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• Always say ‘yes’ to Seattle

  06-11-2025 22:41 via prweek.com
  Far from being a ‘war-torn’ hotbed of crime and civil disobedience, Seattle is a smorgasbord of big business, innovation, culture and top-level PR and communication.
  
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• Stagwell’s communications segment posts 20.9% organic net revenue decrease

  06-11-2025 17:55 via prweek.com
  The new reporting segment comprises PR and public affairs firms Allison, Hunter, Consulum, HarrisX, SKDK, Sloane & Company and Targeted Victory.
  
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• Hotwire Global appoints Grant Toups as global CEO

  06-11-2025 15:00 via prweek.com
  Toups joins the San Francisco-based agency from Burson where he served as global chief digital and intelligence officer.
  
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• Allison Worldwide alum Cathy Planchard founds AI consultancy Twistive

  06-11-2025 14:00 via prweek.com
  Planchard was Allison’s global CEO of marketing innovation.
  
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• REI names T-Mobile’s Tara Darrow communications head

  05-11-2025 21:49 via prweek.com
  Former REI comms lead Halley Knigge joined financial cooperative BECU as VP of comms last week.
  
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• Surprise! Pringles premieres Labubu-inspired Pringamabob toy collectibles

  05-11-2025 20:16 via prweek.com
  Pringles’ Once You Pop, The Pop Don’t Stop campaign accompanies the canned crisp brand’s D2C debut.
  
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• Bay Area Host Committee hires FleishmanHillard for strategic comms support

  05-11-2025 13:00 via prweek.com
  As part of the partnership, Mitch Germann will serve as head of communications and J.J. Carter will join the BAHC advisory board.
  
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• PRWeek Crisis Comms Conference coming back to DC in 2026

  05-11-2025 11:00 via prweek.com
  The 4th annual conference will return to the nation’s capital on April 16, 2026.
  
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• Golin adds three to North America creative bench

  05-11-2025 11:00 via prweek.com
  Meg Farquhar joins as an ECD in Chicago and Tom Howells and Martin Coomber as EVPs of strategy in the Western Region and New York, respectively.
  
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• Hearts and hoops: American Heart Association launches Hearts on the Court Collective

  04-11-2025 21:48 via prweek.com
  The American Heart Association’s Katrina McGhee shares how the organization is partnering with women’s college basketball coaches to be on heart-health offense.
  
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• NFL dishes details on Super Bowl LX’s Pro Bowl, innovation summit activations

  04-11-2025 20:05 via prweek.com
  Reps from the 49ers, NFL and Bay Area Hosting Committee shared new details for Super Bowl LX’s activations at the NFL headquarters Monday.
  
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• What cheese-related brand would you love to see in hat form?

  04-11-2025 18:46 via prweek.com
  Philadelphia cream cheese debuted its own cheesy headgear this week.
  
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• Acrisure hires Walgreens, Hilton alum Aaron Radelet as chief corporate affairs officer

  04-11-2025 16:04 via prweek.com
  Radelet previously led comms at the Walgreens Boots Alliance and Hilton Worldwide.
  
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• Weber Shandwick Collective hires Edelman’s Joe Kingsbury as president of AI transformation

  04-11-2025 13:00 via prweek.com
  Anindita Chattopadhyay has also joined the collective as I/O agentic lead.
  
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• Battle of the Cheeses: Philadelphia Cream Cheese creates 'Phillyheads' for Eagles-Packers showdown

  04-11-2025 13:00 via prweek.com
  It’s the battle of the cheesy headgear. Philadelphia partnered with Zeno Group and creative agency Rethink to bring the Phillyheads campaign to life.
  
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• DuPont chief communications officer Barbara Pandos retires

  03-11-2025 19:52 via prweek.com
  Pandos said on Sunday that she has left the company after more than three decades.
  
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• Twitch global communications head Michelle Scully exits

  03-11-2025 18:07 via prweek.com
  The Amazon-owned streaming platform is seeking Scully’s replacement.
  
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• WPP's Kevin Johnson asks for hurricane relief donations

  03-11-2025 17:46 via prweek.com
  The WPP Canada president's ancestral home in Jamaica's St. Elizabeth parish was mostly destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, which pummeled the country last week.
  
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• Andy Pray and Daria Dubois launch AI-native communications agency

  03-11-2025 11:00 via prweek.com
  The firm will be called Wild Signal.
  
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• On the record with the cast of NBC’s ‘On Brand’

  01-11-2025 02:00 via prweek.com
  With Season 1 in the books, all 10 ‘On Brand’ cast members discussed filming moments that didn’t make the cut and next-step career goals.
  
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• WPP: ‘Will the bleeding ever end?’

  31-10-2025 19:14 via prweek.com
  Another tough quarter, another profit warning and a tumbling share price, plus a near 6% year-over-year revenue drop at Burson, highlight the challenges ahead for new WPP CEO Cindy Rose.
  
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• Hurricane Melissa: How 7 brands are helping Jamaica and the Caribbean

  31-10-2025 18:59 via prweek.com
  American Express, Airbnb, Verizon and others are pitching in.
  
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• Cindy Rose’s WPP review points to 'deep and bold restructuring': analysts

  31-10-2025 16:53 via prweek.com
  More details emerging about WPP's strategic review during Q3 results.
  
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• Eli Lilly expands sports-health partnerships with eczema awareness, official 2026 Winter Olympics partner

  31-10-2025 14:00 via prweek.com
  Speedskater Erin Jackson spoke about living with eczema.
  
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• DGA Group CEO Edward Reilly to retire

  31-10-2025 12:30 via prweek.com
  In anticipation of the planned leadership transition, DGA has appointed Prem Kumar as president.
  
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• The Social Skinny: Snowflake exec’s TikTok street interview fail; Universal Music announces AI platform

  31-10-2025 12:00 via prweek.com
  A weekly roundup of app and tech news.
  
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• Llama drama, manhole explosions and an overturned potato truck: When PR plans go awry

  31-10-2025 10:00 via prweek.com
  Three PR pros’ experiences prove there are some crises you just can’t plan for.
  
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• Omnicom responds to speculation over future of DDB

  30-10-2025 20:57 via prweek.com
  Speculation has swirled about the creative network's future, ahead of completion of the Interpublic Group acquisition.
  
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• China greenlights US TikTok sale

  30-10-2025 16:48 via prweek.com
  President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping finalized a deal this morning, which will move forward in coming weeks and months.
  
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• Bob Christie, Russ Rubino unveil CorpBridge Advisors

  29-10-2025 21:54 via prweek.com
  The firm focuses on corporate reputation, M&A, IPOs, geopolitical issues and U.S. market entry.
  
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• Tubi for Creators slates 4 content creator film premieres for 2026

  29-10-2025 21:29 via prweek.com
  The Fox-owned platform tapped Kevin Hart’s media company to "build a bridge to Hollywood for creators."
  
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• Amid SNAP cuts, HelloFresh and TikTok chef Tini Younger launch anti-hunger campaign

  29-10-2025 18:37 via prweek.com
  Sales of Younger’s fall-themed meal kits will benefit No Kid Hungry.
  
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• The final numbers are in for Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater campaign with Dr. Squatch

  29-10-2025 18:36 via prweek.com
  Revisiting the campaign created by the men’s soap brand that broke the internet...and the brand’s website.
  
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• BECU hires REI, Alaska Airlines alum Halley Knigge as comms VP

  29-10-2025 10:00 via prweek.com
  Knigge most recently led comms at Seattle-based retailer REI.
  
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• Let the countdown begin: Team USA unveils One For All campaign

  28-10-2025 20:41 via prweek.com
  The campaign leading up to the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games builds on the momentum from the 2024 Paris Summer Games.
  
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• Halloween 2025: Which Mars candy campaign is the Twix to your treat?

  28-10-2025 18:56 via prweek.com
  Mars brands from M&M’s to Skittles are ‘ghouling’ all out this Halloween.
  
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• Inside New York Nico’s NYC Marathon documentary, ‘26.2’

  28-10-2025 15:00 via prweek.com
  An exclusive Q&A with content creator New York Nico, who premiered ‘26.2’ last night in NYC.
  
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• OPRG faces at least one more tough quarter as election comparables persist

  23-10-2025 21:36 via prweek.com
  Omnicom’s acquisition of Interpublic Group is set to close by the end of November once European Union regulators have ratified the deal.
  
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• Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback

  17-10-2025 21:20 via prweek.com
  A Dutch proverb summed up the state of PR and Nevigating Uncertainty theme perfectly at PRWeek’s annual PRDecoded conference where PR pros heard from inspiring speakers including Stacey Tank, Kevin Warren, Richard Edelman and Chris Foster.
  
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• PRDecoded convenes PR pros at a pivotal time for the industry

  09-10-2025 19:18 via prweek.com
  PRWeek’s annual conference takes place in Chicago next week on Thursday, October 16 to help delegates navigate multiple areas of uncertainty and prove their value to enterprises.
  
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• Ryder Cup illustrated crisis of civility

  02-10-2025 22:51 via prweek.com
  The Civility Paradox report, released this week, detailed a breakdown in civil discourse that was perfectly illustrated by events during the biennial face-off between the U.S. and Europe at Bethpage last weekend.
  
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• Is AI bringing the press release back?

  25-09-2025 22:20 via prweek.com
  One of the most unlikely side effects of the AI revolution is the breathing of life back into a communications format many had written off as irrelevant and defunct.
  
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• Barrett on AI: Feeding the ‘alien life form’

  16-09-2025 18:47 via prweek.com
  In the inaugural AI in PR survey, industry pros report relatively low levels of organizational readiness and are frustrated by a lack of innovation and collaboration from the top.
  
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• Zen and the art of the PR agency

  11-09-2025 23:14 via prweek.com
  “Stay curious to stay relevant,” a quote from founder Al Golin, greets visitors to his now IPG-owned agency as the firm draws on its heritage to construct a modern future that entices PR pros into the office to work.
  
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• Hubris of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll CEOs

  04-09-2025 22:06 via prweek.com
  The litany of crises and controversies leading to chief executive officers of major companies being fired or resigning due to misbehavior shows no sign of slowing down.
  
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• Mixed messaging costs Cracker Barrel

  28-08-2025 22:36 via prweek.com
  Burying the restaurant chain’s new logo and design reveal within a wider fall activation resulted in unwanted blowback and attention from The White House across all facets of the company.
  
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• Power with principle: PRWeek Hall of Fame is gold standard of communication

  21-08-2025 19:28 via prweek.com
  These are the PR people whom the rest of the industry should seek to emulate in terms of practice, truth, ethics and morality.
  
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• Taylor Swift broke the internet

  14-08-2025 19:49 via prweek.com
  The mercurial artist unveiled her new album Wednesday night on boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason’s 'New Heights' podcast.
  
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• Burson’s struggles continue as Mark Read prepares to exit stage left

  07-08-2025 22:21 via prweek.com
  Revenue at WPP’s only remaining pureplay PR firm was down 7.8% year over year in Q2 trading, the worst performing segment in the holding company’s earnings.
  
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• Let’s talk about LinkedIn

  31-07-2025 20:06 via prweek.com
  The social network initially set up as a job board has replaced Twitter as the town square for communicators and marketers — but the noise is becoming increasingly loud and toxic.
  
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