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B-to-C Events
Sonic Sculptures, Art Atlases, Edible Libraries: 12 Experiential Ideas from Miami Art Week
The who’s who of art and culture convened for a week of exhibitions and events during Miami Art Week 2025, hosted Dec. 1-7, and once again, a horde of brands infiltrated the landscape with the typical invite-only, closed-door experiences that have historically dominated the scene. Even McDonald’s, the unlikeliest of companies to show up, hosted […]
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Cynsiders
How CTV Became the Smartest Buy in Media
By Justin Fromm, Head of Insights, Samsung Ads Performance marketers are rethinking what drives conversion. The once-reliable engines of measurable marketing—search and social—are losing momentum. Generative AI is reshaping how consumers discover information, siphoning off clicks and eroding the predictability of SEM. Pew Research found that AI-generated summaries have already reduced search-result clicks by 50%. At the […]
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Shopper/Retail
Discounts, Social Media Influencers Drive Record Online Holiday Sales
Online holiday sales increase 6.8% in US for 2025 season, reaching $257.8 billion, according to new Adobe Analytics data.
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B-to-C Events
Anti-romance Swag Swaps and Digital Love Notes: Add These Ideas to Your Valentine’s Day Activation
If you’re activating around Valentine’s Day this year, there’s still time to steal a few ideas that’ll give your event a little extra oomph. And we’re here to spread the love. There’s no shortage of great experiential campaigns to get the juices flowing, whether it be Snuggle’s heartfelt, interactive mosaic or Godiva’s 20-foot-tall chocolate boxes […]
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Branding/Marketing
CMO Strategy, AI & Brand: Top Stories of 2025
Following were the most engaging Chief Marketer stories of 2025 — from a case study in higher education marketing to a creator network launch from Lowe’s to a McKinsey growth study examining the CMO-CEO disconnect.
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B-to-B Events
Experiential in Color Mentorship Q&A: Gerry Rojas and Natalie Azcona
In 2025, EM expanded the scope of its Experiential in Color recognition program to include a new mentorship initiative led by a steering committee of industry professionals. We spoke with three mentor/mentee pairs about what the experience has meant to them. Mentor Gerry Rojas and mentee Natalie Azcona know all too well how the events […]
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 12/23/25: ESPN Gets Technical
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM PREMION Tuesday December 23, 2025 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. It’s a great time of year for fans with a seemingly endless amount of football and basketball to digest—not to mention hockey, soccer and […]
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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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Cynsiders
Advanced Metadata Signals: The Hidden Engine Behind Shoppable TV
By Gary Mittman, CEO of KERV.ai Shoppable TV often appears effortless. A tap. A scan. A natural step from story to sale. But what feels seamless to viewers is the result of deliberate design. Behind every seamless moment is careful analysis and orchestration of the data on the screen – frame by frame, understanding products, […]
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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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