Social Media & SEO
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Shopper/Retail
Cyber Monday Takes the Cake for Biggest Online Shopping Day
U.S. consumers spend $14.25 billion online on Cyber Monday, a 7.1% year-over-year increase. Online Black Friday sales surge 9.1%.
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Influencer Marketing
Nate’s Honey Leans Into Lipton Tea Collab, Targeting Runners and Social Listening
While sales of honey grew nearly 6% over the past year, lack of awareness of its versatility and wellness benefits is preventing even more growth, according to Nate’s Honey’s top marketer. So it turned to collabs to get the word out.
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Crisis Management
GEO, Citations and Trust: Five Takeaways for Communicators from Muck Rack’s Generative Pulse Summit
Muck Rack’s Generative Pulse Summit opened on the heels of its Dec. 2025 “What is AI Reading?” Report release, which showed just how much AI search engines and GEO rely on journalism and other forms of earned media to shape their answers.
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Shopper/Retail
Stitch Fix CMO on its Rebrand, Influencer Marketing and More AI Tools
Stitch Fix is more than a year into its rebrand, which positions the apparel retailer as ‘empathetic’ to shopping frustration. CMO Debbie Woloshin sits down with Chief Marketer.
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Branding/Marketing
Beyond the Bargain: Winning Consumers When Discounts Stop Working
If it feels like every brand has been running a sale for months, you’re not imagining it. According to a recent CNBC report, consumers are showing clear signs of discount fatigue ahead of Black Friday.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Piggy Problems, Cloudflare Outage Response, Bluesky and the Holidays
PR Roundup examines how to respond when your leadership insults members of the media, using the example of Trump and a reporter he called “piggy,” how the Cloudflare CEO responded after another outage and a new report acknowledging that users want brands on Bluesky for customer care.
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Branding/Marketing
PRNEWS Live: TikTok and AI Fuel 2025’s Fastest Growing Brands, Morning Consult Finds
PRNEWS sat down with Morning Consult for an inside look at its latest Fastest Growing Brands report. The discussion provides PR pros with information regarding Gen Z and traditional media consumption, tips for earned media in the era of AI, and the big impact of TikTok.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Airline Comms in Turbulent Times, USAA Campaign Goes Beyond Veterans Day
This week’s roundup looks at the communication strategies from airlines amid travel disruptions and a Q&A with USAA’s chief communicator on its Honor Through Action program for Veterans Day.
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Digital & Technology
3 Reasons Your Executive Isn’t Breaking Through on LinkedIn—and What to Do About It
LinkedIn is a great place to break business news. But the facts are only half the story. If your executives are sounding more like a press release than like the unique human they are, it’s time for a refresh.
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Social
Social App BeReal Launches Stateside Marketing Push to Counter ‘Doom Scrolling’
To counter the growing entrenchment of AI in social media and daily life, platform BeReal decided now was the right time for a stateside marketing push.
