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Data-Driven Thinking
Cannes 2026: The Humans Strike Back
I’ve been making the annual June pilgrimage to the Côte d’Azur long enough to recognize the difference between conversations that will still matter in September and those that evaporate faster than rosé in 95-degree heat. Threaded through every serious discussion at the Cannes Lions this year, I detected a growing consensus that humans in the […]
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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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Branding/Marketing
The Case for Communicators at Cannes Lions
Cannes Lions has long been considered a marketing and advertising festival, but as the media industry fragments and the ways brands reach audiences multiply, communicators can no longer afford to watch from the sidelines.
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AI
Large Language Models Are Overkill For Some Marketing Tasks. Enter The Small Language Model
It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) have gotten exorbitantly expensive. Companies are starting to limit their employees’ AI usage to save money; OpenAI has even discussed lowering the cost of tokens to retain financially anxious customers. But you know what’s cheaper than a large language model? A small language model. AI company ZeroGPU […]
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B-to-C Events
The Power of Mentorship and Betting on Yourself, with Anna Nicholson of Yahoo
Anna Nicholson likes to feel challenged and excited about her work, and while her first job as an event marketer at a health care startup taught her a lot about executing b-to-b and b-to-e events, she needed more. Enter: Yahoo and what she calls “the best team on the planet.” Nicholson took a leap of […]
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Media Relations
Five Questions With Michelle Ciciyasvili: Keeping Betches Relevant With Media Relations Patience
Ciciyasvili spent three years cultivating a relationship with a contact at Variety before it resulted in a feature story and podcast appearance for Betches’ CEO.
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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?
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Cynsiders
Not All Reach Is Equal: Why Creator TV Is the New Holy Grail for Engagement-Driven Brands
By Aaron DeBevoise, CEO of Spotter Reach is abundant. Media buyers see this play out every quarter: you can purchase impressions at scale across dozens of platforms, hit your GRP targets, and still watch your client’s brand slide past an audience that never looked up from their scroll. Volume and attention are not the same […]
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B-to-C Events
Live Theater: Hendrick’s ‘Anotherland’ is its Biggest Spectacle Yet
When Hendrick’s activated a Time Traveler’s Tavern at Tales of the Cocktail last summer, spirits industry insiders got a taste of its eccentric “Giniverse” with a tour through a world of paradoxical characters and concepts. This year, with the launch of Another Hendrick’s, the first permanent expression added to its lineup in a decade, the […]
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The Big Story
The End Of The Programmatic Pageview
TV piracy of sports streams is siphoning away millions of viewers. Then: Vox Media and BuzzFeed found new owners this spring, punctuating the end of the pageview era.