Arun Sudhaman

Following the remarkable response to our Global Rankings launch earlier this week, we are making our regional tables available today. These look at the biggest players and fastest growers in four distinct regions: North America, UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

You can see the tables and analysis after the jump, please note that they only feature agencies that submitted a market-by-market breakdown of revenues.

North America: Innovate or die

Despite being the region where the global financial crisis first took shape, North American consultancies demonstrated why they remain the benchmark where innovation in PR is concerned.

To read the full market profile including analysis of the agencies that impressed click here

UK: Strength in diversity

Given that the UK PR market is best-known for rewarding creativity, it is perhaps no surprise that fortune favoured the brave in 2009. Indeed, the last 18 months may yet be seen as a period that sorted the wheat from the chaff where UK PR agencies are concerned, and not before time.

To read the full market profile including analysis of the agencies that impressed click here

Continental Europe: Defying the downturn

While other regions have bounced back, with varying degrees of vigour, from the economic woes of the past two years, Continental Europe remains depressingly downbeat. Thus, those firms that defied these conditions deserve special recognition.

To read the full market profile including analysis of the agencies that impressed click here

Asia-Pacific: Growth in digital

Asia -Pacific observers hoping that the region’s reputation for boom and bust business cycles might have been laid to rest had some reason for encouragement in 2009.

To read the full market profile including analysis of the agencies that impressed click here