Prompt Communications, a digital communications agency with offices in Boston, San Francisco and London, has been appointed by Crimson Hexagon as its UK public relations firm.

Under the new contract, Prompt will work on targeted media relations, opinion placement and securing editorial opportunities to support Crimson Hexagon’s sales to B2C and B2B marketers, data specialists and business strategists.  Prompt will work on campaigns targeting marketing, business, retail and consumer publications.

With offices in Boston and London, Crimson Hexagon provides big data analysis software that delivers business intelligence derived from social media and other data sources to global organisations including Microsoft, Starbucks and the United Nations. Crimson Hexagon was named one of the ‘Top Ten Most Innovative Web Companies’ by Fast Company, along with Twitter and Google.

The technology behind Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight™ platform, was originally developed at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and is supported by an intelligent, customisable algorithm. The ForSight platform surpasses traditional social media monitoring software by relying on a unique combination of human judgment and computer scalability. The platform currently holds an estimated 175 billion social media posts in its database, and adds an additional 1 billion posts to its database every two days.

Wayne St. Amand, VP of marketing for Crimson Hexagon, said: “With our growing international presence, we needed a communications agency that had experience in working with US-headquartered companies that are ramping up in the UK and Europe. Prompt was the perfect fit. We’re familiar with some of the team members and how capable they are, and we know that they will give us the drive, expertise and momentum to support our UK sales efforts.”

Hazel Butters, CEO of Prompt Communications, said: “Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight platform is a brilliant piece of technology that analyses a phenomenal volume of social media data.  As a result, the company is seeing a real demand for its platform and we’re excited to support the sales efforts and to demonstrate the need for organisations to understand social sentiment, and to apply it to business strategy.”