Public relations focused on media relations and market strategy.
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Firm specializes in providing political, public affairs and public relations counsel to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the public eye.
www.adlerpa.com
Specializing in government relations and professional association management. Located in Sacramento, California.
www.advocal.com
A full service marketing, advertising and public relations firm providing high tech marketing, high tech public relations and advertising services to technology based companies.
www.ahtmg.com
A full service strategic communications and public relations firm focused on the global information technology market and its associations. Offices are located in California, New York, Georgia, Texas Colorado, Massachusetts, and London.
www.alexander-pr.com
Joined forces of Alexander Communications and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, full-service communications provider in technology public relations and public affairs. Locations throughout major cities in US and in London.
www.alexanderogilvy.com
A full-service communications firm offering advertising, graphic design, media buying, direct mail, public relations and web design located in Palm Desert, California.
www.alz.com
Agency providing strategic public relations for Internet service and technology companies.
www.antennapr.com
A communication consultancy firm running campaigns, debates and research. Located in San Francisco.
www.appliedcom.com
Provides strategic online public relations and e-marketing services with an emphasis on community development and management; based in San Francisco, California.
www.arbuthnot.com
Services include: strategic services, media and analyst relations, product launches media training program, writing services and event management. Located in San Mateo, California.
www.arpartners.com
Agency providing marketing communications, graphic design and public relations services.
www.artemia.com
Marketing communications company providing services in public relations, advertising, promotions/special events, and collateral.
www.baileygardiner.com
Agency offers a range of strategic and tactical public relations and marketing communications services including strategic support, media relations, editorial services, integrated marketing services, financial/investor relations, corporate commu...
www.benjamingroup.com
Public relations firm provides business communications and public relations services to companies throughout Southern California.
www.betterpress.com
A public relations firm that uses media outreach, market research and strategic counsel for its clients. Located in San Francisco.
www.binghamgroup.com
Services include marketing and communications integration, public relations, practice development and corporate identity development, branding and positioning. Offices are located in San Francisco and Pennsylvania.
www.broderickassociates.com
Company provides strategic business counsel and public relations services to emerging software and Internet companies targeting the business-to-business market.
www.capstoneusa.com
Partnership offering speechwriting, business writing, press and political representation, and other communications services to an exclusive clientele. Locations in Texas and California.
www.ceocommunications.com
Public relations agency with expertise in government and politics.
www.cerrell.com
A public relations firm specializing in technology & providing print, media placement, product reviews, speaking engagements and speech writing. Located in San Francisco, Santa Monica and New York.
www.connors.com
A boutique new media brokerage and full-service public relation and marketing consultancy firm based in Los Angeles, California.
www.convergenz.com
Providing a place for business, government, public, personal fulfillment in public relations. Offices are located in Richmond, Indianapolis, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Norfolk, Portland.
www.crtpr.com
Provides public relations programs, publicity campaigns, and marketing materials for health, public affairs and not-for-profit organizations. Located in Sonoma, California.
www.cucliscommunications.com
Public relations firm that provides interactive marketing and communications services to the technology sector, mainly Internet.
www.cunningham.com
San Francisco-based full-service public relations agency with expertise in launching Internet startup companies, providing market positioning, media development and industry analyst strategies.
www.daviscomm.com
A high tech media and analyst relations firm providing new product and service positioning; publicity and reviews management; press and analyst tour planning; scheduling and execution; press event planning and management. Located in Los Gatos, ...
www.dovetailpr.com
Specializing in public relations, business and interactive marketing and public affairs. Locations in Atlanta, San Francisco and Washington DC.
www.duffey.com
Asia-focused, e-business marketing and public relations agency (name change from API Communications. Based in Fremont, California.
www.e21corp.com
Public affairs and media relations company specializes in communications consulting for businesses, trade associations, public officials, political parties, and unions. Experienced in media relations, grassroots coalition building, crisis commun...
www.elmets.com
Public relations services for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
www.entrepreneurpr.com
Advertising and public relations agency that provides strategic planning, media, creative, web design and marketing services for consumer and business-to-business customers.
www.estey-hoover.com
Full-service public relations and marketing communications firm.
www.fisherpr.com
Located in San Diego, California, the firm public relations and marketing expertise.
www.gablegroup.com
Global public relations agengy network headquartered in New York, New York, offering public affairs & marketing services; US offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco & Washington D.C.; a subsidiary of Grey Advertising.
www.gcigroup.com
Technical communications company providing specialized writing services to support high-tech public relations programs.
www.haas.com
Agency provides public relations services, financial media relations/investor relations, advertising and marketing services, Internet and multimedia services.
hkamarcom.com
Headquartered in San Jose, California, the firm provides strategic counsel, message development, media relations and analyst, media training, product review programs, presentation development, press kit development writing services, market rese...
www.hoffman.com
Agency catering to music and entertainment-related accounts.
www.hooplapr.com
Full service high technology public relations firm. Headquartered in San Francisco, California.
www.horngroup.com
Interactive PR services firm that provides Internet related companies with consulting and communications programs tuned to the realities of the digital economy.
www.hypelab.net
Full service public relations firm specializing in new media; based in San Francisco.
www.interactive-pr.com
Provider of public relations services including community and government affairs, media relations, Internet services, crisis communications, land-use permitting, advertising and special events.
www.jbainc.com
A full-service agency providing a comprehensive public relations, advertising, and marketing communications services. Based in Los Altos, California.
www.jnpr.com
Public relations counsel specializing in storage companies. Services include strategic marketing planning, competitive information services, presentations and speeches, newsletters and internal publications, conference/event planning and executi...
www.jprcom.com
Full-service public relations agency providing integrated marketing, management consulting, public relations and multicultural market research.
www.kiassociates.com
Full-service high-tech public relations and marketing consultation firm. Serve the audio-video, biomedical, computer hardware, computer software, consumer electronics, electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries.
www.kprinc.com
Full-service marketing, public relations and graphic design firm specializing in the real-estate, construction and design industries.
www.kutchco.com
Mid-sized public relations agency providing strategic counseling and consulting services in consumer public relations for the restaurant, retail, tourism and consumer products industries.
www.laer.com
Full-service, minority-owned and operated advertising and public relations corporation. Specializes in ethnic markets, designing and implementing comprehensive, culturally sensitive campaigns.
www.lagrantcommunications.com
Services include investor and media relations; transaction and marketing communications; and crisis management. Located in San Diego.
www.lambert-edwards.com
Based in San Francisco, activities include: overall communications campaigns, crisis management, strategic public relations, branding and positioning, product and web site launches, analyst tours, media training and facilitating, media relations...
www.landispr.com
Full-service international marketing communications company providing a full range of services in public relations, advertising, and marketing.
www.leavcom.com
Crisis management firm specializing in strategic public relations, crisis management, crisis communications, issues management, media relations and marketing communications.
www.lexiconcommunications.com
Independent consultant offering public relations, writing and creative marketing communications services.
lfm-com.com
Agency providing strategic financial communications such as investor relations programs and financial media relations programs.
www.lhai.com
Provider of strategic public relations and investor relations services to high-tech, telecommunications and ecommerce companies. Regional offices in Austin, Texas and San Francisco.
www.loispaul.com
Strategic communications firm specializing in positioning, messaging, and media coaching for companies of all sizes.
www.lomacommunications.com
Agency specializing in brand development and management through the use of advertising, public relations, graphic design and electronic communications. Locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
www.macyinc.com
Provider of integrated marketing, event planning and public relations services.
www.mav-com.net
Agency providing advertising, design, public relations and Internet marketing services.
www.mcanet.com
A public relations and strategic marketing firm specializing in telecom, IT and ecommerce accounts. Headquartered in San Diego with a news bureau outside Washington DC.
www.mcquerter.com
Providing video and audio production, satellite distribution, press release services, tracking and analysis, and Internet services for corporations, public relations agencies.
www.medialinkworldwide.com
Specializes in brand development, media relations and strategic promotions for new media public relations and online communications; offices in New York, San Francisco and Boston.
www.middleberg.com
Marketing communications, public relations and graphic design firm serving small businesses. Specializing in start-up marketing needs.
www.mmdesignstudio.com
Full service marketing and public relations agency operating in business-to-business and consumer arenas. Offices in Los Angeles, California and New York.
www.mprm.com
International public relations firm headquartered in New York, New York, serving coporate, governmental & institutional clients with US offices & affiliated companies in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose & Washington DC; a unit of ...
www.mslpr.com
Assist companies, products and people achieve success through television, print, radio and the Internet. Based in Santa Monica.
www.murphyobrien.com
Full-service advertising and public relations agency serving clients in the global high tech marketplace; located in Milpitas, California.
www.navajoco.com
A full service of strategic planning, corporate communications, product publicity, cyber public relations, crisis management, financial and investor relations services in information technology, consumer products and healthcare. Offices in Silic...
www.nealemay.com
A full service management, marketing, advertising and public relation firm located in Monterey, California.
www.neubs.com
Public relations agency providing market research, planning and management, creative, media relations, public relations and advocacy, advertising, promotion, corporate identity, fundraising and tracking services.
www.owcom.com
Agency offers PR, identity, media training, facilitation and advocacy services. Offices located in Los Angeles and Washington DC.
www.pacificvisions.com
Boutique public relations firm specializing in publicizing high technology companies. Offices in San Francisco and Honolulu.
pactechcom.com
Provides public and media relation for products and services. Located in San Francisco.
www.paradigmpromotions.com
Public relations and marketing company specializing in emerging and established financial services and technology-based firms, including computer, Internet, biotech and medical companies.
www.pathwaypr.com
Public relations services for technology businesses, offering corporate counseling, media relations and online initiatives. Locations in New York and San Francisco.
www.plesser.com
Provides public relations services through offices worldwide and leading practices in health care, food, consumer and business marketing, and technology. Offices are located in California, New York, Arizona, Washington, Washington DC, Massachuse...
www.porternovelli.com
Provider of strategic marketing communications solutions for public and community relations, media relations, advertising, graphic design and public affairs.
www.prxinc.com
Firm provides public relations, reputation management, litigation communications, marketing communications and public affairs services.
www.rgacorp.com
Provides specialized public relations services to privately and publicly held companies, not-for-profit organizations, public agencies, and professional service providers. Based in Escondido, California.
www.rmdcomm.com
A full service marketing communications agency delivering strategic marketing solutions, public relations programs and market research. Located in San Rafael.
www.rocketscience.com
Public relations and strategic communications firm specializing in high technology.
www.roederj.com
Provides enhanced media services including flash, DVD, CD-R, presentations, Internet strategy, web development and hosting, POP displays, interactive kiosk, advertising signage, corporate identity, promotional products and public relations servi...
www.safehousepromotions.com
Servcies include: advertising, art direction, brand management, brochures and collateral, communications audits, copywriting, direct marketing, event planning, graphic identity, media planning, and placement, multimedia and interactive presenta...
www.saphar.com
Public relations for entrepreneurial companies. Headquartered in Massachusetts with an office in San Francisco.
www.schwartz-pr.com
Information portal providing press release distribution, web site submissions and a web reference library.
www.send2press.com
A public relations firm specializing in consumer technology and Web-based start-ups in San Mateo.
www.sipr.com
Full-service public relations firm with offices in Chicago, Silicon Valley, New York City, Indianapolis and San Diego.
www.sspr.com
Dublin, California full-service marketing communications agency providing advertising, public relation, media, collateral, Web design & ecommerce, packaging, design, market research, brand and corporate identity services.
www.storytellers.com
Services for business development and strategic planning, public relations, advertising, interactive publishing and business printing.
www.svpr.com
Public relations company providing marketing, entertainment, special events, fundraising, Hispanic public relations, website design and interactive marketing services.
www.tagpr.com
Public relations, marketing communications and marketing services to computer software, hardware, networking and Internet companies.
www.technopolis.com
An international public relations consultancy that specializes in the technology industry with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
www.text100.com
Provider of full service marketing services to U.S. clients from coast to coast.
www.thomgrp.com
Advertising and public relations agency specializing in technology, telecommunications and biotechnology.
www.townsendagency.com
A full-service public relations agency that specializes in promoting start-up investment companies in high-technology markets.
www.trainerpr.com
Full-service marketing firm providing services in new business development, branding strategy, corporate communications, customer communications, publicity, public relations and advertising.
www.traversant.com
Full service public relations and marketing firm that creates communications and marketing synergies between media businesses and the media environment; including cable and broadcast television, telecom and online, radio, video, multimedia and p...
www.tryloncommunications.com
A full-service firm utilizing web site analysis, virtual press room development, on-line events, press management and e-zine editorial programs. Located in Campbell.
www.tsantes.com
A national public relation and consulting firm providing strategic communications, crisis management and public affairs information. Based in Tampa, Florida, with offices in San Jose, Atlanta and New York.
www.tuckerhall.com
Services include strategic counsel research, press relations, analyst relations, press tours/launches special events, writing services and press release programs. Based in Emeryville.
www.upstart.com
Based in Los Angeles, the company is a full-service, results-oriented strategic communications firm. Specializing in the new media technology and entertainment industries. Based in California.
www.urgepr.com
Full-service customer relations company providing business-to-business technology companies marketing, sales and public relations services.
www.userinterface.com
A full-service automotive public relations agency specializing in public relations, marketing and motion picture and television product placement. Located in Burbank.
vistagroupusa.com
Marketing and public relations consulting firm providing communication counsel to high-technology companies in the engineering software, semiconductor, computer and electronics industries.
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Net-only public relations company specializing in digital marketing, Internet public relations and strategic technology development. Based in Woodland Hills, California.
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Portland, Oregon-based international strategic public relations agency focusing on technology & consumer technology clients with offices in Washington, California & Germany.
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Full-service public relations and marketing firm providing news release, distribution, copywriting, research and analysis, strategic planning, media buying, event planning, public relations and marketing plan writing services.
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Ageny offers public relations services including publicity, media relations, marketing communications, brochures, product literature and photography and employee communications.
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Guide to PR Agencies in California
California PR firms increase business visibility with creative media solutionsMany businesses employ in-house public relations practitioners, while others hire PR agencies. Your business should hire a California public relations firm if your company relies on consistent media exposure and lacks the resources of a professional PR firm. California PR agencies provide the experience and resources to propel your company’s public image, ultimately making your business more profitable.
Before your business begins the search for reputable California PR agencies, you must prioritize your business goals. Develop a company background packet that briefly outlines the history, mission, stakeholders, market research, special issues and past public relations activities. This information will clarify the scope of your public relations programs, and identify the qualities your business should seek in California PR firms.
When selecting a public relations firm in California, evaluate the following:
1. Do the PR companies in California have experience in your industry?
2. What skills do the California PR agencies offer?
3. How much will my business pay for public relations agencies in California?
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Hire PR companies in California that specialize in your industry
For best results, hire a California PR firm who understands your industry and has established relationships with local and national media contacts relevant to your field. Ask to see a client list, complete with references from past and present clients.
I recommend:
Airfoil Public Relations specializes in Silicon Valley technology companies. Antenna Group, Inc., a San Francisco-based public relations firm focusing on technology companies, provides a list of current clients on its website. Solters & Digney Public Relations Online Marketing boasts more than 50 years experience in entertainment marketing and public relations.
Select PR firms in California with proven writing and pitching skills
Examine the writing and pitching skills of California public relations firms. Ask for writing samples, including press releases and bylined articles, and request a sample media pitch on a topic relevant to your industry. Find out if the PR firm in California offers skills like market research, event planning, in-house design capabilities and crisis management services.
I recommend:
A&R Edelman provides online case studies showcasing public relations programs that helped its clients reach their business goals. Adler Public Affairs offers samples of its collateral materials online, including newsletters, brochures and advertising. Bailey Gardiner, Inc., one of many successful PR firms in southern California, offers an online public relations portfolio. Fisher & Associates, Inc. offers a comprehensive online menu of the firm’s public relations services.
Hire public relations agencies in California that meet your budget
Most PR agencies in California operate on a monthly retainer with a minimum time commitment. The price depends on the scope of the project and the number of people assigned to your account. Some California public relations agencies also offer a project fee for a one-time project or a retainer fee for consulting services.
I recommend:
Get a quote for public relations services from ARTEMIA Communications, Inc. by using the agency’s online inquiry form. Through its market research, business development strategies and implementation, Broderick & Company focuses on the bottom line for each client--generating revenue. If your business is a non-profit organization, ask about pro bono work; Cerrell Associates, Inc. is a California PR agency that provides bono PR services for select non-profit organizations.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide- Evaluate the relationships developed with employees from California PR firms during the selection process. Find out who will be working on your account, and ask to speak with each person prior to signing a contract. You should feel comfortable collaborating with every member of your California PR firm account team.




