About ZDS Communications
ZDS Communications is a public relations and marketing agency specializing in companies, nonprofits and individuals dedicated to making a difference. We have proven success in connecting clients with the customers they desire and implementing customized campaigns with outstanding return on investment.
What we deliver: Strategic messaging; outstanding media placements; project management; co-marketing partnerships; corporate sponsorships. Areas of expertise: Cleantech and sustainability.
Zan Dubin, president, developed her PR and marketing expertise as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she wrote features and breaking news stories for 15 years. She co-founded National Drive Electric Week, the annual celebration bringing EV test drives and more to thousands from coast to coast and beyond.
We have obtained media coverage for clients in all of these outlets. Please click to read.
Watch the National Drive Electric Week event produced by ZDS Communications
Services
Our goal is to rapidly ascertain your needs and your distinctive position in the marketplace. Then, we’ll work with you to create a multifaceted PR and marketing plan to help you achieve the results you desire. We excel in pinpointing your strengths in order to develop effective, integrated marketing campaigns and in obtaining media exposure. Over the past 25 years, we’ve built relationships and formed broad based partnerships that we’ll draw upon to further your cause.
Public Relations Planning and Execution
Special Events: Planning, Execution and Sponsorship Attainment
Marketing
- Conference Engagement
- Advertising
- Partnerships
Writing
- Press releases & media kits
- Blogs
- Editorials
- Websites
- Brochures
- Annual reports
- Newsletters
- Employee magazines
- Copywriting
- Speeches
Video Production
- From script to editing supervision
Crisis Communications
Testimonials
Case Studies
Citizen Group/Project Nexus
Led communications for Project Nexus, the first-in-the-nation test deployment of solar over canals, coordinating media coverage by AP, the New York Times, Reuters, PBS NewsHour and dozens of others.
Plug In America
Established Plug In America as the voice of the EV driver and media’s go-to for first-hand EV expertise and opinion. Co-founded, launched and led communications for National Drive Electric Week, the world’s most successful grassroots EV celebration, now observed with test-drives and similar events by hundreds of thousands coast to coast and beyond.
Tesla Solar (formerly SolarCity)
Generated a cascade of positive media coverage to help SolarCity go public and expand its business from a handful of states to the nation’s leading solar power provider.
Circularix (formerly CarbonLITE Recycling)
Garnered a six-minute profile of this global recycling leader on Los Angeles’ leading PBS affiliate that’s been viewed by more than a million.
5 Gyres
Obtained coverage of 5 Gyres in the Washington Post, AP, on Good Morning America and in Time, among others, to keep this pioneering NGO and its leaders in the press as the world became aware of the scourge of plastic ocean pollution.
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