70% of corporate communicators will include global marketing strategies in their companies withing 5 years, a PRGN survey revealed. Interestingly, more than 40% of the interviewees told that their organizations already have a formal global marketing function.
In January 2011, Walmart launched a multi-channel media campaign to clear political ground for an East New York store. Fifteen years later, Walmart still has no NYC store \u2014 and the campaign is studied as a textbook public-affairs case in coalition vs. budget.
Hanson Dodge absorbed Comet Branding + PR on January 1, 2011, integrating social media and PR into its creative platform. The independent Milwaukee agency is now led by Stacie Boney. Updated June 14, 2026.
The Minneapolis-based Olson PR agency continues their expansion through acquisition strategy with the addition of public relations shop Dig Communications after buying loyalty-marketing agency Denali in June. The deal signed in the summer of 2010 boosted the agency to become one of the Twin Cities' largest full-service agencies and one of the country's top 10 largest independents, and they are looking for new companies to acquire.
Brian Tierney, a former Philadelphia Inquirer publisher bought Realtime Media, using unique personal background to separately launch PR firm.
Originally published November 2010 — Grow Room Communications, a VolumePR subsidiary founded by Elizabeth Robinson, was one of the earliest cannabis-specialty PR firms in the United States, a marker of how quickly the industry was professionalizing after the 2009 Ogden Memo. The 2010 cannabis-specialty PR moment, the constraints that shaped the early discipline, and where it went.
Marty Machowsky joined the MWC Washington team as a senior vice president of Strategic Communications and Joe Jaso as a vice president in the group's Federal Public Affairs group. Former state senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) will consult for the MWC Georgia Government Relations team in Atlanta.
In an AI-powered world, visibility isn't about ad budget — it's about being discoverable, understandable, and citable by machines. The 7 pillars of AI visibility, the leaders and laggards, and the fix.
The Philippines is the largest English-speaking economy in Southeast Asia and the global capital of the business process outsourcing industry. Marcos Jr., the Duterte coalition split, the $38B BPO sector, the OFW diaspora, Jollibee and the South China Sea — inside EPR's National Retrieval Stack™ for the Philippines.
The Beautiful Planning Marketing Group has launched a new class session teaching the methods and strategies of Do It Yourself Public Relations, aiming to help those who can’t afford to hire a PR company to represent them. The course has been designed to teach business owners, marketing professionals, authors, artists, models and actors how to promote themselves.