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This week’s PR Roundup follows Cision’s upcoming shutdown of Connectively, formerly known as HARO, the mass exodus of users and brands from X (formerly Twitter), and a new study featuring the pros and cons of AI for digital PR.

There are several important lessons from the 2024 Presidential Election that PR people can apply to non-political accounts, from dealing with media to performing research to preparing client talking points.

Select Brands forgoes reliable wholesale sales with Amazon in favor of being able to control its pricing as a marketplace seller.   If a brand wants to control its price on Amazon, it might have better luck as a third-party marketplace seller than as a first-party seller. At least that’s what small kitchen appliance company […]

The ad industry is all in on generative AI, a buzzword that makes data clean rooms or blockchain look quaint. But for the most part, that interest is reserved for the, well, generative aspect – ChatGPT to replace film and video production, say, or to fill in ad copy. What’s missing right now is the […]

A recent McKinsey report surveying C-suite-level marketing leaders revealed what the industry has known for some time: the purview of the CMO has expanded… yet again.

TV measurement is migrating from traditional sample-based systems to solutions built on big data. In other words, measuring TV audiences is becoming an incredibly complicated task, and almost no one knows that better than members of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM).

Wayfair’s new $29 membership program aims to spur shoppers to purchase more than twice a year.   Home furnishings retailer Wayfair launched a paid loyalty program dubbed Wayfair Rewards at the end of October.   The membership program is $29 and shoppers receive:  5% back in rewards  Early access to sales  Free shipping on all […]

For more than a decade, EventTrack has been the leading and largest annual research study on experiential marketing. There’s nothing else like it. Six Surveys in One Report. Separate surveys were initiated to consumer event marketers, b-to-b event marketers, corporate trade show exhibitors—plus attendees at consumer events, b-to-b events and trade shows. Fortune 1000 Insights. […]

More than 14,000 children have celebrated their birthday at craft retailer Michaels, said Heather Bennett, executive vice president, marketing and ecommerce at Michaels, at the Shoptalk Fall conference in Chicago in October.   And she knows there is room for growth. After a successful pilot in Canada in 2023, Michaels debuted birthday parties in the U.S. […]

Halloween tends to conjure some of the most creative experiential campaigns of the year. From the spine-tingling events that infiltrate attendees’ psyches, to the playful activations that give them a good chuckle, many brands go out of their way to make their mark on the holiday—and their audiences. This season delivered an Afterlife Train, an […]