1999 founder donna sokolsky burke and chris hempel headquarters san francisco ca usa number of employees 60 website www.sparkpr.com spark public relations is a public relations and integrated marketing communications agency headquartered in san francisco california with offices in new york city . the firm focuses on the technology and consumer markets . 1 history edit spark public relations was founded in 1999 by donna sokolsky burke and chris hempel 2 who started the firm after working at netscape . its early clients were silicon valley start ups and former netscape colleagues . 3 4 2 5 6 it signed one year contracts to help with startup launches and ipos in exchange for equity in the company . it supported va linux s ipo in december 1999 . 3 2 a price comparison website shopping.com s hired spark in 2004 . 7 the following year it began supporting yahoo.com and myyahoo . 8 in 2007 it founded spr europe a london based affiliate for the european market . 9 an office was opened in south africa in 2008 10 and in new york in 2012 . 11 references edit winners of the 2012 bulldog digital social pr awards for outstanding achievement by agencies and individuals in pr and corporate communications pdf . bulldog reporter . january 14 2013 . a b c boutin p. november 1999 lack of flacks wired magazine vol . 7 issue 11 . retrieved 2008 10 23 . a b clarkson b. march 14 2001 . p.r. agents to startups keep quiet . computerworld . retrieved october 23 2009 . . august 16 2003 http nl.newsbank.com nl search we archives p product sj & s site mercurynews & p multi sj & p theme realcities & p action search & p maxdocs 200 & p topdoc 1 & p text direct 0 0fd0789441b1ba81 & p field direct 0 document id & p perpage 10 & p sort ymd date d & s trackval googlepm . missing or empty title help a tiny company without profits goes public with a bang . the new york times . our story . sparkpr . gordon andrew february 2 2004 . sparkpr to deliver shopping.com to a broader audience . prweek . retrieved november 11 2008 . gordon andrew october 13 2004 . yahoo selects spark for front door assignments . prweek . retrieved december 1 2008 . sparkpr expands to london . prweek . july 30 2007 . retrieved november 20 2008 . shah aarti . sparkpr opens south africa office adds clients . prweek . retrieved december 1 2008 . krietsch beth april 26 2012 . sparkpr opens new york office . prweek . retrieved october 29 2013 . external links edit spark public relations official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sparkpr & oldid 743700076 categories public relations companies of the united statescompanies based in san franciscocompanies established in 1999privately held companies based in californiahidden categories pages using duplicate arguments in template callspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view