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Data-Driven Thinking
The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk
I’ve been saying for years that addressable advertising was a strategic mistake. Not because targeting shouldn’t exist, but because building an ecosystem dependent on granular identity, location trails and behavioral signals was always going to create exposure we couldn’t fully control. And if we’re being honest, the precision targeting story was oversold anyway. The industry […]
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Programming
Nexstar-Tegna and the Path to Get There
Nexstar has been far from quiet over the past few years, banging on the drum of deregulation and consolidation as the regulatory landscape looks as favorable as ever for the broadcast giant to accomplish both.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Anthropic Walked the Walk
The refusal of Anthropic to waiver under political pressure and compromise its AI safeguards can lead to improved employee morale, increased productivity, attracting and retaining talent, gaining news business and engendering trust.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PR Roundup: Claude’s Crash Course, McDonald’s CEO Goes Viral and Why Sustainability Messaging Still Matters
PR Roundup covers Anthropic’s Claude buckling under the weight of its own viral moment, the McDonald’s CEO trying to sell America on a new burger, and a new conscious consumerism report quietly dismantles the narrative that sustainability is dead
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CMO Council
Five Structural Repairs for Marketing Organizations to Pass the AI Audit
AI has the power to operationalize and scale weaknesses within marketing organizations. So if marketing leaders want to plan intelligently, they’ll have to make a series of structural repairs. Here are five that separate marketing organizations that pass the AI audit from those that fail it.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: BAFTA Apology, Employees More Trusted than CEOs, Burger King Updates Whopper
From a crisis communications misstep on one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stages and new data showing employees now outpace CEOs in brand trust, to Burger King’s surprisingly human response to a decade of customer complaints, this week’s PR Roundup highlights the power—and pitfalls—of modern communications.
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B-to-B Events
What Each Generation Really Wants from B-to-B Events—And What the Data Says
With b-to-b audiences now comprising four generations of attendees (or five, depending on who you ask), conference organizers have their work cut out.
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Shopper/Retail
Land O’Lakes CMO Aims to Change Rural America’s Image
Land O’Lakes, a multi-billion-dollar cooperative of farmers, sponsors a stock image collection and launches a toolkit for the entertainment industry to help portray rural America as a vibrant community.
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Marketers
Fresh Step’s Valentine’s Day Campaign Bolsters its Brand Refresh – and Cat Adoptions
The company’s Valentine’s Day campaign encouraged single people to celebrate the annual holiday of love looking for cats, not dates.
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Cynopsis: Sports
Cynopsis Sports 02/24/26: Hockey Is Having a Moment; ESPN Launching Women’s Sports Sundays
Tuesday February 24, 2026 Good morning! It’s Tuesday, and this is your monthly Cynopsis Sports newsletter. The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics came and went in the blink of an eye, capping what was a busy—and “legendary”—February for the folks at NBC Sports. That doesn’t mean sports are slowing down, with the NBA regular season […]