Digital + Social
PRNEWS Announces the 2025 Platinum Award Winners
PRNEWS announced the winners of the 2025 Platinum Awards on Tuesday, October 7, before an audience of more than 400 PR and communications professionals gathered at the Pier Sixty venue in New York City. This year’s Platinum winners represent the industry’s highest standard of creativity, innovation and impact—those who have reached the pinnacle of strategic storytelling, brand reputation and audience connection.
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Crisis Management
PRNEWS Announces 2026 Agency Elite Top 120
PRNEWS’ sixth annual Agency Elite honors, which pays homage to the industry’s most innovative PR, marketing and communications firms in the business, highlights 120 influential agencies this year—from well-known industry players to smaller boutique firms that punch far above their weight.
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CTV Roundup
What’s Next for Streamr.ai Now That It’s Been Acquired By Magnite?
On Tuesday, Magnite announced it had acquired Streamr.ai, which specializes in developing AI-generated assets for small businesses to use in their CTV campaigns.
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Shopper/Retail
Dude Wipes CMO on Experiential Marketing and Potty Humor
Flushable wipes brand Dude Wipes shares its growth path to 10 million households, its plan for 200 events this year and its recent ‘smear’ campaign.
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Social
Marketers Are Looking Beyond Top-of-Funnel When Gauging Social Media Effectiveness
Engagement continues to be the most common metric for determining success on social media, according to Sprout Social’s 2025 Impact of Social Media Marketing report. But more and more marketers want to see the direct business impact.
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Ensures That Shoppable Ads Fit In Its Shows
There’s bigger fish to fry before broadcasters and streamers get bogged down in questions about QR codes and remote controls. Namely: How do TV studios guarantee that the products featured in these new made-for-TV shoppable moments are ones that viewers actually want to buy in the first place?
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CTV Roundup
Pure Dating App Swipes Right On Programmatic CTV Ad Buying
Back when the Pure app first launched in 2012, it was a completely anonymous hookup app. Now, it’s using CTV as a way to explain its rebranded vibe to prospective new users.
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CTV Roundup
How Wildgrain Developed The Right Recipe For CTV Advertising
CTV advertising platforms often try to sell small businesses on how closely the channel resembles the digital marketing avenues they’re used to working with, like paid social. For Wildgrain, a DTC subscription service for artisan breads and other grain-based foods, this argument proved to be very compelling.
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Shopper/Retail
Innovative Eyewear Increases Sales, Brand Cachet With Reebok Licensing Deal
Reebok.com sells smart glasses from Innovative Eyewear. The manufacturer’s CEO shares how the Reebok brand license will propel sales for years to come.
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Branding/Marketing
PRNEWS Reveals the 2025 Platinum Awards Shortlist
We’re thrilled to unveil the shortlist for the 2025 PRNEWS Platinum Awards—a celebration of the most daring campaigns, innovative strategies and powerhouse teams in PR. Now, the stage is set to see who will claim top honors.
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CTV Roundup
LiveRamp Exec Adam Paul Talks Scaling Context In CTV Audiences
According to Adam Paul, executive director of media alliances at LiveRamp, the old-school programmatic ads – the ones bought across multiple platforms without regard to context or audience – are underperforming on CTV these days.