TechCrunch Has Had It with Your Spam Pitches

Yesterday gave the tech PR world a small gift and a big warning: stop spamming TechCrunch writers.

Roman Dillet noticed that certain companies had been selling his email and those of his fellow contributors as part of a list that looks a whole lot like a tool enabling mass email pitches. In response, he posted a screed (URL “please-dont-spam-us”) implicitly urging everyone to stop sending him the sort of automated blasts that might as well bear “PLEASE DELETE THIS MESSAGE NOW” subject lines.

Dillet followed with some Pitching 101 advice, the most important parts of which you all know: do a little research on a given blogger’s beat so you can best determine who will be interested in the story you’re dying to share.