Client Experience

Acer

Managed all the PR activity for the Acer America and global Acer, Inc. account for three years, focusing on changing the company’s image from a “me too” Taiwanese OEM to a formidable player in the American PC market.

AllBusiness

American Express

Served as an extension of the in-house corporate communications team in New York, helping with communications strategy and conducting media relations for AMEX’s B2B program.

From the world’s first portable video player to wireless handheld entertainment devices, Concept managed all North American PR for this multinational consumer electronics leader for more than five years.

Australian Trade Commission

Worked with the Australian consulate based in San Francisco for two years to build awareness of up-and-coming start-ups from Australia looking for market share and funding in the U.S.

DivX

Instrumental in re-positioning DivX away from its "bad boy" image to a viable and successful entity. Significantly raised visibility for the executives, products and company with feature stories in the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter and others, which contributed to a successful IPO.

Entriq

Expedia.com

Launched Expedia.com and managed PR program at the time when online travel was considered a threat to the travel industry. Balanced both an aggressive consumer PR campaign with issues management to promote the service and educate the industry.

Eyespot

Launched the first online video community to provide a simple way to edit, mix and publish mobile videos.ﾊAggressive media relations campaign led to coverage in the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter and others.

Frame Free Technologies

Freeworks.com

Gracenote

Agency of record since February 2006, building awareness of the company and its broad set product and service offerings and partnerships in all of the sectors it plays in - digital entertainment, automotive, mobile, and consumer electronics.

HomePages

Worked with B2B real estate services firm HouseValues to introduce its first consumer service. Arranged and conducted press tour to meet reporters at the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Business 2.0, Fast Company, Good Housekeeping, PC Magazine, and others.

Intava

Working with the company’s CEO to develop and tell the Intava story. Focused on raising the company’s profile in the national retail and marketing trades as the interactive signage company expands its customers and product base.

Intel

Worked with the in-house corporate communications team to build awareness for the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, resulting in broadcast and print coverage that positioned Intel as an innovative and community-oriented company.

Intershop

Intuit

Our work with Intuit spans from serving on a team that managed all of the company’s product PR, to launching Quicken Financial Planner and Quicken.com, to heading up analyst relations as part of the in-house corporate communications department.

Isilon Systems

Launched this enterprise storage start-up and gained an early position as a “company to watch” in storage for digital media content. Developed company’s initial messaging, story, materials, press tours and secured positive and consistent coverage for several years.

Metro Hi Speed

MetroLyrics

The leading lyrics site in the world, MetroLyrics was also the first existing lyrics site to provide authorized content through a partnership with Gracenote, a C2 client. Based in British Columbia, MetroLyrics made strides with U.S. and Canadian media under the guidance of C2.

Microsoft

Oversaw the team and PR launch for MSN.com, Expedia, CarPoint, HomeAdvisor and all properties across the MSN network in the late 1990s. Led the PR team for Windows Media Player, including managing product reviews, business and consumer press relations, and analyst program.

Moviso

Positioned Moviso (PWS at the time) as the leader in the mobile media products and services. PR efforts resulted in Moviso being perceived as a major player in the industry, and the company was acquired 1 ½ years later by InfoSpace Mobile.

MOD Systems

Concept is the agency of record for MOD Systems as they launch the world's first digital entertainment download solution to SD memory cards in retail and other out-of-home locations.

Musicmatch

Spent four years managing both the internal PR team and external media and analyst relations program - from the introduction of the first music subscription service all the way through the company’s acquisition by Yahoo!

Netpulse

Pay Cycle

PopStation.com

Popstation is an online community record label where anyone with an Internet connection and a microphone can record a Popstation original song and compete for a chance to win a record deal. Popstation has enlisted Concept team members for our extensive experience in the digital entertainment industry and consumer media relations to drive the national launch of the company.

Praized Media

Launched this start-up, the first distributed local search platform designed for bloggers and social media publishers, to the public in July of 2008. Managed all media relations and writing for this Red Herring 100 company based out of Montreal.

Quantum

Red Room

RunRev

Concept is the agency of record for Runtime Revolution, helping the company develop the most effective message, relationships and awareness to drive visibility to their unmatched cross-platform application development environment. After just a few months, Concept developed the social media strategy and planned and executed the company's most successful product launch in its history, driving a 10-fold increase in sales and Website traffic following its most recent product suite release.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts

Starbucks Coffee

Conducted an extensive consumer television and radio campaign to introduce a suite of new holiday blends and promotions, garnering coverage on every major radio station and TV network in the Bay Area.

Symantec

Transpera

Concept is the agency of record for this up-and-coming mobile video company founded by Frank Barbieri. The company was featured in Mobile Entertainment, NewTeeVee and TVWeek in its first two weeks with Concept.

TravelPost.com

Launched the company in 2005 into the crowded travel review space and were instrumental in the company making a name for itself in the travel trades and consumer media through creative consumer PR campaigns. It was bought in 2007 by SideStep.

TripIt

Catapulted this start-up company into the online travel services scene through coverage in the likes of the New York Times, Newsweek, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, Smarter Travel, Entrepreneur, GigaOm and TechCrunch - all within a month of launch.

Unify²

With a team of Unified Communications experts from Microsoft, Unify² turned to Concept Communications as agency of record to launch the consulting firm into the right media outlets, events, and blogs at a time when UC builds as one of the hottest enterprise technology trends.

Uptake

Provided strategic counsel and managed media outreach campaigns for the private and public beta launches of this travel search engine start-up. Secured high-profile coverage on sites such as TechCrunch, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, GigaOm, CNET, and Jupiter Research.

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