PR and Communications in Latvia
Riga is the Baltic region’s largest city and its most significant financial and logistics hub, home to a concentration of banking, life sciences, and engineering companies that serve markets across Northern Europe. Latvia’s media landscape operates across Latvian and Russian-language channels, requiring a team with genuine capability in both. Vita brings over two decades of Baltic communications experience and a research-first approach to campaign design, built in part through her academic work and training at UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change, ensuring international brands reach Latvian audiences with messages grounded in how those audiences actually think and decide.
Your contact for Latvia
Vita Savicka has spent more than twenty years running communications across the Baltic markets, and she goes about it differently from most. A lecturer at Riga Stradiņš University and a PhD candidate in communication, she trained in behaviour change at University College London’s Centre for Behaviour Change, and she remains one of the few people in the region who build campaigns around it. She was once press secretary to Latvia’s president, which is where the instinct for high-stakes, fast-moving communications comes from.
Her work starts with research into how a specific audience actually behaves, then designs the campaign around shifting that behaviour rather than simply pushing out a message. This is not theory: in one public-health programme her approach lifted take-up of a national screening scheme by as much as 288%. The same method applies whether a client is launching a product, moving public opinion or protecting a reputation.
The method is not tied to one sector. Whether a technology company is entering Lithuania, an energy or cleantech business is making its case in Latvia, or an industrial brand is defending its standing in Estonia, the starting question is the same: what does this audience already believe, and what will actually shift it. From there it turns into practical work: media relations with the journalists and trade titles that genuinely count in each country, content that reads as though it was written locally because it was, and campaigns run in the right language for the right market rather than translated in from outside.
She does not work alone. A team that operates across all three countries handles the day to day, from media relations to larger campaigns, so a brief that spans Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius is run by people who live in those markets rather than managed from a distance.
For a company moving into the Baltics, or already there and wanting sharper communications, Vita is the single point of contact, with local judgement on the ground and the GlobalCom PR Network behind it.