PR/Comms
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The Power of Causing a Crisis: What Meta’s Payout Can Teach About Advocacy Communications
Advocacy campaigns can often take on companies many times their size, like Meta, throwing them into crisis. Sustained-pressure communications runs on a different logic than defense.
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Crisis Management
AI Promised Efficiency. Now Communicators Have to Clean Up the Mess.
The AI correction phase is a moment for communicators, but only if the industry stops treating it like a siloed IT initiative happening somewhere else in the building.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Lovesac Learns a Viral Lesson, a Billionaire’s AI Op-Ed Sparks a Bigger Debate, and Consumers Are Spending Smarter
PR roundup covers Lovesac’s viral complaint response, why a billionaire’s AI-written WSJ op-ed is raising questions and what new consumer data says about how Americans are spending—and what they expect from brands.
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Branding/Marketing
What Amgen’s MrBeast Partnership Shows About Communicating Complex Issues
In this Q&A, Susie Tappouni, head of Corporate Affairs at Amgen and Sue Schwartz, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, discuss how their organizations worked with Beast Philanthropy and the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to bring the patient perspective to a creator-led campaign.
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Crisis Management
Five Questions With Jon Arons: What a Year of Food Recalls Has Taught Giant Food About Crisis Communications and Community
From food recalls to brand health scores, Jon Arons, Communications and Community Relations Manager at Giant Foods, makes the case that trust isn’t built in a crisis—it’s built long before one ever arrives.
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Digital & Technology
Podcast Guesting Is a Core PR Strategy. Here’s How to Get Your Client Booked.
Two things to check before any list is worth pitching from: the date of the last published podcast episode and whether the show actually takes guests at all.
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Digital & Technology
PR Roundup: Lucky Charms Wins RushTok, AI Search Rewards Relevance Over Scale, and eos Shows What Community Engagement Looks Like
PR roundup covers Lucky Charms’s sorority partnership, what new data on AI search visibility means for GEO, and why eos’s U.S. Open activation is a case study in letting community lead the way.
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Crisis Management
AI Recycled a Dead Promotion and Sent Customers to a Client’s Doors
A restaurant ran a Teacher Appreciation and Nurses Week promotion in 2025 which included free food. In 2026, the client chose not to repeat it. AI did not get the memo.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Claude’s Watermark Debate, the Say-Do Gap Is Killing Culture, and a Giant Hairball Rolls Through NYC
PR roundup covers what Anthropic’s new AI watermarking feature means for communicators navigating transparency questions, new research confirming that leadership behavior—not messaging—is the real driver of workplace culture, and how a car-sized hairball rolling through New York City streets became one of the more memorable PR stunts of the summer. Claude’s New Watermark Causing Concern […]
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Crisis Management
The Crisis Air Canada Had Five Years to Prepare For
In March, two Air Canada pilots were killed when an Air Canada Express flight crashed at LaGuardia Airport. The loss devastated their families, colleagues and the airline. The company’s CEO, Michael Rousseau, recorded a condolence message. He delivered it almost entirely in English, with French subtitles, speaking two words of French: bonjour and merci. Eight […]