Graphs summarising key results from a small survey carried out by the Inconvenient PR Truth campaign into the detailed causes and impacts of irrelevant press releases aka "pr spam".

1. Irrelevant press release
Second recipient survey results
May 2010

2. The Inconvenient PR Truth campaign ran a second survey to assist
with the CIPR round table talks.
The promotion of the survey was only via the general PR and media
communities and was not to any of the campaign member’s own
databases.
Perhaps due to this their were only 43 responses, which is clearly a
small sample. However these came from a good variety of
respondents including in­house journalists at national newspapers,
editors of industry specific publications and paid and unpaid
bloggers.
The following summarises some of the key data, but the full data has
also been made publicly available (excluding names) to ensure
transparency and can be found at www.inconvenientprtruth.com.

3. NB: Total does not add up to 43 due to some respondents having multiple roles

4. NB: Total does not add up to 43 due to some respondents covering multiple sectors

5. Average level expected by recipients

11. Approx 18 minutes a day on average spent dealing with irrelevant press release
emails

13. Approx 9 minutes a day on average spent dealing with phone calls about
irrelevant press release emails