Best Practices
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Branding/Marketing
Chief Marketer Announces 2025 Top Women in Marketing Honorees
Chief Marketer’s Top Women in Marketing program, celebrating the most impactful brand marketers, agencies and partners making waves across the industry, has unveiled this year’s honorees.
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Branding/Marketing
Baby Products Brand Munchkin Taps Video Marketing, DTC and OOH for New Product Launch
For the launch of its new nipple shield product, Munchkin is activating a 360-marketing campaign across CTV, out-of-home, major retailers and social.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: OPM PR Leader Caught Shilling, Trust in AI Increasing, Guinness Celebrates People
This week’s PR Roundup looks at an important federal communicator getting caught doing a side gig on the job, how trust in AI is increasing with the public, and how Guinness is connecting with consumers for its latest St. Patrick’s Day campaign.
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AI
Writing for People and Machines: AI-Era Content Strategies for Marketers
Today’s search landscape isn’t just about optimizing for human readers—it’s about ensuring content is machine-readable, AI-indexable and structured for both people and AI.
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Media Relations
Local Media is Often Overlooked: Learning from Sports PR
While local media audiences may be smaller, tailored messaging allows for deeper engagement, enabling niche audiences to connect in ways that mainstream media often cannot.
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Crisis Management
PR Lessons from Turo’s Crisis Response
Turo, a peer-to-peer car rental platform, faced not one, but two crises during New Year’s 2025. The perpetrators of both violent incidents had procured their vehicles from the app.
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Data & Analytics
Creating a ‘CMO Command Center’ to Navigate a Year of Flux
The CMO Council’s inaugural Marketing Vitality Index has amassed a data lake’s worth of statistics and insights from myriad sources to help marketers navigate through what promises to be a year of flux.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Ben & Jerry’s Meltdown, Apple’s Opportunity, Bird Flu Leads to Cat Food Recall
This week’s PR Roundup looks at how Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever would have to approach a decoupling from a communications standpoint, if Apple’s new product announcements were an opportunity or mistake, and how bird flu is affecting tertiary companies .
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Media Relations
Ask a Journalist: Dr. Shamard Charles of TheGrio on How Integrity, Truth and Kindness Turn Pitches into Impact
Dr. Shamard Charles discusses how a strong pitch stands out by balancing timeliness with accuracy, and explains why kindness, integrity and flexibility are essential for shaping stories that go beyond the headline.
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Media Relations
The Washington Post’s Devolution has Weakened the Fourth Estate: How Will PR Professionals Adapt?
The Washington Post’s crisis and the erosion of trust it faces represents a perilous moment for media relations professionals and the general public who rely on the press for competent and independent reporting.