Our Services

Tailored Solutions, Embedded Expertise

We don’t believe in relegating certain tasks to siloed “specialist” teams not immersed in a client’s day-to-day business. Other agencies may treat services such as digital strategy or cause marketing as separate expertise areas; at DeVries, these skills are embedded into a client’s core account team.

More information about our core service offerings:

1. Traditional & Online Media Relations
   At the heart of our work is publicity – lots of it. We regularly generate over one billion editorial impressions annually for several of our clients. We understand, though, that media coverage is as much about quality as it is quantity, and that’s why we are disciplined about telling the right brand stories in the most relevant media outlets, whether on- or off-line.
2. Social Media Strategy & Execution
   We consider digital immersion a core part of any PR person’s job and are delighted that nearly 100% of our staff is active in multiple social networks, with several maintaining personal blogs and many contributing to the official DeVries blog and Twitter account. Our relationships within the blogosphere span many categories – including parenting, beauty, fashion and food – and social media programming is built into virtually every client plan we recommend.
3. Holistic Communications Planning
   Many of our clients use an integrated communications planning process that unites their partner agencies across marketing disciplines, including PR. We’ve earned a reputation over the years as collaborative and creative from both clients and partner agencies alike. Whether leading the communications process or sitting as partners at the table, we are veterans of this kind of planning approach.
4. Event Management
   Event management is a core strength at DeVries. We’ve produced events of all shapes and sizes – from product launches and sampling events to publicity stunts and celebrity appearances. We’re equally at home staging a massive holiday caroling party for Old Navy outside the Good Morning America studio, washing clothes for disaster victims in towns across the country the Tide Loads of Hope program or challenging bloggers to a mixology contest at a Manhattan speakeasy for New Amsterdam Gin.
5. Cause Marketing
   DeVries has been instrumental in a number of high profile cause campaigns – most of which began life as PR concepts and grew into fully integrated marketing programs. We help clients enter into the cause marketing arena with authenticity, integrity and relevance. We are proud that our campaigns have won industry accolades (such as the Holmes Report “Best in Show” Sabre for Pantene Beautiful Lengths) but more importantly, have created real brand-building benefits for our clients.
6. Research & Analytics
   Our in-house research team is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies including proprietary modeling and measurement tools. Coupled with well-established relationships with world class third-party vendors, this allows us to stay ahead of the global changes that affect our clients’ business and the world in which they operate.
7. Crisis Communications
   Although consumer brand PR is our focus, we have broad experience managing issues for clients as they inevitably occur from time to time. Our capabilities include readiness plan creation, message development, spokesperson training, conversation monitoring and website design (including “dark sites” to be activated only in the event of a crisis.)
8. Custom Influencer Panels/Focus Groups
   DeVries pioneered the use of the influencer panel nearly 30 years ago to identify emerging consumer and media trends on behalf of our clients. Fast-forward to today: technology allows us to create real-time dialogue with groups of relevant movers and shakers of anywhere from 10 to 1,000 participants to generate actionable client insights.
9. Sponsorship Evaluation & Execution
   We’ve been key partners in identifying, negotiating and activating major sponsorship deals for our clients. DeVries helped put Sephora in the spotlight at the Sundance Film Festival, got Old Navy fleece into the backseats of yellow cabs through an NYC Taxi Commission partnership, created sizzle for Tide at Superbowl XLIV and is leading the PR charge for the P&G corporate sponsorships of Team USA and the Special Olympics.
10. Video Production/Editing
    We offer full creative and technical support in the creation of original content for our clients’ promotional video needs. This includes editing of existing footage, creation of highlight reels, web video production, motion graphics, voice-overs, interviews and event coverage, providing quick turnaround around for both long- and short-term projects.