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Survey Says: PR People Love Our No-Embargo Policy

TechCrunch  May 04 09

The PR industry never ceases to amaze me. Despite the fact that we stopped honoring most embargoes back in December, 2008 and sent out a very public memo about it, we still get flooded with unsolicited emails and press releases requesting that we publish the information contained in them only after a certain date. When we decided to stop playing the whole embargo game, we fully expected a backlash from the PR industry. And, to be honest, we do sometimes have to hustle a little more to get a story or get bypassed entirely for massive launches that everyone else is covering anyway. But according to a survey of 246 tech PR pros conducted by PRSourceCode, TechCrunch is still the No 1 tech blog they target when trying to get coverage for their clients. Full story...

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