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B-to-C Events
12 Festive Brand Pop-ups and Activations Spreading Holiday Cheer in 2025
Christmastime is here again, and our calendars, inboxes and social feeds have been overflowing with festive pop-ups, holiday markets, light shows and takeovers that have us feeling that warm, merry spirit. We’d have to travel around the world on Santa’s magic time to hit all of the brand activations taking place this month, so we’re […]
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Cynsiders
Streaming Insights, Smarter CTV
Roku released its annual Roku Rewind, a breakdown of the biggest streaming trends of the year. Sarah Harms, VP of Advertising Marketing and Measurement at Roku, breaks it down. What were the biggest surprises in this year’s report? It was not long ago that marketers worried that TV audiences would become increasingly difficult to reach […]
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Communicators Share Their 2026 PR Industry Predictions
As 2026 approaches, it pays to take stock of everything that occurred in 2025 and how it could impact the next year of the PR industry. Some friends in the communications world approached PRNEWS with predictions for the coming year for many PR tenets including digital, crisis, media relations and more.
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B-to-C Events
Author Q&A: Dissecting Charles Melcher’s ‘The Future of Storytelling’
The explosion of immersive entertainment experiences just might be the hottest industry topic of 2025—look no further than our fall cover story. And in November, right on cue, author and brand marketing veteran Charles Melcher published “The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World” (Artisan Books). Over the span of 320 pages, […]
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AI
The NYT Boasts Promising Results After One Year Testing Its BrandMatch AI Product
The New York Times now has a full year under its belt running BrandMatch. I caught up with Valerio Poce, the NYT’s executive director of ad product marketing, to see what’s working, what’s hype and what’s ahead.
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Research
Survey: B2B Tech Firms Race to Keep Up with AEO, More-Agile Competitors
When it comes to marketing and PR, most business technology companies feel they’re playing catch-up in a race whose rules keep changing. That’s according to “How to Win Influence in B2B Tech,” a report from comms agency 3Thinkrs based on a survey of 400 B2B tech CMOs in the U.S. and U.K.
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Campaigns
Patreon Pushes Content Subscriptions in Lieu of Gift Cards for Last-minute Holiday Shoppers
Since November 2024, revenue from gifts has increased 250% at Patreon. The platform’s Marketing SVP discusses the brand’s marketing point-of-view and holiday campaign.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: McDonald’s AI Humbug, AI Optimism and Elf on the Shelf Hits the Beach
This week’s PR Roundup examines an AI-generated McDonald’s holiday ad gone wrong, a new study by Ruder Finn that reveals employee optimism around AI, and Beaches going all-in on experiential for an Elf on the Shelf vacation no family will soon forget.
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Marketers
The Attribution Goldilocks Problem; Video Is No Escape Pod
Attribution measurement is still a mess; video podcasting struggles with effective advertising; and NIL deals are taking off for student athletes.
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Cynsiders
The First-Party Data Divide: How CTV’s Economic Power Is Shifting in 2026
By Bichoi Bastha, General Manager of Dailymotion and the CEO of Dailymotion Advertising and Audience Path The streaming industry is approaching an inflection point that has little to do with content libraries or production budgets. The fundamental division emerging in 2026 is between platforms that control substantial first-party data and those that don’t. As […]