
PR Agencies and the 2020 Office-Closure Question: A Retrospective
A retrospective on how PR agencies handled the 2020 office-closure question — three operators on the record, what held up, and the agency category settlement five years on.

A retrospective on how PR agencies handled the 2020 office-closure question — three operators on the record, what held up, and the agency category settlement five years on.

The Bradford Group is a Nashville-based PR, content marketing, and social media firm founded 2000 by Jeff Bradford. Merged with Dalton Agency in April 2020 to create Nashville's 4th largest PR and advertising firm. Industries: CRE, construction, finance, healthcare, tech, professional services.

Weber Shandwick is one of the largest global PR networks. Founded January 2001 in New York, now part of Omnicom Public Relations Group after the November 26, 2025 IPG acquisition. CEO Susan Howe retires September 2026; Karen Pugliese succeeds. Confirmed unaffected by the February 2026 OPRG restructuring.
Everything-PR's running record of B2C and B2B agency acquisitions, holding-company moves, and the independents holding the line. Now including Omnicom+IPG ($13B), FGS→KKR ($1.7B), and the Burson formation. Updated continuously.

A guide to the leading Singapore PR firms — Mileage, APRW, AKA Asia, Hoffman, Ellerton, Affluence, LITMUS, McGallen & Bolden, Elliot, DIFY, Sling & Stone, plus Edelman, FleishmanHillard, and Weber Shandwick.

Saatchi & Saatchi built the largest agency in the world by 1986, lost it in a 1995 boardroom revolt, and shaped the holding-company model that defines PR and advertising today.