
10 Largest PR Firms in the US & Their Website Traffic
The world's largest PR agency has been around for over sixty years, and it continues pushing boundaries of what the PR industry can do.

The world's largest PR agency has been around for over sixty years, and it continues pushing boundaries of what the PR industry can do.

Waggener Edstrom has been selected as the first ever US agency named AOR for Volvo Cars of North America. According to the news release from the firm, WE is to support Volvo's brand refresh in the US market.

With its new "Espresso" offering, Ogilvy Public Relations hopes to attract emerging brands and start-up companies to its client roster. If big PR companies are lowering their prices (affordable and flexible cost structure), are boutique agencies threatened?

Edelman, APCO Worldwide, Waggener Edstrom, Ruder Finn, W2O Group, Weber Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard, Burston Marsteller, and MWW, these companies sit at the top of the public relations food chain with some others. But just how competitive are these and others when it comes to their digital footprint? We have discussed this many times, but only now can we present them using visual.ly to enhance the results visually.

Last week Waggener Edstrom Worldwide announced oday announced having expanded their Hong Kong office's luxury portfolio. The agency reportedly added several major brands as well as a new hire of note, Sunni Hong. On the strength of 46 percent year-on-year growth, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide adds designer Cole Haan, and completes major campaigns for leather goods specialists LANCEL, and the wine brand Pernod Ricard.

2012 promises to be a good year for American PR firms despite failings in the economic forecast. Companies employed to improve other bsinesses' visibility and image, public relations firms like APCO Worldwide, Waggener Edstrom, and Edelman may well be the barometer of hope many people are looking for.

Surfing about the digital public relations world this morning, I ran across Waggener Edstrom via our new EPR Spanish Twitter variant. As anyone in the online PR business knows, WE's award winning social media arm is out there, always. But my little blurb today focuses on another WE element that caught my eye, their Consumer Engagement Blog.

In agency news, Weber Shandwick has just appointed Barkha Patel-Zinzuwadia Regional Head of Technology and Senior Vice President Asia Pacific. Formerly of Weber Shandwick Singapore, Patel-Zinzuwadia was also General Manager Thailand previously.

The investment in Shout Communications Korea is part of Waggener Edstrom’s aggressive global strategy, which already includes expansion in Australia, India and South Africa.

Waggener Edstrom, for those unfamiliar, serves big brands in Hong Kong like; 7-Eleven, Maxim's Group, Skagen Designs, and ZUJI.