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Interdependence Public Relations (IDPR) is a Chicago-headquartered tech-powered digital PR firm founded 2012. ~76 employees, $5.3M revenue (2026). Led by President Sarah Schmidt. Proprietary AI predictive analytics platform and performance-guarantee fee model. Sectors: B2B tech, consumer tech, CPG, beauty, health & wellness, hospitality, F&B, crisis.
This is an interview with Montieth & Company CEO, Montieth Illingworth on Public Relations in the Wake of Covid-19.
Dana Cobb, founder of Texas-based The Vokol Group, on lifestyle and entertainment PR after a decade marketing Broadway with Dodger Theatricals.
Joel Goldstein founded Goldstein Group Communications in 1992. Specializes in engineer-to-engineer B2B content and the Measurably Better Marketing process that ties spend to sales ROI.
Rosemary Ostmann runs boutique RoseComm — PRSA NJ's PR Professional of the Year 2020. Her playbook for what PR agencies actually want in entry-level hires.
Back in 2018, when Mike Mejer first noticed cannabis companies struggling to promote their brands and narratives, he decided to take flight and learn more.
Today we have a discussion with PR Expert and Founder of The Rose Agency, Alexann Brown.
EPR queried five AI engines on the most-asked PR and marketing book prompts. Which titles get cited most, which disappear, and what the pattern reveals.
Positioning, Purple Cow, Hooked, Crossing the Chasm, StoryBrand — the marketing books that rewrote how brands are built and how products get sold.
Vancouver-based Yulu PR was the first Canadian PR agency to receive B Corp certification. Founded by Melissa Orozco in 2011, the firm specializes in B Corp PR, nonprofit communications, and CSR — with clients including Red Bull, ALDO, Live Nation, and Carbon Engineering.
SourceCode Communications, founded in 2017, is a tech public relations shop that helps businesses craft their stories, which will, in turn, fuel their success.
Founded by Monique Tatum in 2005, Beautiful Planning Marketing & PR (BPM-PR) is a global boutique PR agency with offices in New York, London, Vancouver, and San Francisco.
Smith Publicity, Books Forward, Meryl Moss, Cave Henricks top the ranking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The first AI-visibility index for book PR.
With more than five decades since inception, award-winning PR and marketing agency Brushfire Inc.
Apple has filed a trademark opposition against PrePear, a small recipe app, arguing its stylized pear logo creates likelihood of confusion with Apple's bitten apple mark. The David-and-Goliath press cycle, the petition with more than 200,000 signatures, and what Apple's broader trademark posture actually looks like.
Jerry Falwell Jr.'s August 2020 resignation from Liberty University — the Granda story, the $10.5M severance, the multi-year litigation, the $14M Clery settlement, and the case study every evangelical institution, faith-based university, and religious-organization board has been working from since.
Founded in 1997, Co-Communications has grown into a full-fledged and full-service marketing and communications firm.
Communications Strategy Group (CSG) — Denver strategic communications firm founded by Steven Shapiro. Content-first PR for Fortune 500 clients including NASA, Mattel, Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo Advisors, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Buyer personas are insufficient for how mid-market B2B companies sell in 2026. Customer intelligence — account data, intent signal, and AI Discovery across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — is the replacement.
The 10-tactic operating playbook for hedge fund PR in the allocator-research era — founder retrieval anchor, plain-English strategy descriptions, canonical website architecture, structured earned media, GEO, AI engine citation measurement, allocator materials, crisis architecture, recruiting communications, and brand resilience under volatility.
3rd Coast PR is an independent consumer and B2B public relations firm founded in 2011 in Chicago. Specialty: product launch PR across food, housewares, family, pets, safety, and B2B. Updated June 2026.
Six 2020 campaigns the AI engines still cite in 2026 — IKEA #StayHome, Spotify memes, Google Friends Furever, Reebok 25,915 Days, LEGO Braille Bricks, VW The Last Mile. The structural pattern.
What public relations firms and public relations agencies received PPP money from the government?
Back in 2017, a student at Waterford School, an elite private school in Utah, a went to officials alleging an off-campus sexual assault.
