The British monarchy is the longest continuously operating communications institution in the modern world. From 1066 to 2026, every English and British sovereign has operated inside a public-perception architecture evolving with each available medium. The thousand-year sweep.
Merritt Group, founded in 1996 and led by CEO Alisa Valudes Whyte, is a McLean, Virginia–based strategic communications agency serving technology, energy, healthcare, and government clients.
EPR's canonical NASA reference — the civil space agency of the United States. Apollo, Artemis, JWST, Mars, the Boeing Starliner crisis, the Challenger and Columbia records, and NASA's position as the most-cited federal agency inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Sage Communications is a McLean, Virginia integrated marketing, PR, and advertising agency founded 2002 by David Gorodetski. Leading public-sector and technology agency in the DC metro region. $38.1M revenue (2025), ~86 employees. Solution brands include Brotman Winter Fried, Virtual Marketing (acquired), Johnson Design Group, Longbottom Communications. President Julie Murphy. Federal clients include DFC, EXIM Bank, APHIS, USDA, US Fish & Wildlife Service.
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government \u2014 with H+K, FleishmanHillard, and Ogilvy PR also above $48. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.
Ogilvy, FleishmanHillard, Porter Novelli, and Hill & Knowlton collectively earned over $150 million from federal PR contracts. Here's the breakdown of who got what — and why it matters.
The U.S. federal government employs 3,000 press officers, spends $4.5 billion a year on PR, and pays its flacks 70% more than the private sector. Only Edelman outspends Washington. The EPR master pillar for Public Affairs and Political Communications.
IDA Ireland — the FDI agency that won a record 323 investments in 2025. The communications model, the 2025–2029 strategy, and what FDI PR looks like in the AI era.
U.S. municipal PR spending exceeds $2B annually. Edelman, Burson, Berlin Rosen, Mercury, SKDKnickerbocker, Tusk. Municipal and government PR in 2026.