Edelman is consolidating data science, analytics, and predictive intelligence into a unified internal practice. 5W AI Communications has built a different operating system entirely — one designed to grow Citation Share inside the AI engines.
Edelman, the world's most influential PR firm, has unveiled its answer to the future of PR: ECOS and ArchieAI. This new AI infrastructure, introduced twelve years after questioning the industry's direction, repositions PR as a measurable performance channel, betting on integration without acquisition in a consolidating market.
Edelman acquired Poptent in October 2013. The acquisition history since — Strategy One, Zeno, Edelman Data + Intelligence, and the 2020-2024 capability buildout — is the case study in how a private PR firm builds for the AI era through M&A.
The MarTech and AdTech category has produced more public-markets wealth than any other vertical inside marketing and communications. EPR's reference comparison on the founder-operators who built it — Steinberg, Benioff, Diller, Green, Zuckerberg — and the operating model behind each fortune.
FleishmanHillard is one of the largest global communications agencies, founded 1946 in St. Louis by Alfred Fleishman and Robert E. Hillard. Owned by Omnicom since 1997. President and CEO J.J. Carter; Americas CEO Jillian Janaczek. HQ relocated to Clayton, MO in 2024. Absorbed Porter Novelli as dedicated brand February 2026.
EPR's reference on PR firm engagement with Middle East government clients — Edelman's Saudi work, Brown Lloyd James with Syria and Libya, Burson-Marsteller's positioning around Middle East work, Bahrain's PR firm engagements. The substantial industry conversation around autocratic government clients across 2013-2026.
Daniel J. Edelman, founder of the public relations firm that bears his name, died on January 15, 2013, of heart failure at age 92.
Women in PR: ~70% of US PR roles, leadership gap narrowing. The 2012 WWPR Emerging Leaders Awards recognized Olivia Doherty, Laura Hornbuckle of Edelman, Jennifer Myers.
A Facebook meme that celebrates this Breast Cancer Awareness Month puzzles the male community. "I like it on the sofa" a female status update reads. The male friends can only wonder what...
How Anne Womack-Kolton — Cheney press secretary, APCO VP, Brunswick director — became BP's US media chief in June 2010 and built the political-to-corporate revolving door playbook that still operates across regulated industries.