On July 24, 2007, PRSourceCode announced the results of its second annual "Top Tech Communicators" study, which surveyed more than 300 IT journalists in order to identify the top five large, mid-sized and small PR agencies serving the IT industry, as well as the top 15 corporate PR departments. Here are the big winners:
Large Agencies:
1. Weber Shandwick*
2. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide*
3. O'Keeffe & Company*
4. Bite Communications
5. Schwartz Communications
Mid-sized Agencies:
1. Horn Group*
2. Sterling Communications
3. VOCE Communications
4. Calysto Communications
5. OutCast Communications*
Small Agencies:
1. LaunchSquad*
2. Amendola Communications
3. Tech Image
4. Springboard Public Relations
5. JPR Communications
Top Corporate PR Departments:
1. IBM
2. Sun Microsystems
3. HP
4. Microsoft
5. Ingram Micro
6. EMC
7. Accenture
8. Cisco Systems
9. Symantec
10. Lenovo
*These firms have been ranked as "best of the best" for the second consecutive year.
Source: PRSourceCode "Top Tech Communicators" study