PCC Rising at Rainier Square
Seattle’s favorite co-op grocery planted its flag at Rainier Square today. It is always fun doing local press, including broadcast, for our client Wright Runstad & Company. March 9, 2018 / Seattle Times: PCC Will Put Grocery in Heart of Seattle’s Downtown March 9, 2018 / KING5: PCC to Open Downtown […]
Jay Rockey 1928-2018
Forever Seattle’s grand old man of PR, Jay Rockey, died this week. I extol his greatness here so that others may benefit. He is most famous for launching (and naming) the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. His team secured 50,000 print articles including two Life Magazine cover stories. He then started a PR agency that became the Northwest’s […]
Relevance and timing are the new creativity
Tide owned the Super Bowl by spoofing typical TV ads. David Harbour, from Stranger Things, delivered the Tide punch lines perfectly. And now the ad is part of the national conversation. Just like the Budweiser Frogs and Wendy’s “Where’s the Beef?” ads. The Super Bowl is unique in that it still rewards creativity. The rest […]
Amazon Go & Mixed Nuts
I stepped into the future at Amazon Go today. Everyone in Seattle knows that Amazon introduced the fully automated store check out a year ago and opened it to the public this week. It’s located at street level at the company headquarters. It’s attracting Amazon fanboys of all stripes, including Amazon partners visiting from all over […]
2018 Client Coverage
At Owen Media, we’re fortunate to work with some of the most influential technology companies in the world. Our media relations efforts focus on developing and telling stories that resonate with editors from print and Web-based outlets, across to television broadcast producers. Here is a list of articles we’ve secured for our clients since the […]
A Better World Through Pastry
I met a dozen clients, colleagues and friends at Seattle-area coffee shops in December for the sake of pastry and conversation. Here’s what I learned: The most important business meetings don’t happen in conference rooms. They tend to be semi-structured conversations over coffee in neutral third party locations like coffee shops. Conversations about non-work topics […]
5 Things I’d Make Alexa Do For Me At Work
Amazon announced Alexa at work this week, an effort to put Amazon Echo devices in offices. Here’s how much better work life could be with the dulcet toned assistant. Take a meeting. Why am I on all these conference calls? Alexa can take conference calls on my behalf. She’s friendlier and can call upon stores […]
2H 2017 Client Coverage
At Owen Media, we’re fortunate to work with some of the most influential technology companies in the world. Our media relations efforts focus on developing and telling stories that resonate with editors from print and Web-based outlets, across to television broadcast producers. Here is a list of articles we’ve secured for our clients since the […]
Cray – Microsoft Partnership Puts Supercomputing in the Cloud
Cray announced a partnership with Microsoft in October 2017 to allow customers to put Cray Supercomputers in Azure data centers. The announcement and interviews secured more than 55 articles. October 31, 2017 / Storage Newsletter: Cray and Microsoft Bring HPC to Azure October 27, 2017 / HPCwire: Amazon Web Services Beats Cloud Rivals with First […]
Why Are Software Developers So Damn Slow?
Why do software developers get paid so much yet work so slowly? The global software market is $500 billion and growing by about 5% per year. But there are only 18 million software developers worldwide and universities cannot mint computer science grads fast enough. That’s why software costs and developer salaries march inexorably higher. The […]