The PR Week

BRG Communications has had a wildly successful run at the last two PRWeek Awards U.S., taking home Outstanding Boutique Agency at both events. The firm’s president and CEO, Jane Barwis, talks about her firm’s culture on the latest edition of The PR Week and how it services a national client roster from its headquarters near Washington, DC. Also on the show: the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including the PRWeek Agency Business Report 2024, the Drake-Kendrick Lamar beef and controversial comments by the CEO of Hims & Hers.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leah Chandler has served as chief marketing officer of Discover Puerto Rico since 2018, and in that time, she’s been busy. Chandler has reworked the island’s agency relationships into a collective of firms and developed a wide-ranging crisis-response plan for everything from hurricanes to shark bites. She joins the latest edition of The PR Week podcast to talk about that, as well as the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, such as major people moves at Kenvue and Generate:Biomedicines and fresh developments in nationwide student protests and AI.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week’s special guest on The PR Week podcast is none other than the CEO of Phaedon, Kris Tremaine. Tremaine talks about the evolution of her firm — as well as what its name means in Greek — from part of ICF Next. She also chats about the biggest PR and communications news of the week, such as changes to the Burson agency network and staff, holding company results from Next 15, Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group and Shake Shack’s clever influencer decision.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Airline crises. Labor relations. Working through the opening moments of a crisis on social media.  All of these events require specific skills to protect brands, and each was discussed on Thursday at PRWeek’s sold out Crisis Comms Conference in Washington, DC. This podcast includes insights from top communications executives at UPS, Southwest Airlines and Miller Coors as they discuss how their brands navigate tricky situations.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

CEO of Meltwater, John Box, discusses the company's evolution into social media monitoring, AI in PR, innovative marketing strategies on Instagram and TikTok, cannabis culture and marketing campaigns, and network expansion with Buchanan Communications.

The special guest on this week’s episode of The PR Week podcast is Myles Worthington, CEO and founder of Worthi, a Black-owned marketing, communications and content agency. Worthington discusses being named to The Lagrant Foundation’s inaugural Alumni Advisory Council, his background as a marketing executive at Netflix and how he has grown his firm from one to 30 staffers since launching in 2022. Worthington also discusses the week’s news with PRWeek’s Steve Barrett and Diana Bradley, such as how brands reacted to the New York City earthquake and solar eclipse, 20 years of Unilever’s Campaign for Real Beauty, DJE Holdings launching Ruth, along with other big stories.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The latest guest on The PR Week Podcast is Sara Garibaldi, president of Boden, which just won Outstanding Small Agency at the PRWeek Awards U.S. last month. She discusses the complicated nature of marketing to Hispanic audiences in the U.S. and much more. Also on the agenda: the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including PRWeek’s Salary Survey 2024, Golin’s AutonomyWorks partnership and GE splitting into three companies.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It’s a solemn week at Dow Jones and its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, because it marks the anniversary of journalist Evan Gershkovich’s detention in Russia. For the past 12 months, the media outlet has worked tirelessly to draw attention to Gerhkovich’s situation, alongside his parents, who attended the State of the Union address and sat for interviews with ABC News and other media. On Wednesday, the WSJ held a “read-a-thon” — a 24-hour reading of his work — to mark one year since he was imprisoned. Ashok Sinha, SVP and head of corporate communications at Dow Jones, talks about the company’s work to free Gershkovich, as well as the top marketing and communications news of the week, including Catherine, princess of Wales’, announcement and the communications around the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.  AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The latest guest on The PR Week is none other than MSL’s U.S. CEO, Diana Littman, who talks about her efforts to supercharge Publicis Group’s primary PR firm since she became CEO in 2018. Plus, the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including questions about the House of Windsor’s communications strategy; Don Lemon’s interview of Elon Musk; and Unilever’s decision to spin off the outspoken Ben & Jerry’s brand along with its other ice-cream lines. AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The biggest night in PR was bigger than ever this week, as PRWeek toasted the best people, campaigns and organizations both of this year and of the last 25 years.PRWeek’s team gets together virtually the morning after the show to talk about their favorite moments from the awards ceremony and what work stood out to them in this special edition of The PR Week podcast.To listen to the playlist for the 2024 PRWeek Awards on Spotify, click here. AI Deciphered is back—live in New York City this November 13th.Join leaders from brands, agencies, and platforms for a future-focused conversation on how AI is transforming media, marketing, and the retail experience. Ready to future-proof your strategy? Secure your spot now at aidecipheredsummit.com. Use code POD at check out for $100 your ticket!  PRWeek.comTheme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSICJaymes - First One Follow us: @PRWeekUSReceive the latest industry news, insights, and special reports. Start Your Free 1-Month Trial Subscription To PRWeek Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.