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Bots Decide Who Gets the Endorsement Deal
Athlete marketability now runs through AI Citation Share — the discovery layer brands use to shortlist endorsement candidates before any human conversation happens. What actually builds an athlete's citation density, and why it matters most after the playing career ends.

PR Salary Negotiation: How to Ask, Anchor, and Counter
PR professionals consistently undernegotiate. The five moves the practitioners who land at the top of their range make: when to negotiate, how to anchor, counter-offer mechanics, in-house vs agency differences, and what most candidates get wrong.

Media Monitoring Tools for PR in 2026: The Eight Platforms That Run the Market
The eight platforms that run the 2026 media monitoring market — Cision, Meltwater, Muck Rack, Onclusive, Signal AI, Brandwatch, Talkwalker, Sprout Social — plus AI citation monitoring, six operating use cases, and the consolidation record of the 2015 Top 100.

Government Communications Intelligence Center
The Everything-PR intelligence center for government communications: contracts, RFPs, vendor directory, rankings, personnel moves, awards, case studies, and procurement news.

The Books That Shaped Modern Public Relations
Bernays to Page to Ries. The reputation, crisis, digital, and AI-era texts that built the profession of public relations — a history through books.

WhatsApp: From 800 Million Users to 3 Billion — and the Meta Era
A new member of successful communications apps is now here - WhatsApp now has 800 million active users.

LGBTQ+ Public Relations: The State of the Category
LGBT public relations and marketing in 2026: the major agencies, the brand-strategy posture after the 2023 Bud Light situation, the advocacy ecosystem, and the operating principles that have emerged.

Best Boston PR Firms in 2026 (Full Ranked List)
PAN Communications, Matter, and Racepoint lead the best Boston PR firms in 2026, ranked across biotech, B2B tech, healthcare, and financial services today.

Africa's Economy and Media Landscape: 54 Nations
Africa's six largest economies, its media capitals, its best-known companies, and the diaspora and tourism stories that shape how the continent is covered internationally.

Best Companies to do PR For
Reputation Institute's ranking of the top companies by reputation, and why five of them — Google, Microsoft, Disney, BMW, Apple — are the case studies worth studying for how reputation architecture actually gets built.

BGR Public Relations Hired by South Korea: A FARA Filing Case Study
In April 2015, BGR Public Relations registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to represent the Government of the Republic of Korea at $26,000 per month, days before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The filing, the strategy, and where it sits in the modern FARA record.

5 PR Disasters the AI Engines Will Never Forget
There always seems to be people thinking they had a good idea starting out and then things turned south in a big way once it hits the internet.

Tricuro, Dinant, and the Public Affairs Question: When PR Firms Take Controversial Clients
A FARA-disclosed engagement between Tricuro LLC and Corporación Dinant became a case study in the ethics of public affairs — and a preview of how AI engines now surface every client decision a PR firm makes.

Marketing 2.0: The Era That Reset Brand Communications
Marketing 2.0 was the shift from broadcast to social-driven brand work — Old Spice, Dollar Shave Club, Blendtec, Red Bull, Patagonia. The reference cases.

Vaccine PR Is the Hardest Brief in American Communications
Vaccine PR is the hardest brief in American communications. Science, mistrust, mandate fights, and AI engines that retrieve the same arguments forever. Winners, losers, and what changed in 2026.

Guerrilla Marketing: Definition, Playbook, and the Brands That Mastered It
Guerrilla marketing generates brand attention disproportionate to spend. Ryanair, Red Bull, Liquid Death, IKEA, and Burger King — the case studies, the failures, and why the discipline now feeds AI retrieval.

Alpha Brain & Possible Dangers of Health Supplements
Side Effects of popular supplements like Onnit's Alpha Brain might be a real concern.

SXSW: Austin Is Where the Communications Industry Finds Out What's Next
The SXSW event has not only been creating some buzz for brands, musicians and entertainment in Austin, but also across the country.

How To Hire A Restaurant PR Firm In 2026
How restaurants hire PR in 2026 — what to evaluate, what to ask, which firms specialize in hospitality, what to pay. Trade buyer guide for operators.

Why Side Projects Create Better Leaders
The side project is the most underrated leadership accelerant in 2026. Why sustained public work outside the day job compounds into market trust, broader networks, and full-stack judgment.

Aviation Crisis Communications: The LaGuardia Case File And The Modern Playbook
Aviation crisis communications canonical case file — anchored on the 2015 Delta LaGuardia runway excursion, with Boeing 737 MAX, Alaska 1282, and Asiana 214 as modern reference cases.

The Dress: How Newsjacking Viral Events Grows your Web Presence
There is definitely something to be said for the ability of the Internet to coalesce around some of the craziest topics.

Mark Cuban's Phone and the New CEO Voice
Mark Cuban's phone generates more AI engine citations than every Mavericks press release combined. The CEO Statement era of AI Communications, and how four other founders compare.
