No matter how innovative your company or startup is, it takes a lot to get your brand to stand out in a market as saturated as San Francisco. 

But it’s not impossible–especially if you partner with one of the top PR firms. 

To help you find the best PR agency for your business, we’ve put together a list of the best firms in San Francisco. Whether you’re looking for a B2B tech PR firm to help you land media coverage for a funding round, or a consumer PR firm to get your product in the hands of influencers, these are some of the best PR firms to work with in the Bay Area. 

Non-Profit

Mission  Minded

Mission Minded is a branding and communications firm that works solely with non-profits. With a promise to “Amplify the Good,” Mission Minded builds their clients’ brands and works hand in hand with them to elevate their PR strategy. Mission Minded provides an array of services such as brand strategy, visual identity and logo design, and fundraising campaign communications. 

Technology Startups

Swyft

Swyft is a top San Francisco PR firm that specializes in helping B2B tech startups accelerate growth and generate qualified leads. Swyft provides an integrated approach to building brand awareness by creating “disruptive strategies” that allow clients to stand out in the increasingly crowded tech field. Swyft also offers services outside of PR, such as web design, content marketing, email marketing, and consulting. Based in Austin, Swyft operates satellite offices in San Francisco, Denver, and Houston. 

General PR

Demonstrate:

Demonstrate is a full-service brand communications agency. The firm believes in the interconnection of brand awareness and growing influence and operates under the belief that to stand out in a niche sector, companies need to play a role in the culture. To do that, Demonstrate offers services such as communications strategy, media buying, content production, and events. 

Upraise:

A full-service agency with insight into various sectors, Upraise works with its clients to make a personalized PR strategy by providing services such as digital marketing and content creation. 

InkHouse:

InkHouse is a PR agency that works beyond the traditional means of PR. By integrating traditional PR with current digital marketing strategies, InkHouse helps build brands that can thrive in the modern world. The agency works with companies across many sectors such as climate tech, real estate, and education, and provides a wide variety of services necessary to develop and execute a PR strategy such as metric measurements, corporate responsibility, and brand amplification.

Launchsquad:

LaunchSquad is a PR agency with over 20 years of PR expertise that handles both consumer and B2B clients. Taking a holistic approach to PR, LaunchSquad has teams across four offices that specialize in different aspects of PR including content creation, video production, and analytics.

B2B

Hunter and Bard

An account-based marketing firm with a focus on B2B companies, Hunter and Bard specializes in long term sales goals–over $100K, to be specific. Hunter and Bard uses a content and design-driven model and offers services that include UX/UI design, content development, and influencer outreach. 

Consumer

Konnect Agency:

Konnect Agency is a fully integrated lifestyle PR agency with a focus on the consumer industry, and many of their clients being food and beverage brands. The agency uses a targeted approach that’s tailored to each client by using a mixture of traditional marketing, digital marketing, and PR strategy development.

Magnum PR:

Magnum PR is a full-service PR firm that specializes in the food and beverage sector. Priding themselves on their holistic approach and extensive network with top food and beverage media, Magnum PR’s services include media relations, branding, and events.

Challenger Brands

Gumas:

Gumas focuses its services on helping challenger brands–brands that are neither market leaders or niche brands–stand out in competitive markets. The fully integrated brand marketing agency offers services such as brand development, web development, SEO strategy, and public relations. Using these strategies, Gumas helps companies generate greater results in existing markets.

About Avalon Funk: Avalon is a Marketing Research Analyst at Swyft, which has been listed as one of the best PR firms in Austin and Houston and a top digital marketing agency in Denver since its founding in 2011. Swyft recently opened a satellite offices where it offers PR in San Francisco.