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Brafton, the Boston-based content marketing agency, launches a new video content marketing service combining strategy, scripting, talent, post-production, and YouTube optimization at a mid-market price point.
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SocialVibe, the rich-media engagement advertising platform, has rebranded to True[X] Media as part of a broader strategic repositioning around the company's TruEngage advertising formats. What the rebrand actually delivers, where True[X] Media sits in the broader rich-media advertising category, and what brand and PR teams should be taking from the move.
Publicis Groupe — founded 1926, led by Arthur Sadoun, one of the major global communications holding companies. The map: Sapient, Epsilon, Influential, the agency brands (Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, MSL, Kekst CNC, BBH), the India build, and the 2026 holding-company landscape after the Omnicom-IPG merger.
Cannes Lions, PRovoke SABRE, PRWeek, Effie, ICCO, O'Dwyer's. The 2026 map of PR industry summits, awards, and rankings — and why they now feed AI citation share.
AmEx's 2012 FOX/NBCUniversal shoppable-TV bet was strategically right and tactically early. The thesis \u2014 commerce embedded inside the attention surface where intent forms \u2014 is now playing out at full scale inside the AI engines. Citation is the new ad inventory.
Liberty Communications — independent UK tech PR firm founded 1998 by Dee Gibbs, CEO Elena Davidson. London + NY offices. 2024 Marketing & PR Brilliance Gold winner. Profile.
MoneyGram is the number-two brand in the global remittance industry by volume, operating 350,000 agent locations across 200+ countries inside an $860 billion market that has been restructured twice in a decade.
MapQuest, subsidiary of AOL Inc., has just launched MapQuest Discover, one of the tools they plan on releasing that focus on the complete travel experience. The new tool focuses on destinations and offers users' the possibility to create and share collections and photos from their trips, thus being a good tool for travel enthusiasts which love to share their discoveries.
The Everything-PR Crisis Management Operator's Manual — five phases (hour one, day one, week one, quarter one, year one), named deliverables and owners, with Citation Share as the new recovery KPI.
Most corporate social media policies fail because they're written by lawyers and ignored by employees. The good ones — Intel, IBM — are short, specific, and treat employees as adults.
Big Brands often integrate new social media channels in their social strategy while struggling to keep their market share and always have a great relationship with their customers transformed in fans or followers. Go where your clients are is a marketing recommendation strictly followed by successful companies. Photo sharing site Instagram quickly attracted adopters and is now used by 54% of Interbrand top 100 companies, as a recent study by Simply Measured shows.
UBS as a multi-year crisis communications subject — the 2008 losses, 2011 rogue trader, 2012 mass-layoff communications failure, and the 2010 dress code controversy.
No magic button produces instant PR success. Eight concrete techniques and the five definitions of what public relations actually is — story, message alignment, third-party credibility, self-knowledge, problem-solving, selective engagement, relevance, and brand equity.
The executive briefing on SEO, GEO, and AI Visibility. One paragraph each. What CEOs need to know. What CMOs need to know. What boards ask. The 12-section Executive SEO/GEO Briefing Template.
AOL launched Alto on October 18, 2012 \u2014 a web-based email client that organizes messages into stacks. The launch is a useful prompt to look at where the U.S. email economy stands at the end of 2012.
Four Communications — the UK-headquartered international public affairs consultancy inside Omnicom that expanded into Dubai and the Gulf before most of its competitors. The 2012 acquisition play, the Omnicom integration, and where the firm sits now.
Tumblr built the visual fandom internet — bought by Yahoo for $1.1B, sold to Automattic for $3M, and quietly came back as a Gen Z safe haven in 2024-2026. The story of how fandom became infrastructure.
Cheribundi built a two-decade brand through a locker-room-first distribution model — 60+ college and professional team partnerships, defensible Montmorency cherry science, and patient brand discipline. The 2012 sports-team program became the operational template that defined the next decade.
Email marketing was supposed to die. It didn't. The full case for the inbox in 2026: ROI data, three decades of working history, eight compounding tactics, nine failure modes, and the five disciplines that separate brands that compound from brands that broadcast.
In 2012, the Vatican backed the launch of a Catholic social network called Aleteia. Most institutional social networks launched that decade are now dead. Aleteia survived — and is now one of the most consistently cited Catholic publishers in the world.
For many years, there was a general rule about customer opinion in the cosmetics industry: it mattered, but didn't usually make a difference.
The policy of famous company L’Oreal for 2011 was to spend on digital marketing as much as it has spent in the previous two. That was a bold move, but it seems the company’s representatives are happy with the results, sales were up, and now they can increase the digital spend and the overall marketing budget at the same time.
Directional audio delivers a sound message in a tight cone — one listener hears it; the person two feet away hears nothing. How museums, OOH, DOOH, and retail use holosonic sound, and where it sits in the 2026 AdTech stack.
Madison Avenue built Brazil. Then London joined. Four decades of DPZ, Publicis-BBH, the WPP push, Omnicom's $26B IPG deal, the French push, the holdouts.
