Agency Overview

NYC-based boutique agency Allison Hay PR specializes in building awareness and credibility for interior designers, product manufacturers, retail, and trade service providers.

Custom programs are designed to help clients with tactical goals like expanding to new markets, growing client interest, justifying higher fees, maximizing partnerships, and sharing important key messages with the right audiences.

The agency was founded to provide premium quality services for the design industry, backed by a deep reservoir of industry knowledge, contacts, and strategic insights -- offered at a flexible scale.

Allison, who spent the first 10 years of her career at top PR agencies in New York, believes in tailoring big ideas to a good/better/best model. This approach allows clients to scale their investment based on important factors like budget and bandwidth. Transparency and ROI are core to the approach that Allison and her team implement for each tailored program.

She and her team have worked with the most notable organizations in the design category. Trade show experience includes High Point Furniture Market, Salone del Mobile, KBIS / IBS, Lightovation, NeoCon, BDNY, HD Expo, Design LA, What’s New What’s Next, and Design Chicago. Trade org and industry experience includes ASID, IDS, Kips Bay Decorator Show Houses, Salon Art + Design, The Winter Show, and TEFAF.

With Allison's efforts, clients have been covered by Architectural Digest, AD Pro, Apartment Therapy, AP, BHG, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business of Home, Cheddar, Cottages & Gardens, Designers Today, Design Milk, Domino, Elle Decor, Forbes, Good Housekeeping, Galerie, Harper's Bazaar, Hospitality Design, House Beautiful, Interior Design, Livingetc, LUXE Interiors+Design, Marie Claire, Modern Luxury, NYMag, New York Times, People, PureWow, T Magazine, Veranda, Vogue, WSJ, WWD and many more.

Meet Allison

After graduating from Emory University in 2014, Allison built her career in NYC (with brief stints in Boston and Chicago) at top creative agencies working with best-in-class brands and firms in the design industry.

After leading PR programs for category-leading giants like 1stDibs, Crate & Kids, Legrand, Kohler Co., Steelcase, The Shade Store, Workshop/APD, and York Wallcoverings, she decided to take the leap into agency ownership and embrace the opportunity to work with design world entrepreneurs — firm principals on the rise, multigenerational product manufacturers embracing PR in new ways, and emerging trade software developers changing the game for the industry. She loves shining the spotlight on fresh talent and making connections for clients that put them on the map as true category thought leaders.

Allison services clients nationwide from her home base in Brooklyn, NY, where she's constantly dreaming up new art and interior design projects, much to her husband's chagrin.