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PR Agencies: Needs, Strategy and Software to Manage Your Clients (2026)

By Adélaïde Renie, co-founder of PRismeUpdated

14 days PRisme flags a journalist contacted recently, across all your clients. (PRisme double-pitch alert)

A PR agency sells relationships: its knowledge of journalists, its sense of the angle, its ability to get coverage for clients. But in every agency we interviewed, the same problem came up: no memory of who said no. A consultant leaves, and their relationships leave with them. Lists move from one tool to another. Client reports are rebuilt by hand, every month.

Your needs

  • Manage several clients without mixing contacts, campaigns and histories.
  • Keep relationship memory despite staff turnover: who knows which journalist, which client they’ve written about, what they answered.
  • Avoid double pitching: the same journalist contacted the same week for two of the agency’s clients.
  • Prove your value to clients with clear reports.
  • Stay profitable: less time on repetitive tasks, more on advice.

The strategy to adopt

  1. One profile per journalist, shared by the whole agency, with every exchange across all clients.
  2. One workspace per client: lists, campaigns, press releases and results in one place.
  3. Per-client exclusions: a journalist can decline one client’s stories and still be interested in another’s.
  4. Results-focused reports: coverage in target media, message pull-through, traffic, rather than advertising value equivalents, which the industry has abandoned (Barcelona Principles 4.0).
  5. Targeted pitches: 88% of journalists immediately delete a pitch that misses their beat (Muck Rack, 2026).

Mistakes to avoid

  • One spreadsheet per client, and nobody with the full picture.
  • Exporting lists from one tool to send from another, and losing tracking.
  • Using a sales CRM (built to sell) to manage relationships with journalists.

Why PRisme is built for agencies

PRisme screenshot. One campaign per client: for each recipient, PRisme shows what to know before writing, such as an upcoming special issue.
One campaign per client: for each recipient, PRisme shows what to know before writing, such as an upcoming special issue. PRisme interface (in French), demo data.
  • One workspace per client, and a CRM shared by the whole agency: each journalist’s history stays, even when a consultant leaves.
  • An alert when a journalist is already being pitched for another client, or was contacted in the last 14 days. PRisme also suggests which consultant should own the campaign, based on who already knows the journalists.
  • An exhaustive database in France: 30,000+ verified press contacts, with their latest articles. Don’t miss a single journalist who’s an expert on your client’s topic.
  • AI-generated press releases in each client’s tone and format, then a personalized pitch for each journalist.
  • A report for every campaign: who was pitched, followed up, replied, published. Media monitoring linked to each campaign is coming soon, along with AI agents that will automate the process end to end.
  • Team at €399/month (3 seats, up to 10 client workspaces) for small agencies, Enterprise on request for established ones.

PRisme is in early access. Book a demo to equip your agency.

FAQ

What software should a PR agency use?

A multi-client tool that brings together the journalist database, campaigns and a shared CRM, with per-client exclusions and reports. That’s what PRisme offers.

How does an agency keep the memory of its media relationships?

By logging every exchange in a shared tool, the same day, instead of in personal inboxes.

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