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Trade Shows
Guest Column: The Fee You Didn’t Know You Were Paying
Many exhibitor service manuals contain an EAC fee. Most exhibit and event marketers have never been told what it is, what it covers, or why it keeps showing up. Open the exhibitor services manual for your next show and scroll past the carpet and the electrical order forms. Somewhere in the labor section sits a […]
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Iran War Tops Reputational Risk Index, Tony Romo’s OWI Crisis and Hot Jimothy Summer
PR roundup covers the latest Reputation Risk Index focusing on the Iran war, what Tony Romo’s OWI arrest crisis and CBS’s silence can teach brands about crisis response, and what a little raccoon named Jimothy is teaching brands about the value of showing up fast.
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Crisis Management
Yes, Chef: PR Lessons from ‘The Bear’
As the beloved and flawed characters from “The Bear” came together in the final season, many PR professionals perhaps felt a tug at the heartstrings: a sense of familiarity between their working lives and those of the restaurant industry.
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Social
How Evvy Uses Humor, Science & Short‑Form Video To Rebuild Trust in Women’s Health
Laine Bruzek, CMO and Co-founder, explains why Evvy is product‑led, how humor and short‑form video fit into a science‑backed brand and where she draws the line on AI in health education.
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Cynsiders
AI Ads Are Forcing the Industry to Get Privacy Right, Finally
By Jaime Schultheis, Head of Global Data Partnerships at Bombora Every major shift in digital advertising has followed the same pattern. Innovation comes first, guardrails come later. Search, social, and programmatic advertising all scaled rapidly before the industry fully grappled with privacy, transparency, and user trust. The result was predictable: years of regulatory correction, platform […]
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Cynsiders
The question isn’t whether AI changes hiring. It’s whether leaders are paying attention
As AI absorbs more of the tasks that once defined early careers — the research, the drafts, the foundational “grunt work” — media organizations are reckoning with a deceptively simple question: what happens to the people who were supposed to learn by doing it? Chad Maxwell, President of KSM Media, argues that the industry is […]
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CTV Roundup
There’s Not Enough Women’s Sports Ad Inventory To Go Around, But That’s Starting To Change
Women’s sports are a lot more popular than they used to be. But ad inventory remains scarce, because women’s sports still gets way less mainstream media exposure.
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Is Creating Value Out Of Dead Air With Pause Ads
Streaming publishers are banking on pause ads to bolster revenue with a more user-friendly ad experience. With programmatic standardization still pending, Warner Bros. Discovery is taking a stab at advancing the capabilities behind its own pause ad formats.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Olive Garden’s Accidental Politics, Gen Z’s New Rules of Fandom and Why Kraft Heinz Is Betting on Disney Magic
PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.
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Data-Driven Thinking
Advertising’s Next Audience Isn’t Human. So We Must Rethink The Value Of Non-Human Traffic
For years, advertising has been all about reaching the right human at the right time. That premise, however, is shifting in an unexpected way. Agentic AI has created new complexity, with autonomous “agents” that can increasingly evaluate, compare and execute decisions, from product research to actual purchases. Human-to-agent isn’t an incremental change. It’s a structural […]