Lash Fary built a business by giving famous people things they could already afford. The merchandise is incidental; the scarce item in every bag is attention.
The Los Angeles agency built a four-city operating system for the part of marketing that translation cannot solve: knowing which voice, room and ritual will make a message travel.
The San Francisco agency stopped treating PR, search, content and paid media as neighboring departments. Its wager is that one sharp idea, passed intelligently from channel to channel, can beat four disconnected campaigns.
A small-business PR agency once pitched a blockchain answer to the publicity problem. Its present-day offer brings the story back to an editor’s inbox.