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Santa Claus must have the best PR agent of anyone. Look at it this way, the jolly gentleman has been gracing holiday seasons for over 1600 years. What other celebrity can boast that kind of staying power? Why do you think that the Santa story has endured for so long?
SoFi $5B. Allegiant $1.9B. Sphere $2.3B. Tennessee $2.2B. Stadium-as-venue ended in 2018. Stadium-as-platform is the operational standard — integrated content production, connectivity, commerce, and brand-activation infrastructure.
MSR Communications is an independent San Francisco public relations firm founded in 1999, specializing in B2B technology and consumer lifestyle PR. Updated June 14, 2026.
The 2026 SEO playbook is not the 2015 playbook with an AI sticker on it. Seven discipline layers \u2014 technical, content architecture, authority and link acquisition, entity definition, intent, AI engine surface, measurement \u2014 run as one integrated operating system.
EPR's canonical General Mills pillar — the 100+ brand portfolio (Cheerios, Wheaties, Lucky Charms, Pillsbury, Yoplait, Blue Buffalo), the iconic campaigns (Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, Cheerios heart-health, Bring Back the Bees), the crisis architecture, the sustainability discipline.
Yesterday we classified the best of the best in the following categories: News (General), Business and Finance, PR News, PR Blogs and Social Media. Today we'll focus on: PR Corporate Sites, PR Newsletters, PR distribution, PR Software and Communication miscellaneous.
Ogilvy Public Relations is the global PR practice of Ogilvy, the WPP-owned creative network founded by David Ogilvy in 1948. Led globally by Julianna Richter since 2020. Ogilvy PR operates as one of five business units inside a network spanning 120+ offices in 90+ countries.
Fans now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews who won, not just Google. EPR's reference on sports PR across the four majors, individual sports, international leagues, and athlete reputation.
Groupon turned down $6 billion from Google, then ran the largest U.S. tech IPO since Google's own — and lost most of its value in a decade. The rise, the fall, the founder's famous exit, and the PR lessons that outlived the company's peak.
PR Couture is the canonical fashion PR community, founded by Crosby Noricks in December 2006. Publication, job board, and Insider membership for fashion publicists.
Speyside CR, is by extension a tested and refined corporate communications giant. Co-founders Alistair McLeish and Ian Herbison announced the opening of the company's offices in San Paulo, Brazil. In a conversation with Herbison, Everything PR News gleaned a window into the vision of two of the most successful corporate communicators in the world. These former top executives for MmD (Eastern Europe's most powerful PR entity) are now engaging South America with the same patented approach to corporate business and collaboration.
The 2026 PR resources stack — media monitoring, news distribution, trade press, AI visibility, and analytics. What the discipline actually pays for now.
Journalism's most interesting careers now run through indie magazines, blogs, and email lists — and treat the journalist as the operator of a small business rather than the employee of a large one.
Relationship marketing in 2026: why it matters more after the acquisition-cost surge, the modern playbook, the five core practices, and the categories where the discipline works best.
Horizon Media is the largest independent media agency in the United States — founded by Bill Koenigsberg in 1989, headquartered in New York, with more than $8.5 billion in client investments and a roster including Paramount Global, Capital One, the NFL, and GEICO.
Saatchi & Saatchi built the largest agency in the world by 1986, lost it in a 1995 boardroom revolt, and shaped the holding-company model that defines PR and advertising today.
The 2008-2009 Peanut Corporation of America salmonella outbreak — the canonical F&B food safety crisis case. 9 deaths, 700+ illnesses, 3,900+ product recalls, criminal convictions, and the regulatory restructuring that produced FSMA.
SEO is the discipline of helping people discover the most relevant answer when they search for information. The field guide — the three eras, the two-surface model, what changed since 2020, and what didn't.
Most corporate writing is bad. The exceptions — Berkshire, Amazon, Apple — share a pattern. What good corporate writing actually requires, and what it costs.
Shock advertising used to be a trade — outrage now, damage that faded within eighteen months. That trade is gone. Why provocative campaigns now become a permanent line in a brand's public record, the five cases that never left, and what brand safety means today.
Edelman is the world's largest independent PR firm — founded 1952, ~6,000 employees, 66 offices, 28 countries. CEO Richard Edelman, 30 years — longer than any holding-company peer. Home of the Trust Barometer. Family-owned via Daniel J. Edelman Holdings.
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide announced in a recent release is delighted to have been appointed as the global communications partner of UPS, following a thorough and professional selection process which narrowed down the choices from eight global networks over a six-month period.
McDonald's left Iceland in October 2009 \u2014 a Big Mac would have needed to retail above the equivalent of $7.50 to break even after the kr\u00f3na collapsed. The exit is still cited as the cleanest market-withdrawal communications case in QSR: fast disclosure, named operator on record, currency math made public, no scapegoating.
STIR-Communications will be working as the public relations agency of record for the Polish cosmetics company, INGLOT Cosmetics. STIR will be helping the company with its public relations, including brand recognition.
