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For PR Agencies, Does Cannes Really Matter?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The other reason is that for many PR agencies, Cannes simply hasn’t been on the radar, except when a client is a sponsor or honoree. In 2015, PRs were heartened that three winning Lions were entered by PR agencies, and the Procter & Gamble’s “Like A Girl” campaign won the PR Grand Prix.

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How PR can innovate in 2016

The Resolution Blog

Whether it was helping clients understand digital skills and knowledge at Edelman and Weber Shandwick; designing digital transformation programmes for clients while at We Are Social or now working as an independent consultant the issues of planning and driving innovation within PR agencies has always been front of mind.

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What Thought Leaders Have In Common

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Agency teams promise client executives that they’ll be positioned as thought leaders, we throw the term into proposals, and we call our content “thought capital.” Kurtzman, who died in 2016 and also coined the term “economic headwinds,” was clearly a thought leader in his own right. Build a community.

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Paid Internships: The Key to Diversifying the PR Profession

PRSay

He connected me with the opportunity to explore communications and public relations, which led to an internship at a PR agency. For many young or career-transitioning PR professionals who represent under-resourced identity communities, an unpaid internship — even for academic credit or experience — is a non-starter.

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Public relations and professionalism: work to do to realise full potential

Stephen Waddington

There’s little to distinguish it from the career path into hairdressing or estate agency. billion to the UK economy (Public Relations and Communications Association, 2021). billion in 2016 (Public Relations and Communications Association, 2016). It subsequently led to the collapse of the agency (Kwan Yuk, 2017).

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From Crisis Point to Turning Point

Maxim Behar

Nothing proves this point better than the giant scandal that shocked the UK, South Africa, and the entire global PR community, culminating in September 2017, just as I started and restarted this book: the Bell Pottinger case. Hence, my notion of PR agencies is something like editorial teams.

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. As HubSpot’s first agency partner back in 2008 , we’ve built our firm on the back of automation and have witnessed it transform the industry over the last decade. Are you ready?

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