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Branding/Marketing
Creativity as a Verb: PR’s Role at Cannes Lions 2025
A CMO panel at Cannes Lions 2025 showed that PR is no longer just a channel for amplifying campaigns. PR professionals are part of the creative engine itself—leading ideas, shaping narratives and creating cultural value in real time.
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B-to-B Events
Inside Cannes Lions 2025: Activations from Amazon Port to Motel Yahoo
Word on the Croisette has it that Cannes is sizzling-hot, and we’re not just talking about the convergence of the world’s top creatives. High temps and humidity at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, this year June 16-20, have made cool spaces and cold treats a premium (hello, brand opportunity) as top advertising, […]
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B-to-C Events
How Gen Z Shopping Habits Led Urban Outfitters to Redefine its Back-to-Campus Campaign
Back-to-school season usually kicks off in mid-July, but Urban Outfitters is getting an early start, like really early. The brand launched its UO Haul back-to-campus campaign in May, before some schools around the country even let out for the summer. “We have a 365, ongoing platform for consumer insights. Our customers said, ‘My back-to-school season […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PRNEWS Unveils Winners of the 2025 Impact Communications Awards
PRNEWS has unveiled the winners of its 2025 Impact Communications Awards, which honor the most outstanding CSR, ESG & DEI initiatives and communicators driving that impact.
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CTV Roundup
How Visit Savannah Finds Its Target “Luxury” Traveler On CTV Channels
Like so many of us in this industry, I like to think that knowing how the proverbial sausage gets made leaves me less susceptible to advertising’s influence. Even still, there’s something about travel commercials – especially ones produced by tourism boards – that always make me want to pack up and go to whatever fun […]
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AI
What Hilton Gets About Storytelling That Most Brands (and Publishers) Miss
Dan Reynolds, Hilton’s SVP of Global Content, Media, and Partnerships, explains how the hospitality giant became a storytelling machine—powered by creators, AI, and an in-house brand team that knows its story best.
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Marketers
LinkedIn’s CTV Ads Are Helping B2B Advertisers Find Audiences Where They Live
It’s an all-too-familiar feeling for tech industry employees: You’re done with work and watching TV when suddenly a commercial comes on for the same B2B vendor you’ve been getting ads for at the office (or, at least, on a different computer screen in your home). Increasingly, you have LinkedIn to thank for that experience. Last […]
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Media Relations
The State of Journalism in 2025: Insights to Optimize Your Media Relations
The ever-changing media environment magnifies the expectations, pressures and preferences of journalists. Muck Rack surveyed over 1,500 journalists to better understand what shapes their work today, and how PR professionals can more effectively collaborate with them for everyone’s benefit.
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Tech & AI
Walmart launches generative AI shopping chatbot
Walmart debuted an app-only generative artificial intelligence chatbot, named Sparky, that can summarize reviews, offer product recommendations based on shopper requests and create product comparisons. Walmart displays the “Ask Sparky” feature as a main button on the bottom navigation bar of its app. Sparky can answer non-product-specific questions as well, such as the weather, sporting […]
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Most Read
Michaels snaps up Joann’s intellectual property, brands
Shoppers looking for fabric and yarn migrate to Michaels. The craft retail chain is deepening its assortment in these product categories. The Michaels Companies Inc. announced that it acquired the intellectual property and private label brands of its bankrupt competitor Joann. Michaels did not respond to a request for comment on how much it paid for […]
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