Social Media & SEO
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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.
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Digital & Technology
The Comments Section Is a Liability. AI Just Made It Worse.
Consumer brands can’t afford to ignore what’s going on in their comments sections. AI can hurt, but also help.
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Branding/Marketing
Fandom FOMO: What It Is and How to Catch the Fun Before It Waddles Away
PR and communications leaders have historically been trapped in a reactive loop. We build strategies around what we already know to watch, measuring keyword volumes after a trend has already spiked, instead of following fandom.
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Digital & Technology
Your CEO Has an AI Profile. Did You Build It, or Did the Algorithm?
Anyone can search a CEO’s name and instantly see a full AI-generated profile. So what should a communication team do? Executive visibility is no longer optional.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Apple’s Price Hike Playbook, Social Owns the Crisis Moment, and Starbucks Embraces Employee Storytelling
Apple offers a lesson in getting ahead of bad news, new Sprout Social confirms that social media is now the front line of crisis, and Starbucks turns to employee creators.
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Digital & Technology
Seven Rules for Getting Your Content Cited by AI
Getting your brand noticed comes down to whether your expertise stands out when AI citations pull snippets from your pages—and whether it holds up in a world where people consume content fast.
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Crisis Management
AI Search Is Rewriting Your Company’s Reputation. Here Is What You Can Do About It.
The more consequential question is about vulnerability: What does AI search reveal when someone is actively looking for controversies or criticisms?
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: When Culture Moves, Brands Follow—Lessons from Kalshi, the World Cup and Toy Story 5
PR Roundup covers how communicators can interpret Kalshi’s compliance move, which brands are actually breaking through the World Cup noise and why “Toy Story 5” is giving brands a nostalgia-fueled engagement boost ahead of its release date.
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Digital & Technology
The New PR Measurement Stack: What Comms Leaders Should Track When the Audience Is Behind AI
The traditional PR measurement dashboard needs to sit alongside a second, AI-native layer that answers a different question: when someone asks a generative engine about our category, are we in the answer?