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Agency Outreach — Shortlist & Findings

Researched 2026-07-21. 24 agencies, 4 lanes. Every email below was found on a fetched page, then independently re-verified by a second agent against the cited URL. Two claimed addresses failed verification and were removed. Nothing here is pattern-guessed.

Data: contacts.csv (100 verified emails, outreach-ready) · agencies.csv (24 full records)


The headline number

15 of 24 are "difficult". The major talent agencies — WME, CAA, UTA, Klutch, IMG, Roc Nation — publish no partnerships or new-business route at all. WME's contact page offers general enquiries, press, office phone numbers and a careers portal. That is the whole surface. These are not approachable cold, by anyone, without an existing relationship or a budget.

The reachable end of the list is boutiques, UK shops, and the campaign/movement lane.


Top 5, in outreach order

1. Billion Dollar Boy — mail@billiondollarboy.com · UK · medium

The closest precedent of anyone on the list. BDB built what it describes as the world's first global influencer network to tackle the COVID-19 "infodemic" — a pro bono partnership with the IFRC (Red Cross / Red Crescent), May 2020, 30+ influencers across four continents, 2m+ combined reach. A humanitarian body with no budget got a global creator network out of them. That is precisely your ask, and it is their own published case study.

Caveat: revenue comes from Diageo, Unilever, L'Oréal, Estée Lauder. Pro bono is the exception.

2. Purpose — weare@purpose.com / london@purpose.com · easy

Public Benefit Corporation, certified B Corp, and impact is the entire business model rather than a practice area. Ran UN "Verified", a global anti-disinformation programme with the UN, IKEA Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Offices in London, New York, Paris, New Delhi, São Paulo, Nairobi, Jakarta — each with its own published address.

Caveat: acquired by Capgemini in Feb 2020 and now sits inside Capgemini Invent. Consultancy gravity, consultancy rates.

3. Forward Action — hello@forwardaction.uk · UK · easy

Works exclusively with progressive causes, states decisions are driven by impact rather than profit, names climate, inequality and human rights as focus areas.

Caveat, and it matters here: strong association with Labour-side and progressive campaigning. Your quiz opens on PR precisely because it unites Reform and Green voters. A partisan-coded partner undercuts that cross-party framing on question one. Great for execution, risky for positioning.

Note the domain: forwardaction.uk. The .org.uk in your brief does not resolve.

4. Octagon — newbusiness@octagon.com · medium

Represents 900+ sports and entertainment figures, and runs No2ndPlace, a dedicated unit for "the power of sport to drive social change" (launched April 2022, works with not-for-profits). A named senior contact is published: alex.rozis@octagon.com. talentrep@octagon.com reaches the talent side directly.

Caveat: parent IPG was absorbed by Omnicom in 2025 — ownership churn.

5. Whalar / Sixteenth — hello@whalar.com + hello@sixteenth.com · medium

The Change Collective (purpose-led creator marketplace, pro bono Earth Day climate campaign, 60+ creators) and the Ad Council "Creators for Good" ambassador programme.

Best single named lead on the whole list: Sixteenth's public roster includes Jade Bowler (@unjadedjade) — climate and ethical-living content. Naming one creator is far more actionable for a manager than an open call for "creators who care."

Caveat: both programmes date to 2020 and 2023 and neither appears currently promoted. Ask whether they are still live rather than assuming.


Also worth a look

Storm Managementtalentenquiries@stormmanagement.com, plus a named senior contact simon@stormmanagement.com. Certified B Corp with a published sustainability and ethical practice statement — genuinely rare for a modelling agency, and the only one of the six modelling agencies with any institutional values hook. Models 1, Premier, Elite and Select have none; any yes from those comes from an individual model's own conviction, not the agency.

Bully Pulpit Internationalhello@bpigroup.com. Acquired Propper Daley (culture-first impact agency) in March 2025; entertainment-philanthropy practice continues as Propper Daley BPI.


⚠️ Do not approach: THE·TEAM (formerly Wasserman)

The agency is in a distressed sale. Founder Casey Wasserman put it up for sale in February 2026 following his appearance in the Epstein files. For a project whose pitch is peace, ethics and democratic renewal, this is an association to avoid entirely right now — independent of the agency's own merits. Revisit after the sale resolves under new ownership.


Corrections to the original brief

Five of the leads in the source list were wrong. Worth knowing before anyone emails into a void:

In the brief Reality
sixteenth.co sixteenth.com
disrupt.co / "we are disrupt" Wrong companies. Real entity is Disrupt Marketing, hello@disruptmarketing.co
klutchsports.com Dead — refuses HTTPS. Klutch now sits under UTA at unitedtalent.com/klutch
forwardaction.org.uk Does not resolve. Correct: forwardaction.uk
CAA Sports Name collision — caasports.com is the Coastal Athletic Association, an NCAA conference in Virginia. Unrelated.

Gleam Futures is dissolved (company 08135577, struck off 12 October 2024). Remove it from any list.


On verification

Two claimed addresses were removed for failing re-verification — one for CAA Sports, one for Roc Nation. Separately, the UTA researcher found info@unitedtalent.com circulating widely on third-party aggregator sites, could not confirm it on any UTA page, and deliberately excluded it.

That address will keep showing up if you search manually. It is not verified. Don't use it.


Sequencing

Still the same as the earlier note, and none of this research changes it: the video isn't posted yet. Every approach route above assumes you can point at something. Get it on YouTube first, then these emails have a subject line. Before that, the strongest of them is a cold pitch with nothing attached — which is what the difficult 15 are structurally built to filter out.