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Join us to explore current trends impacting healthcare public relations, focusing on how these are shaping health equity initiatives, as well as traditional and digital media landscapes. Featuring expert insights from Real Chemistry thought leaders, you’ll hear share actionable advice and innovative strategies to more effectively reach audiences and achieve communications milestones. PRWeek.com Th...

Everyone has to be an influencer these days. It’s not enough to have a good idea. A good product. To write a good book. To start a company. To be a journalist. You have to be more than that. To cut through the noise, to make an impact, to be noticed, you have to have ‘influence.’ Relevance. You have to know how to be social, to craft social content that people engage with. PRWeek.com Theme music p...

Discover how to transform everyday moments into powerful brand activations, from local book bans to a viral news interview and innovative date night experiences. We’ll explore the strategies behind leveraging organic content and consumer behaviors to drive engagement and brand loyalty. PRWeek.com Theme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSIC Jaymes - First One   Follow us: @PRWeekUS Receive the lates...

Kat Thomas, founder and chief creative officer of One Green Bean, has a front-row seat to some of the best earned media work in the world as PR jury president of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity .  She sits down with PRWeek’s Steve Barrett at the festival to talk about standout work and other trends from this year’s Cannes Lions in the latest edition of The PR Week podcast.  ...

In this special Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity edition of The PR Week, Steve Barrett sits down with Burson CEO Corey duBrowa . They talk about bringing together two blue chip agencies to form the second-largest agency in the world by revenue, as well as new assignments from major consumer and technology clients.  PRWeek.com Theme music provided by TRIPLE SCOOP MUSIC Jaymes - Fir...

PRWeek VP and editorial director Steve Barrett caught up with WPP CEO Mark Read at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this week for a wide-ranging discussion.  They cover topics from WPP’s share price to where Burson fits in the rankings of global PR agencies by revenue. Plus, AI and the main points of the festival itself on this special edition of The PR Week.  PRWeek.com Theme...

Cristal Downing has been a member of PRWeek’s Health Influencer 30 list and an honoree of PRWeek’s Women of Distinction program. And as of this week, she’s now a guest on The PR Week podcast .  Downing talks about her organization’s commitment to purpose and diversity, as well as how communications at Merck has changed since she joined the company.  Plus the biggest marketing and communications ne...

It’s going to be a big summer for soccer in the U.S. with the American men's and women’s teams participating in the Summer Olympic Games in Paris and the Copa America kicking off this month. And that’s just a warm-up for the 2026 World Cup, which will be held across the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  Heidi Burgett, VP of corporate communications for U.S. Soccer, talks about those events, as well as her...

The latest guest on The PR Week podcast is Nicole Dye-Anderson, SVP, MD and head of corporate communications for cards and merchant services at Wells Fargo.  She talks about the company’s initiatives and how it’s worked to refurbish its image after scandal. Dye-Anderson also adds her point of view to the biggest PR and communications news of the week, including:   - The “brutal” job market for PR...

There is a new proven process of pairing compelling stories with data-driven analytics to drive your business goals with media relations. Lisa Arledge Powell, CEO and founder of  MediaSource , and Kena Lewis, AVP, public affairs & media relations at  Orlando Health , share their vast wisdom on this topic from which all communicators can greatly benefit. They introduce new methods and tactics to dr...

One of the best-known healthcare influencers, Dr. Mike Varshavski , is the special guest on the latest edition of The PR Week podcast, recorded live on Tuesday at the PRWeek Healthcare Conference+Awards. He talks about dealing with disinformation , which social media platforms he prefers and how medical professionals should keep the public informed.  That’s not all on this special edition of The P...

London calling! PRWeek U.S. editorial director Steve Barrett checks in from the PRWeek Global Awards in this latest edition of the PR Week Podcast. The special guest is the chair of judges for the event : Sabina Ellahi , who is joining Sephora U.K. as head of PR and communications.  PRWeek executive editor Frank Washkuch and associate news editor Diana Bradley also discuss the biggest marketing an...

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 communicatio...

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 m...

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 Gr...

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...

Meet the guest on the latest edition of The PR Week podcast: John Box, CEO of Meltwater .  He talks about how his company has evolved from a news monitoring platform to one that keeps an eye on social media activity across many platforms for agencies, clients, the government sector — and even the Vatican.  Plus, the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, including Omnicom Group’s Q...

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...

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...

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 medi...

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 of...

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 spot starring actor Michael Cera from CeraVe was one of Super Bowl LVIII’s big hits, and now other brands want to know how they can have the same kind of big-event impact.  That’s one insight from Charlotte Tansill, North America president of Ogilvy PR, who joins The PR Week Podcast to talk about the hit Super Bowl campaign that went way beyond a big game ad. She also discusses how Ogilvy’s di...

The latest edition of the The PR Week Podcast stars Pamela Bourland-Davis — or Dr. Pam to her students — who talks about how PR education is changing to keep up with new media platforms and advancements like AI. Plus, her thoughts on DEI and the biggest issues that students face when they get into the real world.  Then it’s time to recap the biggest marketing and communications news of the week, i...

Over the years, many game-changing technologies have emerged that have improved both the process and perception of the comms function. At present, though, we are all adjusting to an innovation that will likely have the biggest impact of them all: Artificial intelligence (AI). This conversation with Chad Latz, BCW’s chief innovation officer, will be a true 360-degree study on the topic that is atop...