Digital + Social

PRNEWS announced the winners of the 2025 Platinum Awards on Tuesday, October 7, before an audience of more than 400 PR and communications professionals gathered at the Pier Sixty venue in New York City. This year’s Platinum winners represent the industry’s highest standard of creativity, innovation and impact—those who have reached the pinnacle of strategic storytelling, brand reputation and audience connection.

AI chat agents will refer six times more traffic to retail sites during the holiday season and influence billions of dollars in global online sales.

CeraVe announced a multiyear sponsorship on Oct. 6 as the NBA’s Official Skincare and Haircare Partner. We spoke with Jasteena Gill, VP of Marketing at CeraVe U.S, about the impetus for the partnership, the brand’s goals, and balancing humor and expertise.

Earlier this week Verizon launched a 360 campaign surrounding Verizon Ultimate Access, its free, in-app rewards platform for customers, with an assist from soccer legend David Beckham.

If you didn’t happen to watch the main stage of AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO New York this week, then you missed a great (albeit way too brief) conversation about CTV’s programmatic progress.

Marketers are buying more CTV inventory programmatically than ever before. But what about linear inventory?

Tuesday’s CIMM schedule concluded with a panel called “Fact Vs. Fiction: The Futurist POV on Media in 2030,” where the audience weighed in on predictions about what the ad tech industry will look like in five years.

PRNEWS’ sixth annual Agency Elite honors, which pays homage to the industry’s most innovative PR, marketing and communications firms in the business, highlights 120 influential agencies this year—from well-known industry players to smaller boutique firms that punch far above their weight.

On Tuesday, Magnite announced it had acquired Streamr.ai, which specializes in developing AI-generated assets for small businesses to use in their CTV campaigns.

Flushable wipes brand Dude Wipes shares its growth path to 10 million households, its plan for 200 events this year and its recent ‘smear’ campaign.