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What are going to be hot in public relations in 2021, what wont?

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What are going to be hot in public relations in 2021, what wont?

Sage Communications is a McLean, Virginia integrated marketing, PR, and advertising agency founded 2002 by David Gorodetski. Leading public-sector and technology agency in the DC metro region. $38.1M revenue (2025), ~86 employees. Solution brands include Brotman Winter Fried, Virtual Marketing (acquired), Johnson Design Group, Longbottom Communications. President Julie Murphy. Federal clients include DFC, EXIM Bank, APHIS, USDA, US Fish & Wildlife Service.
We asked some experts for opinions on what trends and strategies we will see in public relations and marketing in the new year.

Five predictions for the year ahead — influencer compression, named-ambassador strategies, podcasts overtaking conferences, the press release format under pressure, and the end of the third-party cookie. Each one has a winner and a loser attached.
This PR, social and experiential marketing brand for MMGY Global, continues to prove its worth after being acquired in 2016.
Karv has an additional office in Santa Monica, California.
Pamela Zapata founded Society Eighteen in 2019 as a multi-ethnic influencer agency. Worked with IPSY, Sephora, Marc Jacobs, P&G, and Unilever. Quadrupled the roster in year one.
The TASC Group is the New York nonprofit communications and crisis-management firm founded in 2001 by Larry Kopp. Specializes in mission-driven, social-advocacy, and crisis communications. Kopp is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company with David Mamet, William H. Macy, and Felicity Huffman. Notable work: family of Trayvon Martin, Park51, Texas Two-Step J&J litigation.

$7.22 billion in gross revenue. 46 employees. $497 million in dividends to one owner. The full operating anatomy of the most profitable creator platform ever built — business model, ownership, regulation, crisis history, and the competitive landscape.

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