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Shopper/Retail
Open Farm CMO Says Brand Awareness Campaigns Need to Drive Sales
Premium pet food brand Open Farm launches its first brand-building campaign. Sales are up in its test markets, faster than expected.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Buc-ee’s Trademark Trouble, DuckDuckGo’s Brilliant Non-Product and a Data Wake-Up Call for Communicators
This week in PR: Buc-ee’s trademark enforcement sparks national backlash, DuckDuckGo sells out with a privacy stunt, and Cision reveals why more data isn’t always better for brands.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Iran War Tops Reputational Risk Index, Tony Romo’s OWI Crisis and Hot Jimothy Summer
PR roundup covers the latest Reputation Risk Index focusing on the Iran war, what Tony Romo’s OWI arrest crisis and CBS’s silence can teach brands about crisis response, and what a little raccoon named Jimothy is teaching brands about the value of showing up fast.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Olive Garden’s Accidental Politics, Gen Z’s New Rules of Fandom and Why Kraft Heinz Is Betting on Disney Magic
PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.
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Branding/Marketing
From Brand Storyteller to Business Strategist: MSIG USA CMO Jennifer Marino on the New CMO Mandate
CMOs used to just tell the brand story. Today, leaders like Jennifer Marino, CMO of specialty insurer MSIG USA, also shape strategy, manage reputation and steer the customer experience.
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Programming
Three-on-Three and Going Public: Jeff Kwatinetz on Why Brands Are Betting on BIG3
After nine seasons, the BIG3 is primetime on BET, streaming on Fubo, and headed to the public markets — and co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz says the league’s culturally driven identity is exactly what today’s advertisers are looking for.
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Branding/Marketing
Winners Announced: The 2026 PRNEWS Experiential & Event PR Awards
PRNEWS announced the winners of the 2026 Experiential & Event PR Awards, celebrating the year’s most impactful experiential campaigns, activations and event-driven communications.
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Branding/Marketing
Apple’s AI Problem Isn’t Siri. It’s the Story Apple Can No Longer Tell.
Siri became the place where Apple’s mythology cracked, following the launch of the Apple Intelligence initiative.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Threads Finds Its People, World Cup Builds a New U.S. Fanbase, and Local News Decline Reshapes CSR
What Threads’ third birthday tells us about the platform’s evolving identity, record World Cup viewership, and new research on how the disappearance of local newspapers is changing CSR.
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Programming
Bill Abbott on Five Years of Great American Media — and Why Focus Wins in a Fragmented Media Market
To mark Great American Media’s fifth anniversary, Cynopsis spoke with President & CEO Bill Abbott about the company’s bold choice to let brand dictate strategy and how that influenced its evolution.
