Branding/Marketing
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Engagement
Festival Roundup: Top 20 Brand Activations at SXSW 2025
With its focus on music, tech and entertainment, the SXSW Conference & Festivals in Austin tend to showcase some of the most creative activations across the experiential marketing industry. Here are the top 20.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Journos Pick Bluesky, Frontier Pokes Southwest Air, Forever 21 Bankruptcy Lessons
This week’s PR Roundup explores the growth of journalists on Bluesky, bankruptcy communications in light of Forever 21 closing, and how brands like Frontier Airlines and Polestar are taking advantage of market changes with messaging.
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Branding/Marketing
SXSW 2025 Mixes It Up Again for Brands, Influencers and Their Publicists
SXSW 2025 requires those brands speaking and showcasing at the event to be provocative enough to break through the sea of activations to get the attention of media.
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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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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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Branding/Marketing
How DeepSeek Took Over the AI Conversation
The lessons from DeepSeek’s rise offer a blueprint for how brands, especially challengers, can capture attention, navigate controversy, and take over the conversation.