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5% -- industry growth rate for global PR industry (2015)

Name: Industry Growth Rate Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-06-24

2015 · Holmes Report

The Holmes Report found that industry-wide growth in the PR sector slowed to 5% in 2015.

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Value

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2015

Entity

global PR industry

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

62/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Holmes Report Primary Tier A

https://plmr.co.uk/2016/04/plmr-climbs-global-pr-rankings/ ↗

Confidence: 65/100 Vintage: 2015 Channel: Cc Extraction

Source Article

PLMR CLIMBS GLOBAL PR RANKINGS - PLMR

PLMR is delighted to have climbed seven places in the internationally-recognised Holmes Report of the world’s top 250 PR agencies. The climb reflects another strong year for the business, after we deepened our footprint in core sectors of health, transport, education and finance and enhanced the ser…

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Holmes Report · Original study ↗

Methodology

Holmes Report industry analysis

Methodology documented

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Channelcommon_crawl

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global PR industry: 5% industry growth rate. Source: Holmes Report (2015). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/global-pr-agency-growth-2015

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