12/9/04: CooperKatz congratulates Faye Nikolaidis on her promotion to the position of Manager, Client Services. 12/9/04: CooperKatz generates almost 80 million impressions promoting the 6th Annual Family Television Awards for the Family Friendly Programming Forum - a group of 46 major advertisers that seeks to promote and recognize prime time television programs that a family can comfortably view together. 12/7/04: CooperKatz promotes Capgemini Health’s new white paper Healthcare’s Top Business Issues & Responses for 2005 resulting in numerous media mentions in UPI and numerous health trade pubs.   12/1/04: Topix.net, an upstart competitor in the news aggregation business, has retained CooperKatz as its PR agency of record. Topix.net aggregates news in 150,000 categories, crawls about 9,000 sources every thirty minutes, and attracts two million unique visitors and eight million page views per month. 11/29/04: Ben Billingsley joins the CooperKatz team as Client Services Manager. Welcome Ben! 11/29/04: A banner media week for Virgin Mobile USA! First, it's madcap "Chrismahanukwanzakah" holiday ad campaign is featured in the Wall Street Journal's Advertising column on 11/26/04 under the headline "Getting Attention with Holiday Ads." Then Virgin Mobile Flasher V7 camera phone is the subject of the "Consumed" column by Rob Walker in The New York Times Magazine on 11/28/04. Then the Flasher V7 appears as a recommendation in The Boston Globe's holiday gift guide appearing on 11/29/04 ("You're breaking down and getting your kid a prepaid cellphone, but she wants one of those fancy camera phones. Check out Virgin Mobile's new Audiovox Flasher V7. Flasher refers to the camera phone's built-in flash.") 11/22/04: 04 Lewis Redd, Capgemini Health 's president, is quoted in The Wall Street Journal special report section entitled "Trends: Hospitals: We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay." 11/18/04: CooperKatz helps PubSub Concepts spread the word that its prospective "matching engine" (see www.pubsub.com) has a brand new interface and is now tracking more than 6.5 million Weblogs (blogs) – 2 million beyond some industry estimates of the "trackable" blogosphere. The announcement garnered coverage in a range of outlets, including CBS Marketwatch radio and online, Click-Z, InternetNews, The Charlotte Observer and The Tampa Tribune.  PubSub's announcement was also widely cited across the blogosphere. 11/8/04: Jennifer Lopez joins the CooperKatz team as Financial/Operations Administrator. Welcome Jennifer! 10/18/04: FiberNet Telecom Group, a leading provider of managed network services, has retained CooperKatz as its PR agency of record. FiberNet designs, implements and manages private networks and high performance data services that meet today's demanding requirements for reliability and superior quality of service. Said John Dowd, Vice President, Business Development at FiberNet, "We picked CooperKatz because of their strong knowledge of the telecommunications industry coupled with their creativity and broad service offerings." 9/04: CooperKatz supports WeatherBug, the leading provider of local, real-time online weather information, during both Hurricane Charley and Hurricane Frances with a major media effort. WeatherBug dispatched teams of meteorologists to Florida to cover both hurricanes and to document their forecasting and experiences through a blog http://weatherbug.blogs.com. CK focused media efforts on interviews with expert meteorologists and generated buzz for the blog. Dozens of blog mentions resulted, including influential blogs such as Fodors and Doc Searls as well as weather blogs like WeatherGuide and WXNation. In addition, the on-site WeatherBug meteorologists conducted dozens of radio reports on the Westwood One Radio Network and participated in select local market radio interviews. Beyond the blog outreach, CooperKatz generated coverage in the St. Petersburg Times, Detroit News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ABCNews.com and CBSMarketWatch.com. Finally, the firm released two announcements highlighting WeatherBug's successful coverage of both Hurricanes, which included an influx of daily users and expanded customer-focused attention via blog visits and comment posts. 9/1/04: Al Roker and TODAY SHOW tech editor Corey Greenberg spotlight Virgin Mobile's Vox 8610 handset and Pay As You Go service as a smart choice for teens and young adults heading back to school this Fall. Summer-04: CooperKatz helps Virgin Mobile USA and The Motley Fool join forces. Together, they get the word out to parents on teaching teens better money management skills – starting with how to avoid common debt pitfalls like credit cards and sky-high cell phone bills through new "pay as you go" alternatives. The comprehensive media campaign – which included TV and radio media tours, video and audio news releases, a matte release, syndicated print coverage through The Motley Fool newspaper column, and an extensive article on www.fool.com – garnered a total audience reach of well over 25 million. 7/19/04: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its newest Account Executive, Amy Kirkham. 6/16/04: CooperKatz invited two influential bloggers - Robert Scoble of Microsoft and Buzz Bruggeman of ActiveWords - to meet with the agency's staff, clients and select members of the press. During the two-hour seminar, called "Meet the Bloggers," the technology evangelists shared their insights on how Weblogs, RSS and wikis are reshaping marketing and PR. CooperKatz VP Steve Rubel started the morning off by giving a talk about the new media ecosystem that is emerging. You can view his PowerPoint here (5MB file). Next up, Bruggeman discussed in detail how effective he is in promoting his product, a utility that automates the Windows operating system, all within a $100/month budget. Finally, Robert Scoble talked about Microsoft's Channel9 program as well as why blogging is important for PR pros and marketers. A full summary can be found on MediaPost and on Rubel's blog. 6/3/04: At a time when unemployment, job loss and outsourcing dominate the headlines, Lightolier is a 100 year old company that continues to manufacture in the U.S. CEO/President Zia Eftekhar was a guest on Bloomberg radio to discuss his insights from the perspective of a company that relies on the skills and expertise of the American worker and remains highly competitive in the global marketplace. 6/1/04: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its newest Senior Account Executive, Meredith Topalanchik. 5/24/04: Natalia Salluzzi joins the CooperKatz team as Media Assistant. Welcome Natalia! 5/9/04: Members of Cooperkatz's Invest Northern Ireland account team visited Belfast for an in-depth look at the fast-growing, technologically sophisticated region. 5/3/04: CooperKatz is increasingly integrating client Weblogs into traditional public relations campaigns. Recent launches include the ANA Weblogs, which were mentioned in the Advertising column in The New York Times, and the WeatherBug Storm Chase blog, which has been mentioned on Poynter.org and Cyberjournalist.net. 5/1/04: Created and placed an ad in major health trade publications heralding Capgemini Health's #1 ranking in healthcare consulting. 5/1/04: CooperKatz celebrates its eighth anniversary. 4/29/04: CooperKatz is pleased to acknowledge the contributions of four key senior employees with officer promotions: Anne Green to Senior Vice President, Client Services Susan Pralgever and Steve Rubel to Vice President, Client Services Andrea Martone to Vice President, Media Services 4/29/04: CooperKatz generates high visibility for WeatherBug's $23M venture capital financing round with a story in the Digits column of the Wall Street Journal. 4/26/04: Steve Rubel has launched a new Weblog called Micro Persuasion that tracks the impact of blogs and participatory journalism on the PR practice. The blog is featured as a Feedster.com Feed of the Day. 4/12/04: Working with Virgin Mobile USA's technology partner Telcorida, CooperKatz helps the fast-growing upstart wireless provider secure a major feature article in Information Week – highlighting how its technology backbone has helped drive Virgin Mobile's explosive growth to nearly two million customers in under two years. 4/9/04: CooperKatz announces the addition of Invest Northern Ireland to its growing roster of clients. Invest Northern Ireland is the economic development agency dedicated to attracting foreign investment to Northern Ireland. Said Larry Buchsbaum, Marketing Manager, Invest NI, "We selected CooperKatz because of their team's strong credentials, industry knowledge and understanding of our business objectives." 3/10/04: CooperKatz client Bob Liodice, President and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, is featured on the cover of Media magazine as "100 People to Know in Marketing." 2/17/04: Peg McCormick joins the CooperKatz team. Welcome Peg! 2/1/04: Cooperkatz is proud to announce the promotions of Rachael Adler to Senior Account Executive and Jason Wallace to Senior Designer. 10/31/03: Jeanine Kober joins the CooperKatz team as Client Services Manager. Welcome Jeanine! 10/1/03: CooperKatz congratulates Faye Nikolaidis on her promotion to the position of Account Supervisor. 10/1/03: CooperKatz congratulates Lesley Weiner on her promotion to the position of Account Executive. 10/1/03: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its newest Account Executive, Shanley Stern. 9/15/03: During Hurricane Isabel, CooperKatz helps WeatherBug substantially build its brand as a leading provider of local, real-time online weather information. As the storm made landfall, the agency made a major effort to make WeatherBug's team of meteorologists, who were based in a mobile weather station vehicle in Ocean City, Maryland, available to the media for interviews as hurricane experts. This resulted in scores of media opportunities,Êincluding round-the-clock interviews on the Westwood One Radio Network and interviews with CBS MarketWatch Radio, the Daily News, and dozens of local-market radio stations in Isabel's path. In addition, CooperKatz generated several free-standing stories about WeatherBug's unique storm coverage in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Wall Street Journal (view article) and ABCNews.com. Finally, the firm helped the company establish a relationship with NBC News, which featured WeatherBug's live local hurricane data live on the air. 9/8/03: Michele Quinn joins the CooperKatz team as Creative Services Manager. Welcome Michele! 8/4/03: Dana Ravida joins the CooperKatz team as Office Administrator. Welcome Dana! 7/22/03: The Holmes Report issues a stellar appraisal of CooperKatz in its 2003 Agency Report Card. 6/16/03: CooperKatz is highlighted as a top rated agency in The Holmes Report survey of client satisfaction. The survey required a minimum of ten client responses, and only 15 agencies made the list. 6/13/03: CooperKatz helps promote the World Wealth Report published by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in partnership with Merrill Lynch. The report, which includes information about the number and aggregate wealth of high net worth individual investors (those with over $1 million in financial assets) covers more than 59 countries that account for 98% of world GDP. Outreach generated coverage in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, American Banker, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, AP Online, Dow Jones Business International, among others. On the broadcast front, James Greene, vice president and leader of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Financial Services practice in North America, discussed the report on CNBC’s "Business Center" and "The Squawk Box". Alvi Abuaf, vice president and leader of CGE&Y’s security industry practice, appeared on NY1’s "Fortune Business Report" and CNNfn’s "Money Gang." Radio coverage included interviews on ABC Radio Network, WFUV (a National Public Radio affiliate in New York), Bloomberg radio and others. 5/27/03: Dorothy Sonnenburg joins the CooperKatz team as Business Manager. Welcome Dorothy! 5/1/03: CooperKatz proudly celebrates its seventh anniversary. 5/01/03: CooperKatz created an advertorial campaign for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Health consultancy scheduled to run in major health trade magazines. The advertorials deal with CGE&Y’s leadership in various practice areas (such as clinical transformation, supply chain, revenue transformation) and how the firm is helping hospitals use information technology to implement more efficient business and care delivery processes. 4/14/03: CooperKatz & Company receives a Bulldog silver award in the Computers & Technology category for the Volvo Safety Concept Car (SCCII) Media Tour. The Annual Bulldog Awards reward the art of crafting a great story, the ability to seize the moment when news is breaking, the deft management of journalists on the attack, and/or our persistence in breaking through the bulwarks of influential media with a brilliant pitch. 4/9/03: CooperKatz teams with Volvo to promote the automaker's new, unique "rollover protection system," which is embedded in its first SUV, the XC90. CooperKatz invited the broadcast media to a closed, tight slalom course at Belmont Race Track that was designed to mirror Consumer Reports' test methods. The initiative enabled broadcast reporters and cameramen to experience first-hand how the XC90's high tech safety features help prevent accidents and promote automotive safety. WB11 aired several live broadcasts from the site, and NY1 tested out the XC90 as well. 4/1/03: CooperKatz helps Virgin Mobile celebrate April Fool's Day with a tongue-in-cheek SMS campaign titled American Oddball. The initiative pokes fun at the nation's obsession with the television show, American Idol. 4/1/03: CooperKatz helps the Otis Elevator Company mark the 150th anniversary of the elevator, invented in 1853 by Elisha Graves Otis. The campaign included several initiatives. The first was to secure large feature stories about the impact of the elevator. This was accomplished by creating customized angles for each national and local-market outlet. In addition, CK generated coverage around a special re-enactment of Elisha Otis' first public demonstration of the "safety elevator," which was held for employees at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. At a time when war coverage is dominating the news, CK succeeded with big hits and exceptional event turnout. Highlights include AP, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Seattle Times, US News, USA Weekend, CBS, WB, ABC, CNN Headline News and PBS Nightly Business Report. 3/25/03: CooperKatz worked with Discovery's Creative Group and DePalma Productions to write, design, produce and stage the Discovery Networks US 2003 Upfront presentation. The event was held on March 25th at the I-Max Theater at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The almost 600 media buyers and press who attended the two-hour program were treated to many of Discovery Networks' "assets" including: HDTV on a 40-foot screen; 47 video rolls; network stars like Paige Davis, Jesse James and Jeff Corwin; a live satellite feed with Jane Goodall; insights from Discovery Founder John Hendricks; a pig's-eye view of the audience from a live pig-mounted "HamCam;" and the chance to see the President of Discovery Networks US, Billy Campbell, and President of Advertising Sales, Joe Abruzzese, hold a 27' Burmese Python. 3/20/03: CooperKatz helps DealerTrack announce that it has acquired Credit Online and the CreditConnection platform. The combined entity will streamline the auto finance process for automobile dealers and lending institutions. A regional version of the show went on the road to Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles. 3/17/03: Kevin Acocella joins the team at CooperKatz as Senior Account Executive. Welcome Kevin! 3/12/03: Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, one of the most influential technology journalists, prominently features WeatherBug in a comparative review of desktop weather software applications. WeatherBug is a division of AWS Convergence Technologies. The article caps off a solid quarter of AWS media coverage that included large articles on WeatherBug in the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Rocky Mountain News and the Baltimore Sun, as well as similar coverage for the WeatherNet school program in Newsday, the Sunday Star-Ledger, the Denton Record-Chronicle, the Bergen Record, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Associated Press. 3/11/03: CooperKatz produced Nielsen Media Research’s 2003 National Client Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona (March 11-13) for 450 attendees, including clients from all major television and cable networks. The three-day conference included presentations from senior management, as well as case studies presented by clients such as Discovery Networks, Lifetime, Nickelodeon and Scripps. 3/3/03: CooperKatz's work with "Listening to the City," which had a major impact on the future of Lower Manhattan, was again featured in PR Week ("Coverage of WTC Forum Helps Public Influence Decision"). "Listening to the City" provided strong public input to decision-makers' input that dramatically changed the course of the rebuilding process for Lower Manhattan. 3/1/03: CooperKatz placed a bylined article entitled Transforming the Revenue Cycle in Healthcare Financial Management on behalf of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Health. 3/01/03: After only three months, a new Speaker’s Bureau that CooperKatz established on behalf of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Health consultancy has helped the practice book five speaking engagements. More than a dozen submissions are pending. 2/5/03: CooperKatz helps Virgin Mobile USA (a cellular phone service designed exclusively around the needs of the youth market) announce that it captured more than 350,000 net subscribers in the first six months of operation - and represented 6% of total net subscriber additions for the entire US cellular industry in the fourth quarter of 2002. Media coverage of Virgin Mobile USA's first performance announcement included an article in The New York Times. 1/15/03: CooperKatz was named public relations agency for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Financial Services practice in the U.S. 12/01/02: CooperKatz promoted Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Health's white paper, Health Care's Top 10 Business Issues and Impacts 2003, resulting in extensive media coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Star-Ledger and numerous health care trade magazines. 11/18/02: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its newest account executive, Rachael Adler. 11/17/02: CooperKatz raises awareness about how Canon's digital imaging technology helps the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) recover missing kids. Activities included supporting the Las Vegas based Canon Celebrity Golf Challenge, an annual event that has raised nearly a million dollars for NCMEC, and placing digital imaging tips in the media that can help parents recover their children. Results include local market airings on CBS and Fox, CNET Radio, as well as on the nationally syndicated show "Entertainment Las Vegas-Style" and the Hispanic network "Telemundo." CooperKatz also produced b-roll featuring interviews in English and Spanish that appeared on an additional 14 stations around the country. Upcoming articles in the Ladies Home Journal, PC Magazine Online and the Detroit Free Press will feature the Canon/NCMEC tips. 11/12/02: CooperKatz wrote and distributed a press release promoting Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Health's Payor Web site survey, a benchmarking study that tracks the extent to which managed care companies are using their Web sites to serve their customers. The media outreach resulted in extensive coverage in health care trade magazines, including American Medical News, Health Data Management, Health Management Technology, Managed Healthcare Executive, Managed Care Outlook, Modern Physician, Reuters Health, Strategic Health Care Marketing and others. 10/30/02: CooperKatz designs a comprehensive advertising campaign for DealerTrack to run in key financial and automotive trade publications. 10/1/02: DealerTrack, the leading technology services company enabling finance transactions between automobile dealers and lenders, names CooperKatz & Co. its PR agency of record. CooperKatz will execute an integrated communications plan for DealerTrack — including marketing materials, advertising and public relations — to build awareness and promote use of its Web-based platform within the dealer and lender communities. 9/16/02: CooperKatz's second major media tour with the Volvo Safety Concept Car is featured in PRWeek's Campaigns section ("Volvo/Ford Play it Safe for the Press"). Volvo's futuristic $10 million concept car is packed with high-tech safety features. CooperKatz gave the media the opportunity to test-drive the vehicle and showcase all of the new gizmos inside. 9/9/02: CooperKatz and Virgin Mobile USA are featured in PRWeek's Campaigns section for the high-profile launch of Virgin's new youth-oriented wireless phone service ("Virgin Realizes the Value of Exposure"). The program kicked off with a public event in July with Sir Richard Branson at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square. 8/12/02: CooperKatz promotes Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's healthcare experts on the newly released HIPAA (Hospital Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy regulations, resulting in a dozen interviews with media including: Associated Press, Modern Healthcare, Managed Healthcare Executive, Healthcare Informatics, National Underwriter, BNA Health Care Policy Reports, Managed Care Outlook, HealthLeaders magazine and others. 8/9/02: CooperKatz creates a VNR (video news release) to promote the 4th Annual Family Television Awards show, which airs on the ABC Television Network on August 9, 2002. The VNR played on Access Hollywood and other outlets. The Awards, which honor outstanding family fare on TV, are an initiative of the Family Friendly Programming Forum, a group of more than 40 major national advertisers seeking to encourage the television community to develop and air more shows that the whole family can enjoy watching together. 8/6/02: CooperKatz helps AWS Convergence Technologies unveil a major new homeland security partnership with the National Weather Service. The agency managed all facets of the rollout, including developing key messages, writing press materials, producing a video news release and conducting an aggressive media outreach campaign. The partnership racked up widespread attention, including coverage on the Associated Press, CNN and the Fox News Channel. 7/29/02: CooperKatz and the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York are featured in a PR Week article entitled "CooperKatz Helps Amplify Listening to the City's Voice." The article noted how CooperKatz helped the organization both attract 5,000 tri-state area residents to the 21st century town hall meeting and also publicized its impact. 7/22/02: CooperKatz completes its most successful week ever with a combined hundreds of millions of audience impressions for our clients: Civic Alliance: CooperKatz handles more than 250 media representatives at the more-than-4,500-person "Listening to the City" event on July 20th at the Jacob Javits Center. The event, sponsored by the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, becomes front-page news in The New York Times and dailies around the world, and results in more than 650 national and local broadcast stories. Carrier: Stories surrounding the 100th anniversary of air conditioning on July 17th include the cover of Sunday Newsday, articles in 40 of the top 50 DMA newspapers, Reader's Digest, and USA Weekend; the "Top Ten" list on the Late Show with David Letterman; and broadcast stories on Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, Fox & Friends, CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, ABC Nightly News, and hundreds of local stations across the nation. The campaign generated over a half billion audience impressions - a tremendous achievement for the 100th anniversary! Volvo: CooperKatz completes a six-city, two-month tour for the futuristic Safety Concept Car that generates more than 32 million impressions in broadcast and articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times and Automotive News, among others. 7/15/02: Bridget Conroy joins the team at CooperKatz as Senior Account Executive. Welcome Bridget! 7/15/02: PRWeek features CooperKatz and The Tunes of Glory parade, benefiting Gilda's Club, in its Campaigns section ("Pipers Bang Drum to Aid Good Cause"). CooperKatz was the lead agency that organized and promoted the event. The world's largest pipe and drum parade drew 9,000 pipers and drummers from 26 countries and every U.S. state. 6/1/02: CooperKatz is named PR agency of record for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's healthcare practice to promote its key consulting services to providers and payers, and to the national and trade press. Among the major initiatives CooperKatz will cover are CGE&Y's leadership in implementing HIPAA preparedness, Outcomes Management, Transformational Outsourcing, Clinical Transformation, Revenue Cycle Transformation and Turnarounds. 5/25/02: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its new Account Coordinator, Lesley Weiner. 5/25/02: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Jackie Ni who will be filling an internship position for the summer. 5/15/02: CooperKatz Wins SABRE Award CooperKatz won top honors at the SABRE Awards for its America's Fastest Geek competition, staged at PC Expo for client Ziff Davis Internet. Against tough competition, the program was judged the year's best campaign in the Business to Consumer/Internet Site category. Two other CooperKatz programs were SABRE finalists: TowerGroup's reputation-building program and Volvo's Safety Concept Car media tour. 5/8/02: CooperKatz congratulates Andrew Foote on his promotion to the position of Account Executive. 5/1/02: CooperKatz proudly celebrates its sixth anniversary. 4/16/02: For Carrier Corporation, CooperKatz orchestrated a publicity, online and event-based campaign designed to herald the 100th anniversary of the invention of modern air conditioning by Willis H. Carrier. 4/14/02: For Volvo Cars of North America, CooperKatz executed a six-city media tour in June/July of the Volvo Safety Concept Car, a drivable vehicle packed with futuristic safety features. 4/6/02: CooperKatz, the pro bono agency for Gilda's Club Worldwide, led the publicity efforts for a major, worldwide fundraising event; a recording-breaking bagpipe and drum parade in New York City on Saturday, April 6. 4/1/02: CooperKatz is named one of five finalists in two separate 2002 Sabre Awards categories! Under "Business-to-Business Marketing (Existing Product)", CooperKatz is nominated for a Gold Sabre along with client, TowerGroup, for its ongoing public relations campaign. Under "Internet Site: Business-to-Consumer", CooperKatz is nominated for a Silver Sabre along with client Ziff Davis for its America's Fastest Geek competition, held at the 2001 PC Expo. Winners will be announced at the Sabre Awards dinner on May 15th, 2002.  In addition, CooperKatz was one of four companies to receive a Certificate of Excellence in the Bronze Sabre "Media Placement: Television" category along with client Volvo of North America, for its 6-city media tour of Volvo's safety concept car. 2/28/02: For the second time in just four months, CooperKatz has secured high-profile articles on AWS Convergence Technologies in the Circuits section of The New York Times and in business section of The Washington Post. 1/23/02: In its on-going engagement with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, CooperKatz develops a marketing plan for CGE&Y’s healthcare practice, specifically in the area of clinical transformation. 1/14/02: CooperKatz is named one of five finalists in two separate PRWeek 2002 Awards categories! Under Best Use of Broadcast, CooperKatz was selected along with client, Volvo of North America, for its 6-city media tour of Volvo's new safety concept car. Under Publicity Stunt of the Year, CooperKatz was selected along with client Ziff Davis for its America's Fastest Geek competition, held at the 2001 PC Expo. Winners will be announced during a gala event on February 21st. 1/14/02: CooperKatz produced VNU’s Media Measurement and Information Leadership Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona (January 14-17), a conference for its worldwide senior management, led by Chairman and CEO, Mike Connors. 1/14/02: The Holmes Report—a top PR industry trade publication—names CooperKatz one of the PR industry's Best Places to Work. In the Holmes annual survey fielded among hundreds of employees of PR firms nationwide, CooperKatz ranked 8th in the category of Best Small Agencies to Work For (see The Holmes Report for the complete list of rankings). 12/13/01: CooperKatz secures a significant profile piece on AWS Convergence Technologies in The Washington Post. AWS, which owns and operates the nation's largest weather network, streams real-time data and forecasts to more than seven million users of its free WeatherBug software. 12/13/01: CooperKatz congratulates Anne Green on her appointment as the agency's first Vice President, Client Services. 12/7/01: CooperKatz produced ACNielsen’s ACNielsen Day video for the sixth consecutive year. In this first worldwide gathering of ACNielsen employees since its acquisition by VNU, the video celebrated the company’s accomplishments of the past year and addressed its direction going forward—all in the words of ACNielsen employees and VNU senior management. 11/30/01: The Alticor Corporate Visitor Center, designed by CooperKatz, opens at worldwide headquarters in Ada, Michigan. The company, formerly the Amway Corporation, hired CooperKatz to physically design and develop content for an engaging Center that would reflect the new corporate structure and culture. The Center attracts more than 20,000 visitors annually. 10/29/01: TowerGroup electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) expert—senior analyst Beth Robertson—is featured a Wall Street Journal article regarding the potential impact of the recent anthrax mail attacks on electronic billing. This will be the first of several articles on this topic to cite Ms. Robertson.  10/22/01: CooperKatz designs and leads a day-long public relations seminar for 15 of IDC's U.S.-based marketing professionals. The seminar introduced participants from this leading information technology research firm to the core elements of the public relations discipline, through such interactive modules as "PR 101," "Meet the Media," "Effective Press Release Writing" and "Pitching the Press." 9/20/01: In an effort to begin to quantify the economic impact of the attacks on downtown Manhattan, numerous publications— including Bloomberg, Dow Jones News Wire, Crain's New York Business, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many financial services trade publications—draw on TowerGroup's estimates of the cost to the Securities industry to rebuild the technology infrastructure lost on September 11th. Vice President of Securities and Investments at TowerGroup—Larry Tabb—is widely sourced by the media throughout the Fall, and TowerGroup's estimates are ultimately included in the City of New York Office of the Comptroller's official report on the financial impact of the disaster. 8/27/01: To assist Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's (CGE&Y) efforts to win new engagements in the healthcare sector, CooperKatz develops a series of marketing tools, including videos and CD-ROMs. With hospital CEO, CFO, CIO and clinician testimonials, these pieces showcase CGE&Y's successes in both clinical and business transformations. 8/14/01: CooperKatz & Company worked with Atlanta-based Hope-Beckham to attract New York media coverage for Coke’s re-launch of its POWERade sports drink brand. The August 14th event included airbrush body painting of more than 30 models from head-to-toe in the new POWERade graphics and a face-off between two painted strongmen pulling POWERade tractor trailers in Union Square. 7/31/01: CooperKatz concluded a successful launch program for ExtremeTech, a Ziff Davis Web site that delivers in-depth information about computer technologies to IT professionals and computer enthusiasts. The program kicked off with a media blitz for the launch that garnered significant coverage in a host of top-tier media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The San Francisco Chronicle. CooperKatz continued to build the buzz for the site with a major media event at PC Expo, "America’s Fastest Geek," that drew large crowds to watch competitors square-off to see how fast they can build a PC. The event received widespread print, online and broadcast coverage, including: the New York Post, MSNBC.com, AP, CNBC, UPN New York, FOX News Channel, NY1, and TECH TV. As a result, the ExtremeTech site registered four million page views in just its first month online. 6/15/01: Top technology magazine, PC World, includes Xanboo’s Internet Home Management System in a July 2001 review of remotely controlled home monitoring devices. 6/11/01: Top business magazine, Fortune, includes Xanboo’s Internet Home Management System’s remote thermostat controller in its June 11 analysis of new home monitoring devices that help consumers save during the summer months. 6/1/01: CooperKatz concluded a highly successful media tour to six markets for Volvo Cars of North America. The tour showcased Volvo's first Safety Concept Car (SCC) in over 25 years and highlighted Volvo's commitment to The Art and Science of Safety. The tour began in Washington, DC, at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center and traveled to SciTrek in Atlanta, the James L. Knight Center in Miami, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, SFMOMA in San Francisco and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Print results included major newspapers in the cities visited as well as national stories in Wired, Industry Standard and an upcoming article in Reader’s Digest this August. By using b-roll in conjunction with the market visits, broadcast results hit a total of 232 airings and reached audiences in 55 markets beyond the six cities visited. 5/9/01: CooperKatz promoted the Association of National Advertisers’ new Trends in Agency Compensation study, which tracks compensation systems used by some the nation’s most prominent marketers to pay their advertising agencies. The results: the book was featured in the Advertising column in The New York Times on May 9, 2001. Other coverage: The Wall Street Journal’s Advertising column, Advertising Age Online, and BtoB Magazine. 5/1/01: Press outreach to support TowerGroup research on the burgeoning person-to-person payments market results in numerous hits, including quotes and data from TowerGroup senior analyst Beth Robertson in the May 1 issue of Business 2.0 and the May 2001 issue of U.S. Banker. 4/2/01: CooperKatz promoted the Association of National Advertisers’ 2001 Television Advertising Forum, an annual conference that attracts senior marketing, advertising and television executives. More than 250 guests and 18 members of the press attended the event, held on March 29 at The Plaza Hotel in New York. Coverage included stories in The New York Times, Advertising Age, The Hollywood Reporter, The Myers Report, Mediaweek and others. 4/2/01: Leading business magazine, Fortune, reviews Xanboo's Internet Home Management System in its April 2 Personal Technology column. 3/27/01: CooperKatz media outreach to support TowerGroup's new comprehensive database to track electronic trading systems—the Electronic Financial Marketplace (EFM) service—results in a feature article in The Bond Buyer, among other coverage. 3/6/01: CooperKatz’s media outreach for Change Technology Partners brings widespread coverage of their recent acquisition of Iguana Studios, including a lengthy article on Inter@ctive Week Online. 3/1/01: Ongoing efforts by CooperKatz on behalf of The Family Friendly Programming Forum, a group of 45 major national advertisers – all members of the Association of National Advertisers – who seek to encourage the development and airing of more family-friendly shows on television, result in major coverage including: Mention in the cover story of The New York Times Sunday television guide (Feb 25, 2001) featuring the Gilmore Girls, a critically-acclaimed show on The WB Network that resulted from the Family Forum’s script development initiative; The cover story in Mediaweek (Feb.26, 2001) entitled "So Much for Family Friendly…"; The cover story in Brill’s Content (March 2001), which discusses the Forum’s objectives in detail. A story in the The Observer (March 11, 2001), a London-based newspaper, entitled "Admen Bid to Clean Up ‘Family Hour’ television. 3/1/01: CooperKatz secured prominent coverage for the launch of the AirMedia® Wireless Hub, a business-to-business marketplace for wireless content. AirMedia was featured on TheStandard.com, internet.com, CNET News.com, and a host of other online media outlets. 2/21/01: Top business magazine, Forbes, reviews Xanboo’s Internet Home Management System in its March 5 Digital Tools column 2/14/01: CooperKatz extends a very warm welcome to Steve Rubel, who joins our agency as Manager, Client Services. 2/13/01: CooperKatz helps client Xanboo produce and promote its VNR on the new Internet Home Management System that lets individuals monitor and control their home or small business via the Web. In less than a week, portions of or the whole VNR aired approximately 85 times with an estimated audience impression of 7.5 million 2/13/01: Media outreach to announce Ford Motor Company’s investment in JoeAuto Inc. results in significant coverage including Reuter’s, Associated Press, Investor’s Business Daily and the Houston Chronicle. Significant trade coverage included Information Week, Business Fleet, Automotive Marketing and Motor Age. 2/12/01: CooperKatz promotes the consumer launch of Xanboo, the new Internet Home Management System that lets individuals monitor and control their home or small business via the Web. 2/5/01: An interview with a Wireless Week reporter secured by CooperKatz results in a feature article on AirMedia, run on 2/5/01.. 1/22/01: CooperKatz helps introduce JoeAuto, Inc., a new auto repair and service company utilizing information technology efficiencies, to key automotive and business media. Coverage on the Houston-based company included The New York Post, MotorAge, Business Fleet, and Automotive Marketing. 1/22/01: CooperKatz extends a very warm welcome to Joanne Forbes, who joins our agency as Business Manager. 1/19/01: CooperKatz media outreach to support Internet home management system, Xanboo, results in a lengthy feature piece appearing in the 1/19/01 edition of The Chicago Tribune. 1/17/01: CooperKatz produced ACNielsen's Global Leadership Conference 2001 in Miami, Florida (January 17-19). 1/16/01: CooperKatz produced Reader's Digest's Global Leadership Meeting in Maui, Hawaii (January 16-18), a conference for worldwide top-level management, led by Chairman and CEO, Thomas O. Ryder. 12/13/00: CooperKatz congratulates Faye Nikolaidis on her promotion to the position of Senior Account Executive. 12/8/00: Media outreach to support TowerGroup's new e-401(k) research results in significant coverage, including articles run via the Dow Jones wire and the Gannett News Service. 11/27/00: CooperKatz warmly welcomes its new Account Coordinator, Andrew Foote. 11/13/00: Media outreach to support new TowerGroup research on trends in electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) results in a feature article in New York Newsday, as well as coverage in American Banker, eCommerce Business and numerous daily newspaper across the country. 10/30/00: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Jason Wallace, Graphic Designer. 10/26/00: Outreach by CooperKatz on behalf of TowerGroup's new Global Mortgage Lending research and advisory service yields coverage in both the financial trades and the business press, including an article run on the Reuters newswire. 10/24/00: Business 2.0, a leading new economy magazine, carries story on Dialscore™, Digital Idea’s online consumer loyalty metric promoted by CooperKatz, in its "New Tools For New Rules" feature, quoting DI’s president, Peter Mackey and describing the new metric in some detail. 10/18/00: CooperKatz helps spread the word to trade and business reporters about the revolutionary new low-cost, easy to install "smart home" solution – Xanboo. A complete Internet home management system that will be available starting in January 2001, Xanboo's software, cameras and sensors will allow users to remotely observe and control their homes or businesses through the Internet. 10/16/00: Dialscore release on the top Web sites for sports fans ("Sports Fan Loyalty Transfers to the Web") lists the top ten sites for sports and information, showing NASCAR.com as the outfront leader at 47%, followed by NHL.com (30%) and ESPN.com (30%). "Sports sites are clearly connecting with their users by providing them what they want, when they want it, in the form that they want, including video," said Peter Mackey, president of Digital Idea. 10/14/00: CooperKatz manages all aspects of the fall 2000 ANA Annual Conference(October 14-17), which featured top CEOs such as A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Bruce Claflin of 3Com Corporation and Joe Weller of Nestle USA. In addition to creating the theme, Brand Building in the New E-conomy, CooperKatz produced and staged the three-day meeting, created four onsite newspapers and managed all press relations. The New York Times’ advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott, featured the conference in three columns. Significant announcements released at the conference included the ANA’s new Board officers and the winner of the Goldstein Award for advertising public service. 10/10/00: CooperKatz promotes new quarterly data from Dialscore™, Digital Idea’s online consumer loyalty metric, indicating that online retail pure plays are leading traditional "bricks and clicks" retailers in garnering online customer loyalty. The top Dialscore rating overall went to the NASCAR.com Web site (47%), followed by eBay.com (44%) and BabyCenter.com(39%). 10/3/00: CooperKatz helped launch Inlumen, formerly NewsAlert, with an aggressive media outreach and a Coffee Kickoff in the financial district in Manhattan. Commuters were given complimentary coffee and donuts in Inlumen cups and bags along with information about the company. Balloons, coffee cart vendors in Inlumen t-shirts and a Dixie Land band created a memorable event and helped drive traffic to the company’s Web site. CooperKatz also distributed a launch news release to the media and arranged interviews with trade publications. 9/26/00: CooperKatz worked with Sun Microsystems to promote Sun's role as Technology Partner of the winning West McLaren Mercedes race car team and the return of Formula One to the United States. Aggressive outreach results in media coverage, including USAToday. 8/28/00: New economy weekly The Industry Standard makes CooperKatz client bolero.net the centerpiece of its two-page piece on Net initiatives targeting the international shipping industry. The article titled "The Shipping News" opens with photo of bolero.net's commercial director, Peter Scott. 8/22/00: TowerGroup and CooperKatz announce the launch of the firm's new Global Payments research and advisory area. In new research, TowerGroup predicts that global electronic payments will surpass paper-based transactions by the close of 2000. 8/14/00: As a result of an intensive media campaign for Dialscore™, Digital Idea's new online customer loyalty metric, an article entitled "Wanted: Loyal E-Shoppers," which appeared in The Industry Standard (August 14th issue), quoted Digital Idea's president, Peter Mackey, and cited Dialscore's findings on online customer loyalty by category and spending. 8/3/00: CooperKatz promoted The 2nd Annual Family Television Awards that took place on August 3 and aired on The CBS Television Network on August 10, 2000. The Awards, an initiative of the Family Friendly Programming Forum - a group of 43 national advertisers who are members of the Association of National Advertisers - honor outstanding television programming that is appealing and relevant for families to view together. Reba McEntire hosted the event. 7/26/00: TowerGroup and CooperKatz release a new estimate that ECNs (electronic communications networks) now make up 37% of the Nasdaq's total market share–a 6% increase over recent months. This announcement receives wide pick up, including mentions in The New York Times and a major feature piece run on the Bloomberg news wire. 7/24/00: Business Week picks up TowerGroup's e-Banking announcement and creates a special graphic around the firm's online banking stats. Other coverage of the announcement appeared in publications including American Banker, Information Week and U.S. Banker. 7/15/00: Vendquest, Inc. is one of the top Construction & Building sites in B2B e-commerce and among the Internet’s 200 most promising and competitive businesses, according to Forbes.com. 7/10/00: CooperKatz helps analyst firm TowerGroup launch its new e-Banking research and advisory service. As part of the launch, CooperKatz promotes new TowerGroup e-Banking research that shows U.S. banks still lagging behind the "e-curve" in terms of consumer e-commerce offerings. 7/8/00: theLibraryPlace.com and CooperKatz announced the launch of this new Internet portal at the American Library Association Conference in Chicago.  theLibraryPlace.com is a comprehensive resource for the library community and is the first portal launched by Informata.com, a new business-to-business e-commerce venture by Baker & Taylor. 6/30/00: CooperKatz worked with HomePoint, who was featured in Forbes.com's Best of the Web - B2B Survey under the retailing category on June 30, 2000. HomePoint will also be included in Forbes magazine's Best of the Web - B2B July 17th issue. 6/26/00: Media outreach for HomePoint's announcement of its acquisition of PROFITsystems results in a cover story in top home furnishings trade publication, Furniture/Today. 6/19/00: CooperKatz announces HomePoint's acquisition of PROFITsystems, Inc., one of the home furnishings industry's top providers of retail management software systems. This acquisition will enable HomePoint to build on its existing business-to-business e-commerce platform and provide a more fully integrated solution that benefits home furnishings retailers, manufacturers and ultimately consumers. 6/12/00: CooperKatz helps client Digital Idea launch Dialscore, a new customer loyalty metric. Dialscore enables e-businesses to benchmark themselves against their competitors, determine the causes of loyalty and take specific actions to increase revenue and profitability. 6/12/00: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Bernadette Walsh, Manager, Client Services. 6/8/00: CooperKatz begins work for new client Baker & Taylor by announcing Informata.com, the company's new e-business venture aimed at libraries, educational institutions and traditional and Internet retailers. 6/6/00: CooperKatz client bolero.net announces that The Chase Manhattan Bank has joined it in its drive to develop universally accepted trade standards and improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency of global commerce. 5/29/00: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Heather Rossi who will be filling an internship position for the summer. 5/22/00: CooperKatz welcomes both Grant Moser, a new Account Executive, and Liz Griffith, who will be interning with us this summer. 5/8/00: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Jennifer Ahn as Manager, Creative Services. 5/2/00: CooperKatz's Karen Haines and husband Mark Pressman welcome their first child, Jenna Ryan Pressman, born on May 2, 2000! 4/17/00: The April 2000 issue of Modern Drug Discovery features a byline developed by CooperKatz for Oxford Molecular and its client, Wyeth-Ayerst Research titled "'Superindex' Developed to Access Legacy Data." The byline, attributed to representatives from both companies, outlines how they worked together to produce a break-through IT tool that gives Wyeth what its head of discovery research applications has called "unprecedented access" to its chemical and biological data. 4/14/00: CooperKatz kicks off work for new client, TowerGroup, by promoting an important panel on consumer privacy and financial services held at TowerGroup's 2000 financial services and technology conference, "Turning Vision into Action," held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, April 13-14, 2000. Based in Needham, Mass., TowerGroup delivers thought leadership on the impact of information technology in the global financial services industry. 4/11/00: CooperKatz helps launch VendQuest, a new "e-dustrial" marketplace for buyers and suppliers in the construction, heavy equipment, trucking, vehicle maintenance and mining sectors. VendQuest, is a new way of doing business in the industrial marketplace - a website where demand meets supply. As a business-to-business electronic marketplace for construction, trucking and heavy equipment, VendQuest offers procurement of the widest variety of parts, industrial production goods, industrial supplies, office supplies and related products. 3/20/00: CooperKatz is nominated for a 2000 CIPRA (Creativity in Public Relations Award) in the Web Site Promotions: Marketing category, for its work on HomePoint's "Bunker Bob's Y2K Tour Across America" program. 3/17/00: HomePoint Corporation has CooperKatz spread the word about its final transition to a purely business-to-business e-commerce operation. The leading e-business solutions provider to the home furnishings industry is reworking its original consumer website—relaunching it in Summer 2000 as an e-catalog that will point consumers to the HomePoint Advantage Network retailer near them. 3/13/00: CooperKatz extends a warm welcome to Christopher Rucas, the firm's newest Manager of Client Services. 3/7/00: CooperKatz announces the new head of Oxford Molecular's bioinformatics arm, Genetics Computer Group. Matteo di Tommaso takes the reins from retiring GCG founder John Devereux. 2/23/00: CooperKatz announces the results of a new Digital Idea study. More than one-third of online consumers prefer to do business with e-retailers that also have a brick and mortar presence. Surprisingly, this preference is most pronounced among the youngest population segment - those under 25 years of age. A large majority of online shoppers - 68 percent - want contact with a live customer service representative, with telephone access (65 percent) overwhelmingly preferred to online access (35 percent). 2/16/00: CooperKatz promotes the Association of National Advertiser's (ANA) 2000 Television Advertising Forum, an intensive one day forum that explores a wide variety of issues that will impact the future of television content, delivery and share of audience. The ANA is America's premiere trade association exclusively dedicated to helping its membership of over 286 leading companies build their businesses by building their brands. The ANA provides marketing and advertising industry leadership, legislative leadership, information resources, professional development and industry-wide networking. 2/7/00: CooperKatz announces Digital Idea's addition of two senior professionals to its staff. 2/1/00: CooperKatz welcomes Andrea Martone as Media Director. 1/12/00: CooperKatz conducts aggressive media outreach to help HomePoint Corporation herald receipt of $55 million in equity financing led by TH Lee Putnam.Internet Partners.  The financing announcement garnered coverage by such outlets as the Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones wire, the AP local/state wire, the Boston Herald, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and Venture Wire. 6/8/99: Inside PR's write-up of CooperKatz in their annual Agency Report Card. [ Home ] [ Philosophy ] [ Challenges ] [ Seal of Creativity ] [ Our Team ] [ Clients ] [ Services ] [ What's New ] [ Contact Us ] © 2002 CooperKatz & Company, Inc. 708 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 (212) 455-8030