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History Factory, an agency that helps companies leverage their history and heritage to transform their brand positioning, marketing and communications, has launched the COVID-19 Corporate Memory Project. The project is a free archival resource that spotlights corporate responses to the crisis as well as offering guidance on how to prepare for and respond effectively to the next crisis. It combines crowdsourced content from corporate contributors with publicly available media coverage, press releases, social media posts and statements, documents, photography, video and a range of other digital materials related to the pandemic’s impact on the business world. Companies featured include Airbnb, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Uber and The Walt Disney Company. Those wishing to contribute content for the project can click here.
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Boden has become the first independent PR agency to join the Association of National Advertisers’ Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing, an industry-wide alliance representing advertisers, media, research companies, trade organizations, and agencies across Hispanic, African-American, Asian-American, LGBTQ, People with Disabilities and non-multicultural segments. “Adding Boden’s independent multicultural PR discipline within our Communications Track is a natural fit that amplifies our work,” said AIMM co-founder Gilberto Dávila. The agency will work with AIMM’s leadership as it expands its Cultural Insights Impact Measure to include public relations. CIIM is a metric that identifies the impact and effectiveness of cultural insights in ads and programming and how these have the potential to impact sales.
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KCD PR, which works with clients in the financial services, technology and transportation industries, has won the Silver Stevie Award in the Communications PR Campaign of the Year category. The agency took home the prize for its media relations campaign for Softbank Vision Fund-backed company Brain Corp., in which it garnered national press coverage for the company in such media outlets as Bloomberg, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider and CNBC as well as a full feature on the broadcast technology program "BBC Click," which aired in 200 countries with over 380 million viewers. KCD PR was also recently awarded the Hermes Creative Platinum Award for its media relations campaign for an artificial intelligence and robotics PR client.
Bospar expands its Audit*E tool for small- and medium-sized businesses, which provides comprehensive visibility scoring, competitive analysis and platform-specific improvement recommendations, giving users actionable intelligence to help with brand positioning.... 5W is increasing its presence in Tampa and the Florida market....PR Consultants Group, a nationwide network of senior-level public relations, strategic communications and marketing specialists in more than 50 U.S. markets, has brought on 13 independently owned public relations firms across 13 markets and 12 states so far in 2026.
Real Chemistry launches MaestroHCP, which is designed to help pharmaceutical marketers plan, activate and measure HCP engagement with more speed, precision and control... Laughlin Constable Public Relations receives a Skyline Award from PRSA... 1Milk2Sugars, which has offices in New York, Toronto and Montréal, is expanding its influencer marketing offering with the establishment of a dedicated U.S.-based influencer team.
10Fold launches MetricsMatter 5.0, a proprietary communications intelligence platform that brings together earned media, social, digital, competitive performance, website activity and visibility across five leading LLMs... Stagwell increases its investment in Real Clear Holdings, publisher of political intelligence platform Real Clear Politics and creator of the RCP Poll Average... Aim & Grace, which works with tourism, hospitality and lifestyle brands, is launched by Amy Skelding and Grace Parker, who previously led Finn Partners' UK travel practice.
Weber Shandwick U.S. president Michael Wehman joins The LAGRANT Foundation board of directors... Financial Profiles, a strategic communications firm that provides companies with IR, PR. transactions and crisis communications, introduces ValueView360... Babbit Bodner, an Atlanta-based agency, is expanding to New York City.
TEAM LEWIS launches Orbital, a secure AI operating system focused on helping multi-market organizations connect insight, creativity, messaging and public-facing delivery... Paradox Public Relations is expanding its Allied Communications offering, which helps companies and institutions across the U.S. and allied markets communicate around defense innovation, emerging technology and international cooperation... Laughlin Constable Public Relations' Emily Miller receives the 2026 Public Relations Society of America Chicago Young Professional of the Year Award... Ripley PR ranks in Entrepreneur magazine’s Top Franchise Suppliers list for the ninth consecutive year.
