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Our weekly look at trends, news and personnel moves in PR, marketing and communications. This week’s stories include Wells Fargo back on Capitol Hill; Equifax makes its maiden voyage to the Hill; the former Uber CEO makes a hill of trouble; and Southwest Airlines’s CCO Linda Rutherford climbs a hill.

For a change of pace we asked data partner Shareablee to look at influencers among U.S. athletes and their 360-degree opposites, geeks. In this case the geeks topped the jocks. Geeky George Takei’s post garnered more consumer engagement than those of LeBron James, the basketball star.

We’ve come to expect that social video is powering consumer engagement with influencers’ posts. Not so fast. In August, a traditional month for vacations, consumer engagement with Travel influencers’ content was heavy, but engagement with their videos was way, way off, according to data provided exclusively to PR News by Shareablee.

It seems to be all over but the shouting concerning the Graham-Cassidy bill, which was meant to replace Obamacare. Late last week TV’s Jimmy Kimmel mentioned a coalition of 16 healthcare nonprofits that fought against the measure. We contacted them to find out what PR tactics they used to mobilize their fans.

Our weekly look at trends, news and personnel moves in PR and communications. This week our stories include a questionable marketing pitch from Britain’s PR trade association; Uber’s good PR in London; Facebook tries to save face; and Equifax’s CEO is retiring immediately.

In our weekly How I Got Here feature, insurance brand Allianz Global’s head of marketing and communications, Emil Janssens looks at trends in digital marketing. To him, building relationships comes before everything else.

Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in PR and marketing. This week’s stories include another slap on the wrist for PewDiePie, growth at Finn Partners, a better emergency alert system for Facebook users and a less-than-folksy PR incident at Motel 6.

Influencers in Food and Finance bucked the trend in August, with modest consumer engagement gains for their posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram vs. July, according to data supplied to PR News by Shareablee. British chef Jamie Oliver led the Food category, while Robert Kiyosaki was the top influencer in the Finance category in August.

Size matters, particularly when it comes to social crises. In fact, large brands with extensive presences globally are very big targets for those with mobile phones, which is just about everyone. Walmart has absorbed its share of social crises this summer. Dan Kneeshaw, the brand’s senior director, global communications, digital strategy & brand engagement, provides insight on how Walmart views social crises.

In our regular feature How I Got Here, we ask PR leaders to tell us about trends, people who has influenced their career, the best advice they’ve received and what advice they give students. This week we talk with Amanda Harris, senior director of PR & marketing at The Diplomat Beach Resort. Her secrets include being authentic and reaching out to influencers via telephone.