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Learn how end-to-end digital PR platforms democratize media outreach for small teams, startups and nonprofits with affordable tools for press releases.

Learn how Duolingo turned a green owl into a global brand through bold PR, TikTok mastery, and irreverent marketing that made language learning cool and viral.

The single most important strategy in crisis communications is the one nobody sees: the work done before the crisis. Pre-built plans, pre-mapped risks, pre-identified spokespeople, pre-tested channels. Ronn Torossian on the discipline.

The sex tech industry crossed $30 billion in 2024 without paid advertising — blocked from Meta, Google, payment processors, and premium publisher inventory. The defining EPR piece on how the category built itself through earned media, founder credibility, and answer-engine visibility — with the Kardashian overwhelm and Traci Lords escape playbooks running at category scale.

The inaugural Mobile Wallets Citation Share Index 2026 — which mobile wallets and P2P payment apps ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews actually cite. Apple Pay holds 28.6%. Venmo owns P2P. Zelle carries a fraud caveat.

BP's Deepwater Horizon response and United's passenger-dragging incident — two textbook cases where failed litigation PR turned recoverable legal exposure into permanent reputation damage. What went wrong and the moves that compounded the loss.

Calvin Klein Asia and Laneige's Sydney Sweeney partnership — two case studies in how brands build AI citation authority by entering culture rather than interrupting it. What fandom and layered creator strategy produce in the answer-engine era.

Technology marketing in 2026 — the five subcategories (consumer tech, enterprise SaaS, AI/frontier models, cybersecurity, fintech/hardware/semiconductor) and the five disciplines each one requires. Apple, NVIDIA, Salesforce, OpenAI, Anthropic, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Stripe.

Duolingo ($DUOL, $748M 2024 revenue, 9.5M paid subscribers) and Spotify ($SPOT, €15.7B 2024 revenue, 263M Premium subscribers) operate two of the most-studied subscription growth loops in modern consumer technology. Five integrated operating principles: marketing as product logic, behavioral design at scale, data-driven iteration, earned media as performance asset, and lifecycle orchestration over campaign cycles.

Sports betting PR in 2026 — DraftKings and FanDuel at 78% of GGR, $3.9B in operator marketing, the RG Index, the CFTC-vs-state prediction market frontier, and the AI answer layer now deciding which sportsbook wins the next customer.
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