WPP – Conflicts of Interest Almost Inevitable Between Clients and Rival Brands WPP counts over 400 agencies around the world under its corporate umbrella. That means that there are bound to be some conflicts looming between rival clients and brands that must be juggled between their advertising and PR interests.
In the middle of awards season in Hollywood, there’s been a lot of political side-taking going on. It started long before the Golden Globes and Meryl Streep’s Lifetime Achievement much viewed acceptance speech and pointing a beautifully manicured and accessorized finger or two at the current administration. She was called
Mercury Gains DC Top Flyer Andrea Bozek might not be a household name, but she’s well-known to Republicans in DC. She’s the only person to ever work communications for both the House and the Senate at such a high level. In the House she was communications director for the National
Remember when “Windows” was ubiquitous with “home computer.” Even though there were a relative handful of holdouts, there was no doubt Microsoft ruled the home computing universe. This was the status quo for decades, as also-rans came and went. Various Windows versions also came and went, but customers didn’t have too
When you’re running things, you are held responsible for the decisions of your team, even if you never worked directly with them, and they messed up on their own time. Such is the way of things, especially in the Internet Age. Couple that truism with the fact that prevailing perception
If you get your coffee at the store rather than through the drive-thru, the price of a cup may have just gone up. Smucker, the company which owns popular brands such as Folgers, Café Bustelo and owns the rights to sell Dunkin’ Donuts branded coffee in grocery stores recently announced
A business owner or manager may wonder if it’s necessary to understand how the media functions and whether it will somehow interact with their business’s activities. Media training is meant to help anyone in the company who might encounter the media, like the CEO, founders, board of directors, or public
Everybody loves a hero’s journey and, in effect, that’s what breaking records in sports represents, no matter what the record is. It might be attendance records for home games during a season; it might be what the Warriors recently experienced with them winning 25 road games over two seasons before
Edelman’s Growth in 2016 Only 1.7% Edelman just released their financial information from 2016. They reported $875 million in revenue, but that was only 1.7% growth at the world’s largest PR firm from 2015 on like-for-like. Richard Edelman, CEO, said: “It’s a pause,” and blamed economic uncertainty as well as
Matt Kucharski Becomes PadillaCRT’s President Matt Kucharski has been with PadillaCRT since 1989 and has been serving most recently as a member of their Executive Leadership Team overseeing B2B and B2C divisions. But he’s just been promoted to president, focusing on the company’s health practice. He is taking the place
