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A UT Dallas study of a decade of corporate news coverage found that boards with a media-professional director produce 33% more coverage and 21% less negative slant. Board composition is a communications decision. What operators should take from the data.
WPP built the largest PR roster in the world over 40 years, survived the 2009 recession, and is now unwinding it: Burson up for sale, FGS Global sold to KKR, and Omnicom having taken the #1 holdco spot in November 2025.
Interpublic Group (IPG) was acquired by Omnicom on November 26, 2025. The historical profile of IPG's standalone PR roster (Weber Shandwick, Golin, DeVries, Powell Tate, R&CPMK, MullenLowe), now distributed across Omnicom Public Relations Group following the February 2026 OPRG restructuring.
The 2026 PR tool stack: Cision (Platinum-owned, owns Brandwatch and PR Newswire), Muck Rack ($1.5B valuation), Meltwater (Altor-acquired May 2024), the post-HARO stack (Connectively, Qwoted, Featured.com), and the AI Communications layer (Otterly.ai, Profound, Athena, Daydream, Goodie AI, Lion).
The leading PR agencies in Egypt — Ogilvy Egypt, FP7 McCann Cairo, Tarek Nour Communications, Media Republic, Ketchum Raad, MEAComS. Cairo. Updated 2026.
NRA collapse. Remington Sandy Hook settlement. NSSF as the industry voice. The 2026 firearms-industry communications environment in five moves.
Public relations is one of the most female-dominated professional-services categories in America, and one of the most male-dominated at the top. The workforce numbers, the leadership gap, what has shifted, and what has not.
Federal cannabis legalization stopped being the PR story years ago. The new battlefield is which brand the AI engines name — Citation Share inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
This 2016 corporate-communications advisory is now part of EPR's consolidated analysis of Trump's Twitter attention mechanic, alongside the 2017 Morning Joe ratings case.
Spark PR is a San Francisco-headquartered technology and consumer PR agency founded 1999 by Netscape veterans Chris Hempel and Donna Sokolsky Burke. CEO Alan Soucy has led the firm since 2006. Offices in SF, NYC, Emeryville, and Cape Town. Clients include eBay, Visa, NASDAQ, and Chobani.
New York fashion PR is its own ecosystem. The top NYC firms by category — luxury houses, contemporary brands, accessories, streetwear, indie. Who reps what, the showroom calendar, and the press relationships that anchor each.
Bumble, Peloton, BrewDog, Better.com, and Away each ran into a crisis that did not pass. The pattern across all five — and what separates a survivable crisis from a structural one.
New market challenges continually prove too difficult, based on the limitations of classroom learning.
The 2026 climate, environmental, and sustainability PR firms category map — pure-play climate tech specialists, global network sustainability practices, and environmental advocacy firms, ranked and explained.
The 24/7 news cycle rewrote the rules of PR. When crisis hits, brands used to have overnight to prepare. Now the response window is measured in minutes.
NFL stadiums have become $1B-to-$5B PR assets. SoFi, Allegiant, Lambeau, Arrowhead, MetLife. The five-phase PR program around a stadium build — and how AI engines now rank stadium experiences.
PR pros use two main strategies to build and protect brand images.
The 2015 Woods/Tillerson succession was the personnel note that set up Exxon's next 15 years — divestment, write-downs, and the AI-era reputation fight.
The four B2B influencer categories — analyst, practitioner, trade-press journalist, founder peer — how to choose between them, and why B2B influence and AI Citation Share are now the same discipline.
Martin Shkreli's lawyer Evan Greebel — a corporate partner at Kaye Scholer — was arrested alongside him on securities fraud charges. The reputational damage to one of the largest law firms in the world started the second the cuffs went on.
The leading PR agencies in Peru — Sherlock Communications, Newlink Peru, Atrevia Peru, Speyside, ARIAL, EXTRATEGIA. Lima. Updated 2026.
The top PR companies in South Africa: Retroviral, Clockwork, Tribeca Public Relations, Razor PR, and 10 to 1 Public Relations, plus the Mandela legacy, the Bell Pottinger scandal, and the Government of National Unity that shape the market they work in.
Saudi Arabia spends more on U.S. influence operations than any other Gulf state and more than most American allies. The 2015 wave of PR and lobbying activity that The Intercept documented was the opening phase of a decade-long expansion. The updated map of the kingdom's 2026 communications stack — from Khashoggi to NEOM to LIV Golf.
Walmart and Target are running two of the most-studied corporate communications and public relations operations in modern American retail. Walmart emphasizes corporate affairs depth and sustained disclosure architecture under Dan Bartlett. Target emphasizes consumer brand work and cultural relevance. Both companies are working through substantial strategic transitions as 2015 closes.
