Multi-Billion Dollar U.S. Army Marketing Contract Awarded to Omnicom Capitol Communicator November 21, 2018 Agency, B to G, Marketing, Top Right Sponsored Omnicom emerged victorious in the long, highly contested review for the Army’s marketing contract. WPP was the other finalist in the pitch. According to Adweek, "The news comes less than one week after...
Fors Marsh Group Wins AmeriCorps Contract to Improve Youth Program Recruiting Capitol Communicator November 19, 2018 Agency, B to G, General, Upper Left Sponsored AmeriCorps awarded Fors Marsh Group (FMG) a contract to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through young adult service in the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps...
GAO Denies McCann Worldgroup Protest Over Elimination from Army Review Capitol Communicator November 16, 2018 Agency, B to G, Marketing, Upper Left Sponsored The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a protest that was filed by McCann Worldgroup in August over its elimination from the U.S. Army review, threatening to end what has been a lucrative...
LA-Based Gonring, Spahn and Associates Opens D.C. Office Capitol Communicator July 30, 2018 Agency, B to G, Top Center Sponsored Gonring, Spahn and Associates, an Los Angeles-based government relations, public relations, and philanthropy firm, is opening a D.C. office led by Kevin Ryan, reports Variety, which added that the firm has...
Six Lobbying and Public Affairs Firms Join to Create Potomac International Partners Capitol Communicator February 27, 2018 Agency, B to G, General, Top Center Sponsored Six small lobbying and public affairs firms are joining together to create Potomac International Partners. “We’ve merged six small firms together — six small, boutique, I would say top-drawer...
U.S. Army’s Marketing Chief “Briefed Congressional Staff About Adweek’s Coverage of Ongoing Audit”, Reports Adweek Capitol Communicator February 15, 2018 Advertising, B to G, Marketing, Top Center Sponsored Staffers at the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees heard from the new head of the U.S. Army’s in-house marketing division on the organization’s advertising efforts, an Army spokesperson...
“PR, Not Lobbying, Increasingly Choice of Influence in DC”, Reports WTOP Capitol Communicator February 1, 2018 B to G, Communications, Insights, PR There has been a major shift in the business of public policy influencing in Washington in recent years, and public relations now leads the pack, reports WTOP, citing PRUnderground, an online news release...
U.S. Army Audit Claims ‘Ineffective Marketing Programs’ Wasted Millions in Taxpayer Dollars Each Year, Reports Adweek Capitol Communicator January 3, 2018 Advertising, B to G, Bottom Left Sponsored, Marketing 1 Comment The results of an internal audit of the U.S. Army’s budget question the effectiveness of the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars the organization spends on marketing and advertising each year. Its...
Consulting Firm Where Employee Investigated Some E.P.A. Employees’ Emails Loses Media Contract, Reports NY Times Capitol Communicator December 20, 2017 B to G, General A consulting firm has pulled out of a federal contract to provide media monitoring services to the Environmental Protection Agency after it was disclosed that a lawyer among its top executives had been...
“Alleged Affair Casts Shadow Over $4B Army Ad Review”, States O’Dwyer’s Capitol Communicator December 15, 2017 Agency, B to G, Marketing, Top Center Sponsored The US Army has reassigned a marketing executive after allegations that he had a personal relationship with an ex-McCann staffer, triggering cries that review of $4B ten-year account has been compromised,...
