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The two-month BTS campaign drove more engagements on
@McDonalds
owned social posts than the brand received across its owned social channels from 2017 to 2020.
After quietly launching their own individual
#btsoninstagram
accounts between Sunday and Monday, BTS stars Jungkook, Jin, J-Hope, Jimin, V, Suga and RM are attracting 13 to 14 million followers each 👀
A video of K-pop supergroup
@bts_bighit
chowing down on
@ChipotleTweets
food — and absolutely loving it — went viral over the weekend, creating an impromptu opportunity for the fast-casual chain.
Breakfast Briefing:
-U.S. to announce diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
-Alec Baldwin deletes main Twitter account after ABC interview
-BTS members launch individual Instagram accounts
...and other news for PR pros to know on Monday morning
The Office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has named Pinterest’s former comms lead, Christine Schirmer, to the newly created role of head of communications and Toya Holness as press secretary.
No, it isn’t a joke:
@davidhogg111
really is starting a pillow company, and the gun control activist wants people to know he’s very serious about the venture.
.
@ChipotleTweets
has teamed up with the Twitter stan account for BTS
@USBTSARMY
to give free food to fans of the K-pop supergroup with a promotion that will start at 7 p.m. EST later tonight.
Explaining politics can be complicated, and nowadays it's rarely civil. But Sharon McMahon, (
@sharon_says_so
), "America's Government Teacher," keeps it civil on social media as she explains electoral law.
Meet
#PRWeekAwardsUS
's
Communicator of the Year:
People moves: Former G4 brand director C. Riana Manuel-Peña has joined PR and marketing group Zebra Partners as director of brand and unified marketing.
Russian expat Garry
@Kasparov63
and PR leader Richard
@EdelmanPR
have announced an initiative called Regain Ukraine aimed at helping Ukraine and ramping up pressure on western politicians to stop the war
YouTube star
@CaseyNeistat
to
@BurgerKing
: "[Influencers] are people of average intelligence, and because of that it is not nice to manipulate us into hawking your sugar coated French fries."
UPDATE: In a Twitter post on Tuesday afternoon, Popsicle said if it gets 100,000 retweets by July 23, it will bring back the Double Pop.
#BringBackTheDouble
"I knew J-Hope was my bias for a reason...can't believe he wrote an album in my honor" tweeted
@JackBox
in response to the BTS member's debut solo album name.
The Times Square billboards "are meant to be accessible to those willing to fight for safer communities, schools, concert venues, places of worship, & everywhere the threat of gun violence exists." - Brendan Duff, March For Our Lives
@AMarch4OurLives
Q&A: Tyler “
@Ninja
” Blevins talks about how his brand partnerships have changed since
@Twitch
allowed simulcasting in October.
PRWeek's
@DoerrerBrandon
has the interview:
We are honored to present the Best Agency Professional of the Past 20 Years award to president and CEO of
@EdelmanPR
, Richard Edelman!
#PRWeekAwardsUS
Bark, parent of pet subscription service
@barkbox
, is seeing a spike in sales after BTS' oldest member Jin and his backup dancers wore the company's dog toys sewn onto their clothes in a viral video released over the weekend.
.
@garyvee
has built his career around identifying and capitalizing on major digital trends early - His next big bet is on nonfungible tokens, cemented on Wednesday with the launch of VaynerNFT
And the 2020 Agency of the Year is
@PraytellAgency
, whose strong commitment to culture, substantial expansion and ferocious appetite to meet the changing needs of clients gained top marks from judges. Congrats!
#PRWeekAwardsUS
In a summer of rescinded job offers and canceled study abroad programs, a group of young
#PR
professionals are taking matters into their own hands by creating a pro bono
#communications
firm called Empath Worldwide.
Congrats to Michael Phelps for being named a 2019
#HealthInfluencer50
! His work with
@talkspace
has helped shed light on the importance of
#mentalhealth
. He's an example of how speaking up shows courage, combating the notion that it is a sign of weakness.
Breaking News: Biden names all-female White House communications team with Kate Bedingfield as communications director and Jen Psaki as press secretary
Breaking: Llorente & Cuenca has shortened its name to LLYC and rolled out a new slogan "Anticipate: Embrace Disruption."
@LlorenteyCuenca
@LlorenteyCuenca
This week on the podcast, Milwaukee Bucks CCO Barry Baum talks about the Bucks’ championship and how the Bucks’ comms team handled media coverage and access, Baum’s own career path in sports communications, growing a global sports brand and more.
After one of the most challenging years on record, PRWeek takes stock of the industry with an in-depth look at the agencies who persevered through it all.
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The America 250 Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission formed by Congress to plan for the country’s 250th birthday, has hired Keri Potts as its first communications leader.
After sparking
#MeToo
, one of the most prolific and meaningful movements of our age, PRWeek’s Communicator of the Year 2018 award goes to
@TaranaBurke
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Edelman is sending checks to 66 current and former female employees from its New York office who were paid less than males while holding the same position.
Prudential Financial’s director of technology communications Michele Stellato’s path to becoming a champion in the fight against ALS occurred unexpectedly. Yet marshaling her PR expertise, she was determined to take meaningful action.