For the man on the street, PR and Advertising are the same thing but there are marked differences between the two - notably that PR agencies do a lot of "image management" work while Ad Agencies are mainly concerned with advertisement.
"Just an FYI. Ogilvy & Mather is an Advertising Agency. They do have PR subsidiaries and sister companies."
I was thinking when I read that, "hmmm, that's an insult to an Ad Agency like O-M." However, I'm not exactly holding my breath for a major O-M disavowal of her employment relationship, suspension with/without pay, etc....
It would be interesting to know all the O-M clients of record if anyone has that handy....
Do I correctly recall that Watergate burgler E.Howard Hunt was employed by Robert R. Mullen and Company, a firm that had long provided cover for active CIA agents throughout the world and had actively been involved in Bay of Pigs operations?
The owner of the firm, Robert F. Bennett, in addition to his CIA ties, was the Washington representative of Howard Hughes, having taken over that job from Larry O'Brien, the Democratic National Chairman, the target of the Watergate break-in. More recently, he has found other employment within the beltway.
For the man on the street, PR and Advertising are the same thing but there are marked differences between the two - notably that PR agencies do a lot of "image management" work while Ad Agencies are mainly concerned with advertisement.
There are, I understand, some business reasons related to tax writeoffs of expenses for some of the differences as well. PR experts can of course come in after the fact of an event to put *spin* on the events, while advertising will more generally be in advance of a hoped-for preference for an advertisedproduct sale, though follow-up for repeat sales and continued brand loyalty can be after the fact.
The advertising/marketing side of the newspaper business was that which I did most poorly in journalism school. But that was a long time ago.