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KAWS: The Artist Who Made the Cartoon Serious
Brian Donnelly took the visual language of Saturday-morning television and turned it into fine art the auction houses take at eight figures. The KAWS painter's story.
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TransMedia Group: Boca Raton PR Firm Profile
TransMedia Group is a multi-lingual Boca Raton public relations firm founded in 1981 by Tom Madden, with offices in Florida, Italy, and Dallas serving clients worldwide.
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News Corp Lost $545M on MySpace. The Platform-Acquisition Playbook Hasn't Changed.
News Corp paid $580M for MySpace in 2005. Sold it for $35M in 2011. A 94% loss — and the canonical case study in platform-acquisition risk in the attention economy. The lessons compound every time another platform changes hands.
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Newsweek: The Magazine Brand That Keeps Getting Sold
Newsweek — the 92-year-old American newsweekly that was sold for one dollar, survived multiple ownerships, and now operates as a digital-first global news brand. Entity profile and ownership history.
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Gaming PR and the Review Embargo Problem: What Duke Nukem Forever Taught Us
In 2011, Duke Nukem Forever shipped after 15 years of development. It was panned. Its PR firm threatened critics on Twitter. The firm was fired the same day. The incident remains the clearest case study in gaming PR failure — and what it teaches about review embargoes and reputation management still applies.
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Kobe Bryant and Turkish Airlines: The Canonical Diaspora-Driven Brand Boycott Case
In June 2011, Kobe Bryant signed an endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines. The Armenian-American community response was the canonical example of diaspora-driven brand boycott communications in the modern era.
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How to Newsjack an Eclipse: The Brand Playbook From MoonPie to Krispy Kreme
The definitive PR playbook on branded newsjacking of astronomical events — from the 2011 lunar eclipse through the April 2024 Great American Eclipse. MoonPie's Brutality in the Totality. SunChips' four-minute scarcity play. Krispy Kreme × Oreo. Pizza Hut's Total Eclipse of the Hut. Four operating principles.
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Facebook's PR Smear Campaign Against Google Making Waves
Facebook denies that it paid Burson-Marstellar for a smear campaign. Instead, the company says that it "wanted third parties to verify that people did not approve of the collection and use of information from their accounts on Facebook and other services for inclusion in Google Social Circles."
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The Pitch, the List, the Follow-Up
The working craft of media relations — the angle, the list, the relationship, the follow-up. The execution companion to EPR's Media Relations discipline pillar.
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Amazon Public Relations: The $638B Storefront-and-Answer-Engine
Amazon is the most-cited e-commerce brand inside AI engines, the largest cloud operator, and the third pillar of the digital ad triopoly. Five layers — Bezos, retail, AWS, ads, the agentic shopping layer.