Around Town: Finn Partners Gets Health Practice Accolade, Solomon Joins APCO, Betty&Smith Launches, More… Capitol Communicator June 6, 2018 Agency, B to B, Communications, Media, People Jay Solomon, an award-winning journalist and former chief foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, has joined APCO Worldwide as a senior director. In his role as part of APCO’s Global Solutions...
Privacy Issues Heat Up Tensions Between Apple and Facebook Capitol Communicator June 6, 2018 Advertising, B to B, Insights, Social Media Chief executive Tim Cook is positioning Apple as the face of "responsible tech." After taking some verbal shots at Facebook, NBC News reports, Apple announced its first major step toward ending the...
Hospitality Marketing Course Caters to DC’s Record-Breaking Tourism Rise Capitol Communicator June 5, 2018 B to B, Events, Marketing In 2017, a record-breaking 20.8 million domestic visitors flocked to the nation’s capital where they spent more than $7.5 billion on accommodations, food and transportation. Currently, the industry...
Greater Washington Board of Trade Launches ‘Smart Region Movement’ Capitol Communicator June 4, 2018 B to B, Campaign, Communications, Insights The Greater Washington Board of Trade (GWBOT) announced its Smart Region Movement to identify, explore, deploy and expand Smart City concepts, technologies and partnerships across the region. Smart...
DC’s Quince Imaging Dual Projection Screen to Become Permanent at Capital One Arena Capitol Communicator June 4, 2018 B to B, Digital, Events, Media, Top Center Sponsored Monumental Sports, the joint-venture firm that owns and operates the Washington D.C. Capitals (NHL) and Wizards (NBA) teams, has just announced that the special-event projection system, slated for removal at...
Sard Verbinnen Launches DC-Based Public Affairs Practice Capitol Communicator June 4, 2018 Agency, B to B, People, PR Sard Verbinnen & Co. has launched a public affairs practice to provide support to clients dealing with situations that affect reputation and value, such as M&A, crises, government oversight and policy,...
Publishers Open Data Toolkits to Advertisers Capitol Communicator May 30, 2018 Advertising, B to B, Digital, Publishing As publishers grapple with how to best make use of the troves of audience data at their disposal, a growing number are handing brands the keys to in-house data and artificial intelligence tools that could...
GDPR: Here and Now Capitol Communicator May 26, 2018 B to B, B to C, Insights In December 2015, the long process of agreeing on legislation to reform the legal framework for ensuring the rights of EU residents to a private life was completed, reports DataIQ, which added that it was...
A Request for Improvements to the Typical Request for Proposal RP3 Agency May 15, 2018 Agency, B to B, Insights By Jim Lansbury For the past few months, we’ve been drowning in RFIs and RFPs. Which is obviously a good problem to have. Pitching business is the lifeblood of any agency. But it’s also a double-edged...
Google to Dominate Local Digital Advertising in 2018, States BIA Advisory Services Capitol Communicator May 4, 2018 Advertising, B to B, Top Center Sponsored Local search advertising on Google and local advertising on YouTube will top $19 billion nationwide and exceed $1 billion in the combined D.C., Virginia and Maryland television markets in 2018, according to...
