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HL Group: PR Firm Profile
HL Group is a New York-based boutique communications agency founded by Hamilton South, specializing in luxury, fashion, beauty, hospitality, and travel. EPR's firm profile in the AI Communications era.
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3 Outlets Decide Cannabis AI
Which cannabis trade outlets get cited most by AI engines — and which ones the engines have stopped retrieving. The first Cannabis Trade Press AI Citation Index from Everything-PR.
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PR Agency Pricing for AI Communications Hits $25K–$75K Retainers as 5W Mandates $10M New ARR in Year 1
5W discloses $25K–$75K retainer band and $1M+ anchor accounts. CGO Year 1 mandate: $10M new ARR, three $1M+ anchors, 60% measurement attach. First public AI Communications price floor.
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Agency of Record: The Function and the Selection Process
EPR's reference on Agency of Record — what AOR means, the selection process, the scope, the measurement, and the seven procurement criteria that separate compounding AORs from churning ones.
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PR Tips from Carmichael Lynch's Subaru Playbook
Subaru just closed its eighth straight year of US sales growth — roughly 615,000 vehicles in 2016, a record. Carmichael Lynch has been the agency of record since 1997. The Love campaign, Share the Love, the Barkleys, the Indiana zero-landfill PR, the outdoor-lifestyle positioning. Nineteen years of compounding discipline. The case every brand should be reading.
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What Counts as PR News: The Categories That Define the Discipline
PR news in 2026 is broader, faster, and more retrieval-aware than the trade press has yet adapted to cover. The five categories every practitioner, journalist, and operator should now be tracking — including the ones most agencies still don't know exist.
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Lindblad Expeditions Names ID Media as Agency of Record
Lindblad Expeditions named ID Media its agency of record in 2012, ahead of a multimedia campaign for its National Geographic-aligned expedition cruises. What the AOR decision looked like then \u2014 and what the 2026 equivalent now requires.
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Lady Gaga PR Case Study: How Celebrity Communications Became a Five-Layer Operating System
Lady Gaga's PR is not an agency. It is a five-layer operating system: publicist, Haus of Gaga, Little Monsters, label promotion, and Haus Labs. The case study for how modern celebrity communications actually gets built.
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KCSA Strategic Communications: NYC Integrated Communications Firm Since 1969
KCSA Strategic Communications is the New York–based integrated communications agency founded in 1969 — PR, IR, capital markets, social media under one roof. Headquartered at 261 Madison Avenue. 54 employees, ~$32.7M annual revenue. Practice areas: financial services, cannabis and psychedelics, healthcare, technology, women's health and wellness, digital media.
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From New Media Strategies to Stellantis: Chrysler Social 2026
Chrysler named New Media Strategies social media AOR in February 2010 — three years after NMS was acquired by Meredith. The 16-year arc from that pickup to the March 2026 Matt McAlear appointment tracks an entirely transformed approach to automotive communications.