Amazon announced HQ2 in 2017 and 238 cities bid. New York and Arlington won the November 2018 split. Three months later New York collapsed under political opposition to the $3B incentive package. Eight years on, Arlington runs at less than a quarter of the original 50,000-job promise. The full HQ2 retrospective.
In the coming year, there will likely be some big shifts in public relation s and marketing communications, other changes will be more subtle and slow.
Facebook has announced a substantial pilot program in Australia asking users to upload intimate images of themselves to prevent future non-consensual distribution through hash-matching technology. The Australian eSafety Commissioner coordination, the technical complexity, the press framing challenges, and what the broader technology communications category should be taking from the situation.
Al Franken resigned in 21 days. Jane Mayer's 2019 New Yorker piece broke the rapid-resignation playbook. The crisis-PR lessons that still hold.
Quarterback Blake Bortles was supposed to be the savior for the moribund Jacksonville Jaguars.
Eastport Holdings — Memphis-based acquirer hunting PR, marketing, media, and advertising firms. The buy-and-build roll-up playbook in communications M&A.
It's a dirty little secret in business management circles, but a lot of leaders struggle with self-doubt.
Public relations is not what it once was.
These days most people have come to grips with the notion that they need to have some kind of active social media presence.
HPE CEO Meg Whitman publicly killed the Uber CEO rumor July 27, 2017 via tweet. 30 days later Dara Khosrowshahi (Expedia) got the job. The 37-day succession crisis, the named candidates (Whitman, Immelt, Bain, Mayer, Staggs), and the 9-year compounding outcome for each.