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Sparkpr

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Sparkpr is one of the largest independent social media and technology public relations agencies in the world. The agency is headquartered in San Francisco and also maintains offices in New York, London and Cape Town.

Sparkpr was co-founded by Donna Sokolsky Burke and Chris Hempel in 1999 at the height of the Internet explosion in Silicon Valley. Fresh off their corporate careers at Netscape where they helped launch the first browser that gave millions access to the Internet, Donna and Chris were well equipped to create a new economy communications agency.

Sparkpr has specialized practice areas focused on Consumer, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media & Advertising, eCommerce, Enterprise & IT, Financial Services, Gaming, Green Tech, Media & Entertainment, Mobile & Wireless, Music, Open Source, Social Media, Travel and Venture Capital.

In 2010, Sparkpr was ranked by PRWeek as one of the Top 50 US Agencies, was honored as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies for the third year in a row by Inc. Magazine and was recognized as one of the Bay Area’s “Best Places to Work” by The San Francisco Business Times.

The agency has also won numerous awards, including the coveted 2009 TechCrunch ‘Crunchie Award’ for best overall technology public relations agency in the United States.

Since its inception, Sparkpr has been part of large acquisitions and IPOs and has represented technology clients ranging from stealth start-ups to Fortune 500 global public companies.

The agency has provided communications services for numerous companies including: Alien Technology, Azure Capital Partners, Barclaycard US, Blinkx, Crosslink Capital, Darkstrand, Dash Navigation, DCM, Driverside, Electronic Arts, epinions, Farecast (now Bing), Flickr, FON, Fonality, Ideeli, Index Ventures, INQ, LiveJournal, Mindjet, MOO, Mozilla, MySpace, NEC, NVIDIA, Openads, Playfish, Rebtel, Recurve, Skydeck, Skype, Slingshot Labs, Shopping.com, Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable), Spore, Sungevity, Tellme Networks, Terabitz, The Economist, Trolltech (Nokia), Viagogo, Virgin Green Fund, Webook, WooMe, Yahoo!, YouMail, and Zend.

Milestones

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  Sparkpr added Alan Soucy as CEO. (10/1/06)
  Posted 4/29/10 at 4:53pm
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  Sparkpr added Donna Sokolsky Burke as Co-Founder / Senior Managing Director. (8/1/98)
  Posted 1/5/10 at 12:01pm
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  Sparkpr — Ranked #1 largest privately held communications agency in San Francisco (1/1/10)
  Posted 2/12/11 at 12:08pm via odwyerpr.com
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  Sparkpr — Ranked #6 Largest Independent Technology PR Firm Worldwide (1/1/10)
  Posted 2/12/11 at 12:08pm via odwyerpr.com
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  Sparkpr — Winning Workplaces and Inc. Magazine 'Top Small Company Workplaces', Finalist (1/15/11)
  Posted 2/12/11 at 12:08pm via winningworkplaces.org
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  Sparkpr — PRWeek 'Small Agency of the Year', Top 5 Finalist (12/15/10)
  Posted 2/12/11 at 12:08pm via prweekus.com
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  Sparkpr — 'Best Places to Work' in the Bay Area 2010 Winner (4/28/10)
  Posted 1/22/10 at 5:41pm via bizjournals.com
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  Sparkpr — Co-Founder, Donna Sokolsky Burke, named one of PR Week's 40 Under 40 in 2008 (12/8/08)
  Posted 1/5/10 at 12:21pm via prweekus.com
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  Sparkpr — Named #1 Mid-Sized Tech Agency (1/1/09)
  Posted 1/5/10 at 12:19pm via prsourcecode.com

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Above: Sparkpr Website
Uploaded: 2/14/11

Above: Sparkpr Benefits
Uploaded: 2/17/11

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Sources

1. PRSourcecode press release (prsourcecode.com) [edit]
2. PRWeek (prweekus.com) [edit]
3. Celebrate the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area (bizjournals.com) [edit]
4. PRWeek (prweekus.com) [edit]
5. Winning Workplaces (winningworkplaces.org) [edit]
6. O’Dwyer’s Annual Rankings (odwyerpr.com) [edit]
7. O’Dwyer’s Annual Rankings (odwyerpr.com) [edit]