Year: 2025
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Crisis Management
PRNEWS Announces 2026 Agency Elite Top 120
PRNEWS’ sixth annual Agency Elite honors, which pays homage to the industry’s most innovative PR, marketing and communications firms in the business, highlights 120 influential agencies this year—from well-known industry players to smaller boutique firms that punch far above their weight.
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Loyalty Marketing
Shoppers Prefer Cash Back Over Points for Loyalty Programs
Rewards programs make shoppers more loyal to a brand and more likely to recommend it, according to a new study.
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The Big Story
AI-Driven Ad Tech Acquisitions
From a $637 million PE acquisition of healthcare of a DSP to acquisitions of freshly minted startups, there’s been a flurry of ad tech deals this month. And they have one thing in common: AI.
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B-to-C Events
Experiential Trend of the Week: Beauty-themed Cafés
From the coffee bars dominating the trade show sector to the offbeat raves taking place at local cafés, coffee culture has been permeating programming across the event industry for some time. Now, a new twist on coffee shop experiences is brewing: the beauty-themed café. Stylish, shareable, sample-heavy and brimming with latte art, these pop-ups are […]
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Digital & Technology
Story Mining: The Essential PR Pro Skill for the AI Era
Story mining, the ability to consistently uncover and shape compelling narratives from everyday business activity, has become essential for PR pros.
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Branding/Marketing
Carhartt’s Marketing Commits to Core Audience of Skilled Laborers
The brand’s new “Made Possible” campaign is “a celebration of hard work and the people who build the world around us,” says Norma Delaney, VP of Global Brand Marketing at Carhartt.
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B-to-C Events
Q&A: evian Spices Up its 39-year US Open Partnership with a First-time Culinary Collab
For 39 years, evian has partnered with the US Open as the tennis tournament’s official water, and this year, beyond hydrating athletes and fans around USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center grounds, the brand added a new culinary component to its annual campaign. Collaborating with tennis star and evian Global Brand Ambassador Frances Tiafoe […]
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B-to-C Events
‘Lightning in a Bottle’: How The Knot Recreated Taylor Swift’s Proposal Setting in New York
When Taylor Swift entered her engagement era on Aug. 26, The Knot said “I do” to jumping on the viral pop culture moment. Within nine days of the global icon sharing news (and photos) of her engagement to Travis Kelce, the wedding platform had swiftly worked with its vendor partners to recreate the duo’s instantly […]
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CTV Roundup
What’s Next for Streamr.ai Now That It’s Been Acquired By Magnite?
On Tuesday, Magnite announced it had acquired Streamr.ai, which specializes in developing AI-generated assets for small businesses to use in their CTV campaigns.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: U.S. Open Brand Wins, CEO Reveals Price Increases, Humans Prefer Human Content
In this week’s PR Roundup new data shows us which brands won the U.S. Open, we learn how CEOs should communicate price increases, and new a Sprout Social study reveals that consumers prefer human-generated content rather than AI.
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