Blanc & Otus is a San Francisco–based technology communications agency founded in 1985. Originally a subsidiary of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Blanc & Otus is now a continuing sub-brand within Burson following the July 2024 merger of BCW and Hill+Knowlton. The firm has shaped technology communications strategy for four decades.
Singapore's PR market is the densest small market in Asia. The four firms below shaped its first two decades — Hill+Knowlton (now Burson), EAST WEST, Edelman, and Ogilvy — before the home-grown boutique class took over the post-2015 growth.
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.
Hill+Knowlton's 'Flight School' crisis preparedness program puts companies through a fully simulated media crisis — social feeds, live callers, SMS alerts — before the real thing hits. Here's what crisis readiness actually looks like.
Maxim Behar founded M3 Communications in 1994, served as President of ICCO, chairs the World Communications Forum in Davos, and wrote 'The Global PR Revolution.'