Best Practices
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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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Branding/Marketing
Survey: Marketers Addressing Tariff Flux with Value Messaging, Pricing Transparency
In response to the continuing changes and uncertainty regarding tariffs, marketers are amending their strategies and tactics, focusing more on highlighting value and cutting spend on non-digital channels.
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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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Acquisition
AdRoll Report: Prospecting Ad Spend Dips 27% as Marketers Target the Bottom of the Funnel
Facing an uncertain economic climate and wobbly customer sentiment, marketers are collectively tightening their belts and allocating more digital ad spend toward lower-funnel campaigns.
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Crisis Management
PRNEWS Announces Winners of 2025 Nonprofit Awards
PRNEWS today announced the winners of its 2025 Nonprofit Awards, which celebrates the most talented communicators and teams in the nonprofit sector, as well as the most innovative and effective campaigns.
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AI
Twilio Survey: Consumers Want AI to Deliver Service with a Human Touch
More than half (55%) of consumers are tired of hearing about AI, according to Twilio’s 2025 State of Customer Engagement Report. And while they do want the technology to improve their brand experiences, what they want is more high touch than high tech.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Moran Out at ABC, State of Journalism 2025, Bad Vibes at JPMorgan
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the reaction to ABC News not renewing veteran journalist Terry Moran’s contract, the latest Muck Rack State of Journalism report and a leaked memo regarding JPMorgan’s dipping employee morale.
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Branding/Marketing
A Rancher’s Perspective on Brand Storytelling: CattleCon Collaboration
As a PR practitioner, the job is to build narratives. As a rancher, you live them. For me, authenticity wasn’t a tactic: it was the life I lived before I ever wrote a press release. That intersection has shaped every part of my career—as well as my home life—and it shaped one of the boldest […]
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: CEO Popularity, Wilson from Cast Away is Back, Mattel Studios Launches
This week’s PR Roundup looks at a new study from Morning Consult about CEO popularity and company reputation, Mattel going all in on entertainment with a new TV and film studio, and Wilson, the iconic volleyball, teaching the public about ecology and ocean waste.
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Conversations
Brooks Running CMO on Launching the Brand’s First Lifestyle Shoe Line
As one of the top running brands in the U.S. since the 1970s, Brooks knows its way around a performance running shoe. Some 50 years later, the brand saw an opportunity to enter the lifestyle space and embark on the next phase of its evolution.