Best Practices

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

The Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Inquirer did not help boost any new media trust when caught in an AI content controversy.

Sports crisis communications experts, Jim Rocco and Thom Weidlich, decided to co-author the recently-released  “Sports Crisis Communications: Cases and Controversy.”

Scott Dobroski, VP of Corporate Communications at Indeed, demoed a real-time example of using AI for pitching the media on ChatGPT.

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.