Best Practices
Q&A: AI, Disinformation and Brand Perception with Cyabra
Questions from the audience included what size does a company have to be to consider using tools against disinformation and what types of tools can be used for threat protection, among others.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Moran Out at ABC, State of Journalism 2025, Bad Vibes at JPMorgan
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the reaction to ABC News not renewing veteran journalist Terry Moran’s contract, the latest Muck Rack State of Journalism report and a leaked memo regarding JPMorgan’s dipping employee morale.
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Branding/Marketing
A Rancher’s Perspective on Brand Storytelling: CattleCon Collaboration
As a PR practitioner, the job is to build narratives. As a rancher, you live them. For me, authenticity wasn’t a tactic: it was the life I lived before I ever wrote a press release. That intersection has shaped every part of my career—as well as my home life—and it shaped one of the boldest […]
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: CEO Popularity, Wilson from Cast Away is Back, Mattel Studios Launches
This week’s PR Roundup looks at a new study from Morning Consult about CEO popularity and company reputation, Mattel going all in on entertainment with a new TV and film studio, and Wilson, the iconic volleyball, teaching the public about ecology and ocean waste.
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Conversations
Brooks Running CMO on Launching the Brand’s First Lifestyle Shoe Line
As one of the top running brands in the U.S. since the 1970s, Brooks knows its way around a performance running shoe. Some 50 years later, the brand saw an opportunity to enter the lifestyle space and embark on the next phase of its evolution.
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Branding/Marketing
How Anti-Trans Sports Bills Are Impacting Corporate Sponsorships and Branding
The impact of anti-trans legislation is far-reaching, even impacting corporate sponsorships and branding, leaving PR professionals wondering how they must shift their approach to reflect the impact on their clients.
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Digital & Technology
How PR Can Win in AI Search: SEO Strategies for the LLM Era
Whitney Hart gives three actionable takeaways for anyone trying to gain visibility via Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Open AI and other AI search platforms.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Victoria’s Secret Outage, Bieber’s Billions, Nuclear Verdicts
This week’s PR Roundup examines the bizarre ongoing cyberattack on the Victoria’s Secret website, how nuclear verdicts are impacting the reputations of large companies and the worth of a celebrity product, Rhode, to a cosmetics company in 2025.
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Crisis Management
Your Story or Theirs: Why Narrative Risk Now Trumps Brand Risk
In 2025, most business leaders can rattle off their product risks, regulatory risks, even brand risks. But a more insidious threat lurks under it all: narrative risk—the danger that someone else tells your company’s story faster, louder or more convincingly than you do. And not always truthfully.
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AI
What Google’s AI Mode Means for Search Traffic and Brands
Google launched “AI Mode,” a chatbot-style interface embedded into its apps, at its annual developers conference this week. The new feature stands to alter the search landscape even further, requiring brands to shift from optimizing for search to optimizing for audiences.
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DEI
Grindr Aims to Improve Brand Perception With New Social Series
Queer dating app Grindr releases the second season of its queer history lessons content series “Daddy Lessons,” a content marketing initiative that works to de-stigmatize the app.