07/29/2024
For Immediate Release
Mayes Media Group Celebrates 10-Year Milestone
Advertising & Public Relations Agency Has Won 30 National Awards For Creative Excellence & Political Strategy, Including 11 Awards in 2024
Dallas – July 29, 2024 – Mayes Media Group, an advertising, public relations, and public affairs agency based in North Texas, is celebrating 10 years in business, launching in July 2014.
While the firm is recognized nationally for its award-winning political advertising acumen, Mayes Media Group and its subsidiary, MMG-EDU, are well known in Texas for providing communications services for school districts, colleges, cities, non-profit entities, corporations, real estate developers, trade associations, high-profile causes, and professional sports franchises that include the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers.
Since starting the firm with three clients—Dallas Police Association, Jeff Williams for Arlington Mayor, and Texas Water Smart—Mayes Media Group and its subsidiary, MMG-EDU, have earned total billings near $20 million. Based on annual billings, the Dallas Business Journal has ranked the firm as high as a Top 10 public relations firm.
“Our success is the result of our incredibly talented team of communications and creative professionals who are constantly honing their craft, looking for new ways to influence with award-winning advertising, and treating our valued clients with respect and honesty,” said Brian Mayes, President and founder of Mayes Media Group.
In its first year, Mayes Media Group provided political strategy and advertising/communications services as the lead advisor to the Jeff Williams for Arlington Mayor Campaign. Even though his opponent, a popular, long-time incumbent Mayor, touted a survey that showed Williams was down by 30 points early in the campaign, Williams went on to win by an 18-point margin in May 2015.
The following year, Mayes Media Group became the lead advisor and advertising/public relations firm of record for the Texas Rangers, overseeing and managing the efforts of multiple campaign consultants for the Vote Yes! Keep the Rangers Campaign to build a new ballpark in Arlington and prevent the team from moving to Dallas. The referendum’s result was a 60%—40% victory, one of the largest margins of victory for a publicly funded sports facility in the country.
Mayes Media Group went on to provide advertising and public relations services for Fort Worth Mayors Betsy Price and Mattie Parker, other municipal Mayors, and multiple winners of City Council races in North Texas.
The firm may be best known for managing and passing bond referendums for school districts, colleges, and cities. The professionals of Mayes Media Group’s advertising and communications team have helped pass more than $31 billion in school, city, and college bond referendums, including three of the largest recent school bond referendums in Texas.
Mayes Media Group’s work for school district clients includes Forney ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Arlington ISD, Rockwall ISD, Garland ISD, Wylie ISD, Sunnyvale ISD, Azle ISD, Prosper ISD, Leander ISD, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, Lake Dallas ISD, East Chambers ISD, Klein ISD, Harlandale ISD, Barbers Hill ISD, Allen ISD, Waller ISD, Richardson ISD, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Royse City ISD, Lewisville ISD, Coppell ISD, Burleson ISD, Frisco ISD, Midlothian ISD and Iowa Park CISD. The Mayes Media Group team recently helped pass Amarillo College and Grayson College referendums.
Over the past decade, Mayes Media Group has helped pass—by a large margin—more school referendums than any communications firm in Texas and has mentored referendum advisors who work with school districts and school facility architects.
Mayes Media Group's city, town, and municipal referendum campaign clients include Fort Worth, Westlake, Frisco, Cleburne, Arlington, Aledo, Sunnyvale, Northlake, Crandall, Midlothian, and Park City, Kansas.
Advertising professional Brian Mayes, a 32-year industry veteran, founded the firm. Shortly after graduating from Texas Tech University, where he earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism, Mayes started his career with Irving-based advertising agency Temerlin McClain in January 1992 as a media planner. He later worked as an account executive for TBWA\CHIAT\DAY and Outdoor Services Advertising before working under the tutelage of Rob Allyn at Allyn & Company, which later became Allyn Media, where Mayes served as Senior Vice President.
“In my more than three decades in advertising and communications, no one has had a greater influence on me than Rob Allyn,” said Mayes. “His patience, incredible eye for creative excellence, and commitment to never settle for ‘just OK’ work product left a lasting impression on me. These skills and responsibility to lead by example have played a large part in how I have led Mayes Media Group over the past decade.”
Claire Reyes is the Senior Vice President of Mayes Media Group. Skilled in media relations, internal communications, public affairs, research, and marketing, she ensures Mayes Media clients communicate effectively with their target audiences. She previously worked at The Houston Chronicle, Strategic Partnerships, and 7-Eleven.
Mayes Media Group has won more advertising excellence awards than any other Texas firm specializing in school referendums. The firm has earned 21 coveted Pollie Awards from the American Association of Political Consultants and eight Reed Awards from Campaigns & Elections magazine. Mayes Media Group earned a Bronze Addy Award from the American Advertising Federation-Fort Worth for its work with The Video Zoo, a Fort Worth-based video production company.
“Our numerous accolades are the direct result of working with some of the finest school districts, community colleges, cities, and organizations in the state,” said Claire Reyes. “We take great pride in consistently producing excellent advertising for all our clients … and when they have a great story to tell, it makes our job much easier. Let’s be honest—Texas is full of school districts with incredible stories of student and teacher accomplishment.”
“The students and teachers at Texas public schools are making amazing academic achievements, and Mayes Media Group is honored to help these districts remind the families in their communities of the economic, cultural, and quality-of-life benefits of maintaining classrooms of excellence,” added Mayes.
To arrange an interview or obtain additional information, please contact Brian Mayes at [email protected]. You also may visit www.mayesmediagroup.com and www.MMG-EDU.com.
