About The 2050 Group

ABOUT THE 2050 GROUP – PUBLICITY

The 2050 Group – Publicity is a leading public relations agency providing hands-on, full-service public relations, media relations, marketing, advertising, and public affairs work, as well as strategic communications, outreach/engagement and crisis communications work.

The agency’s entertainment practices include film, television, awards publicity, digital marketing, and books/literary PR.

Adam J. Segal founded The 2050 Group – Publicity the leading public relations agency in 2006 and has grown the company’s client base coast-to-coast. Adam is an expert in media relations and policy issues, which ensures a unique approach and depth to the agency’s work.

Throughout an impressive career in the field, Segal has led media relations, marketing and advertising campaigns – with impressive results – for clients from across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Ukraine and other markets around the world.

Segal and The 2050 Group have been recognized for excellence by PR Week, the leading industry publication, multiple times. In August 2009, PR Week named Segal to its coveted 40 Under 40 list. The magazine called Segal “a champion of the little guy” and acknowledged his work on documentary film and issue campaigns.

He has been a featured speaker at major film festivals and conferences including European Film Market/Berlinale, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, DOC NYC, and more.

Segal is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS, the organization that awards the Oscars), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS, the Television Academy), and more.

 

AGENCY SERVICES & CAPABILITIES 

Publicity and Awards Campaign Strategy & Management

  • Provide Full Suite of Campaign Management Services for Film, TV, Streaming, Books/Literary, and Other Client Projects
  • Lead Weekly Calls / Coordinate Agenda
  • Participate in Weekly Calls / Provide Updates
  • Build Awards Season Calendar
  • Manage Awards Submissions, Support Guild Strategy
  • Contribute to Overall Marketing Concepts (Including
  • Print, Broadcast, Digital, Outdoors, and Events)

 Media Relations & Monitoring

  • Book National TV, Radio, and Podcast Interviews
  • Secure Top-Tier National, Regional, and International Press Coverage from Leading Magazines, Newspaper, and Digital Media Outlets
  • Manage Trade/Awards Press Outreach
  • Include Clients on Agency’s Weekly Awards Slate Updates
  • Manage Consumer Press Outreach (Including Interviews)
  • Manage Specialty Press Outreach (Including Press Days)
  • Manage Press Clips, Recommend Quotes / Amplification

Digital Marketing Strategy for Trade, Consumer, Social

  • Lead Digital Marketing Strategy for Awards Campaign
  • Participate in Digital Marketing Team as Advisor
  • Propose Messages, Designs, Concepts for Digital Strategy
  • Creative (Provide In-House Design or Manage Design Agencies) 

Social Media Campaign Management

  • Develop Social Media Campaign Plan (Organic and Paid)
  • Manage Overarching Social Media Brand and Messaging
  • Manage Organic Social Media Calendar and Posts
  • Manage Paid Social Media Ads
  • Provide Specialized Targeting Capabilities

Event Production & Management

  • Plan and Manage Screenings in Key Markets (Including Bookings)
  • Plan and Manage Virtual Q&A’s and Events 

Media Planning & Buying

  • Develop Paid Media Plan/Recommendations
  • Manage Paid Media Calendar
  • Manage Paid Media Budget and Buys

Talent Relations (On-Site and Remote)

  • Manage Relations with Talent (Filmmakers, Crew, Cast)
  • Manage Relations with Below-the-Line Crew

Awards Voter Outreach & Engagement    

  • Manage Voter Outreach
  • Manage and Design Eblasts

Our Dozens of Clients Since 2006 Include

Film / Corporate

  • Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema
  • ESPN Films
  • MTV Documentary Films / SHOWTIME / Paramount+
  • The New Yorker / Condé Nast Enertainment
  • Netflix
  • TIME Studios
  • National Geographic Documentary Films
  • Breakwater Studios
  • The New York Times Op-Docs
  • Kino Lorber
  • HBO Documentary Films / Warner Media

Television / Streaming

  • POV | American Documentary
  • HBO Documentary Films / Warner Media
  • National Geographic
  • Discovery+
  • MTV Documentary Films / Paramount+
  • Showtime

Non-Profits

  • Catapult Film Fund
  • Sundance Institute
  • Foundation for Rural Service
  • National Black Farmers Association
  • Ford Foundation
  • Jewish Story Partners
  • Jewish Film Institute
  • Indie Caucus

About Adam J. Segal

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 02: attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

With over 25 years of public relations and marketing experience, Adam J. Segal has grown a successful, nationally recognized agency servicing clients and leading their media relations, marketing, advertising, and other public relations efforts around the country.

In his work for entertainment, corporate, foundation/non-profit, and policy/political clients throughout the past decade, Adam has advised clients on, and developed, branding and advertising campaigns across a wide range of media formats including print, television, radio and podcasts, digital, and outdoors. His work has acheived diverse communications goals, reaching in some cases very specific, influential target audiences and in other cases hundreds of millions of people across the United States, North America, and around the world.

Adam has successfully placed clients on every major network and many cable network television programs and in every major national newspaper and weekly news magazine. He has booked clients on leading podcasts and designed campaigns to reach experts, celebrities, YouTubers, and social media influencers. He has designed and executed complex digital strategies for a wide range of clients with diverse goals from sales and fundraising to advocacy and policy actions. And he has produced dozens of notable events around the country from political campaign announcements and Capitol Hill press conferences to product launches, gala dinners and a high-profile rock concert.

Adam spent 11 years working on the Black farmers disrimination case for the National Black Farmers Association and the farmers and part of that time on the Cobell Native American trust fund case and those who were affected. Both cases were ultimately settled, passed through Congress in 2010 and approved by the court in 2011.

Adam has served on the faculty of Georgetown University where he taught the Master’s level Entertainment Communications course. Prior to joining Georgetown, he served as a Faculty Lecturer in the Master’s of Arts in Communication program at Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs for eight years. He designed and taught a number of courses at Hopkins including Internet and Mobile Strategy Lab. He has been profiled in Johns Hopkins magazines four times.

Adam founded and directed the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University. In this role he appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV, C-SPAN, National Public Radio (NPR) and more. He contributed a chapter to “The Mass Media and Latino Politics: Studies of U.S. Media Content, Campaign Strategies and Survey Research: 1984-2004” (Routledge/Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008) and other publications.

Adam earned his Master’s of Arts in Government from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He earned his Bachelor’s of Arts in political science and Judaic studies from The George Washington University.

Click here to see Adam J. Segal’s profile on IMDb.

Services Include

  • Communications audits – examining all aspects of past and current communications efforts
  • Focus on identifying or developing core missions and messages, reaching key audiences, and building media relations, branding and social media capacity
  • Developing a digital diagnosis
  • Communications planning, mapping out next steps
  • Team building and team work with in-house staff and additional partners, consultants, agencies
  • Media relations – relationship-building, outreach, placement, monitoring and reporting
  • Event planning, production and promotion
  • Writing and editing
  • Content development and distribution, including video production and distribution (with emphasis on Internet distribution)
  • Digital marketing and advertising including targeted campaigns reaching audiences on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and more

Current and Past Memberships Include

  • Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
  • Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  • International Documentary Association (IDA)
  • Sundance Institute
  • Women in Film & Video (WIFV) Washington, DC

ADAM MAY BE E-MAILED AT ADAM@THE2050GROUP.COM OR BY PHONE AT (202) 422-4673.