Alexandra Pony came to Victoria to be a self-proclaimed hippie.

Eight years later, the founder of Pony Communications leads a small award-winning team of women raking in the headlines, television clips and awards associated with various business ventures across North America sa国际传媒� and space.

Among the notable projects at Pony Comms is the Lunar Loo campaign for NASA. While it was far from the Victoria-based companysa国际传媒檚 first foray with the U.S. space organization, it was a spectacular success.

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The space agency is fun to work with and does a fair amount of crowd sourcing. Pony Communications previously did an sa国际传媒渆xploring hellsa国际传媒� campaign with a rover on Venus.

The 2020 campaign was focused on how to keep things tidy during NASAsa国际传媒檚 Artemis 2 10-day moon mission, now set to launch no sooner than fall 2025.

NASA was looking for new toilet designs that would work both in microgravity and lunar gravity.

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There were more than 90,000 participants and the team stopped stopped counting after 400 articles as video clips, articles and headlines full of puns raced back-and-forth on their Slack channels.

Even the NASA comms team reached out stunned with the response, she recalled.

Itsa国际传媒檚 the kind of work that brings a 95 per cent client retention rate, and accolades.

Pony grew up in L.A. and went to Berkley and built a name for herself working PR in San Francisco.

While embarking on a life of reiki and yoga retreats (including teaching) while living in Greater Victoria with her Canadian husband, she continued working with a group of women in San Fran whosa国际传媒檇 left agency life. They had a breadth of experience and she soaked it all in before landing her first official Pony Communications client in 2018 sa国际传媒� The Foundation for Climate Restoration.

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Shesa国际传媒檚 slowly built to a team of five women, four living in Greater Victoria and one on the mainland, who maintain a client-centric focus.

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In the last year alone, thatsa国际传媒檚 led to securing 2,454 articles, features and mentions for its roster of clients across a broad range of industries including: disruptive tech, climate, sustainability, energy, cybersecurity, health tech, architecture and design, affordable housing, manufacturing, as well as executive thought leadership.

Amplifying the efforts of these companies to shape a better future led to a remarkable reach of 156 billion people, featuring placements in various top-tier media publications.

A recent winner of Inc.sa国际传媒檚 Power Partner Award, the team was honoured in five categories. That came on the heels of 11 other business awards for strategic relations campaigns resulting in high-impact reach and exposure.

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