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C Street Advisory Group launches a digital assets and crypto communications practice. Unveiled at the May 27-29 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the initiative will be led by C Street senior managing director Jackie Rubin. It is designed to support clients across the blockchain, digital currency and decentralized finance ecosystem. The group unites a multidisciplinary team combining C Street’s experience in financial restructuring, litigation support, transformations and crisis management with domain-specific expertise in blockchain, regulation and digital finance. “As America’s largest banks collaborate on stablecoin initiatives and Congress advances the GENIUS Act to regulate digital currencies, our clients are helping shape the future of finance,” said C Street founder and CEO Jon Henes. “This practice formalizes our role as their strategic partner, and there’s no one better to lead it than Jackie.”
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Pietryla PR & Marketing, a Chicago-based consultancy, releases its Jumpstart Packages, a suite of consulting packages designed to help B2B marketing leaders gain clarity and momentum fast. The packages, each tailored to a specific business challenge, offer focused, senior-level support for messaging, brand strategy, public relations, and reputation management during high-stakes transitions. They include deliverables such as messaging briefs, positioning statements, PR strategies, executive talking points, or crisis protocols. Most engagements are completed within 30 to 45 days. "Many comms professionals are pulled in every direction and don't have time to onboard a full agency team," said Pietryla PR & Marketing founder Christine Wetzler. "What they need is clarity, smart messaging, and a support team that understands how to tie it all back to their business goals."
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Highwire launches a new brand identity that is intended to reflect its status as a full-service strategic marketing communications agency with deep expertise across B2B tech, security, energy, financial services and healthcare. Following the recent appointment of Michael O’Brien as CEO, the firm’s new look underlines the agency’s “commitment to agility, growth, and excellence” as it brings together experts in strategy, insights, creative and marketing solutions to help innovative companies lead, grow and shape their markets.
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TEAM LEWIS releases Training for Trust, a biometric, AI-powered analytics and training service for spokespeople. TFT uses a combination of AI, facial, voice and eye contact recognition software, machine-based analysis, modeling and proprietary coding to score presenters, PowerPoint materials and propositions for integrity. It then provides a unique Trust Score and tailored training analysis. TFT will be rolled out to studio laboratories in 26 Team Lewis wholly owned offices around the world throughout 2025/6. “We can now make what was previously subjective, wholly objective and comparable,” said Team Lewis COO Yvonne van Bokhoven. “We’re already working on the next version which will be able to scrape internet data to add a reputation score to the trust analysis.”
Ever Wondered, a London-based advisory firm focused on helping companies deliver clear, consistent messages across every channel in AI search, launches... The Museum of Public Relations launches platform that allows users to connect with an AI persona of Edward Bernays, based entirely on his own writings... PRGN releases a study in which 89 percent of business leaders surveyed said hey find brand influence as “extremely” or “very” important.
BGR Analytics rates Texas as the best state for AI investors to place their money, according to its newly launched BGR Best States for AI Investment Index... Pierpont Communications, a PR and integrated digital marketing agency headquartered in Houston, expands into South Florida... The Pollack Group names Project Petals as the recipient of its 2026 Big Red Grant.
LaVoie Strategic Communications Group launches an integrated market platform and redesigned website meant to reflect the agency’s evolving role advising healthcare, life sciences and government organizations... Highwire publishes “Passing the Torch: A Framework for CEO Transition Communication for Professional Services Businesses"... Auris, a communications lab backed by a strategic investment from Helios & Partners, launches.
MikeWorldWide acquires HudsonLake, a strategic communications firm specializing in organizational change, employee experience and workforce communications.
AKCG – Public Relations Counselors, a Philadelphia-area firm that offers crisis planning, crisis management, media training and media relations, acquires Hennes Communications... The Martin Group, an integrated marketing communications firm headquartered in Buffalo, acquires creative, brand strategy and content studio Mr. Smith Agency... ExpertClick, a platform connecting journalists with qualified interview sources, is offering a database of 357 top U.S. media outlets.
