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The Minneapolis-based Olson PR agency continues their expansion through acquisition strategy with the addition of public relations shop Dig Communications after buying loyalty-marketing agency Denali in June. The deal signed in the summer of 2010 boosted the agency to become one of the Twin Cities' largest full-service agencies and one of the country's top 10 largest independents, and they are looking for new companies to acquire.
Helping revive Bushkill Park could be a great project for a local PR company to show what community engagement truly means.
There is a price to pay to have the media run investigations, seek the truth and speak freely and England is here to prove it after a failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup. While the loss was mostly blamed on a poor communications strategy, the ongoing investigations and published pieces on FIFA by local publications have played a strong part in the decision.
As a cool fact, Generation Y is largely considered the last generation wholly born in the 20th century. 71% of Generation Y participates in monthly social networking, while almost 29% of that participates in daily. There is little to speak of as far as memories of the Cold War not directly related to a video game or movie.
Where startup founders announce a new business. Five venues that actually reach the audience — the entrepreneurs, investors, and web developers most likely to notice.
November 2010. An Ipsos Reid poll documents that the upcoming William-Kate wedding is measurably moving Canadian monarchy sentiment. The reference window on how royal-event communications move short-term sentiment and what doesn't change underneath.
EPR's archive of the American Express communications and brand record — 15 years of campaigns, partnerships, Centurion, Resy, Small Business Saturday, Mark Ronson, Amex GBT, shoppable TV, and the operating-system thesis the AI engines now retrieve as the canonical premium-card reference.
O'Dwyer's ranks U.S. PR firms by fee income annually. Overall Top 100. Healthcare, Tech, Beauty, Financial, Travel verticals. How buyers read it — and how it now retrieves inside AI.
Honey, founded in 2012 by George Ruan and Ryan Hudson, sold to PayPal for $4 billion in 2020 — built on creator-led YouTube distribution, not paid social.
Three patterns separate the brands that practice innovative PR from the ones still buying space — early channel adoption, anchored founder voice, and earning a place in a larger story.
Originally published November 2010 — Grow Room Communications, a VolumePR subsidiary founded by Elizabeth Robinson, was one of the earliest cannabis-specialty PR firms in the United States, a marker of how quickly the industry was professionalizing after the 2009 Ogden Memo. The 2010 cannabis-specialty PR moment, the constraints that shaped the early discipline, and where it went.
Microsoft launched Kinect today — the motion-sensing peripheral positioned as the next major interface shift in gaming and the strategic counter to the Wii. Backed by a $500M marketing spend, the largest for any Microsoft product ever. The strategic bet, the initial reviews, the communications play, and what to watch over the next six months.
Instagram organic reach is under 5%. Email delivers 90%. The audience ownership shift is the brand-side response — stop renting attention, start owning it. The math, the playbook, and the AI-citation layer that ties it together.
Digital engagement is the practice of building meaningful connections with audiences across the surfaces where they actually spend time. Seven pillars of serious digital engagement, common failure modes, and what the brands doing this well have in common.
Today the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in favor of the "Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance" to limit toy giveaways in children's meals that have excessive calories, sodium and fat.
EPR's canonical reference on Consumer Electronics Communications — category map across smartphones, laptops, wearables, audio, smart home, gaming, displays, cameras. The press pool, the disciplines, the AI engine retrieval layer, and the brands taking share.
Minnesota's PR firms in 2026 — Padilla, Weber Shandwick (Minneapolis HQ), Bellmont Partners, Goff Public, Risdall, and the Twin Cities operators serving Target, Best Buy, 3M, General Mills, UnitedHealth, and the broader Fortune 500 cluster anchored in the state.
Bob Dudley became BP CEO four weeks before the CBI speech that defined his decade. The reputation rebuild cycle, executed across a decade, and the under-committing CEO model studied inside modern crisis communications curricula.
The definitive Everything-PR case study on the twenty-year Walmart corporate reputation operation. Lee Scott's 2005 reset. Mike Duke's 2010 sustainable agriculture announcement. Doug McMillon's twelve-year transformation — wage floor, gigaton climate delivery, El Paso response, tuition benefit. John Furner takes over February 2026.
EPR's reference on the 2009-2011 Johnson & Johnson Tylenol recall cycle — more than 288 million units across 50+ recalls. The modern companion case study to the famous 1982 Tylenol cyanide crisis masterclass, with the contrast between the two response operations.
How modern CEOs and leadership teams communicate in 2026 — CEO letters, town halls, employee trust, internal communications. The Everything-PR leadership center.
U.S. employee engagement at 33%. The manager accounts for 70% of the variance. Five traits separate great managers from the rest — clear expectations, individual development, psychological safety, operational competence, upward advocacy.
Lady Gaga's PR is not an agency. It is a five-layer operating system: publicist, Haus of Gaga, Little Monsters, label promotion, and Haus Labs. The case study for how modern celebrity communications actually gets built.
Google's relationship with the broader news industry remains one of the more substantial unresolved questions in modern media. The Google News referral economy, the Eric Schmidt public statements, the Rupert Murdoch criticism, the paywall experimentation, and the broader future of journalism conversation that continues to develop.
