Social Media & SEO
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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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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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Marketers on Fire
Marketers on Fire: Andy Lopez Elevated to Behr Paint CMO to Speed Digital Transformation
Andy Lopez was elevated to Chief Marketing Officer of Behr Paint Company last month. We spoke with Lopez about his new role, AI search, creator autonomy and the customer journey.
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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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Media Relations
The Right Way to Turn Social Media Into News Coverage
Given enough pressure, even the grumpiest baby boomer in communications will admit that social media can earn a media placement. The problem is that everyone else knows that already.
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Shopper/Retail
Blenders CEO Dishes on Why Its New Creator Will Elevate the Sunglasses Brand
Blenders hires Jordan “The Stallion” Howlett for the newly created role of Chief Content Officer. Howlett will advise the Blenders marketing team on storytelling.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Buc-ee’s Trademark Trouble, DuckDuckGo’s Brilliant Non-Product and a Data Wake-Up Call for Communicators
This week in PR: Buc-ee’s trademark enforcement sparks national backlash, DuckDuckGo sells out with a privacy stunt, and Cision reveals why more data isn’t always better for brands.