First Media Group (FMG) is an award-winning, full-service advertising, public relations and marketing agency designed to assist clients’ communication goals with tactics that work. Whether it’s a brochure, video, media relations campaign, special promotion or comprehensive marketing plan–or anything else in between–we at FMG will exceed your expectations with innovation, expediency and quality.
Ideas That Work
We listen to our clients first, then we approach each of their marketing needs with fresh eyes. We observe people’s behavior and work to get a true understanding of the market that we are hired to impact. We understand who we’re being hired to influence before we build the plan. Until customers get to know you, you’re only as good as your marketing. FMG will position you for success from day one.
Results That Work
Aside from our ability to listen and thoroughly understand our customer’s needs, FMG also leverages our client’s media budgets significantly by crafting the pitch to media outlets in such a way that they want to go out of their way to help our clients. We maximize the amount of media that our clients are able to purchase by effectively negotiating added value, terms and conditions for them.
FMG’s commitment is to create a diverse, nurturing environment to help every voice be heard; a place that stimulates strategic thinking on multiple levels while envisioning what tools will be needed now and in the future, using sight and sound to elicit change!
Meet The Owner
Delora Hall Tyler, APR
President & CEO
First Media Group, Inc.
Delora Hall Tyler, a native Detroiter, founded First Media Group (FMG) in 1990 and has since provided a full range of advertising, marketing and public relations services to clients including the Institute for Population Health, Great Lakes Women’s Business Council, Oakland County Finance Department (Certified Development Company), Gift of Life – Michigan, Wayne County Health Department, the Michigan Department of Transportation and many others. She has offices in Southfield and Detroit, MI, and a satellite office in Atlanta, GA.
Hall Tyler is an accomplished marketing and PR practitioner, consultant, TV producer and former radio host. She also serves as a Trustee for the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation. She holds a BA in communications from the University of Detroit, and First Media Group, Inc. is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), Woman Business Enterprise (WBE), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Business Enterprise (SBE).
For more than 25 years, Hall Tyler’s team has provided brand management, including creative for television, radio, print and digital media. Her agency also provides media buying and media relations, including press conferences, public information and public engagement, community outreach and focus groups; FMG also organizes and manages public meetings, training, and project events for clients. In addition, select FMG campaigns have been designed and presented in multiple languages and placed in the appropriate media outlets to reach clients’ current and potential customer bases.
Hall Tyler is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America, and her professional recognition highlights include the Spirit of Detroit Award (1999); the Best Small Business Award (1999) from the Michigan Small Business Development Center; the Oakland County Vision Award (2006); the Women of Excellence Award (2008) from the Michigan Chronicle, a 2009 graduate of the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center’s FastTrac Growth Venture Program; a graduate of the Tuck-WBENC Executive Training program in 2012 and Building a High-Performance Minority Business program graduate in 2018 from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She was also a 2012 Make Mine A Million pitch competition winner in NYC, hosted by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence, and a 2015 graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.