The Mather Group Celebrates Five Years as an Agency with a Week of Webinars!
The Mather Group is excited to be celebrating its fifth anniversary as an agency this month! To commemorate, they are hosting a Week of Webinars throughout their Week of Giving.…
MDB Launches Ad Campaign Celebrating Social Distancing
An Open Invitation to Safely Visit Prince George’s County During the unparalleled period of COVID-19, MDB created a landmark campaign that heralds…
D.C.-Area Agency Updates: Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications, Avisa Partners, Bluetext and Karbo Communications
Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications announced that energy industry PR veteran Loretta Prencipe has joined the agency’s D.C. office. Prencipe, pictured above, is…
Yes& Establishes the Edith Bullard Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Yes& established the Edith Bullard Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. According to the agency, the fellowship “encourages professionals with diverse backgrounds and…
Media Insights for 2021 Planning: How COVID-19 Changed Media Consumption
By Wendy Weaver COVID-19 has impacted all of our nonprofit clients in 2020 in one way or another. Some clients halted advertising temporarily,…
Crosby Foundation Grants $75,000 to Nonprofits for COVID-19 Emergency Relief Efforts
To help local families, children and communities hit hard by COVID-19, the owners of Crosby Marketing Communications, based in Annapolis, MD, have donated…
D.C.-Area Agency Updates: Grafik, Van Eperen and The Borenstein Group
Grafik Marketing Communications decided not to renew its office lease and the agency will stay virtual through the end of the year, “at a…
National Best of Show for Devaney & Associates Senior Living Campaign
Devaney & Associates received Best of Show honors at the 2020 National Mature Media Awards for the Owings Mills based agency’s work with…
Ecosystem Report Card Drives Media to Virtual Presser
Or How to Tell your Story without Getting Slimed By Mike Smith, Yes& How does one make a subject like “Hypoxia” exciting? How…
Russian Hackers Suspected in Attempted Hacks on D.C.-Based SKDKnickerbocker
Russian state-backed hackers are suspected in attempted hacks on Joe Biden presidential campaign’s communications firm, according to a report from Reuters. The…
D.C.-Area Agency Updates: FleishmanHillard, APCO and Bluetext
George Thompson, above, re-joined FleishmanHillard’s D.C. office as general manager. Thompson began his career at FH in 1997 as an account…
Andrew Schacht, Former General Manager of Three D.C.-Area Agencies, Dies
Andrew Schacht, who was General Manager of three Washington-area advertising agencies, has died. He was 70 years old. “I have worked in our…
Confessions of a Mad Man
By Rob Whittle, CEO Williams Whittle Every marketer in these days of multi-platform choices faces the decision of how much of their resources…
Baltimore PR Firm Leader Jeffrey Davis Restarts JD/PR Consulting Practice
Jeffrey A. Davis, a Baltimore advertising and PR agency veteran, crisis communications expert and co-editor of the Capitol Communicator since 2013, has restarted…
WPP CEO in “Hot Water” for Comment that Average Age of WPP Employee is “Less than 30”
Mark Read, CEO of WPP, found himself in “hot water” when, during the company’s earnings call on August 27, he said the “average…
