Digital & Technology
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Lovesac Learns a Viral Lesson, a Billionaire’s AI Op-Ed Sparks a Bigger Debate, and Consumers Are Spending Smarter
PR roundup covers Lovesac’s viral complaint response, why a billionaire’s AI-written WSJ op-ed is raising questions and what new consumer data says about how Americans are spending—and what they expect from brands.
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Digital & Technology
Podcast Guesting Is a Core PR Strategy. Here’s How to Get Your Client Booked.
Two things to check before any list is worth pitching from: the date of the last published podcast episode and whether the show actually takes guests at all.
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Digital & Technology
PR Roundup: Lucky Charms Wins RushTok, AI Search Rewards Relevance Over Scale, and eos Shows What Community Engagement Looks Like
PR roundup covers Lucky Charms’s sorority partnership, what new data on AI search visibility means for GEO, and why eos’s U.S. Open activation is a case study in letting community lead the way.
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Research
New IAB Framework Aims to Standardize Measurement of AI-Powered Visibility
Trade group IAB published “Measuring Visibility in the AI Era,” which sets out to codify the definitions, quality criteria and standards relevant to measuring GEO, AIO and other aspects of non-paid AI-powered discoverability. CM looks at why now and what the group is prioritizing.
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Crisis Management
AI Recycled a Dead Promotion and Sent Customers to a Client’s Doors
A restaurant ran a Teacher Appreciation and Nurses Week promotion in 2025 which included free food. In 2026, the client chose not to repeat it. AI did not get the memo.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Buc-ee’s Trademark Trouble, DuckDuckGo’s Brilliant Non-Product and a Data Wake-Up Call for Communicators
This week in PR: Buc-ee’s trademark enforcement sparks national backlash, DuckDuckGo sells out with a privacy stunt, and Cision reveals why more data isn’t always better for brands.
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Digital & Technology
PRNEWS Announces 2026 People of the Year
PRNEWS announced its 2026 People of the Year honorees—an accomplished group of leaders, innovators and rising talent redefining the future of PR and communications.
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Digital & Technology
Meow Wolf’s Former VP of Comms: AI Is Telling Your Story. Is It Getting It Right?
Communications teams already have the skills to manage how AI machines answer the questions. Use them now, or spend years explaining an answer you had no hand in shaping.
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Crisis Management
Complaining About Bad Coverage Is the Surest Way to Amplify It
The most reliable way to draw more attention to bad media coverage is to complain about it publicly.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Olive Garden’s Accidental Politics, Gen Z’s New Rules of Fandom and Why Kraft Heinz Is Betting on Disney Magic
PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.
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