Branding/Marketing
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Marketers on Fire
Marketers on Fire: American Eagle CMO on Kendrick Lamar, Halloween in June and AI Marketing Tools
Craig Brommers, CMO at American Eagle, shares how the brand capitalized on the Super Bowl halftime show when Kendrick Lamar wore flare jeans, plus more marketing insights.
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Branding/Marketing
Branding a Viral Moment: The Complexities of Trademarks for Famous Phrases
Viral social moments can make phrases powerful cultural assets, leading individuals and businesses to try to protect them as trademarks and cement their reputation in culture. Registering a phrase as a trademark however can be challenging.
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Branding/Marketing
Burger King’s Left-handed Whopper and Other April Fools Fails to Learn From
Think deeply about the potential impact to an audience. Not all April Fools brand jokes are good ones.
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Branding/Marketing
Crayola Appeals to Kids and Nostalgic Adults with Its ‘Most Colorful Reunion Ever’
Courting both children and adults, Crayola recently launched “The Most Colorful Reunion Ever” campaign, centered around the release of a limited-edition eight-crayon pack of previously retired colors.
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire LIVE With Alex Tomlin, SVP of Marketing for Bacardi North America
In our inaugural Brands on Fire LIVE, we spoke with Alex Tomlin, SVP of Marketing for Bacardi North America, about the success of Bacardi brands, culturally-relevant marketing initiatives, educating younger generations of drinkers, and more.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: PR Lessons from the Signal Crisis, PR Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction, UPS Launches Tariff Tool
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the crisis issues surrounding the fallout from sending of government Signal messages to a journalist, a new study about PR employee engagement not reflecting job satisfaction, and how a new online tool created by UPS is helping to alleviate tariff stress for customers.
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Branding/Marketing
The Benefits of Building a Velvet Rope Around Your Brand
Whether a product or service is priced for the one percent or the everyday American, there are strategies to put in place to create a velvet rope around a brand to make your clientele feel like VIPs.
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Engagement
Festival Roundup: Top 20 Brand Activations at SXSW 2025
With its focus on music, tech and entertainment, the SXSW Conference & Festivals in Austin tend to showcase some of the most creative activations across the experiential marketing industry. Here are the top 20.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Journos Pick Bluesky, Frontier Pokes Southwest Air, Forever 21 Bankruptcy Lessons
This week’s PR Roundup explores the growth of journalists on Bluesky, bankruptcy communications in light of Forever 21 closing, and how brands like Frontier Airlines and Polestar are taking advantage of market changes with messaging.
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Branding/Marketing
SXSW 2025 Mixes It Up Again for Brands, Influencers and Their Publicists
SXSW 2025 requires those brands speaking and showcasing at the event to be provocative enough to break through the sea of activations to get the attention of media.
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