# MikeWorldWide

> MikeWorldWide is an independent, New York-headquartered communications agency founded by Michael Kempner in 1986. It sells senior counsel and execution across corporate reputation, crisis, public affairs, employee communications, consumer marketing, creative, social and influencer work, increasingly supported by its PRISMA Labs.ai intelligence platform. Its most revealing recent move was subtraction: the firm shed $2.5 million in unprofitable work and reduced its client roster by 40%, then finished 2024 with global fee income of $57.1 million, up 13%, before adding sports specialist Berk Communications and workforce adviser HudsonLake.

- **Founded:** 1986
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Michael Kempner (Founder & CEO)
- **Products:** Corporate reputation and communications, Issues and crisis management, Consumer communications, Public affairs, Employee communications
- **Notable:** Cut its client roster by 40% and shed $2.5 million in unprofitable accounts while increasing 2024 global fee income 13% to $57.1 million., Completed a management-led buyout from Interpublic in January 2011, restoring independent ownership ten years after the original sale., Twenty clients have worked with the firm for more than ten years, according to MikeWorldWide.

## Products & services

- **Corporate reputation and communications** — Executive positioning, financial and investor communications, media relations, employee alignment and reputation strategy.
- **Issues and crisis management** — Preparedness, scenario planning, monitoring, rapid response and recovery for high-velocity reputational events.
- **Consumer communications** — Earned-first brand campaigns, cultural strategy, product launches and integrated consumer engagement.
- **Public affairs** — Government relations, policy communications, coalition building and stakeholder engagement.
- **Employee communications** — Organizational change, leadership communication, employer branding, labor relations and workforce engagement, expanded through HudsonLake.
- **Creative, social and influencer strategy** — Campaign concepts, content production, paid amplification, creator partnerships and performance marketing, including the Everywhere specialist offer.
- **PRISMA Labs.ai** — A proprietary intelligence layer for monitoring, audience analysis, predictive message testing, scenario simulation, custom agents and executive AI enablement.
- **PreBunk** — A PRISMA Labs.ai service that audits AI answers about a brand, stress-tests crisis scenarios and improves the authority and discoverability of corrective content.

## Achievements

- Cut its client roster by 40% and shed $2.5 million in unprofitable accounts while increasing 2024 global fee income 13% to $57.1 million.
- Completed a management-led buyout from Interpublic in January 2011, restoring independent ownership ten years after the original sale.
- Twenty clients have worked with the firm for more than ten years, according to MikeWorldWide.
- The Travelers Championship campaign delivered the event's highest Thursday TV rating in 19 years of title sponsorship and its second-highest Sunday rating, up 35% from 2024.
- MikeWorldWide and Berk Communications were both named to The PR Net 100 in 2025.
- MikeWorldWide said it was the most-awarded PR agency at the 2025 American Business Awards and won two Telly Awards.
- The UK operation reported 30% year-over-year revenue growth and 40% headcount growth over the twelve months reported in mid-2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Named former Weber Shandwick analytics leader Joseph Sorrentino as its first chief intelligence officer to oversee intelligence, analytics and AI capabilities.
- **2026-06** — Appointed Darrin Kayser to lead an expanded energy practice.
- **2026-05** — Acquired workforce and change-communications specialist HudsonLake and announced an expanded Washington, D.C. presence.
- **2026-01** — Launched a dedicated supply chain, logistics and infrastructure communications practice.
- **2025-09** — MikeWorldWide and subsidiary Berk Communications were both named to The PR Net 100.
- **2025-07** — Won Flickr's agency-of-record assignment to increase cultural relevance and reach next-generation creators.
- **2025-02** — Completed its acquisition of longtime affiliate Berk Communications, which continues as a wholly owned branded subsidiary.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mww.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mww-group/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/mww_pr
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mww_pr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MWWGroup/

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Last updated: 2026-09-24