A U.S. Department of Labor report last year stated there were approximately 57,000 PR managers and 208,000 PR specialists in America; conversely, there were only 46,500 journalists. Do the math.That m
Have you heard about the Tinder Meltdown (TM)? Some even called it a "stunt."
In case you haven't, here's the quick and dirty: a piece appeared on Vanity Fair that Tinder didn't like. And it reacte
Apple’s VP of worldwide communications Katie Cotton is retiring, the company revealed today. Cotton has been with Apple for more than 18 years, and in that time she’s helped coordinate the
For startups, there's usually a choice between hiring someone to take care of your PR -- which usually means retaining an agency -- or doing the work yourself. PressFriendly seeks to provide an altern
Startups and PR firms have long had a halting, if not embattled relationship. Spend time talking to entrepreneurs and those working at startups, and it won’t be long before you encounter the nag
For pretty much as long as anyone can remember, a relationship triangle, or a "love triangle" if you will, has taken shape between companies and the PR firms that represent them and the press that cov
Today, AirPR is officially launching its Match.com for startups and PR, peeling back the curtain on its PR marketplace for the first time. Essentially, AirPR has created a tech platform that aims to i
We in the media have a love-hate relationship with public relations firms and their professionals, with that relationship tending to skew heavily to the latter. Companies pour countless hours of blood
Why is there nothing but <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/facebook/">Facebook IPO news</a> today, you (Facebook haters) may be asking? Well, outside of the obvious - people are obsessed, this is a
Remember the mini-slate Samsung released a few months ago? The Samsung Galaxy Note? Pretty cool little device. As we enter CES week, the press releases are flying fast and furious and this one caught
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Nearly everyone has something to say about BP's oil spill, and from a public relations perspective,
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<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/docomo/">NTT DoComo</a>, Japan's largest cell phone carrier (55 mi
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/03.jpeg">Warning: The little animals curse a little.
This cute little video is literally what we go through on a daily basis with PR peo
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/933HD_Angle.jpg">Samsung has just announced a pair of LCD monitors with built-in TV features that promise to “eliminate the line betwee
Ahh, summer. A time in which unpaid interns from all over the more expensive schools flock to New York to work as flacks. Today we received this missive from one Angela, a young lady whose lack of und
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The PR industry never ceases to amaze me. Despite the fact that we stopped honoring m
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Last year, I covered the landmark <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/31/sec-to-reco
Our buddies Rich and Eric got a delightful missive in their email boxes after replying to a CES meeting request about TVs. See, Rich and Eric run PhoneScoop, the best phone site on the web. They don&#
From, obviously, Penny-Arcade Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld‘s metascore. Right now it’s 78. That̵
So you’re a public relations exec and you’re looking to promote the hell out of your top-draw title—what to do? Thank your lucky stars for Edge, which has just compiled a list of the
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