APR’s Jason Mudd is a professional public speaker, trusted adviser and dynamic strategist for some of America’s most admired brands and fastest growing companies. Since 1994, Mudd has worked with American Airlines, Budweiser, Dave & Buster’s, H&R Block, Hilton, HP, Miller Lite, New York Life, Pizza Hut, Southern Comfort and Verizon. He founded Axia Public Relations in 2002, ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Best PR Agencies.
Mudd is a certified PR Measurement Master, and clients love his commitment, candor, innovation, passion and his award-winning team. In an increasingly tech-forward world, Mudd’s grasp of technological demands on companies provides his clients a competitive advantage in reaching their audiences. He taught himself HTML in 1994, helped pioneer internet marketing strategies as an early adopter of e-commerce and SEO in 1998 — inspiring Silicon Valley tech giants like Yahoo — and conceptualized Web 2.0 and social media in 2000.
In 2007, Mudd started podcasting. Today, he acts as host and producer of “On Top of PR” with Jason Mudd — a videocast about public relations topics, tips and trends. It is one of the top 5% most popular podcast shows globally, according to ListenNotes' Listen Score and among the top 100 marketing podcasts on Apple Podcasts. Episodes feature guests from Inc, Disney, Wells Fargo, Kroger, Carnival Cruise Line, Undercover Boss, Firehouse Subs, Wounded Warrior Project, PRWeek and more.
Mudd also writes about public relations’ best practices for 43 American City Business Journals across the U.S., public relations industry trade media and other national business news outlets.
At APR, Mudd attracts, develops, innovates and leads top PR talent and clients. He is responsible for overseeing strategic communications strategies for the firm’s national clients, delivering high-level consultations to client leadership teams at billion-dollar global brands, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer, including spokesperson training, crisis communications management, analytics, social media, online reputation management and more.
