
When Playboy Stopped Selling Shock: The Brand Repositioning Case Study
Playboy removed nudity in 2016 and put it back in 2017. A textbook brand-repositioning failure — and three communications lessons it left behind.
Studios, streamers, music, gaming, and publishing — talent-driven storytelling, awards strategy, capital markets, and AI-era IP exposure.


Playboy removed nudity in 2016 and put it back in 2017. A textbook brand-repositioning failure — and three communications lessons it left behind.






Conservative talk radio reaches roughly 50 million weekly listeners across iHeartMedia, Cumulus, and Salem. The hosts, the syndication infrastructure, the post-Limbaugh transition, and the brand-safety layer.

Pepsi has announced it will not be renewing its Citi Field sponsorship including the right-field Pepsi Porch. The non-renewal announcement, the Pepsi Porch positioning, the recent Mets pennant context, the portfolio rebalance positioning, and the broader strategic logic for Pepsi's sports sponsorship strategy.

The premise this article tested in 2015 — that big stars no longer guarantee big box office — became the operating reality of Hollywood. A decade later, franchise IP, streaming, director-as-brand, cultural-moment marketing, and audience-led discovery replaced star power. Tom Cruise is the last reliably bankable solo star.

Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Catholic News Agency, The Jewish Daily Forward, Times of Israel. The Vatican Press Office, LDS Newsroom. Faith institution media strategy in 2026.

Just the other day Miss Bikini Ireland contestant, Ana Pavel, was doing a photo shoot for breast cancer awareness.

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Katie Nolan built a sports-media career on a discipline almost no one in cable executes: have a point of view, defend it, and read the comms strategy behind the press conference.

Allred's fifty-year discipline: controlled press conferences, parallel media-litigation pressure. The operational template Freedman, Spiro, and Friedman Agnifilo all reference.

Everything PR Exclusive Reveals California Tax Franchise Board Names R & B Superstar as Among Most Delinquent Tax Payers in State-.
Entertainment and media is the most attention-driven sector in global commerce. A single weekend box office, a streaming subscriber print, a label release, a game launch, or a talent contract can move tens of billions in enterprise value. The category includes Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM, Apple TV+, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, and the privately-held studios; the major music groups Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music; the gaming majors Microsoft Activision, EA, Take-Two, Sony Interactive, Nintendo, Ubisoft; and the talent agencies CAA, WME, UTA, and Gersh. Communications operates as a load-bearing capability — earned media drives talent narratives, awards strategy moves franchise economics, capital markets coverage shapes valuations, and the AI Communications layer is rewriting the IP landscape underneath the entire category.
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