August 2024 - Cooksey

Cooksey Secures Three dotCOMM Awards Honoring Digital Advertising and Marketing Achievements

DALLAS – Aug. 26, 2024 –

North Texas-based strategic communications firm Cooksey Communications recently received three 2024 dotCOMM Awards, an international competition that honors the industry’s best web and digital work. This is the seventh straight year that Cooksey has earned recognition in the dotCOMM Awards program.

The three awards for 2024, including one Platinum, one Gold and one Honorable Mention, showcase Cooksey’s diverse and robust experience in digital public relations and content marketing. The award-winning entries were as follows:

PLATINUM

Article or News Placement (Earned Media) – HistoryMaker Homes: Cooksey secured Associated Press (AP) coverage of the wall-raising ceremony for national civil rights activist, Dr. Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” and her new Fort Worth home. The article and video feature Dr. Lee’s recollection of a racist mob forcing her and her family out of their home nearly 85 years ago when she was just 12 years old and highlight the partners involved in gifting Dr. Lee a new home on that same lot, including Cooksey client HistoryMaker Homes. The AP story alone resulted in nearly 200 pieces of print, digital and broadcast media coverage across the nation.

GOLD

Landing Page (Website Element) – The Gatehouse: Cooksey created a website landing page for The Gatehouse, a nonprofit dedicated to helping single women and mothers in the DFW area remove barriers and other hardships by providing them with resources for permanent, positive change. The

HONORABLE MENTION

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy (CSR) & Content Development – American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX): Cooksey developed a CSR strategy and related content for ANBTX’s ambitious North Texas community impact efforts. The webpage, which features solutions addressing financial education, affordable housing and charitable giving, also includes recognition of the bank’s nonprofit partners in the community, as well as video and photos of bank employees taking action to support the community.

The dotCOMM Awards program is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. This international organization oversees awards and recognition programs and honors outstanding achievement and service to the profession.

Typically, about 13% of dotCOMM entries submitted from throughout the United States, Canada and many other countries win Platinum, the top award and around 18% win the Gold Award. Approximately 9% are Honorable Mention winners.

About Cooksey Communications

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, Cooksey Communications is a Texas-based strategic communications firm with essential expertise in four core practice areas: (1) Professional Services clients such as legal and financial services firms, the A/E/C sector, and other B2B and B2G service providers; (2) Public Sector clients such as governmental entities, educational institutions and infrastructure-related groups; (3) Real Estate & Development clients such as real estate firms and economic development agencies; and (4) Sustainability initiatives for any company or entity interested in enhancing competitiveness and resilience in a rapidly changing world. For more information, visit www.CookseyPR.com.

Cooksey Promotes Collin Yoxall to Account Supervisor in Public Sector Practice

DALLAS – Aug. 21, 2024 –

Collin Yoxall has been promoted to account supervisor in the Public Sector Practice Group at Cooksey Communications, a leading, North-Texas based strategic communications firm. Since joining the firm in September 2022 as a senior account executive, Yoxall has worked to evaluate communication structures and practices, develop and execute media relations strategies, provide vital crisis communications counsel, and facilitate stakeholder engagement on behalf of agency clients such as the City of Richardson, Irving Economic Development Partnership, Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the UNT System.

“Collin’s outstanding organizational habits and extensive knowledge of public sector communications and engagement best practices are invaluable to our clients,” said Colby Walton, chairman and CEO of Cooksey. “He’s demonstrated significant growth over the last two years at Cooksey, while also drawing on his previous public education communications and public affairs experience, and I’m excited to see his development continue in this new, expanded role..”

Yoxall’s professional career started in politics, where his campaign research and communications work spanned local, state and federal campaigns. He has also worked in the communications and marketing departments of two public, higher education institutions: The University of Texas at Arlington and Texas Christian University (TCU).

Yoxall earned a master’s degree in strategic communications from TCU while working as a part-time employee for Cooksey in 2019-20. Yoxall previously completed his bachelor’s degree at TCU, where he majored in political science with an international relations emphasis.

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Cooksey Promotes Regan Welch to Account Executive

DALLAS – July 25, 2024 –

Cooksey Communications, a leading, North-Texas based strategic communications firm, recently promoted Regan Welch to account executive. She has worked with key clients in Cooksey’s distinguished Professional Services, Real Estate & Development and Public Sector practice groups including Weil, Hillwood, VanTrust and the Irving Economic Development Partnership, among others.

“Regan’s exceptional media relations and strategic communications skills combined with her deep understanding of our clients’ needs is a prime example of our team’s commitment to excellence,” said Colby Walton, chairman and CEO of Cooksey. “Over the past two years, Regan’s contributions and positive spirit have significantly enhanced our agency’s success. I’m confident she will excel in this new, advanced role and help us continue delivering stellar client service along with expertise-informed counsel for the region’s leading businesses and organizations.”

Welch joined Cooksey in June 2022 as an assistant account executive. She graduated from Texas Christian University with a bachelor’s degree in strategic communications and a minor in business.

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