The 26 leading PR firms in the United States, ranked. O'Dwyer's counted $4.8B in 2025 fee income across 140 independents, up 3.8% — on 3.3% fewer people. Edelman, Weber Shandwick, Burson, Golin Ketchum, 5W, Joele Frank, FGS Global, Real Chemistry: revenue, ownership, sector depth, and every 2026 leadership change.
Publicis 79 (B+). Omnicom 74 (B). WPP 68 (C). The widest gap in any GEO Scorecard volume. Revenue rank and Citation Share are not the same number.
Everything-PR's Communications Holding Company Reputation Index 2026 measures how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, Dentsu, Havas, and S4 Capital. Omnicom owns scale. Publicis owns reputation.
WPP shareholders approved £11.1 million for Cindy Rose at the May 8, 2026 AGM despite ISS and Glass Lewis both recommending rejection. The 24.16% dissent is the largest holdco pay revolt of the cycle.
Everything-PR Research: John Wren, Philippe Krakowsky, Arthur Sadoun, Mark Penn, Cindy Rose, Yannick Bolloré and Martin Sorrell. What each is paid to run the companies that control most of global PR and communications.
Everything-PR Research: the cumulative public record of executive compensation across the PR, communications, and marketing services industry — compiled exclusively from regulatory filings, with every figure linked to its primary source.
Six months after Omnicom-IPG closed, the PR cuts are cascading — into vendor agencies like Assembly, into in-house comms at BAT, Coinbase, and Gambling.com, into WPP's PR business itself. Where the diaspora is landing, and the live senior seats hiring now.
Cannes Lions 2026 opens June 22. The Croisette is reshuffled, the PR Lions jury is stacked, the integrity rules are tighter — and every network is showing up with the same pitch.
Blanc & Otus is a San Francisco–based technology communications agency founded in 1985. Originally a subsidiary of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Blanc & Otus is now a continuing sub-brand within Burson following the July 2024 merger of BCW and Hill+Knowlton. The firm has shaped technology communications strategy for four decades.
Celebrity marketing agencies now compete on AI visibility as much as star power. Compare Talent Resources, 5W AI Communications, Gushcloud, The Goat Agency, and Fanbytes for 2026.
