Insights & Awards
Get a sense of how we think and where we’ve been recognized.
Insights

Source: Chicago Tribune
Why progressives keep losing the battle to tax the rich
Arguably, the way campaigns explain progressive taxes to voters needs to be overhauled.

Source: PR News Online
PR Lessons Learned: Tactics and Pivots of the Vance-Walz VP Debate
Agree with your opposition, when you can. Vance’s off-brand congeniality made it harder to debate him—because what’s there to debate if you agree?

Source: Medium
Female Disruptors: Isabelle Dienstag of Stomping Ground Strategies On The Three Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry
So many successful firms achieve their success by collecting retainers and advising their clients to sit on their hands. We think that approach is fundamentally lazy, and nine times out of ten it doesn’t best serve the interest of the client.
Awards

2025 Reed Awards
Best Online Video for Public Affairs Campaign or Issue Advocacy
Best Website for Public Affairs Campaign or Issue Advocacy
Best Influencer Partnership
Best Advocacy Advertising Campaign

Bulldog Awards
2024 Best Integration of Traditionaland New Media – Bronze
2024 Best Crisis Management – Gold
2024 Best Public Affairs Campaign – Gold
2024 Best New Agency – Gold

Publicity Club of Chicago
2024 Crisis Communications – Silver Trumpet
2024 Public Affairs – Silver Trumpet

2024 Reed Awards
2024 Best Villain in a Mail Piece

Public Relations Society of America – Chicago Chapter
2024 Public Service – Award of Excellence
2024 Public Affairs – Award of Excellence
