Best Practices
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ROI | Metrics
Gartner: 39% of CMOs Plan to Reduce Labor Costs and Cut Agency Allocations
According to Gartner’s 2025 CMO Spend Survey, marketing budgets as share of company revenue remain flat, and 39% of plan to reduce labor costs and cut agency allocations.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
News Outlets Respond to AI-Generated Summer Reading List Insert
The Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer did not help boost any new media trust when caught in an AI content controversy.
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Branding/Marketing
Learning About Crisis From Sports Controversies
Sports crisis communications experts, Jim Rocco and Thom Weidlich, decided to co-author the recently-released “Sports Crisis Communications: Cases and Controversy.”
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Digital & Technology
ChatGPT Demo: Using AI to Pitch Media
Scott Dobroski, VP of Corporate Communications at Indeed, demoed a real-time example of using AI for pitching the media on ChatGPT.
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Campaigns
The Honest Kitchen CMO on the First Full-Funnel Marketing Campaign for the Pet Food Brand
The Honest Kitchen, a 23-year-old pet food brand, has launched its first-ever full-funnel marketing campaign following a sizeable retail distribution increase.
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Sponsorships
12 Brand Experiences at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix
A photo gallery roundup of 12 brand experiences at this year’s Miami Grand Prix.
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Branding/Marketing
How Marketers Can Prepare for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Compliance
Significant updates to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) carry substantial implications for marketing and customer engagement leaders. Marketers should take these actions to prepare.
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Branding/Marketing
Unilever CMO on Creating Demand Through a ‘Culture to Cart’ Approach
The marketing funnel is dead, said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Unilever’s Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at the POSSIBLE conference in Miami in April. Here’s a look at her “culture-to-cart” approach.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: HBO Max is Back, Grok Glitches Out, CEOs Losing Trust
This week PR Roundup looks at the re-brand (or re-re-brand?) of HBO Max, Grok’s penchant for white genocide discussion and a new study revealing declining trust for CEOs.
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Media Relations
Supermarket to Syndication: Media Relations Lessons from CPG and Retail
To be a successful PR pro in the retail and CPG space, you must understand the industry and the news cycle in every vertical and industry that retail influences or touches.