PR Insights Blog

The next 28 days will be hugely consequential to the outlook for the PR industry. The direct and implicit threats to business from the U.S. government to toe the ideological line are sending a chill wind across the country and the communications industry. Since communicating is currently seen as a risk, flat or lower budgets should not be an unexpected outcome.

CommunicationsMatch™ has launched a new PR Jobs board for agencies and corporate communications leaders looking to hire and communications professionals looking for jobs. The new PR Jobs board is a partnership with CommPRO.

Leading deal makers shared a number of takeaways for agency leaders around M&A, private equity and capital in communications in 2025 at the most recent CommPRO+CommunicationsMatch™ roundtable discussion for industry members on Jan 30. Five themes emerged from the discussion.

In a new CommPRO.biz article, Building a Hierarchy of Values Helps Businesses Navigate Ethical Challenges and Ideological Attacks, I make the case for re-visiting values as a guide for decision-making in 2025. “If we focus on values with a small “v”, through the lens of political party, economic class, religion or creed, we are likely to focus on what divides. If we look at big “V” values, we start to think about commonalities and what we share.”

This article explores the marketing and communications challenges faced by small and mid-sized IT services companies as they compete against larger, more established players. It highlights struggles with brand differentiation, scaling efforts with limited resources, and producing high-quality content to establish thought leadership. It offers real-world examples to underscores the need for strategic marketing approaches to overcome these hurdles and achieve growth.

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) is looking to hire an agency to develop messaging that clearly explains the value and importance of public clean water utilities.

Our next Executive CommPRO + CommunicationsMatch roundtable breakfast, Capitalizing Communications: Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Raising Capital, and Agency Financing, will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2025.

We'd like to extend our best holiday wishes to the CommunicationsMatch community.

Invitation to join our first Industry Member roundtable breakfast discussion - Boiling Point: Communications, Political Conversation, Free Speech & The Law on Thursday, October 10th at 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to provide comprehensive media relations and public awareness campaign services for the year 2025.