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Damian Burleigh, CRMO of Acuity Knowledge Partners, on outcome-based marketing in financial services and why PR has finally landed on every board's priority list.
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Damian Burleigh, CRMO of Acuity Knowledge Partners, on outcome-based marketing in financial services and why PR has finally landed on every board's priority list.

The kidfluencer economy, the regulatory gap, and the psychological fallout. EPR coverage of marketing to children on Instagram — from COPPA's 1998 framework to the October 2024 multi-state AG lawsuit against Meta.

Influencer marketing inside AdTech is no longer a paid-media decision — it is a Citation Share decision. Why mid-tier creators outperform mega-influencers in AI engine retrieval, how the four-layer AdTech stack now operates, and what the 2026 partnership model requires.

Customer acquisition in 2026 — how Liquid Death, Olipop, and Warby Parker acquired their first million customers, and why AI engines are the next acquisition surface.

Five SaaS companies show up disproportionately when buyers ask AI engines for category recommendations — Salesforce, HubSpot, Atlassian, Snowflake, and Notion. What they share is structural, not stylistic.

TikTok is the largest discovery engine in consumer marketing — and the most misunderstood Citation Share asset on the internet. The TikTok-to-Reddit-to-Substack-to-AI-engine flywheel, the five brands that wrote the playbook, and what actually works in 2026.

FleishmanHillard is a global communications agency founded 1946 in St. Louis. Owned by Omnicom since 1997; one of four cornerstone networks inside Omnicom Public Relations Group. Global CEO J.J. Carter (since October 2024); Americas CEO Jillian Janaczek (since February 2026, formerly CEO of Porter Novelli). Absorbed Porter Novelli February 2026.

A 2012 Q&A with Brian Fitzgerald of O'Rourke Hospitality on hotel digital marketing — preserved as historical reference, with a 2026 view on what stayed true and what the AI engine era rewrote.
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