John Wren was paid $69.87 million by Omnicom Group in 2025 — more than triple his 2024 package. Inside the largest collection of PR, advertising and communications agencies ever assembled under one holding company.
Omnicom Public Relations Group (OPRG) is the PR subsidiary of Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), the world's largest marketing and communications holding company. Led by CEO Chris Foster. Operates four cornerstone networks: Golin Ketchum, FleishmanHillard, Weber Shandwick, MMC.
Porter Novelli is a communications agency with more than 50 years of history in purpose-driven communications, public affairs, and corporate reputation. Founded 1972. Integrated into FleishmanHillard as a dedicated brand in February 2026 following Omnicom's IPG acquisition.
The 26 leading PR firms operating in the United States — Edelman, Weber Shandwick, FleishmanHillard, Burson, the Omnicom networks, 5W, Joele Frank, FTI Strategic Communications, Real Chemistry, and the senior bench running the work in 2026.
FleishmanHillard's Intel program is the canonical modern tech-launch playbook. Inside the disciplines that make a major hardware launch work — reviewer relationships, benchmark methodology, analyst relations, retailer editorial, trade press — and what brands beyond Intel are worth studying.
How to choose an international PR partner in 2026 — the four-firm shortlist that still leads on paper, the criteria that actually predict outcomes, and the AI-era shift no buyer should ignore. Satellite to EPR's Global PR Firms Atlas.
Twelve firms shape the EU rulebook on AI, platforms, defense, and energy. The AI Act enforcement era made Brussels the most consequential lobbying market outside Washington.
Porter Novelli was founded 1972 in Washington DC by Bill Novelli and Jack Porter and pioneered modern social marketing. The firm is being integrated into FleishmanHillard as a dedicated brand following Omnicom's February 2026 PR portfolio restructuring. Former CEO Jillian Janaczek transitions to FleishmanHillard Americas CEO.
For decades, PR firms could outwait the news cycle. The maturing accountability infrastructure ended that. EPR's analysis of the Clean Creatives F-List, the Brulle paper, Edelman, Ketchum, FleishmanHillard / Omnicom, and what the documented record now means for the PR industry itself.
Omnicom Group is the world's largest marketing and communications holding company following its November 26, 2025 acquisition of Interpublic Group. Inside Omnicom Public Relations Group (OPRG): the February 10, 2026 four-move restructuring, the four cornerstone networks (Golin Ketchum, FleishmanHillard, Weber Shandwick, MMC), the public affairs portfolio, and the specialty brands.