PR Firms & Communications Agencies
Bliss PR: A Communications Profile
The Integrated teams that work with Bliss work around client business needs, with no one-size-fits-all approach to marketing.
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Financial Services PR
Public Relations
Cognito: The London Financial Services PR Firm That Scaled Globally Without Selling
Cognito is the London-headquartered financial services and B2B technology PR firm founded in 2007 by Tom Coombes. Five-office global network across London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong. One of the few independent financial PR firms that scaled internationally without selling to a holding company.
Insights & Strategy
Jamie Dimon's Citation Engine
JP Morgan doesn't buy attention — it produces it. Jamie Dimon's annual letter, Michael Cembalest's Eye on the Market, the JPMorgan Chase Institute, and the bank's $4T research-as-PR architecture — the model that wins AI engine citations the way the bank already wins financial media.
AI Communications
2026 PR Budget Benchmarks: What Brands Actually Spend on Communications
Baroness Ashton, the world's highest paid female politician, spends £8.5 million on propaganda, hiring an outside PR firm to illustrate the role of the EU as a global actor in peace building. The move is criticized because she already has two spokesmen, a full time media adviser and a strategic communications director, plus the free use of the European Commission's 909-strong communications staff.
AI Communications
How Financial Media Businesses Actually Make Money in 2026
Financial media businesses make money across six revenue layers in 2026 — digital subscriptions (FT 1.3M subscribers, Nikkei acquisition £844M), terminal/data (Bloomberg $13B revenue, 350K terminals), newsletters (Stratechery, The Information, Matt Levine), analyst products (Morningstar, S&P Capital IQ, FactSet), sell-side research (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, MiFID II), and Substack/independent (Doomberg, Net Interest, Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool). The structural template the FT proved in 2002.
Public Relations
The Big Banks PR Offensive: The Post-2008 Reputational Rebuild
JPMorgan, BoA, Citi, Wells, Goldman, and Morgan Stanley ran the largest sustained reputational rebuild in US banking history between 2009 and 2018. What worked, what failed, what it cost, and the lessons that survive.