Best Practices
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Leadership Advice
How MDVIP’s CMO Markets to Doctors and Patients Simultaneously
Most marketers today are tasked with reaching multiple audiences as they seek new paths to growth. For healthcare marketers, however, those audiences can be especially different.
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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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Shopper/Retail
Open Farm CMO Says Brand Awareness Campaigns Need to Drive Sales
Premium pet food brand Open Farm launches its first brand-building campaign. Sales are up in its test markets, faster than expected.
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Crisis Management
The Crisis Air Canada Had Five Years to Prepare For
In March, two Air Canada pilots were killed when an Air Canada Express flight crashed at LaGuardia Airport. The loss devastated their families, colleagues and the airline. The company’s CEO, Michael Rousseau, recorded a condolence message. He delivered it almost entirely in English, with French subtitles, speaking two words of French: bonjour and merci. Eight […]
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Crisis Management
Five Questions With Dini von Mueffling: What Six Years Representing an Epstein Survivor Taught Her About Social Impact PR
In this episode of “Five Questions With…,” Dini von Mueffling discusses her PR work with the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the most prominent Epstein survivor and her family.
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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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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.
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Digital & Technology
PRNEWS Announces 2026 People of the Year
PRNEWS announced its 2026 People of the Year honorees—an accomplished group of leaders, innovators and rising talent redefining the future of PR and communications.