Sticky Toffee PR - London

James G.

I would also give 0/5 stars if possible. I paid £750 for a radio plugger who made x amount of claims of working with various different artists and generating great things for them, however, failed to do what was asked of him and actually ruined a prime opportunity to secure regional airplay by failing to follow instructions.

Great to communicate when money was about to be transferred, the second they got my money, were incredibly difficult to communicate with and did nothing at all to justify what was paid.

Agree with other comments, verges on being a scam company. Avoid at all costs!

K W.

Paid £500 and was promised a six week campaign, received very little communication from anyone. Eventually received a Radio Plugger excel list of who my track had been sent to, usually a document like this includes DJs comments - this document did not. After complaining to Sticky PR, they said that instead of refunding me, they would start a new campaign for 6 weeks, I was unhappy with this also - as I never heard from them. They eventually stopped replying. Please avoid at all costs! Complete scam!

Paul B.

I hired Sticky Toffee to plug my single release to blogs and specialist radio, they did a sterling job with keeping me updated and securing coverage for the release. Only disappointment was the campaign length (from my experiences campaigns like this run for 8-10 weeks whereas my campaign only covered 6 weeks of plugging), but the results were very solid regardless. Would def recommend.

Sohodolls Y.

This was the worst 'PR company' and person I have ever dealt with in my 10 years in the music industry.

My company employed Ross Dorrance and his 'team': Alex Lowe & Semper Azeez-Harris, earlier this year ,spring 2014 for a 6 week single campaign for one of our artists. He was very available and friendly via email and phone as we negotiated his fee and the campaign details: £600 for a 6 week campaign.

As soon as this was paid it all went horribly wrong. First, the press release came back with basic grammar mistakes; sentences that rambled on with no point or punctuation and which simply didn't make ANY SENSE.. and hadn't taken into account much of what we outlined were crucial sound bites for our artist. Ross had given this particular job to what I'm assuming is a junior in his 'team' by the name of 'Semper Azeez-Harris'. My artist being influenced by K-pop and J-pop, they thought it appropriate to just shorten and combine these distinct genres to 'oriental pop' - pretty offensive and shows how little they researched the artist they'd just taken on. When I asked why the specific reference to 'Die Antwoord' was omitted, I got this reply 'Oh, sorry, it's cos I've never heard of that act'. Really?!

After frantically and finally getting hold of Ross Dorrance whom I believed was to be solely running the campaign, he got involved with the press release and re-wrote a decent press release that was usable.

That was the last time I ever spoke to him as he NEVER returned any other phone-calls. THEY DID NOT GET US ONE SINGLE REVIEW OR ARTICLE IN ANY MUSIC BLOG OR PRINT. I kept asking for weekly press reports as the weeks went by and after a lot of emailing and un-returned phone-calls I got one or two. On investigating these I realised they had just plonked our entire press release on some 'PR sharing' site - so no actual press.

We had agreed to use the as-yet-unreleased music video and the behind-the-scenes video as PR tools to tempt music websites into featuring or interviewing our artist. That way a music website is more likely to feature your artist - if they have an 'exclusive' of some sort. Sticky Toffee then very cleverly plonk our ENTRIE press release - secret video links and all - on this public PR sharing site! My artist's fans therefore could get hold of the video without her announcing it. The videos, our precious 'exclusive PR tools' had basically been leaked through Ross Dorrance and Sticky Toffee PR via this PR sharing site. Pretty dumb.

By the 2nd or 3rd week in I realised I needed to employ someone else to get some press for our artist. I found a PR student in the USA who got us 3 or 4 really great pieces - reviews as well as actual interviews on some pretty well known music sites. She was less than 1/3 the price. Email me for the recommendation. She is fantastic and won't let you down.

Back to Ross Dorrance and his team (Semper Azeez-Harris and Alex Lowe).. Despite having a great music video (which has now garnered almost 80k views no thanks to them obviously) and a 'behind the scenes' documentary to work with they didn't achieve a single review, feature or interview neither online nor in print. The two weeks prior to the end of the campaign is when Ross Dorrance totally disappeared - none of my phone calls were answered, or returned, and they all disappeared from email. ALL THREE OF THEM. No replies - no end of campaign progress report. NOTHING.

Sticky Toffee PR is a con and we are taking them to the small claims court. Steer well clear of this joker's con-artist 'company' if you take your music career seriously and if you don't want to deal with grammatically-challenged thieves.

M. Doll

PS Sticky Toffee had what I thought was a London business address - but after some digging I realised it's just a PO Box thing so, there's no actual office in London. Smoke and mirrors all the way.

UPDATE - TO THE SCAM 'PR' THAT IS STICKY TOFFEE - 11 AUGUST 2015

Since posting this honest review of the rip off merchants, I have been contacted by 3 more artists who have had the same experience. Avoid!

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Paul W.

would give 0 stars if possible. Promised radio plugging to playlist managers using contacts in the industry. Speculatively emailing any and every tiny radio station on earth isn't radio plugging. Lied about coverage by the BBC as achieved through plugging. BBC said this was "absolute crap". didn't manage to acquire one single piece of online coverage for a very commercial pop track in four weeks. Ridiculous company. Verges on being a scam. Avoid at all costs.

Michael W.

Can't reply to your response so I'll have to do it here. Dealt with Ross Dorrance. Was promised a UK radio pitching campaign and paid almost $1000 CAD for him to send emails to people from the BBC. Got absolutely nothing out of it and was left with no response after I asked about partial or full refund. Was basically scammed out of my savings.

Hity Z. L.

The aggressive/confrontational replies from the company owner to the genuine Reviews left here just speak for themselves, really.

[EDIT: This is gonna be fun - I can't respond, so I'll just carry on editing this comment.]

Answering the question - another confrontational one, mind you - from the "Owner", posted over a year after my review; this should tell you how much control and interest they have in the business by the way:

I used to be directly involved with Sticky Toffee PR years and years, ago so seen the absolute mess and complete fraud this company is from the inside. Don't let the socially engineered replies fool you though, majority (if not all) of those reviews are genuine and it's coming from someone who's been with them for a few weeks then just left because they didn't want their name tarnished by questionable practices to say the very least.

Tommy D.

I used Sticky Toffee PR to promote my debut single.. they arranged my first ever pieces of blog / magazine coverage and also helped to secure a partnership deal with a major UK charity as part of the campaign. Will use them again 100%.