A Gathering of Notables at SXSW
By Steve Winter, on the scene at SXSW in Austin, Texas This is us. We are Washington, D.C. … Northern Virginia … and Suburban Maryland. We are the Washington, D.C.…
D.C.-Area Agency Updates: Environics, GMMB and Ovation
Environics Communications changed its name to Proof. The Toronto-based firm has more than 165 employees in offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and…
Buzz in Baltimore: News from GKV, Planit, idfive and Weiss PR
GKV announced the promotion of Shannon Gardiner to senior vice president and director of account management. Gardiner joined GKV in 2010 with more than…
GKV’s Old Bay Campaign Wins Best in Show as Ad Club of Baltimore Celebrates “The Last ADDYs?”
Baltimore’s advertising community gathered on March 8 to pay their last respects to “advertising as we know it” and honor the outstanding contributions…
Up Close and Personal: Getting to Know Diz Cohrs, Associate Creative Director, HZDG
Capitol Communicator is running “Up Close and Personal” profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this profile we feature Diz Cohrs. Photography for…
Swearing for the Health of It
Mark Twain, the great American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, liked to use profanity. One day, so the story goes, his wife had…
Maria Rodriguez, Vanguard Communications, Receives U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce Award for Innovation & Performance
Maria Rodriguez, president and co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based Vanguard Communications, received the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce Award for…
D.C.-Based Chris Foster Named North America President of Burson Cohn & Wolfe
Newly-merged agency Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW) named D.C.-based Chris Foster its North America president, reports the Holmes Report. The Holmes…
More Agency Mergers Coming: They Reflect Profound Changes in Communications
WPP’s decision to merge heavyweights Burson-Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe into a top three PR firm has shaken up the agency landscape,…
D.C.-Area Updates: Fixation Marketing Merger, Leslie Schrader Joins Children’s Hospital Foundation and LMO Releases APTA PSA
Bethesda- based Fixation Marketing merged with FORT Group Inc., a full-service marketing agency based in Ridgefield Park, NJ. FORT Group acquired Fixation from…
The Martin Agency Doubles Number of Women on Executive Committee
The Martin Agency in Richmond has unveiled “a new, more inclusive executive committee with twice as many female representatives as before. Four out of…
The BRINKdown Episode 1: The Science of (Great) Rapid Content Production
BRINK is a creative digital agency who believes there is a lot of waste among marketing and communications agencies: waste in time, resources and…
Up Close and Personal: Getting to Know Trevor Sloan, Wunderman
Capitol Communicator is running “Up Close and Personal” profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this profile we feature Trevor Sloan. Photography for…
D.C.-Area Agency Updates: JPA, Red Banyan and Creative Marketing Concepts
JPA Health Communications added Sara Dunn as a Senior Vice President in its D.C., office. Dunn has more than 15 years of health…
Six Lobbying and Public Affairs Firms Join to Create Potomac International Partners
Six small lobbying and public affairs firms are joining together to create Potomac International Partners. “We’ve merged six small firms together — six small,…
