PR Firm: Matter Relauches Local Marketing Unit
Tue, Aug. 18, 2026
By Steve Barnes
Matter relaunches its local marketing services, which will focus on providing approachable, agency-caliber marketing programs to help smaller-scale businesses grow in the age of AI... Publicis Sports, the sport and culture marketing arm of Publicis Group, is collaborating with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs and 3 Arts Sports on the launch of TEKTA, a Name, Image and Likeness consulting and activation offering... The 23rd Annual International Business Awards announces its Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners for 2026.
An ever-growing tidal wave of information has given communications pros more data than ever to work with, but the ability to connect the dots provided by that data is in short supply.
AI and search can create an instant shortlist to a query like “clean energy PR agency” or “best cybersecurity public relations companies.” But how does a decision maker validate these recommendations?
Page launches the Polansky Future Leaders Fund, which was established through a gift from 2025 Page Hall of Fame inductee and former Weber Shandwick Global CEO Andy Polansky... Ruder Finn reintroduces its website, ruderfinn.com, which will now feature a large language model (LLM) as its primary user interface... Higher Plane Media is launched by former Sloane & Company CEO Darren Brandt.
For legal firms, an earned media hit is not an outcome—it's just the beginning of a life cycle. Here's how to leverage that life cycle into one of the most efficient business development tools a firm can deploy.
As AI-generated outreach grows and newsrooms shrink, personalized pitching can make the difference between opening a door and getting ignored.
How to reach audiences who have stopped trusting the biggest names in media.
How landing detailed, focused stories in respected publications can be a key part of increasing a travel brand’s visibility throughout the GEO cycle.
CGLife, a pharma agency focused on clients who are bringing therapies for rare, specialty and hard-to-treat diseases to market, combines with AI-native agency The Considered+AI... PRSA-NY announces the shortlist for the 2026 Big Apple Awards... The Agency East Public Relations, a Fort Lauderdale–based shop that works exclusively with women business owners in the early growth stage, is expanding its practice to help women business owners get found and cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and Claude.
Consumers are increasingly looking to GEO to give them answers about travel destinations. How do you make sure your brand comes up as one of those answers?
Senior leaders have been exiting newly combined agencies since the wave of integrations started—the kind of departures that don't always make headlines but show up in who's running client accounts six months later.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
AI can’t make it all on its own. It needs a little help to succeed in the marketplace—and strong communications can be key to that success, according to a new study from financial communications firm Gregory.
There is still reason to be skeptical of AI, and its overall use and accuracy. 
Grand Prairie is looking for a firm to develop a strategic marketing campaign to promote its EpicCentral entertainment district, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
