Communispace Named Second Year in a Row to Honomichl List of Top 50 Market Research Companies
The Honomichl Top 50 rankings appeared in the 37^th annual business report, published by the American Marketing Association (AMA), North America’s largest professional marketing associations, and Inside Research, a one-source authoritative report founded in 1990 by Jack Honomichl, the leading market research industry authority. Based on annual revenue from 2009, Communispace grew 18% last year, with its focus on building standing communities to engage consumers. Making the list for the second year and ranked at number 26 (up 3 spots from last year’s 29^th list,) Communispace was also ranked first among the fastest growth U.S. Market Research firms.

Bank of America wins ARF's 2010 David Ogilvy Award for Research Innovation
The ARF David Ogilvy Awards, sponsored by Microsoft Advertising, awarded Bank of America with the Research Innovation Award for their “The Morris Code: Decoding Finance For Students” campaign. This campaign was fueled by research done in partnership with Communispace.

2009 Forrester Groundswell Award, B2B Listening
Communispace and CDW win Forrester Groundswell Award for deeply listening to their key customer needs with the CDW Advisory Board.

2009 Forrester Groundswell Award, B2C Embracing
Scholastic Book Clubs wins Forrester Groundswell Award for their groundbreaking effort in embracing parents and teachers in a proprietary Communispace co-creation process, to deliver a strong ROI with the Scholastic Book Clubs Reading Task Force Community.

2009 Boston Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Celebrating 25 years, the Boston Chamber’s Small Business of the Year Awards recognize the entrepreneurial achievements of Greater Boston’s smaller for-profit companies who have gross revenues over $2 million and display strong financial performance, achievement in management, workplace excellence, product innovation, and community and social responsibility.

Diane Hessan, President & CEO of Communispace, will be honored with this year’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Over the past ten years under her leadership, Communispace has developed the first online communities that allow organizations to truly listen to the “voice of their customers.” As social media continues to grow as a business tool, Communispace offers the only social-networking model with a proven track record of providing real business value and competitive advantage to businesses.

Honomichl Top 50 Market Research Firm
Communispace, pioneer of online customer insight communities for the world’s leading brands, today announced it’s been named a Honomichl Top 50 U.S. market research company, based on annual revenue from 2008. Making the list for the first year and ranked at number 29, Communispace reported $29.4 million in U.S. revenues, up 27.3 percent over 2007. Read the entire press release here.

Boston Business Journal's CFO of the Year
Boston Business Journal names Communispace CFO Gary Arena one of the CFO’s of the year.  This prestigious award recognizes Boston-area CFOs who demonstrate extraordinary leadership, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and their communities.

2009 Small Business Association of New England (SBANE) Award Winner
SBANE has named Communispace winner of the New England Innovation Award in the For-Profit category. This prestigious annual award, given to companies that have demonstrated both a heritage of innovation and bottom-line results, was announced last week after a rigorous judging process. The award recognizes Communispace’s continued success in revolutionizing the way brands are generating insights from their customers.

2008 Stevie Awards for Women in Business
Communispace wins “Most Innovative Company of the Year” in the services business category for companies larger than 100 employees.

2008 Forrester Groundswell Award
Communispace and Mattel win Forrester Groundswell Award for using a customer community to get it right with moms.

Massachusetts Technology Award
Communispace Corporation Named Social Media Company of the Year at the 2007 Mass Technology Leadership Award

2007 Forrester Groundswell Award
Communispace and Charles Schwab win social technologies award for Generation X online customer community

2007 Hewlett-Packard Circle Award
HP PhotoSpace community wins prestigious Best in Category award for Innovative Customer/Marketing Research

2007 BBJ Pacesetters
Communispace was recognized by Boston Business Journal as one of the Region's Fastest Growing Private Companies.

ITSMA
CDW for Strengthening Customer Relationships

Boston Chamber
The Chamber awarded Communispace The 2006 Award for Business Excellence for strong financial performance, achievement in management, workplace excellence, product innovation, and community and social responsibility.

Inc.
For the second year in a row, Communispace ranks among the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

CRM Wizards
Innovation award given by Beagle Research for engaging customers. Schwab community of 400 highlighted. Beagle says, “Communispace has a big idea that will influence the way marketing and selling is done for a long time.”

Fortune Small Business
Fortune Small Business / Winning Workplaces awards Diane Hessan, Communispace CEO for best practices in creating a successful workplace.

Inc.
Communispace ranked in the 2005 Inc. 500 as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States.

Stevie
Communispace wins for Best Overall Company of the Year.