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PR Newswire forms a strategic partnership with AKA Partners that will provide AKA clients with exclusive value-added access to PR Newswire’s full suite of public relations and content distribution networks. The partnership will also give PR Newswire clients exclusive access to AKA’s Chicago-headquartered team of creative strategists, content producers, visual content editors, designers and media experts. “With their 25-year track record delivering breakthrough earned, paid and owned content for the world’s leading brands, we believe AKA enhances our services and offers further value for more brands to share their stories across all media,” said Nicole Guillot, President of PR Newswire.
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Reputation Doctor launches Executive Reputation Advisory, a new worldwide service offering targeting C-suite executives and independent directors of corporate boards. It provides individual consulting and counseling sessions specifically for those executives. According to Reputation Doctor president and CEO Mike Paul, “in the past, these professional services were only offered in yearly campaigns and usually focused on the entire business enterprise.” The new service is a response to the pressure and increasing fiduciary responsibility on C-suite executives and independent directors on corporate boards.
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APO Group, a Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, introduces its Communications Curriculum, a program designed to help comms professionals across Africa develop their skills in all aspects of public relations, media relations and content strategy. The pro-bono initiative has been running since May as part of APO Group’s long-standing partnerships with Rugby Africa, the governing body of African rugby, and the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), the institution that coordinates the Roman Catholic Church’s pastoral work in Africa. The curriculum will run for a period of 18 months and involves more than 130 trainees from 30 countries, who will receive more than 60 hours of online training. It also features appearances from guest speakers from such organizations as CNN, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Euronews.
PAN launches a B2B web services offering... Strata, a women- and LGBTQ-owned shop with deep tech B2B experience, launches....Top of Mind Public Relations, which has offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Washington, and Philadelphia, opens in Albuquerque.
Stagwell launches NewVoices.ai, an independent AI-powered sales agent that can book appointments, drive conversions, resolve questions and handle customer concerns... Cision acquires search intelligence platform Trajaan... The McRae Agency, a Scottsdale, AZ-firm t, celebrates its 30th anniversary.
energi PR, an independent shop based in Montréal and Toronto, marks its 35th anniversary. It is the Canadian affiliate of DC-headquartered GHMC (Global Health Marketing & Communications)... Barabino & Partners and Community, which are part of Italy’s Excellera Advisory Group, snag top positions in the MergerLinks rankings in the PR Consultants in EMEA category... Honeyjar, an “AI co-pilot” that will leverage brand context, goals and campaign history into a collaborative workspace providing communications & PR pros with assistance across the end-to-end execution of communications, announces a $2M pre-seed fundraise and the launch of its Early Access waitlist.
The Communications Group, a Little Rock-based shop releases its first Public Affairs Marketing Trends Report... The Worldcom Public Relations Group votes Paris-based firm SEITOSEI•ACTIFIN into its global partnership... PRNEWS, a European PR-tech firm, relocates its U.S. headquarters to downtown Miami.
af&co., a San Francisco-based hospitality marketing and PR agency founded by Andrew Freeman, is marking its 20th anniversary... Notified launches Syndicated Articles... Crosby Marketing Communications selects four students from Anne Arundel Community College for its marketing scholars program.
