With all the buzz on social media, it can be difficult to get your brand singled out and heard among the others. For this reason, many brands enlist social media ambassadors to help publicize their products, services or their...
This week we are in the midst of a lesson in Crisis Public Relations at its worst from two major brands - Blackberry and Netflix. While blackberry for three consecutive days has seen outages worldwide and users unable to...
Recently, the communications team at Franklin Templeton in NYC woke up in the middle of a PR Crisis. One of their employees was caught on camera in the now infamous “dog owner versus bird watcher” video. They had no...
Diversity in a workplace is a great asset. Having people with different backgrounds, ethnicities and sexual orientation is a boon as it bring a wider range of experiences, ideas and sensitivities to the table. Diversity encompasses other elements that...
Credit Coca-Cola with a great PR stunt with their plans to put Coke ads in Chinese on the rotating courtside signs at Madison Square Garden. Obviously it’s a blatant (and brilliant) exploitation of Jeremy Lin – and Coke gets...
Book Excerpt From “For Immediate Release”, PR Book by Ronn Torossian of 5WPR, a leading PR Agency. The book is available for purchase at Banres and Noble and bookstores nationwide.
There’s always an emergency. In today’s media world, they...
My crisis PR agency, 5WPR was pleased today to read the announcement that Liberty Mutual Insurance has added a crisis management endorsement to its new commercial lead umbrella policy form –It’s great that insurance companies recognize the vast importance...
Pizza Hut used to be the ubiquitous All American pizza chain. The stores were everywhere, and the food was good enough to sit down and enjoy it. But now the chain has been losing money for seven straight quarters....
In the latest case of WOW do I love my job, the “Man Aisle” was the brainchild of the 5WPR Westside Market account team and CEO, George Zoitas and COO, Ian Joskowitz of Westside Market NYC.
Westside Market NYC is...
It was rewarding to speak this week with some of the bright interns whom we have this summer at 5WPR. These young people are so hungry and ready to succeed – a similar energy to the day to day...
