3rd Coast PR

3rd Coast PR is a public relations agency based in Chicago, Illinois. It describes itself as building award-winning programs that launch products and revive established brands, running both B2B and B2C campaigns for consumer and business clients.

The agency's work centers on product launches and brand revitalization. Its site organizes client work by category and presents case studies as either B2B PR or B2C PR campaigns. Senior team members stay involved in accounts, a point repeated in several client testimonials. The team page lists founder, president and chief strategy officer Rich Timmons, executive vice president and managing director Betsi Schumacher, and a client services and account team that includes an influencer management specialist.

• Product launch PR
• Brand revitalization campaigns
• B2B PR campaigns
• B2C PR campaigns
• Influencer management
• Category experience: food and beverage, hardware and DIY, housewares and cleaning, kids and family, pets, safety

Published case studies include Google Nest (Nest Protect), V&V Supremo, Sabre and Lakeshore Learning. The client logo wall also shows Chef'n, Cristel, Nature's Variety, Quaker, Sargento, Serta, Thermos, Winpak, Stanley, Volvo and O-Cedar. Testimonials come from GarageBoss, Valqari, Gladly Family and Woodland Tools.

Gladly Family's managing director reports 44 million combined media and influencer impressions from the agency's work, and the agency's own case studies for Food and Beverage, Hardware and DIY, Housewares and Cleaning, and Kids and Family Safety are described as award-winning (self-reported).