines and AI tools can read.
We never promise bookings or revenue figures. What we promise is named titles, written confirmation and a story told well, in the places your future guests already trust.
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Some of our most effective campaigns are for small, independent businesses. One well-placed story can matter more to a Walcot Street shop than to a national chain.
A new hire, an anniversary, an expert opinion or a customer you helped can all become a story. Momentum matters more than drama.
Many Bath customers are visitors who never read local news. National and lifestyle titles reach them long before they arrive.
With guaranteed publication, many titles go live within days, and most within two weeks of approval.
An advert is you talking about yourself. A published story reads as a publication talking about you, which readers trust more.
The opposite. AI tools build answers from trusted sources, so coverage on established titles helps you appear in them.
In a city full of beautiful frames, give your coverage one too. These are the places we suggest every Bath client uses it.
An “as featured in” strip with mastheads and links, right where first-time visitors decide whether to trust you.
A line of reassurance at the moment a guest or customer is about to commit.
A printed, framed article on the wall is a conversation starter that lasts for years.
Share from your personal and business profiles, and tag the people and partners involved.
Post the story as an update to give local searchers another reason to choose you.
Add coverage to tenders, investor decks and wedding or events brochures as independent proof.
If there is something negative ranking for your name, see our guides to online reputation management, negative news articles, unfair Google reviews and reputation for local businesses.
Wherever you are based, the same named publications, the same written confirmation and the same free media plan apply.
Working across the South West and beyond? See our pages for Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford, Norwich and London.
Visitors used to ask the hotel concierge where to eat, shop or book a treatment. Today many of them ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews instead, and they get two or three names in reply. Everyone else is invisible.
These AI tools build their answers from sources they trust. Your website is one voice; independent publications are others, and they carry more weight. Most of the titles on our Bath shortlist are sites that AI search tools are known to read. When several of them describe you consistently, with your name, your location and what makes you different, you give AI a clear and accurate picture to repeat.
These are the kinds of questions Bath customers and buyers now ask every day:
Read more on how to get mentioned by ChatGPT, the best publications for AI visibility and how coverage supports a Google Knowledge Panel.
Where should I book a relaxing spa break in Bath this weekend?
Bath has several well-regarded options. One boutique spa recently featured in national and lifestyle press is known for…
…and was covered for restoring a Georgian townhouse into treatment rooms.
AI answers draw on trusted, independent sources. Being covered by them helps you become part of the answer.
“United Press built our brand from launch to nationwide recognition. Real media coverage gave new customers the trust they needed — our ROI has been over 100:1, which blows my mind.”
“The team understood our industry and, more importantly, understood the story we needed to tell. Seeing our company featured across relevant publications gave us a much stronger presence when potential customers researched us.”
“United Press helped us turn our company story into something journalists could genuinely engage with. The coverage gave our brand a level of credibility that was difficult to achieve through our own marketing channels.”
Everything Bath business owners ask us before they start. Can’t see your question? Ask it on the form and we will answer it in your media plan.
United Press offers guaranteed publication for Bath businesses in named titles including The Times, Evening Standard, Entrepreneur UK, the Somerset County Gazette, Wiltshire Times and Luxury Lifestyle Mag UK, with placement confirmed in writing before work begins. We have worked in UK PR since 2001.
No. Our editorial team works remotely with clients all over the UK, and most Bath clients never need to meet in person. What matters is understanding your market and the publications your customers read.
All of Bath and North East Somerset, plus Bradford-on-Avon, Frome, Trowbridge, Corsham, Chippenham, Melksham, Wells, Keynsham, Midsomer Norton and the wider Somerset, Wiltshire and Cotswolds area.
Fill in the short form on this page. Within 24 hours you will receive a free media plan with named publications, their DA and DR, go-live times and our recommendation. Nothing is booked until you approve it.
Yes. The plan is free and comes with no obligation. You only go ahead once you are happy with the titles and they are confirmed in writing.
Yes. Many of our clients are independents, family firms, makers, therapists and founders. Lifestyle titles and neighbouring West Country papers are often a sensible first step.
No. Bath’s own local papers and websites are not on our guaranteed list. We pitch strong stories to them as earned coverage, alongside guaranteed titles such as the Wiltshire Times, Somerset County Gazette and national and lifestyle publications.
Titles include the Wiltshire Times, This Is Wiltshire, Swindon Advertiser, Salisbury Journal, Somerset County Gazette, The Weston Mercury, North Somerset Times, Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, Stroud News and Journal, Cotswold Journal, Dorset Echo and Bournemouth Echo.
Domain Authority (from Moz) and Domain Rating (from Ahrefs) are 1–100 scores that estimate a website’s authority with search engines. We show both for every title so you can compare them fairly.
Fast-publishing lifestyle and business titles can go live within one to five days. Most national and West Country titles publish within one to two weeks of approval. Your plan shows the expected timing for each title.
It depends on the publication. Some publish with no label, some add a discreet note and some use a clear partner label. We always tell you which before you choose.
We cannot guarantee broadcast coverage, because stations decide for themselves. We can pitch strong stories as earned coverage alongside your guaranteed titles.
Coverage on trusted titles helps people find you when they search your name, sends interested visitors to your site and strengthens how search engines understand your business. We do not sell links and never promise a particular ranking.
It can help. AI tools build answers from sources they trust, and most titles on our Bath shortlist are ones they are known to read. Consistent, accurate coverage gives them good information about you to repeat.
Yes. Hospitality businesses use lifestyle titles such as Luxury Lifestyle Mag UK and The Up Coming, national titles for visitors from London, and West Country papers for local diners.
Yes. Clinics, studios, therapists and beauty brands use expert commentary and founder stories in titles such as Female First, alongside regional coverage.
Yes. Professional firms use thought leadership in The Times, ABC Money and London Loves Business to be seen as the trusted choice. See our legal PR, financial PR and property PR pages.
Yes. Founders use Entrepreneur UK, Tech Round and Business Insider to build credibility with investors, partners and graduate talent. See our start-up PR page.
Yes. Venues, planners, florists and photographers use lifestyle titles and regional papers to be found early in a couple’s search.
Yes. Farms, cider makers, dairies and food producers use the Somerset County Gazette, Wiltshire Times, Hereford Times and Australian agricultural news sites for exporters. See our agriculture PR page.
Yes. Schools and training providers use comment pieces on national education issues and local stories celebrating pupils and staff.
Yes. We help Bath businesses publish accurate, positive coverage that gives people the full picture. See our crisis PR page.
Not quite. Your article appears as a story on the publication, written in an editorial style and approved by the publisher. Some titles label it as partner content, which we always tell you about in advance.
Our editorial team writes it with you from a short brief or call. You approve every word before it goes to the publication.
Yes. Publications keep editorial control and may edit for style or length, and they will not publish claims that are false or cannot be supported.
Our publishing partners make good-faith efforts to keep articles live for at least 12 months, and most stay online far longer.
The live link, screenshots and a short report, plus ideas for using the coverage on your website, booking pages, social media and Google Business Profile.
For most businesses, two to four articles across different titles over a few months makes a stronger impression than a single feature. We recommend a sensible number for your goal.
We keep every client confidential. Your article appears under the publication’s own brand, and we never name you as a client without your permission.
People, place and change. A founder who chose Bath over London, a listed building brought back to life, a farm supplying the city’s kitchens, a local firm winning work around the world. Local character with a wider angle works best.
Think about everything behind your name. The early mornings before the tourists arrive. The clients who came back year after year. The risks you took to open in one of the most competitive, beautiful cities in the country. The quality you refuse to compromise on.
Right now, the couple planning a weekend away, the buyer in London and the investor reading about the South West are making their choices without you. Not because you are not good enough, but because nobody has told them your story.
Imagine your name in a national masthead, a West Country paper and a lifestyle title this month, and a link you can send whenever someone asks, “Why should I choose you?”
It starts with one short form. Tell us who you are and who you want to reach. Within 24 hours you will have a free Bath media plan with the exact publications, their DA and DR, the timeline and a straight answer on what will work best. Nothing is booked until you say yes.
The city has had its moment in the spotlight. Now it is your turn.