There are 15 public relations firms headquartered in Boston that we could verify against their own website. Every fact below — address, founding year, specialism, client names — is taken from the firm's own site and was checked in August 2026. Where a firm publishes no client list, this page says so rather than filling the gap from somewhere else.
That sounds like a low bar. Almost no Boston agency round-up clears it, including the version of this page we replaced — it carried firms that had closed, firms headquartered in other states, and client names we could not find anywhere except on our own page. We rebuilt it from the websites up and published what we threw out, which is the part most buyers will find useful.
On this page
- Do you actually need a PR firm in Boston?
- The PR firms based in Boston
- Which Boston firm covers which sector
- Who we left out, and why
- The one thing to check before you sign anything
- The Boston outlets a local firm should already know
- How to check any of these firms yourself
- How this page was built
Do you actually need a PR firm in Boston?
Usually not, and it is worth being honest about that before a list of names. Media relations is done by email and phone. A firm in another city can pitch a Boston reporter as effectively as one down the road, and the national trade press that most B2B companies actually want does not care where anyone sits.
Local matters in three situations. If your story is genuinely local — a new facility, a hiring announcement, a local controversy — then relationships with the Boston outlets below are worth paying for. If you are in a regulated or government-adjacent business, local knowledge of who decides what is real value. And if your leadership will only work face to face, that is a legitimate preference and you should buy for it.
Outside those, hire on category experience rather than postcode. A firm that has covered your industry for a decade beats a firm that is nearby.
The PR firms based in Boston
The rest are listed alphabetically. This is not a ranking — nobody can rank agencies they have not worked with, and a numbered list that implies otherwise is the main thing wrong with most guides like this.
BIG FISH PR
- Where they are. 131 Dartmouth Street, 3rd Floor, Boston
- Founded. 1999
- Size. 15+ publicists — one of the few that publishes a number
- What they do. “A leading national PR agency dedicated to helping consumer and enterprise brands build awareness.” Work spans earned media, product launches, executive visibility and thought leadership.
- Clients they publish. Named on their homepage: Ring, Amazon Alexa, Formlabs, ASUS, Arajet.
- Worth knowing. Their headline award claim is 37 Clutch awards. Clutch is a directory, not an awarding body. Their homepage carousel also still contains unreplaced placeholder text.
Their site: bigfishpr.com
Brodeur Partners
- Where they are. 535 Boylston Street, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. A communications agency built around a proprietary relevance framework. Media relations is one of ten practices. Claims the largest higher-education practice in the country and the first dedicated space practice in the US.
- Clients they publish. A client section exists but the names are images, so none could be read.
- Worth knowing. Their homepage claims “Top U.S. & Global Tech PR Agency” with no awarding body named. Treat that as marketing rather than an award.
Their site: brodeur.com
Corporate Ink
- Where they are. No street address published; lists Boston as its location
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “A buyer-centric B2B tech PR and content marketing agency in Boston.”
- Clients they publish. Named in attributed testimonials: Universal Robots, Viking Cloud, Doble Engineering, LeanDNA, Riskonnect.
- Worth knowing. Calls itself award-winning without naming a single awarding body anywhere on the site.
Their site: corporateink.com
Greenough
- Where they are. 225 Franklin Street, Floor 26, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “Brand marketing and communications agency specializing in technology, healthcare, business services and the climate transition.” Public relations is one of four services.
- Clients they publish. Named with attributed testimonials: Ameresco, Boston Micro Fabrication, Acrolinx, IQE, Arbella Insurance, Wolters Kluwer Health, GlobalFoundries.
Their site: greenoughagency.com
LaVoie Strategic Communications Group
- Where they are. 10 Post Office Square, Suite 800, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. Public relations, financial and investor communications, crisis communications and advisory work for health and science organisations.
- Clients they publish. None named — every testimonial is deliberately anonymised, which is normal in regulated sectors.
- Worth knowing. Renamed from LaVoie Health Science; the old domain redirects. Holds Bell Ringer awards from the Publicity Club of New England.
Their site: lavoiegroup.com
Matter Communications
- Where they are. 98 N. Washington Street, Suite 410, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “Award-winning PR supported by high-impact marketing and creative.” Public relations is the lead service of three.
- Clients they publish. Named in case studies: Magnit, Silver Honey, Parsec, Modernizing Medicine, W.F. Young.
- Worth knowing. The firm started in Newburyport and still lists it as an office; the main phone number is still a Newburyport area code.
Their site: matternow.com
PAN Communications
- Where they are. 125 High Street, 2nd Floor, Boston
- Founded. 1995
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “The brand-to-demand agency forged from PR.” Public relations is one of six services alongside content, demand generation and creative.
- Clients they publish. None named on the site.
- Worth knowing. Independent, with offices in five other cities.
Their site: pancommunications.com
Racepoint Global
- Where they are. 75 State Street, Suite 100, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “The earned-first creative agency built for the moment where technology meets the world.” PR leads a set of seven earned-first capabilities.
- Clients they publish. Named on their own site: LG Electronics, Panasonic, MediaTek, Boost Mobile, SiFive, BrightSign, RISC-V.
- Worth knowing. Their awards grid contains an unfinished placeholder row. Ignore it — it is a bug on their site, not an award.
Their site: racepointglobal.com
Rasky Partners
- Where they are. 14 Beacon Street, Suite 401, Boston
- Founded. 1989, as the Rasky Group
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “A public relations, lobbying and public affairs firm”, with teams in Boston and Washington DC.
- Clients they publish. Exact Sciences and Mass Insight, named in their success stories.
- Worth knowing. Several pages on their own site currently return server errors, so some sections are unreadable.
Their site: rasky.com
Regan Communications Group
- Where they are. 106 Union Wharf, Boston
- Founded. 1984
- Size. Over 140 people across 12 offices in 8 states
- What they do. “A full-service public relations and marketing communications firm”, built on media relationships.
- Clients they publish. None named; they cite volume instead, over 400 brands in 40 years.
- Worth knowing. Leadership changed recently — a new president of operations was named. Use the non-www address; the www version does not resolve.
Their site: regancomm.com
SHIFT Communications
- Where they are. No street address published; lists Boston first among four offices
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “An integrated PR and communications agency that drives demand. Most clients come for our media relations.”
- Clients they publish. Named on their own site: Citrix, Storj, Butterfly Network, Wedderspoon, McDonald's, Talkdesk.
- Worth knowing. Not independent. Their own footer states SHIFT is an Avenir Global company and a division of Padilla. Any list describing it as an independent Boston agency is wrong.
Their site: shiftcomm.com
Ten Bridge Communications
- Where they are. One Beacon Street, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “Biotech's communications partner.” Ten years old, exclusively life sciences, and runs a studio arm for new companies.
- Clients they publish. Named: Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, AIRNA, Parabilis Medicines, Archon Biosciences, Edgewise Therapeutics.
Their site: tenbridgecommunications.com
The Castle Group
- Where they are. 38 Third Avenue, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston
- Founded. 1996
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. Public relations, event management, public affairs and crisis communications.
- Clients they publish. Named in testimonials: Boston Public Schools, Boston Arts Academy Foundation, the Office of Governor Maura Healey, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Boston.
- Worth knowing. Women-owned. The only firm on this page whose awards page names the awarding body for every single entry — PR News, Boston Business Journal, Inc., WBENC, Stevie. That is worth something in a category full of unattributed badges.
Their site: thecastlegrp.com
V2 Communications
- Where they are. 500 Harrison Avenue, Suite 401R, Boston
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “Strategic, integrated communications programs that build enterprise value through every stage of growth.”
- Clients they publish. Fervo Energy, named in a case study.
- Worth knowing. States that more than 85% of work comes from repeat clients and referrals.
Their site: v2comms.com
360PR+
- Where they are. No street address published; offices in New York, Boston and Philadelphia
- Size. Not published.
- What they do. “An award-winning agency, consistently recognized for our ability to earn attention for brands.”
- Clients they publish. Named: Trek, Chicco, Nasoya, SunnyD, Vrbo and Bob's Red Mill.
- Worth knowing. The firm does not say which of its three cities is head office.
Their site: 360pr.plus
Which Boston firm covers which sector
Taken from what each firm says it specialises in, in its own words. If your sector is not here, that is useful information too — it usually means the expertise you need is not concentrated in Boston and you should be hiring on category rather than geography.
Who we left out, and why
This is the part no other guide publishes, and it is the part worth reading. Each of these appeared on a Boston list somewhere — including, in several cases, on our own earlier version of this page.
Two patterns are worth naming, because they will show up on whatever other list you read next. The first is geography drift: a firm with an office in the city, or simply a page targeting the city, gets listed as though it were headquartered there. The second is category drift: advertising agencies, web shops and SEO firms get counted as PR firms because they have a communications page.
The one thing to check before you sign anything
If an agency guarantees placement, you are buying advertising and it will be labelled as such. The language varies — guaranteed publication, our network of publications, a price per placement, a verification package — but it means the same thing. Real earned coverage cannot be guaranteed, because the decision belongs to an editor who does not work for your agency.
This matters beyond the money. A paid placement carries a disclosure, search engines treat it differently from editorial, and the AI systems that increasingly summarise companies weight editorial far more heavily than sponsored content. You can pay for it if you want it, but know which one you are buying.
No firm on this page's excluded list was dropped for selling placements — the ones we found in this city do not advertise it. That is not the same as none of them doing it.
It is worth asking any firm you shortlist, in writing: is any coverage you produce for us paid, sponsored or guaranteed?
The Boston outlets a local firm should already know
If a firm is selling you local expertise, these are the names that should come up unprompted. Ask which reporters at each they have placed in the last six months.
How to check any of these firms yourself
The research behind this page took a few hours per city and mostly consisted of opening websites. You can do the same on a shortlist of three in an afternoon.
- Open the client page and check three names against the news. If a listed client was acquired, renamed or shut down, the roster is stale and so is the relationship.
- Look for a date on the case studies. A proof point from five years ago is a proof point about a team that has probably turned over.
- Ask for the last twenty pitches they sent, with the replies. Not the wins — everyone shows the wins. The unanswered ones tell you how they write.
- Ask what proportion of their placements is syndication. One release republished across forty sites is one placement, not forty.
- Ask who does the work. The people in the pitch meeting are frequently not the people on the account.
How this page was built
Candidate firms came from directory listings, local business press and the previous version of this page. Every candidate was then checked against its own website: does the site load, what address does it print, does it describe itself as doing public relations, what does it say it was founded, and which clients does it publish. A firm made the list only if its own site confirmed all of that and put its headquarters in Boston.
Nothing here comes from a directory profile. Directories are useful for finding firms and unreliable for facts about them — they carry headcounts and founding years that firms stopped updating years ago.
This list will go stale. Agencies get acquired, rebrand and close. It was accurate in August 2026; if you are reading it much later, open the links before you rely on them.
If you are shortlisting and want a second opinion — Salient PR is a technology PR agency. We are not based in Boston and we are not on this list. See how we work or start a conversation.
Every firm on this page was checked against its own website in August 2026. Salient PR published this guide and is not ranked in it.
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