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Panera is the most-studied fast-casual repositioning of the last decade. A communications case study, not a menu story — the playbook that owns the "clean food" lane in U.S. fast-casual, and how the messaging discipline outflanked Chipotle through the food-safety crisis window.
How the firearms industry monetized political anxiety for thirty years — and why the model broke.
Six U.S. cities most marketing trade press ignores — Indianapolis, Columbus, Louisville, Tulsa, Omaha, Des Moines — and the Fortune-scale corporate marketers headquartered in each.
Nootropics are also referred to as memory enhancers, cognitive enhancers, smart drugs, neuro enhancers, and intelligence enhancers.
London's Livery Companies are the oldest continuously operating trade-recognition system in the Western world. Public relations spent two decades trying to get in. The Guild of Public Relations Practitioners — motto, Influence, Integrity, Trust — was promoted to Company without Livery in 2013 and continues the slow institutional climb.
A sportscaster is filmed nude through an altered hotel peephole. The video goes viral. Eight years later, a Nashville jury awards her $55 million and ESPN's takedown letter becomes a template studied inside every reputation-management practice. The Erin Andrews case, as celebrity and media case study.
The US Military is testing PR skills as much as it does defense and weapons training.
PR is undervalued because it doesn't produce a clean line on the P&L the way paid media does. The companies that get this wrong treat PR as discretionary. The ones that get it right treat PR as core business strategy and compound the returns over years.
Walmart moved its starting U.S. hourly wage from $9 to $10 last month — the second major McMillon-era wage event in 13 months. More than 1.2 million employees received a raise. Full-time associates saw approximately 3 percent average increases. The disclosure was paired with a scheduling reform that may matter more than the headline wage number.
Quarter after quarter, the news for big retail stores has been dismal and getting worse.
Political public relations in 2026 — what campaigns, officeholders, and governments do to manage public opinion, from message development through earned and paid media to AI engine citation share. EPR's updated reference on the discipline.
As the number of wars and other armed conflicts around the globe increases, the number of journalists in harm's way also increases.
Eleven PR campaigns that built brands — Liquid Death/Tony Hawk blood skateboards (2021), Poppi's Allison Ellsworth TikTok-to-PepsiCo $1.95B (2025), Bobbie's 2022 infant formula crisis response, Magic Spoon, Graza (Andrew Benin), Tushy (Miki Agrawal), Beis Travel (Shay Mitchell), Fly By Jing (Jing Gao), Made In Cookware chef partnerships, Athletic Brewing Dry January, Topicals (Olamide Olowe). Seven structural disciplines.
Early in February, the media reported a student at B.C.
In August, Thai army chief General Prayuth Chan-Ocha was named Prime Minister of Thailand.
This is one PR firm that has taken advantage of the power that social media platforms have, and specifically, Instagram has, on digital marketing.
The packaged food processing category in 2026 — Del Monte (Chapter 11 2025), Green Giant (B&G Foods), Birds Eye (Conagra following 2018 Pinnacle acquisition). The PR firm landscape (Edelman, Weber Shandwick, FleishmanHillard, BCW, Allison+Partners, BBDO) and the five structural disciplines the category now requires.
The January 2016 #OscarsSoWhite cycle produced two diverging press-response models: George Clooney's direct engagement and the Coen Brothers' dismissal-and-walk-back. The bookends now used in modern filmmaker press-tour preparation, and what the Academy's subsequent structural reforms confirmed.
How U.S. cities and state governments hire PR firms — crisis retainers, police-community communications, infrastructure-project PR, federal-grant positioning, and economic development. Case studies from Flint, Beloit, and the IIJA funding environment.
Edelman, Weber Shandwick, Burson, FleishmanHillard and Real Chemistry lead globally. ICR, Finn Partners, Ruder Finn, We. Communications, APCO Worldwide and MikeWorldWide lead the US independent tier. The complete 2026 size rankings, with ownership and revenue for each firm.
The PRWeek Awards read as a signal, not a trophy list. The five tiers of category significance, what actually wins, the two flaws in an entry-driven methodology, and how much a win is really worth in new business.
Coca-Cola's local marketing discipline: the bottler system as local infrastructure, the brand-as-infrastructure principle, how the Olympic and World Cup sponsorships function as local activation platforms, and what the Share a Coke local adaptation model teaches.
The Chinese-origin PR firms operating at specialist depth in Beijing and Shanghai \u2014 Illuminant Partners, DT Communications Asia Pacific, Liquid Impact \u2014 plus the structural shifts shaping the 2026 market.
Every PR pro needs a stack. Google Alerts, Cision, Meltwater, TV Eyes and the questions to ask before you pay for any of them. The tools every PR operator should evaluate — and the four filters that separate the right buy from the wrong one.
