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Antonio Ortolani

Partner, Global Head of KIRA
Antonio has over 20 years of international experience improving communications strategy through research and analytics.

His advisory experience includes media evaluation, risk analysis, social listening, and campaign measurement in New York, London, and across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

His advisory experience includes media evaluation, risk analysis, social listening, and campaign measurement in New York, London, and across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Antonio’s diverse project expertise includes social and traditional media analysis, influencer identification, corporate reputation research, competitive benchmarking, and qualitative research.

Antonio has directed communications research across many industries, including clients such as GM, Citigroup, Samsung, Ferrari, GSK, the United Nations, McKinsey, UPS, PwC, P&G as well as Richemont, Accenture, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prior to Kekst CNC, Antonio spent several years at Brunswick, where he created the firm’s global media analytics practice. Antonio also held senior positions at Edelman, Weber Shandwick, and Echo Research, along with the research groups of Cision and Millward Brown.

He is a winner of the Institute for Public Relations Golden Ruler award and the Holmes Report SABRE award for "Best Use of PR Research." In addition, Antonio has taught communications research at NYU, Baruch College, and Syracuse University.


Insights

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Podcast

Episode 22: How Fortune 100 CEOs Post on LinkedIn

In our final deep-dive conversation into market-specific findings from our Global CEO LinkedIn Tracker, Kekst CNC Intelligence experts Antonio Ortolani, Claire O’Connor, and Michael White discuss in detail how the Fortune 100’s "Social CEO" behaves on LinkedIn, including a consideration on how much investment executive communications teams should put towards video, and what it means now that LinkedIn is becoming the de rigueur social media platform for leaders.

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Blog

What We Can Learn from Fortune 100 CEOs on LinkedIn

For the CEOs with the highest audience and broadest global reach, the biggest surprises were revealed when looking at the formats they use to post.

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Report: Social Media Audiences for Freshman Members of Congress

To take a closer look at the potential reach of freshman members of Congress on social media, Kekst CNC analyzed their presence across major platforms, measuring their social media follower counts and ranking them amongst their peers.

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