- Freud Communications
Freud Communications is a powerful
public relations firm with offices inLondon andNew York . Freud Communications was founded byMatthew Freud . The FrenchPublicis Groupe (the fourth largest communications firm in the world) acquired a 50.1% stake in Freud Communications in June, 2005. Matthew Freud remained asCEO . In 2006 Freud purchased advertising agency DFGW as part of Matthews’s long term objective of making Freud Communications a dominant force in the communications sector. [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freud_Communications]Freud Communications services include strategic-consultancy, corporate communications and consumer-marketing communications.
Notable clients include
Live Earth , Comic Relief,MySpace ,BSkyB ,Pepsi ,The Weinstein Company ,Sony Pictures ,London Development Agency and theAnschutz Entertainment Group . Freud Communications also handlepublicity for movies includingTwentieth Century Fox 's - "Imagine Me & You " , and "Bullet Boy " a film collaboration between theBBC andShine Limited , the latter company headed by Freud's wife, Elisabeth Murdoch. The firm also handles public relations for UK basedOptimum Releasing who are the UK distributors forMichael Moore 's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11 ". [http://www.optimumreleasing.com/dvd.php?id=82]Freud Communications UK executes PR campaigns utilising, among other tools, editorial placement to obtain positive references to their clients' policies and products on such
TV news shows asGMTV , as well as intabloids andbroadsheets . Recent, successful campaigns include the visit ofMayor of London Ken Livingstone to thePeople's Republic of China ; aWalkers Crisps promotion; and publicity forRandom House , publishers ofDan Brown 's "The DaVinci Code ".Freud Communications USA is based in
New York City and is headed by CEO Lisa Dallos. Notable clients includeHarper Collins , sony pictures entertainment, theWeinstein Company ,Walden Media , magazines including "Elle ", "Details", "InTouch ", and "Life & Style ", A & E,Live 8 ,Westwood One , and the film "Syriana ", for whichGeorge Clooney won a 2006 Oscar. Notable campaigns include public relations work duringKatie Couric 's transition fromNBC toCBS . [http://www.freud.com/QUARTERLYREVIEW.pdf]External links
* [http://www.freud.com/ Official homepage]
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