SourceCode Named Top Place to Work by Ragan Communications
We’re thrilled to share that SourceCode was recently named as one of Ragan Communications’ top places to work in its Small Organization category for 2021. This latest award comes on the heels of the agency recognitions from Observer and PRWeek, further illustrating our team's hard work, dedication, and drive to making SourceCode a workplace to be proud of.
Ragan commends our agency’s commitment to work-life balance support, highlighting The SourceCode Strong program, which includes“Nope Days,” a 37-hour workweek, wellness stipends, and much more.
Built on the foundation of being a people-first organization, our team-player mindsets really come to life when it comes to our culture. Being recognized as a top place to work in the industry is a sincere honor and we couldn’t be prouder of our team for another incredible year. It’s no small feat!
If you’re interested in learning more about joining the team, check out our careers page!
SourceCode Named to Observer’s 2022 Best US PR Firms
We’re extremely excited to announce that SourceCode has been named to Observer’s 2022 Best US PR Firms. The annual ranking lists the top 50 outstanding PR agencies across the country, this year highlighting shops that overcame the adversity brought to them with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coming in at number 28 on the list, Observer illustrates SourceCode’s growth since our very own Becky Honeyman and Greg Mondsehin started this little two-person shop back in 2017. Four years later, we’ve grown to a 40+ person agency, acquired our first digital agency in Strike2, expanded our talents with the creation of WeRaise, and implemented fantastic new HR policies focused on creating a sustainable, engaging environment for our employees.
We’re incredibly honored and humbled to be included in this illustrious group, and we share our congratulations to the other agencies featured alongside us. To learn more about SourceCode Communications, please drop us a line at hello@sourcecodecomms.com, or if you’re interested in joining the team, check out our career page!
SourceCode Communications Expands Workplace Engagement Client Roster
NEW YORK— February 2, 2022—SourceCode Communications, today announced that it has been selected as the agency of record for two workplace engagement organizations spanning compliance training and diversity hiring initiatives. Traliant, an innovator in online compliance training and Mathison, the first scalable technology platform for diversity hiring, join SourceCode’s growing Insights & Engagements practice, a group of clients using emerging technologies to better understand and deliver seamless customer and employee experiences.
“At SourceCode, we are intentionally focused on ensuring our agency represents the world around us, that we’re an inclusive place to work and we foster a community of collaboration,” said Kristen Stippich, Executive Vice President of SourceCode Client Services. “So it’s been a privilege to work with like-minded companies like Traliant and Mathison that are using technology to help companies of all sizes, across all industries, achieve the same goals.”
California-based Traliant partners with the world’s leading organizations to deliver online compliance training that helps foster safe, ethical and inclusive workplace cultures. Its modern approach to eLearning is designed to motivate positive behavior through realistic video scenarios and up-to-date content that is interactive, easy to customize and connects with today’s mobile workforce. To date, Traliant has helped more than 8,000 organizations address important workplace conduct and culture topics, such as preventing discrimination and harassment and improving diversity, equity and inclusion. Since June, SourceCode has been tasked with building brand recognition, while also developing thought leadership platforms for several of Traliant’s C-suite executives.
"We started working with SourceCode just a few months ago and have been really pleased with the results and working relationship,” said Carole Walters, Traliant’s Director of Content Marketing. “SourceCode has been instrumental in helping to establish thought leadership in key media outlets for several of our executives, including our new CEO, VP of Content and Product Management and VP of HR. I'm excited to see where this partnership takes us in 2022."
Mathison, with offices around the US, is the leading platform for diversity hiring and analytics. Their system combines real-time DEI analytics with a suite of team-based technology to give employers a continuous way to uncover their diversity gaps, source underrepresented candidates, reduce bias in the hiring process and mobilize their entire team with DEI tools and training. Mathison is leveraged by some of the most well known employers globally from HelloFresh and Sonos to Accenture and BMS.
A Mathison client for more than a year, SourceCode became its PR agency of record in October supporting brand and executive visibility.
“SourceCode’s passion and commitment to furthering DE&I within its own organization and the PR & marketing industry overall with efforts like its Diversity Marketing Consortium made selecting it as our agency of record a natural next step,” said Arthur Woods, co-founder of Mathison. “We are thrilled to apply their dedication to DE&I initiatives to further our own brand awareness efforts to raise visibility of our services with HR managers, C-suite executives and beyond.”
Consistently honored as a best place to work in public relations, SourceCode Communications has become a leading player in the technology PR scene, most recently being named as one of the Fastest Growing Agencies for second consecutive year by Adweek and appearing in PRNEWS’ Agency Elite Top 100 List for the second year in a row. SourceCode also recently expanded its offerings with the acquisition of integrated creative agency, Strike2, to further support clients with a whole new set of skills, including advertising and creative capabilities as well as integrated campaign development, expanding the agency’s new digital strategy practice.
For more information, visit www.sourcecodecommunications.com.
SourceCode Communications Shortlisted for PRWeek’s 2022 US Awards under the Small Agency of the Year category
We’re thrilled to share that we have been named as a finalist for this year’s PRWeek US Awards under the Outstanding Small Agency of the Year category. In its 23rd year, the PRWeek Awards are the communications industry’s highest accolade. We are honored to be included knowing that these awards are a symbol of excellence and leadership in our industry.
Four years ago, we were shortlisted for a Micro-Marketing campaign, SourceCode’s first award, that we ended up winning just a few months later. At that time, the SourceCode team was only two people, our Co-Founders. Fast forward two years, our team had grown to 22 people, and we were excited to not only get shortlisted, but then go onto win Outstanding Boutique Agency at the PRWeek 2020 US Awards.
Today, we're 40 employees strong and could not be more humbled to be shortlisted for Small Agency of the Year by PRWeek. A big congratulations to this year’s finalists. We cannot wait to celebrate our industry peers at the awards dinner next year.
For more information on the awards, check out: https://www.prweekawardsus.com/. For more information about SourceCode Communications, please drop us a line at hello@sourcecodecomms.com.
SourceCode Communications Broadens Workplace Experience Portfolio with Addition of Legion to Client Roster
NEW YORK—November 10, 2021—SourceCode Communications today announced that it has been selected as the communications agency of record for Legion, whose mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs with an AI-powered workforce management platform that optimizes labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Through this partnership, which started in Q1 of this year, SourceCode is proud to continue expanding its PR capabilities in the workplace management space.
“It’s never been more apparent than now how important it is to ensure employees are supported in the workplace, especially considering the difficult year we’ve all had across the board,” said Sara Ajemian, Senior Vice President of SourceCode’s Insights & Engagement practice. “Legion is a pioneer in an often overlooked workforce – hourly workers – and we feel proud to work with a company helping employees feel empowered and celebrated in the workplace, which is something that is also integral to our operations here at SourceCode. We are honored to be able to work with them to tell their stories.”
Legion helps employers to best deliver value to their employees and optimize labor efficiency through its AI-powered workforce management platform. With a goal of improving hourly jobs and employee engagement, Legion gives hourly employees increased schedule empowerment, gig-like flexibility, and modern tools while simultaneously enabling employers to optimize labor efficiency using advanced data science.
The company has experienced immense growth, announcing a $50M Series C in May of this year, an expanded C-suite, as well as new platform capabilities to provide workers with early access to earned pay and employee performance incentives. Legion was also recently named by Forbes as one of the “25 venture-backed startups most likely to become unicorns.”
“There are more than 73M hourly workers in the United States and they make up more than half of the entire workforce. Legion was founded on the premise that we could upgrade the jobs for the majority of the U.S. workforce and allow employers to be efficient and innovative at the same time. said Kristin Brennan, VP of Marketing, Legion. “We recognized a partner in SourceCode that really understood and empathized with our goals, and we’re happy to be working with them on this shared vision.”
Legion joins other companies, including more recently impact.com and Heap, as part of the agency’s thriving Insights & Engagements practice, a group of clients using emerging technologies to better understand and deliver seamless customer and employee experiences.
Consistently honored as a best place to work in public relations, SourceCode Communications has become a leading player in the technology PR scene, most recently being named as one of the Fastest Growing Agencies for second consecutive year by Adweek and appearing in PRNEWS’ Agency Elite Top 100 List for the second year in a row. SourceCode also recently expanded its offerings with the acquisition of integrated creative agency, Strike2, to further support clients with a whole new set of skills, including advertising and creative capabilities as well as integrated campaign development, expanding the agency’s new digital strategy practice.
Adweek names SourceCode Communications as one of the Fastest Growing Agencies for second consecutive year
For the second year in a row, we are thrilled to share that SourceCode Communications is number 20 on Adweek’s top 75 fastest growing agencies. In addition to this announcement, we were also included as number six in the fastest growing women-led agencies and as number two in the fastest growing Northeast agencies.
In the third annual Fastest Growing list, Adweek recognized the companies who rose to the challenge that the pandemic threw our way and were able to not just stay in business but also chart a course of profitable growth. To be eligible for this year’s list, agencies had to provide three years of earned revenue from 2018 to 2020.
Adweek described SourceCode by the following: “SourceCode Communications brings humanity to the forefront of all things PR and communications. Its programs have earned over 30 award nominations and wins in just three years. And a testament to the SourceCode experience is that its primary source of growth has been referrals, even as it continues to hold firm in representing its first client, PCI Pal.”
In 2020, SourceCode was named number 10 in the 10 Fastest Growing Agencies by Adweek, specifically in the top 10 by percent change in revenue and as number five in the Northeast region. To read more about last year’s recognition, check out our blog post here.
This recognition comes after a year of multiple industry awards, including the PRovoke’s North American SABRE Awards, and North American PR Agencies of 2021, Ragan’s Top places to Work, and PRWeek’s Seventh Fast Growing Agency in the US.
To read more about Adweek’s fastest growing agencies check out the links, here, here and here.
Interested in learning more about SourceCode Communications? Please drop us a line at hello@sourcecodecomms.com.
SourceCode Communications celebrates six clients on the Inc. 5000
While we have endured a lot of challenges in the last year, we have also seen many companies rise to the occasion and grow. We’re excited to share that six of our clients have been included on Inc.’s 5000 list, an exclusive guide to America’s Top Private Companies.
The Inc. 5000 represents nearly 40 years of exceptional American growth stories and entrepreneurial success. This year’s exclusive guide highlights the brains, bravery and optimism that propelled these businesses to the fast-growth list.
Our clients who were included on this year’s list include:
- Traliant: ranked 234 on the list with 1,894% growth, is a company that delivers bite-sized compliance training on a customizable e-learning platform. This is Traliant’s first year on the Inc. 5000.
- Handshake: ranked 580 on the list with 838% growth, is a career network helping students get hired and launch their careers, connecting job seekers with employers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups.This is Handshake’s first year on the Inc. 5000.
- Formstack: ranked 2,054 on the list with 215% growth, is a secure workplace productivity platform built to provide solutions to the challenges that global organizations face every day. This is Formstack’s seventh year on the Inc. 5000.
- Backblaze: ranked 2,561 on the list with 162% growth, provides software for clients to store, back up and archive data, host content, manage media and build applications. This is Backblaze’s fourth consecutive year on the Inc. 5000.
- Makespace: ranked 2,584 on the list with 159% growth, is a storage company with 31 locations across North America, offering full service to homeowners and businesses, from pick-up to drop-off. This is Makespace’s first year on the Inc. 5000.
- Jane: ranked 4,283 on the list with 67% growth, is an online boutique marketplace featuring women's fashion trends, jewelry, accessories, home decor, furnishings, children's clothing and more. This is Jane’s seventh consecutive year on the Inc. 5000.
To read more about the Inc. 5000 please visit https://www.inc.com/inc5000/. To learn more about what SourceCode Communications is doing please drop us a line at hello@sourcecodecomms.com, we’d love to hear from you.
Accern Names SourceCode Communications PR Agency of Record
NEW YORK—August 25, 2021—SourceCode Communications, a New York-based technology communications agency, has been named Agency of Record by Accern, a leading no-code, artificial intelligence (AI) FinTech company. Accern joins SourceCode’s growing enterprise practice of companies that continue to push the envelope on innovation. Accern’s ability to help financial organizations uncover risk and investment insights with its no-code data science platform is an exciting addition to SourceCode’s enterprise portfolio.
“Through the pandemic, financial services firms have been challenged with more data through digital transformation and even less time to use it because of rapid market shifts,” explains Kristen Stippich, executive vice president of client services at SourceCode. “We’re excited to work with an organization like Accern that offers financial services professionals a solution to more easily analyze and extract insights from a plethora of data and identify financial market risks and opportunities to guide business forward.”
New York-based Accern is focused on helping financial services firms cut costs, generate better risk and investment insights, and experience efficiency and productivity gains. Accern’s industry-leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Predictive Modeling solution helps asset managers, insurers, hedge funds and other financial services professionals analyze millions of structured and unstructured data points more quickly, seamlessly, and in real-time. The PR team has kicked off a media relations and thought leadership program, delivering strong early results.
“We wanted to partner with an agency who has a deep understanding of the value our platform brings to professionals within the financial services industries and can tell our story in a way that really slices through the noise,” said Emma Borochoff, Vice President of Marketing at Accern. “We’ve been impressed so far with how SourceCode thinks about our story both from the lens of our platform’s capabilities as well as how no-code is leveling the playing field for countless professionals and organizations.”
SourceCode, founded in 2017, has been recognized for its notable work with consumer and B2B clients, taking home best consumer campaign of the year for Everlast Worldwide’s “Be First” Campaign at PRovoke Media’s 2020 SABREAwards North America, and coming in second place nationally and fourth globally in PRovoke Media’s Global PR Agency Rankings 2020. SourceCode also took home the honor of being named PRWeek’s 2020 US Outstanding Boutique Agency.
SourceCode named to PRNEWS’ Agency Elite Top 100 List for Second Year in a Row
SourceCode Communications is honored to be named to PRNEWS’ Agency Elite Top 100 list for the second consecutive year.
PRNEWS set out to better understand how the most innovative and most flexible PR agencies work in an increasingly fast-paced, ever-changing world, and the Agency Elite Top 100 list is a comprehensive guide dedicated to just that.
Launched in 2020, the list is designed to demonstrate the wide range of industry specializations and core capabilities that public relations encompasses, including brand building, crisis communications, media relations, public affairs, social media, B2B communications, among others. Agencies on this year’s list are of all sizes and ages (the oldest agency having been founded in 1946; the youngest in 2020), in all regions of the country.
Within the last eight months, SourceCode has been featured amongst multiple industry awards, including the PRovoke’s North American SABRE Awards, and North American PR Agencies of 2021, Ragan’s Top places to Work, and PRWeek’s Seventh Fast Growing Agency in the US.
Our very own Co-founder and Managing Partner Rebecca Honeyman got the opportunity to speak at the Agency Elite Summit to discuss our ongoing DE&I efforts. To learn more about our efforts, please visit our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion page here.
Award-Winning Tech PR Agency SourceCode Communications Expands Executive Leadership Team To Shepherd Next Phase of Business Growth
NEW YORK—August 12, 2021—SourceCode Communications, a New York-based technology communications agency, today announced three new management appointments to help fuel the agency’s rapid growth trajectory. Karlsson Banks joined in August as Vice President of Consumer, and Amanda King in March as Vice President of Enterprise. Former consumer lead Nicole Pfeifer is now Vice President of Special Projects, a new role created to operationalize and lead new initiatives and business units.
Named the seventh fastest growing agency in the US by PRWeek this year, SourceCode Communications gained 12 new clients over the last year across their core competencies, consumer, enterprise and insights & engagement. This includes Gorillas, the on-demand grocery delivery startup and the fastest European startup to reach unicorn status; Kinship, dedicated to reimagining the pet parenting experience through innovative products and services; and Heap, the leading digital insights platform. In March, SourceCode launched WeRaise PR, a full-service public relations agency incubator dedicated to advancing working mothers in the PR industry while delivering integrated campaigns to brands. And this year, the SourceCode-led Diversity Marketing Consortium (DMC), a collection of agencies providing $1.5 million in marketing services to companies with diverse founders, was incorporated as a NY State 501c3.
“Greg and I started SourceCode Communications because we wanted to shift the paradigm of how brands tell their story in creative, innovative and strategic ways,” said Rebecca Honeyman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SourceCode Communications. “Today, we’re so amazed at what our agency has become, and that’s because of the incredible group of storytellers we’ve hired across all levels. Karlsson and Amanda will continue that tradition for our enterprise and consumer clients, and Nicole’s extensive time with us already means she’s the right person to support the next phase of growth for SourceCode.”
Together, Banks and King bring more than 25 years of experience in communications and brand management, navigating highly-regulated industries, developing engaging 360-degree campaigns, and managing account and project growth across the consumer and B2B sectors. Banks joins from Clarity PR where he was the agency’s Interim Vice President; he also spent time at M Booth, Ketchum and Multiply. King was most recently Vice President at Matter Communications, where she spent six years helping to grow the Boulder office; previous roles were at Metzger Albee Public Relations and Emanate PR.
“SourceCode brings unmatched intelligence, creativity and collaboration to their client work, and I couldn’t be more excited to join the team,” said Banks.
Added King: “I’ve never seen enterprise communications approached with the level of humanity SourceCode does; they’re already miles ahead of others in the industry, so it was an obvious choice to join the team and help contribute to something great.”
Pfeifer was most recently SourceCode’s Vice President of Consumer. In this newly created role of Vice President of Special Projects, Pfeifer will work closely with Becky, Greg and the rest of the management team to help operationalize and shepherd strategic business initiatives into existence.
“When I joined SourceCode in early 2019, we were barely 10 employees strong and were huddled together in a co-working space. Today, we’ve more than tripled in size, have expanded our client service offerings, and launched truly impactful initiatives like WeRaise and the DMC,” says Pfeifer. “I’m thrilled to be given the opportunity to continue our rapid growth trajectory, and look forward to working with the full team on what’s next.”
These new appointments bring SourceCode’s management team to seven, following last year’s hiring of Senior Vice President Kristen Stippich. Both King and Banks report to Stippich, with Pfeifer now reporting to Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Greg Mondshein.
The agency has been recognized for its notable work with consumer and B2B clients, taking home best consumer campaign of the year for Everlast Worldwide’s “Be First” Campaign at PRovoke Media’s 2020 SABREAwards North America, and coming in second place nationally and fourth globally in PRovoke Media’s Global PR Agency Rankings 2020. SourceCode also took home the honor of being named PRWeek’s 2020 US Outstanding Boutique Agency.