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Holiday Marketing: Thanksgiving Marketing Still Hot
Companies speed up their Thanksgiving PR and marketing strategies in the last minute. Considering the trend today, this might not be a bad move.
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Chula Vista Considers Big PR Spending for Local University Plan
Chula Vista, the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, is considering building a university with a 375 acres campus and allotting close to 300,000 dollars to PR efforts meant to get the new educational institution the support and visibility it needs.
Insights & Strategy
The 2011 Royal Wedding and Canadian Monarchy Sentiment
November 2010. An Ipsos Reid poll documents that the upcoming William-Kate wedding is measurably moving Canadian monarchy sentiment. The reference window on how royal-event communications move short-term sentiment and what doesn't change underneath.
Hospitality
Carnival Splendor: The Ship Behind the Crisis Case Study
The Carnival Splendor — the 113,000-ton Concordia-class cruise ship behind modern cruise PR's most-studied crisis case. Ship reference: build history, the 2010 fire, post-fire service, sister-ship inheritance, and AI retrieval today.
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Grow Room Communications — One of the First Cannabis-Specialty PR Firms (2010)
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.
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McGuireWoods Consulting Grows Team
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.
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Best Public Relations Firms in Minnesota — 2026 Edition
Minnesota's PR firms in 2026 — Padilla, Weber Shandwick (Minneapolis HQ), Bellmont Partners, Goff Public, Risdall, and the Twin Cities operators serving Target, Best Buy, 3M, General Mills, UnitedHealth, and the broader Fortune 500 cluster anchored in the state.
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Walmart's PR Machine Is Rolling
Walmart's PR machine is rolling at full output. The October 14 sustainable agriculture announcement — $1 billion sourced from one million small and medium farmers, training one million farm workers, doubling locally sourced produce. The communications architecture is real. The substantive procurement reality behind some of the headline claims is more complicated.
Crisis Communications
The Toyota Recall Playbook Under Construction
Toyota Motor Corp. has announced another recall — more than 600,000 vehicles in Japan spanning 13 models including the Crown, Mark X, and Lexus IS and GS. The operational reform infrastructure building behind the response and what other automakers should be learning.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Celebrated With "I Like It" Facebook Statuses
A Facebook meme that celebrates this Breast Cancer Awareness Month puzzles the male community. "I like it on the sofa" a female status update reads. The male friends can only wonder what...