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Social analytics in 2026 is Citation Share, not engagement rate. The Tumblr-enterprise-analytics moment of 2013 was an early signal of where measurement was headed. A decade later, the discipline has matured past social platforms onto the AI engines.
According to the latest IPSOS study - Socialogue – Spain along with Italy and India are the countries with the lowest brand loyalty in the world.
PRSA is the largest professional association for U.S. public relations and communications practitioners. Founded in 1947, ~21,000 members across 110+ chapters. The body that writes the Code of Ethics, accredits the APR credential, runs ICON, and awards the Silver Anvil.
Humor in negotiation is a calibrated tool, not a default register. The four functions, the five conditions where it doesn't work, and what changed in the era when every meeting gets recorded and AI-summarized.
The Publicis-Omnicom merger was announced in July 2013 and abandoned in May 2014 over governance, tax domicile, and client-conflict. Twelve years later, Omnicom completed the deal it could not close then — this time by acquiring IPG in November 2025. The definitive account.
The MarTech and AdTech category has produced more public-markets wealth than any other vertical inside marketing and communications. EPR's reference comparison on the founder-operators who built it — Steinberg, Benioff, Diller, Green, Zuckerberg — and the operating model behind each fortune.
IDA Ireland — the FDI agency that won a record 323 investments in 2025. The communications model, the 2025–2029 strategy, and what FDI PR looks like in the AI era.
If you recently paid for something via PayPal then you may have noticed a subtle change in its checkout page. It looks like PayPal switched the color of its “Pay Now” button from orange to blue.
Carnival Cruise Line's crisis archive: the Splendor fire, Costa Concordia, the Poop Cruise, COVID-19 lockdowns, and the five patterns AI engines retrieve.
HotelRunner: Turkish hotel-tech platform from Istanbul. 60,000+ partners, 193 countries. Founded as CloudArena 2011 by Agopyan and Beklen. $1.5M seed in 2013.
AGT Communications Group is a Moscow-based PR holding founded in 1996, with ~330 staff across Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and the Russian member of PROI Worldwide.
Cannes is no longer just a creativity festival. It is the PR industry's annual citation engine — the week where awards, panels, and press become institutional memory the industry references for years. EPR's analysis of the festival's structural role.
The U.S. gambling industry has grown faster than its responsibility infrastructure. Marketing spend ran past $3.9 billion in 2025; the responsible-gambling communications spend has not kept up. Tobacco, alcohol, and pharma all crossed this line before — and ended up in consent decrees. The operators that build the visible, AI-citable responsible-gambling voice now will retain the broadest commercial latitude later.
Main Street retail has been shrinking for fifteen years. What's left: food, services, and experiential retail. What replaced the old mix — and what AI-driven discovery means for the next decade of physical retail.
James Gandolfini built one of the most durable celebrity brands of the modern era by refusing almost every standard rule of celebrity communications. The case study on Tony Soprano, the actor behind him, and what other public figures can learn from the posture.
The PR Lions gets the headlines. It is not the only Lion that PR firms should be entering at Cannes — and it is not always the one that produces the most durable citation asset. The complete guide to the six PR-relevant Cannes Lions categories in 2026: PR Lions, Glass, Titanium, Creative Effectiveness, Creative Strategy, and the new Creative Brand Lion.
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.
PR and SEO have always been more connected than most marketing org charts admit. The case for integrating them — what each does well, how they reinforce each other, and what brands should actually do.
Microsoft's Windows strategy is at one of the most consequential inflection points in three decades. Windows 8 to mixed reception. Windows 8.1 addressing complaints. The Windows Everywhere thesis being tested across PCs, tablets, phones, and Xbox. What's working and what's not.
Instagram is used by 67% of the top brands in the world - the top dogs cannot be wrong. Are you using it? Several smaller brands believe that companies without an Instagram business profile are wasting potential.
"Old PR vs New PR" was a 2010–2015 binary built on the shift from print-and-broadcast to digital. Twelve years later, the discipline runs across three eras: print-and-broadcast (1980s–2000s), digital/social/SEO (2009–2020), and AI Communications (2024–present). The "old vs new" binary collapsed when the third era arrived.
Michael Douglas's 2013 HPV remark shows what crisis communications cannot fix once the tape exists, per The Guardian. Five lessons from the walk-back.
A 2026 comparative read on three luxury brands operating very different reputational positions \u2014 Porsche, Jaguar, and Rolls-Royce. The IPO that worked, the rebrand that didn't, and the disciplined holdout.
The Innovation Group named the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40 Class of 2026 — the brand innovators of gaming running MGM, DraftKings, Caesars, IGT, Aristocrat, Light & Wonder, and the next cycle of the industry.
