Leading public relations (PR) agencies worldwide 2022, by fee income

In 2022, Edelman continued to top the global ranking of public relations (PR) agencies by annual fee income, with its result surpassing one billion U.S. dollars. All the world's top six firms are based in the United States. Weber Shandwick and BCW rounded the top three, with estimated fee incomes of 920 million and 840 million dollars, respectively.

Edelman: a PR MVP?

According to the same source, Edelman's fee income peaked in 2022. That year, the annual result amounted to almost as much as in 2010 and 2011 combined. Edelman can be deemed the most valuable player (MVP) among multinational PR firms, but that depends on the game. The leviathan of advertising marketing holdings still has the upper hand. The PR operations revenues of groups like Omnicom, WPP, and IPG all surpassed Edelman's in 2022.

Growers, not (yet) showers

Albeit not reaching the top 10 by annual results, some smaller firms experienced triple-digit increase rates in 2022. The ranking of the five fastest-growing PR agencies worldwide included companies headquartered in Singapore, the U.S., Italy, Switzerland, and the UK whose fee incomes more than doubled compared to 2021. Among the 10 fastest-expanding U.S.-based PR firms, growth rates surpassed 40 percent.