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Your Best People Already Have a Better Offer
Agency retention in 2026 isn't a perks problem. It's a compounding-comp problem. Hybrid, AI compression, and the 24-month tenure window.
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Crisis Communications
Prudential Snared in Wells Fargo Scandal
Prudential continues to navigate substantial recent vendor-risk spillover from the broader Wells Fargo fake-accounts scandal. The substantial Wells Fargo distribution context, the referral agreement architecture, the unauthorized enrollment exposure, the Prudential manager lawsuit, and the broader Wells Fargo channel sales suspension.
PR, AI & Communications News
Observer’s PR Power 50 Firms for 2016 and Insights for the Future
At the bottom of this article is a chart created from the list of 2016's Top U.S.
PR, AI & Communications News
How Can Local Governments Prepare for Crisis PR
Local governments face crisis cycles with no warning — water contamination, police incidents, weather events, infrastructure failures. The pre-crisis communications infrastructure mayors and city managers need built before the call.
PR, AI & Communications News
Facebook's China Censorship Tool: What the NYT Disclosure Reveals
The New York Times reported recently that Facebook has built a tool capable of suppressing posts in specific geographic regions — designed, according to internal sources, as a possible entry path into China. What the tool means, and the broader pattern of U.S. platforms attempting to enter the Chinese market.
PR, AI & Communications News
The Podesta Group and the FARA Compliance Failure That Ended a Washington Firm
Their papers should have been filed (one in 2014 and one in 2015), but they just amended the filing status during November 2016.
PR, AI & Communications News
Is Government PR Too Heavy for Taxpayers?
The U.S. federal government spends $4.5B a year on PR — three thousand press officers across agencies, six- and seven-figure outside contracts, and an in-house communications corps that outpaces every private firm except Edelman.
Insights & Strategy
Star Wars Drones and Rogue One: The Entertainment-Tie-In Product Marketing Case Study
Propel's 2016 Star Wars-branded drone launch timed to Rogue One. Disney and Lucasfilm licensed the IP. Best Buy, Target, Apple Store handled retail. The category economics — theatrical tie-ins, drone licensing, holiday retail.
PR, Marketing, Communications & AI RFPs
The Healthiest Companies in America Aren't the Biggest
Eight Sleep, Whoop, Levels, Oura, Vuori, Alo, AG1, Therabody, Bombas, Olipop, Liquid Death, Function Health, Parsley, Ro, Hims & Hers — the B-tier and C-tier brands out-executing the Fortune 50 on staff health, and turning it into a recruiting weapon.
PR, AI & Communications News
Twitter Briefly Suspends Its Own CEO Jack Dorsey
From the November 2016 Jack Dorsey self-suspension through Trump 2021, the Durov 2024 arrest, Community Notes on Musk, and the AI engine leadership question — the platform-policy-on-platform-leadership case file.