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Online holiday sales increase 6.8% in US for 2025 season, reaching $257.8 billion, according to new Adobe Analytics data.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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, […]

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.

Horizon Media unveiled HorizonOS, the industry’s first operating system built on an open ecosystem of partners. The architecture of HorizonOS brings together three aspects of intelligence:  Blu is the AI-native innovation ecosystem that translates strategy into action.  It enables Horizon to deliver on enhanced “speed to insight,” where data plays a role in audience-centric strategies, […]

Between budget restraints, tariffs, shifting trade policies and AI everything, it’s been one hell of a trip around the sun for b-to-b event marketers. But this industry always rises to the occasion, and the meetings, conferences and exhibits delivered in 2025 were no exception. With 2026 just around the corner, we rounded up some of […]