
McKinney Advertising Agency: Profile, Clients, Leadership
McKinney, founded 1969 in Durham NC, joined Cheil Worldwide in 2012. Ad Age A-List 2024+2025, Joe Maglio CEO. Six North American offices, $25.9M revenue 2025, B Corp.

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McKinney, founded 1969 in Durham NC, joined Cheil Worldwide in 2012. Ad Age A-List 2024+2025, Joe Maglio CEO. Six North American offices, $25.9M revenue 2025, B Corp.

BBDO Worldwide is one of the world's largest and most awarded advertising networks. Founded 1928. Part of Omnicom since 1986. Global CEO Nancy Reyes. Global CCO Chris Beresford-Hill. 80+ countries. Cannes Lions Network of the Year seven times. Architect of Snickers "You're Not You When You're Hungry."

Daniel J. Edelman (1920-2013) founded Edelman PR in Chicago on October 1, 1952, building it into the largest independent PR firm in the world, family-owned.

Google, ChatGPT, Reddit, TikTok, food press, OpenTable/Resy, Yelp. Seven surfaces where restaurant reviews live in 2026 — and what operators must do across all of them.
Google has been supporting NORAD to track Santa Claus since 2007, but this year NORAD chose Bing instead. In its customary effort to crush competition, Google launched its own Santa Tracker.

At the end of their 100th birthday celebration, Oreo cookies have just reached Antarctica, thus making these sandwich cookies a product delivered to all of the seven continents. These 5,000 OREO cookies reached the milestone in a special moment: the 100th anniversary of human kind reaching the South Pole.

Publicis Groupe — founded 1926, led by Arthur Sadoun, one of the major global communications holding companies. The map: Sapient, Epsilon, Influential, the agency brands (Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, MSL, Kekst CNC, BBH), the India build, and the 2026 holding-company landscape after the Omnicom-IPG merger.

Cannes Lions, PRovoke SABRE, PRWeek, Effie, ICCO, O'Dwyer's. The 2026 map of PR industry summits, awards, and rankings — and why they now feed AI citation share.

Liberty Communications — independent UK tech PR firm founded 1998 by Dee Gibbs, CEO Elena Davidson. London + NY offices. 2024 Marketing & PR Brilliance Gold winner. Profile.

MapQuest, subsidiary of AOL Inc., has just launched MapQuest Discover, one of the tools they plan on releasing that focus on the complete travel experience. The new tool focuses on destinations and offers users' the possibility to create and share collections and photos from their trips, thus being a good tool for travel enthusiasts which love to share their discoveries.
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