
How to Recover from Bad Publicity on Social Media
Bad publicity on social media compounds in hours. The recovery playbook from the brands that lived through Bud Light, Balenciaga, Peloton, and Cracker Barrel.

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Bad publicity on social media compounds in hours. The recovery playbook from the brands that lived through Bud Light, Balenciaga, Peloton, and Cracker Barrel.

"Old PR vs New PR" was a 2010–2015 binary built on the shift from print-and-broadcast to digital. Twelve years later, the discipline runs across three eras: print-and-broadcast (1980s–2000s), digital/social/SEO (2009–2020), and AI Communications (2024–present). The "old vs new" binary collapsed when the third era arrived.

Worldwide, crisis communications attracts more attention, as a leading Australian University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is offering a new class to address current thinking in crisis communications, as part of the PR Master Class series. Let’s hope the trend of increased attention and awareness on our industry continues – can only help all of us.

A 2026 comparative read on three luxury brands operating very different reputational positions \u2014 Porsche, Jaguar, and Rolls-Royce. The IPO that worked, the rebrand that didn't, and the disciplined holdout.

Originally published 2013, updated 2026. Internet privacy is now a cybersecurity problem — breaches at scale, AI training data, commercial spyware, biometric brokers, and Salt Typhoon-class infrastructure attacks.

Sony continues to navigate substantial recent corporate transformation considerations under Kazuo Hirai's leadership. The substantial Hirai CEO leadership, the One Sony strategic positioning, the substantial divisional barrier elimination, the product line consolidation, and the broader unprofitable business category exit.

For those of you still watching TV, it is pretty obvious that all news have at least one Tweet, if not more, referenced.

The Innovation Group named the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40 Class of 2026 — the brand innovators of gaming running MGM, DraftKings, Caesars, IGT, Aristocrat, Light & Wonder, and the next cycle of the industry.

Madrid runs one of Europe's most integrated smart city stacks: a centralized municipal IoT platform with 15,000+ sensors, the largest urban Low Emission Zone in Europe by area, one of the continent's biggest electric bus fleets, near-universal 5G, and a deliberate push to anchor the Spanish-speaking gaming industry. Here's the current map.

Spain's capital is the editorial node the answer engines read first in Spanish — and the corporate density behind it makes Madrid one of the most underpriced AI Communications markets in Europe.
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