The Pentagon's public affairs budget runs $600M to $1.4B annually. The A-tier contractors (DDB, VMLY&R, Wunderman Thompson), B-tier specialist communications firms (Edelman, Burson, Weber Shandwick, Brunswick, Teneo federal practices), and C-tier defense-specialist boutiques (Sayres, McBee, Cassidy, S-3 Group, Vogel Group).
There have been lots of educated guessing about complications to a concussion she received a few years ago, or a neurological condition.
Since Trump announced his presidential run, Trump-branded hotels, golf courses, and casinos have posted a 14 percent national decline in foot traffic — 20 percent in blue states. The geographic and demographic concentration confirms this is not a market correction. The brand-cost dynamics of taking a personal brand political, as they look at August 2016.
September 2016. Donald Trump attacks Ford on the campaign trail over Mexico manufacturing. Ford CEO Mark Fields goes on CNN with Poppy Harlow and rebuts the candidate directly — CEO as voice, quantified rebuttal, quotable language. "It's really unfortunate when politics get in the way of the facts." The corporate-rebuttal playbook is being rewritten in real time.
In politics and business alike, money talks, and many alliances are bought with dollars and cents, as opposed to camaraderie.
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation is a charitable non-profit chaired by billionaire David Koch.
Former federal attorney Alexander Silvert is pushing the Hawaii House to recall the bribery petition Speaker Nadine Nakamura quietly filed away — with Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke now on unpaid leave and the criminal probe widening.
BerlinRosen is a strategic communications firm co-founded 2005 by Valerie Berlin and Jonathan Rosen. Built to operate with the speed of a political campaign. Flagship of Orchestra (10-agency network, 600+ employees, O2 Investment Partners-backed). Rebranded from BerlinRosen Holdings March 2024.
Public domain PR is the practitioner playbook for communicating where every word is permanent and every audience is unfiltered. Five operating rules for the AI engine era.
PR representing government agencies has expanded from one-off contract communications into permanent infrastructure. Federal, state, and municipal agencies now run dedicated comms teams plus outside firms on specialty mandates.
