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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 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.
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.
Bad publicity on social media compounds in hours. The recovery playbook from the brands that lived through Bud Light, Balenciaga, Peloton, and Cracker Barrel.
Worldwide, crisis communications attracts more attention, as a leading Australian University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is offering a new class to address current thinking in crisis communications, as part of the PR Master Class series. Let’s hope the trend of increased attention and awareness on our industry continues – can only help all of us.
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.
Madrid runs one of Europe's most integrated smart city stacks: a centralized municipal IoT platform with 15,000+ sensors, the largest urban Low Emission Zone in Europe by area, one of the continent's biggest electric bus fleets, near-universal 5G, and a deliberate push to anchor the Spanish-speaking gaming industry. Here's the current map.
From the 2013 Lerner targeting scandal to the Get Transcript breach, the 2022 backlog, and the ERC fraud mess — the IRS keeps failing the same crisis playbook.
People spend more and more time on the internet, as a research conducted by Gfk in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveals. In fact, this medium saw a constant growth in the average daily time spent since 2010, as the study presented by emarketer shows. From 2:34 in 2010, the average daily time spent on the Internet grew to 2:56 in 2011, reaching an average of 3:07 in 2012.
