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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.
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.
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.
Kraft Foods' Oreo 'Daily Twist' campaign celebrating 100 years becomes a success and has everyone talking about cookies. The celebration of the centennial started in March with the "History" print campaign. The already famous online campaign debuted on June 25th with a bold move: a cookie that had a rainbow filling, thus celebrating the Gay Pride Month. Since then, there was the Shark Week Oreo, the Mars Rover Oreo, the Shin-Shin's newborn cub Oreo and even the Elvis dedicated Oreo.
A long tradition at Everything PR, the Top list returns today with a list you requested many times in emails and comments. The Top 50 iPhone Apps for PR Pros gives you easy access to some of the best tools in the industry to manage PR campaigns on-the-go. There are 5 categories, with 10 apps each. We will follow up to complete with 50 Android apps.
From the 2012 inflection when HD ad distribution first outnumbered SD, to CTV taking over premium video advertising, to AI engine retrieval becoming the new metric. How television advertising reformed itself twice in fifteen years.
Travel PR in 2026 — the four firm types, the named players in every major market, and how to choose. Citation Share is the new occupancy.
