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Kathy Bloomgarden

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As seen in: Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur, Fortune, World Economic Forum, Agenda (World Economic Forum), Observer, Business Standard, Inc42, PR Week, Project Syndicate and
CEO of global communications firm Ruder Finn, Inc. Gym nut, news junkie, China enthusiast. Check out @RuderFinn, @RuderFinnUK and @RuderFinnIndia
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AI Isn’t Replacing Communications. It’s Redefining Which Stories Are Heard… and Which Ones Drive Impact

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By Kathy Bloomgarden, Ruder Finn
| Business Reporter Verified
By Kathy Bloomgarden, Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn You don’t compete against competitors. You compete against market transitions. That has always been true in communications and marketing. But today’s transition is moving faster than anything the industry has experienced before. Artificial intelligence is not simply introducing new tools into the workplace.
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PR Firms Post 3.8% Increase in '25 Income

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By Kevin McCauley Verified, Kathy Bloomgarden, Steve Halsey
| O'Dwyer's PR News Verified
Public relations firms recorded a 3.8 percent increase in combined 2025 fee income to $4.8B, according to the 140 independent PR firms ranked by ODwyers. Total employment fell 3.3 percent to 21,556. In the Top Ten group, financial firms ICR (+20.5 percent) and Prosek Partners (+17.6 percent) posted the biggest gains in fee income. APCO (-10 percent) and Zeno (-8.6 percent) charted the biggest declines. Finn Partners was flat.
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Why Agencies Must Build Around AI to Help Clients Succeed

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By Kathy Bloomgarden
| O'Dwyer's PR News Verified
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a defining force in marketing and communications. AI shapes how information is discovered, how narratives travel, and how reputations are formed. Search behavior is shifting in real time. Influence is fragmenting across platforms and communities. Large language models increasingly mediate what audiences see, believe, and act on.
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