Best Practices
The Seasonal PR Mistake Brands Make Every Year (and How to Avoid It)
Consumer brands often make the same seasonal PR mistake: They start pitching when shoppers begin buying. Editors, however, start planning those stories months earlier. While marketers and communicators focus on summer promotions, Prime Day and vacation season, many commerce editors are already building coverage around back-to-school shopping, holiday gift guides and Black Friday deals. The […]
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Crisis Management
Private Credit Has a Communications Problem
Firms need comms partners who understand the structural complexity of private credit markets and can translate that into clear, credible narratives that build investor confidence over time.
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Branding/Marketing
What Gwyneth Paltrow Taught a Room Full of PR Pros
Bjertnæs shared that Paltrow’s key message resonated well beyond celebrity: all PR is good PR, as long as integrity leads the way.
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Crisis Management
The Crisis Threat Hiding in Plain Sight: Your AI Chat History
Now senior leaders’ own conversations with an LLM could be used to argue guilt or innocence. Now not only have lawyers been put on alert, but so should communication professionals.
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Crisis Management
What ‘Survivor’ Reveals About Executive Communication Under Pressure
Strip away the torches, Buffs and meager rations, and “Survivor” reveals itself as a case study in high-stakes communication.
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Mobile
Finch’s First Brand Campaign Celebrates the Weirder Side of Self-Care
On the self-care app Finch, users care for a digital bird by completing small acts of self-care like drinking water, tidying up and performing breathing exercises. But one of the most popular pre-set goals on the app is something more basic: survive the day.
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Branding/Marketing
LinkedIn Data Reveals the 5 Skills Redefining Communications in the AI Age
On LinkedIn, job postings that mention “storyteller” have doubled over the last year.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: The CDC’s Comms Stumble, LinkedIn’s AI Edge and How to Newsjack Spirit Airlines’ Shutdown
From the CDC’s struggle to communicate about hantavirus, to LinkedIn’s rise as a must for AI visibility, to a PR firm that turned a viral internet moment into a People magazine hit—good communications strategy isn’t just about what you say, but when and where you say it.
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Branding/Marketing
How Lonely Planet Turns Creators Into Long-Term Brand Partners
Deepa Lakshmin, Director of Social Media at Lonely Planet, sat down with PRNEWS to talk about the brand’s newly launched creator program—and the unconventional planning process behind it.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Ted Turner’s Lasting Lessons, Gas Prices Surge, and Why LinkedIn Is B2B’s New Stage
This week’s PR Roundup covers what Ted Turner’s legacy still teaches PR pros, how brands should navigate consumer messaging amid skyrocketing gas prices and a notable platform shift as LinkedIn dethrones YouTube as the top B2B video channel.
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Branding/Marketing
SHEIN’s Lisa Zlotnick on How ‘Festival House’ Cracked the Gen Z Code
Hear how SHEIN is rethinking what it means to build with Gen Z, not just market at them.
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