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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.
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.
EWR Digital is a Houston-based digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, paid media, and conversion optimization. Co-owner Matt Bertram on building a hybrid workforce and earning 122+ five-star Google reviews.
Michelle Mekky founded Mekky Media Relations in 2016 — a Chicago Wrigley Building boutique PR agency serving nonprofit, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and B2B clients.
NisonCo: the first cannabis-specific PR firm, founded 2013 by Evan Nison. NYC-based. Launched SEO practice 2020. Integrated PR and search for cannabis and adjacent industries.
B2B public relations is not B2C with the volume turned down. Different audience, different cycle, different proof structure. And 62% of B2B buyers now research vendors inside AI engines first. The full working library — mapped.
Anna Crowe founded integrated agency Crowe PR in 2015. Headquartered in San Diego with a New York office and distributed teams, the firm spans consumer goods, health tech, hospitality, and a spirits practice anchored by Skrewball (Pernod Ricard), Rabbit Hole, Mary Dowling, and Mash & Mallow.
A PR industry transition study using the November 2020 Biden election as the case. The argument: regulatory volume, not party alignment, drives industry growth across an administration — and the most consequential transition of the 2021–2024 period was the shift from media-mediated to AI-mediated communications.
Branding in 2026 is how AI engines retrieve a brand, not just how consumers remember it. What Glossier and Patagonia teach about identity consistency as a citation moat.
Jason Sulham, VP of Portland, Maine-based Broadreach PR, on running a crisis-specialist agency through the COVID-19 pandemic — and the seat at the table PR earned.
The McGraw Agency is the New York boutique communications firm founded in 2011 by Michael McGraw. The firm specializes in interior design, architecture, home furnishings, and luxury lifestyle clients. McGraw leads every account directly. Clients include STARK Carpet, Drake/Anderson, House Beautiful, and VERANDA.
A retrospective on how PR agencies handled the 2020 office-closure question — three operators on the record, what held up, and the agency category settlement five years on.
Offering flexible PR packages, Mind Meld ensures that tech brands - large or small - can conduct product launches or share major news.
Pineapple Public Relations is a boutique travel and hospitality PR firm in Chamblee, Georgia \u2014 an 11-person regional specialist serving destination marketing organizations, hotels, resorts, restaurants, and attractions across the Southeast U.S. tourism corridor.
SHIFT Communications — the Boston-founded agency that created the first social media press release in 2006. Founded 2003 from Sterling Hager. Acquired by NATIONAL Public Relations (2016), now operating within Padilla under AVENIR GLOBAL.
When Oreo took a stand on Pride in 2012 and 2020, the brand absorbed coordinated activist boycotts without measurable sales damage. The brand-awareness math, the underwriting test, and why Oreo is not Bud Light.
Berkeley Communications: UK B2B tech PR agency, founded 1988 by Chris Hewitt. Reading HQ. Clients include Kaspersky, Siemens, Workfront. Lynsey Barry MD.
Phase 3 Marketing and Communications was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001 by Ken Holsclaw and Max Nair.
Buttonwood Communications Group (BCG) is a NYC boutique financial services PR, marketing, and strategic communications firm founded February 2015 by Justin Meise. O'Dwyer's Top 25 Financial Services PR Firm (2020, 2024). ETF and index industry depth. Clients include FTSE Russell, Westchester Capital, Parametric, Merrill Lynch, Carson Institutional Alliance.
