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Can A PR Agency Be Too Loyal?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like most career PR agency people, I always drink the client Kool-Aid. I’m a true believer, internalizing brand messages and language — even in a personal setting, even after years. Most agency PR people have similar stories. Yet one reason brands bring on agencies is that they’re relatively objective.

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$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Internal comms tool SocialChorus acquired by a PE firm; Burton-Taylor digs up revenue numbers; Nexis Newsdesk Simplifies news search; Propel adds broadcast monitoring Welcome to the beginning of September. >>> Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? I’m blaming it on the blur that’s been time the last several months.

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Appetite remains for agency acquisitions across UK and Europe

Wadds Inc.

However, for owners of sought after capabilities, and agencies with strong propositions leading to good growth, and profitability, it remains a good market. Are there any trends agency owners should have on their radar? As a result PE are involved in over 50% of agency deals on average.

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More on PR2020: social media activism, internal comms resurgence, storytelling and professionalism

Stephen Waddington

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. The most common approach to social media management is an agency or junior member armed with a monitoring tool and limited ability to feedback to operational areas of the business.

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How PR Supports Employer Branding

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Time was, we’d have a full-blown PR strategy meeting, and employee recruitment would be in an internal comms section, reduced to a single bullet point in a slide deck. The CEO is often the public face of the enterprise, especially for entrepreneurial companies, so their participation is critical to successful employer PR.

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From start-up to PR powerhouse: Looking back at 15 years of Presspage

Presspage

In 2008, Bart, Sébastien and Tim were working with a PR agency to promote their first young company, Viddix. “We Sébastien adds that the agency had never seen a platform quite like their press page: "Next thing we knew, they asked if we'd be interested in offering it as a product to some of their clients", he says.

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The 15 Best PR and Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

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This awards event celebrates the best of the best corporate, agency, nonprofit, and education teams, and the work they produced during the entry period. International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) World Conference . Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) International Conference. Dates: March 19, 2020.