Diversity + Sustainability

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover charitable hair flips, a cross-country scavenger hunt and “Death to Midlife.”

From a crisis communications misstep on one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stages and new data showing employees now outpace CEOs in brand trust, to Burger King’s surprisingly human response to a decade of customer complaints, this week’s PR Roundup highlights the power—and pitfalls—of modern communications.

Not all NBA fans can make it to a game, so AT&T is shooting its shot with a Dunk Bus mobile tour that brings the action directly to them.

St. Jude is returning to the Super Bowl with a different focus. Here’s how it hopes the Big Game will help achieve its goals.

The “Bad Bunny approach” offers crisis managers a set of lessons that apply across government, philanthropy, business and community networks.

For communications leaders, there are moments when the job stops being theoretical. When a city is under a national microscope, and employees are watching from their kitchens, discussing in their group chats, and thinking on their commutes, the questions arrive quickly and personally: Are we safe? Does leadership see what we’re seeing? Are we expected […]

As social issues, such as those in Minnesota, escalate rapidly and play out in real time, business leaders are increasingly forced to decide not just whether to speak or make statements, but how clearly—and at what risk—in moments when silence, caution or ambiguity can be interpreted as a message of its own.

From Dr Pepper’s savvy elevation of a creator’s viral jingle to new data revealing what’s holding PR teams back, we examine how brands and agencies are adapting to shifting media dynamics, AI realities and a changing early-career pipeline.

The barriers that once made accessible advertising difficult have largely disappeared.

Many companies are now learning the hard way that communicating technical solutions about data centers alone isn’t nearly enough. Those wishing to do more than inform, or more specifically, persuade, must also tell a human story, focused on the benefits for the audience.