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How Allbirds, Magic Spoon, and Liquid Death Built National Brands Without a PR Agency
Allbirds, Magic Spoon, Liquid Death \u2014 the three-phase challenger-brand PR playbook that replaced the agency retainer. Founder voice first, angle ownership second, specialty vendors third.
Digital PR & Communications
What Cohn & Wolfe's Homepage Taught Every PR Agency
A PR firm's website is the deliverable. The 2015 Cohn & Wolfe banner — autoplay audio, no proof points, novelty over substance — is the negative-example case study every agency should still study.
Food & Beverage
Food & Beverage Communications: Inflation, Trust, and the New Math
Consumer inflation. Supply-chain disruption. Ingredient cost pressure. Shifting retail dynamics. Pricing, ingredients, packaging, and operations have all become communications surfaces. The new math of F&B brand work.
PR, AI & Communications News
5 SaaS Companies Winning Citation Share in 2026
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.
Marketing
Consumer Brand Crisis Communications: From Bud Light to Stanley to Tarte
Bud Light. Stanley. Tarte. Three consumer brand crises that each broke through retailer, social, and AI engine retrieval in different ways. The patterns CPG should extract and the AI memory layer that now persists.
Insights & Strategy
Emerging Trends in Modern Public Relations
The trends reshaping modern PR: data-centric storytelling, personalized pitching, measurement, influencer relations, and a real content strategy.
Social Media
Your Social Feed Has Two Jobs Now
Social media done properly in 2026 is not about presence. It's about whether that presence feeds the citation layer AI engines retrieve from. The two-function playbook.
Crypto & Web3
The 5 Exchanges AI Trusts
A new research index measuring how five major AI engines respond when consumers ask whether crypto platforms are safe has found that the engines never return a neutral answer — instead sorting every tracked brand into one of three stances: recommend, hedge, or warn.
Insights & Strategy
News Media Trust Is Now AI Engine Citation Share
There was a time when people trusted the news without any doubt as to its veracity.
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