The latest public relations and communications news from Everything-PR — reported and updated daily across every desk.
Madrid runs one of Europe's most integrated smart city stacks: a centralized municipal IoT platform with 15,000+ sensors, the largest urban Low Emission Zone in Europe by area, one of the continent's biggest electric bus fleets, near-universal 5G, and a deliberate push to anchor the Spanish-speaking gaming industry. Here's the current map.
Verdin is a San Luis Obispo, California marketing and PR agency specializing in tourism, special districts, and public sector — 20+ years under Mary Verdin.
Coming Soon for businesses in need of PR in the UK, Seven Dials PR is a new agency set to launch under the direction of Simon Kelner, former editor-in-chief of the Independent. In an interesting turn observers are now focused on the emerging litany of communications figures and their endeavors. Are we destined to more BS or a lot less "bollocks" where the voices of business are concerned?
From the 2013 Lerner targeting scandal to the Get Transcript breach, the 2022 backlog, and the ERC fraud mess — the IRS keeps failing the same crisis playbook.
People spend more and more time on the internet, as a research conducted by Gfk in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveals. In fact, this medium saw a constant growth in the average daily time spent since 2010, as the study presented by emarketer shows. From 2:34 in 2010, the average daily time spent on the Internet grew to 2:56 in 2011, reaching an average of 3:07 in 2012.
The Pollack Group (formerly The Pollack PR Marketing Group) is a Los Angeles integrated PR, marketing, and brand agency founded 1985 by Noemi and Stefan Pollack. 41 years operating. 16 employees, $4M revenue (2026). HQ at Avenue of the Stars + NYC office. Partner in Worldcom PR Group.
Images are critical for developing quality online content , this is why Newscom launched Pixation Images, a new platform for licensing creative content for commercial use.
I am flabbergasted as to why more people in our industry aren’t utilizing Op-eds and blog posts more as Google Rankings continue to reward websites and authors who produce high-quality content regularly. One would think that anyone employed at a PR Firm should be jumping for joy, as unique content placed properly can help rapidly move relevant search rankings – yet very few in our industry write often. Perhaps I should be happy as it benefits my company – but it is just amazing that PR pros don’t spend more time writing as it can have major impact on search engine activity.
Within the Public Relations arena, there is an oft-heard debate about if all press is good press – and opinions differ. Some say just spell my name right – and of course others would say ask Carnival Cruises, Tiger Woods or many others who have been slammed by the media if all press is good press.
Arab world PR is a fast-growing regional discipline anchored in Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha, shaped by Vision 2030, Operation 300bn, and a multibillion-dollar GCC communications market.
The evolution of search from directories to AI answers. How online search became recommendation-driven, brand-led, citation-weighted — and what GEO does about it.
A PR budget in 2026 is no longer a press-release spend — it is a Citation Share investment across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Real benchmarks across A-tier (Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe), B-tier (Mercury, Ramp, Linear, Magic Spoon, Olipop), and C-tier (Resend, PostHog, Topicals, Vacation Inc.).
EPR's canonical reference on Elie Hirschfeld — multi-generational New York real estate operator, substantial philanthropist, Broadway producer, art collector, and substantial figure across New York's civic and cultural institutions. Hirschfeld Properties, the Hirschfeld Foundation, the Weizmann Institute and Brown University trustee work, and the broader cross-category career.
HARO shut down in late 2024 after Cision rebranded it Connectively. Here are all 10 platforms that replaced it — Qwoted, Featured.com, Source of Sources, Muck Rack, ProfNet, SourceBottle, Press Hunt, Roxhill, and more — with pricing and use cases.
Mastercard's 2013 #InternsWanted social-recruiting campaign — six countries, Weber Shandwick, Ketchum, and APCO partner agencies, the cash-free framing seven years ahead of the broader payments-category vocabulary, and the early-talent pipeline that became a defined fintech strategic concern across the decade that followed.
PR monitoring went through three eras: clip-and-coverage, social listening, and AI listening / Citation Share. Porter Novelli's 2013 PN Sonar launch sat in the second era. The third era — measuring what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews say about your brand — is now the new measurement layer.
Cannes Lions €100M+. ANA Masters CMO concentration. Advertising Week breadth. SXSW platform activations. The 6 conferences that shape the marketing category — and how the platform villages and creator-economy programming reshaped the calendar.
TMP Worldwide is one of the original employer-branding and recruitment-marketing agencies — a category that's now board-level priority as AI engines reshape how candidates choose where to work.
Walmart launched Empowering Women Together this month — an e-commerce platform stocking products from small women-owned businesses in nine countries. The platform is the consumer-facing surface of Walmart's broader Women's Economic Empowerment initiative announced in September 2011, including a $20 billion sourcing pledge to women-owned businesses in the U.S. over five years.
A degree in public relations opens four paths in 2026 — agency, in-house corporate communications, journalism-adjacent, and the increasingly relevant industry analyst track through ISG, Forrester, Gartner, and IDC.
Tesla is hiring hundreds as Model S output ramps in 2013. See the Musk interview question, the first-principles bias, and what gets candidates cut fast.
HubSpot picked Dublin in 2013. So did Salesforce, Stripe, Google, Meta, and TikTok. How a city of 600,000 became SaaS's European capital — and whether the model holds.
Public relations is a field where staying current matters more than in most industries. Five in-person meetup groups that have served PR professionals looking for peer contact, cross-industry exposure, and career signal.
Cutlip & Center's Effective Public Relations — the most-used PR textbook in the world, translated into 10 languages — was co-authored by SDSU's Glen Broom across six editions. The Glen M. Broom Center for Professional Development in Public Relations, founded at SDSU in 2012 and directed by Dr. Kaye Sweetser, carries that legacy forward.
