Best Practices

National Hug a Newsperson Day, celebrated every year on Apr. 4, is a cute idea. But let’s be practical—hugging a journalist these days might not go over well. Here are seven better (and more professional) ways to show love to the media.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at Ford Motor Company’s marketing campaign introducing “employee pricing” discounts amid auto tariffs and a report that ranks the DEI and sustainability communications put forth by the world’s most influential brands.

There are a host of reasons why journalists reject pitches, but the most common cause is that far too often, the content being pitched is irrelevant to the specific topic or area that the journalist covers. Here’s how to ensure yours is relevant.

Craig Brommers, CMO at American Eagle, shares how the brand capitalized on the Super Bowl halftime show when Kendrick Lamar wore flare jeans, plus more marketing insights.

Viral social moments can make phrases powerful cultural assets, leading individuals and businesses to try to protect them as trademarks and cement their reputation in culture. Registering a phrase as a trademark however can be challenging.

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer functionality that’s helping marketers and PR pros raise the bar for modern brand reputation management. Here are ways brands can use them to monitor brand reputation with speed and at scale.

Think deeply about the potential impact to an audience. Not all April Fools brand jokes are good ones.

Courting both children and adults, Crayola recently launched “The Most Colorful Reunion Ever” campaign, centered around the release of a limited-edition eight-crayon pack of previously retired colors.

In our inaugural Brands on Fire LIVE, we spoke with Alex Tomlin, SVP of Marketing for Bacardi North America, about the success of Bacardi brands, culturally-relevant marketing initiatives, educating younger generations of drinkers, and more.

This week’s PR Roundup looks at the crisis issues surrounding the fallout from sending of government Signal messages to a journalist, a new study about PR employee engagement not reflecting job satisfaction, and how a new online tool created by UPS is helping to alleviate tariff stress for customers.