Best Practices
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Branding/Marketing
Winners Announced: The 2026 PRNEWS Experiential & Event PR Awards
PRNEWS announced the winners of the 2026 Experiential & Event PR Awards, celebrating the year’s most impactful experiential campaigns, activations and event-driven communications.
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Media Relations
Journalists Are Facing Federal Subpoenas. Why PR Pros Have More at Stake Than They Think
Understanding the federal journalist subpoenas and why the legal ground beneath them seems thin, is among the clearest lessons the PR industry has received in decades about what protects us and what does not.
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Branding/Marketing
Apple’s AI Problem Isn’t Siri. It’s the Story Apple Can No Longer Tell.
Siri became the place where Apple’s mythology cracked, following the launch of the Apple Intelligence initiative.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Threads Finds Its People, World Cup Builds a New U.S. Fanbase, and Local News Decline Reshapes CSR
What Threads’ third birthday tells us about the platform’s evolving identity, record World Cup viewership, and new research on how the disappearance of local newspapers is changing CSR.
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Programming
Bill Abbott on Five Years of Great American Media — and Why Focus Wins in a Fragmented Media Market
To mark Great American Media’s fifth anniversary, Cynopsis spoke with President & CEO Bill Abbott about the company’s bold choice to let brand dictate strategy and how that influenced its evolution.
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Branding/Marketing
How Everpure Prepared Employees for One of B2B Tech’s Rarest Rebrands
Pure Storage became Everpure earlier this year. But before the new name could be introduced to customers and investors, the company had to prepare for another audience first: its employees.
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Digital & Technology
85% of Tech Journalists Have a Primary PR Contact. How to Be That Person.
When Nycole Walsh and her research team at Kickstand surveyed 350 tech journalists about what’s working in their inboxes, 69% said they have warned a colleague about a specific PR person to avoid.
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Shopper/Retail
Target’s VP of Creative Shares Tips After Winning In-House Marketing Agency of the Year
Target’s in-house team of 400 marketers creates worlds and stays true to its brand identity, VP of Creative Scott Swartz says in this Q&A.
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B-to-C Events
Crayola Grows Up: How a 123-Year-Old Kids’ Brand Is Rewriting its Playbook for Adults
With the launch of Crayola All Grown Up, the brand is making its biggest push yet toward marketing to adults.
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Shopper/Retail
How a Well-Known License Propels a Toothbrush Brand
How U.K.-based toothbrush brand Ordo is breaking into the U.S. by marketing its electric children’s brushes with Squishmallows, Wicked and Minions licenses.