Branding/Marketing
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Shopper/Retail
Nikon’s Experiential Pop-Up at SXSW Targets Experienced Photographers and Creators
Camera brand Nikon hosts free camera workshops during the South by Southwest festival to spur shoppers to try cameras and post pictures.
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Events
AMC Networks’ CMO on Marketing ‘The Audacity’ at SXSW
AMC Networks’ new Silicon Valley drama “The Audacity” will have its world premiere this weekend at SXSW. It follows a sneak peak of the series in January at CES. We spoke to AMC Networks’ CMO Kim Granito about the motivation behind activating there.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Target Targets Families, White House Reframes Deportation, AI and CEO Trust
From Target’s bid to win back skeptical shoppers, to the White House’s quiet attempt to reframe one of its signature policies, to what actually builds credibility in the AI era—this week offered a masterclass in how brands and institutions communicate under pressure.
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Branding/Marketing
Why the Startup Label Is Losing Its Meaning (And What to Say Instead)
Today the startup label appears everywhere: a two-person consultancy calls itself a startup; a local retail brand with an online store adopts the label; a profitable, bootstrapped business with no ambition to scale beyond a niche still uses the term.
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Digital & Technology
Beyond the One-Off: How Brands Are Playing the Long Game in Virtual Worlds
Brands are putting real investment into gaming integrations in virtual worlds, going deeper than a single campaign.
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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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Branding/Marketing
Voice, Speed and Trust: The Modern Comms Stack for Brand Growth
Building a modern communications stack doesn’t mean adopting every new tool. But you do need to select the right ones. To do this, brand communicators need to understand three fundamentals: voice, velocity and verification.
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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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Branding/Marketing
PRNEWS Unveils the Winners of the 2026 Content Marketing Awards
PRNEWS has unveiled the winners of the 2026 Content Marketing Awards, which recognize the campaigns, creators and communicators redefining what public relations can achieve through content.
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