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Campaigns
Mom App Peanut Aims to Legitimize Matrescence
Peanut, the social networking app for moms, collected 11,000 signatures to add the word matrescence to the dictionary after an out-of-home campaign.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: A KitKat Heist, United Responds and the Opinions of 900 Journalists
It’s been a week where a stolen truck full of KitKats became a brand-response masterclass, United Airlines turned government dysfunction into a customer feature, and Muck Rack dropped the data every PR pro needs to bookmark.
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 03/31/26: WNBA’s CBA Play
Tuesday March 31, 2026 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. Is your bracket busted yet? There remains a chance UConn sweeps the men’s and women’s basketball titles—a feat they’ve accomplished twice before in 2004 and 2014—after the Huskies’ buzzer-beating victory over top-seeded Duke, while Geno Auriemma made yet […]
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B-to-B Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Streetscapes
From street signs and lights to curbs and crosswalks, experience builders are borrowing inspiration from the rhythms of movement in real life within activations and trade show exhibits, creating a sense of place and an intentional journey. Let’s stop and look both ways at this accelerating design tactic. First, a look at the “why” of […]
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Air Canada Crisis, the Second Screen of March Madness, and CCOs are not Happy
From an Air Canada air traffic control crisis at LaGuardia Airport, to a PR workforce stretched thin by expanding expectations, to fans rewriting the rules of live sports engagement during March Madness—this week’s PR Roundup covers timely moments and data for all communicators to learn from.
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CMO Council
The Real Power Couple: AI and the Human Marketer
Tom Kaneshige, Chief Content Officer at the CMO Council, explains why the strongest marketing results come from pairing machine intelligence with human judgment.
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Data-Driven Thinking
AI Perfectionism Is Slowing Marketing Down. Decision Velocity Is The New Advantage
Not long ago, the biggest challenge with AI in marketing was access. Tools were expensive, immature or experimental. Most teams were running pilots simply to understand what was possible. Today, marketers face the opposite reality. There are too many options. Models, copilots, platforms and point solutions promise to improve every part of the marketing life […]
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Crisis Management
What Wartime Press Attacks Mean for PR Professionals
In periods when political pressure, press attacks and media volatility rise together, communications strategy becomes an exercise in protecting trust.
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Data-Driven Thinking
AI Media Is Already Here. Here’s What Marketers Need to Know
Debra Aho Williamson will be a keynote speaker at AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI conference, taking place May 18-20 at the Park MGM in Las Vegas. Register today if you haven’t already signed up! OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s AI Overviews and Amazon’s Rufus are quickly becoming a new form of media. And OpenAI’s hiring of Meta […]
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Shopper/Retail
‘Treat’ Culture, COVID and Lack of 5-Year Plan Colors Gen Z Spending
NRF digs into Gen Z consumer spending patterns, plus forecasts 4.4% retail growth in 2026, in annual State of Retail & the Consumer event.