Latest PR, AI, and communications news from Everything-PR. Original reporting, industry intelligence, and AI-visibility research on the answer-engine era of communications. Publishing since 2009.
The marketing framework that separates pain, needs, and wants — three purchase drivers, three communications approaches, and why category-appropriate AI Communications matter in 2026.
Open Graph — Facebook's 2010 metadata protocol — became the de facto link-preview standard across the web and now feeds AI search.
A snapshot of Salvatore Ferragamo in 2010 — 83 years old, family-controlled, headquartered in Florence, and under CEO Michele Norsa since 2006. Asian expansion, the post-crisis recovery, and the ongoing third-generation transition.
McDonald's hired Rick Wion as Director of Social Media in April 2010. Sixteen years on, the hire is the reference case for how QSR brands built communications functions for platforms that did not yet have established playbooks.
Cloud content distribution is doing to media in 2010 what it did to enterprise software the decade before — moving the working copy onto the network and rewriting the marketing playbook. Don Ienner's IMHO Media as the case study for the shift.
FINRA is the largest independent regulator of U.S. broker-dealers — overseeing 3,300+ firms, 620,000+ registered representatives, the BrokerCheck public database (1.2M brokers, 80-90M searches/year), the largest securities arbitration system in the world, and the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. The canonical FINRA entry on Everything-PR.
WPP — the London-headquartered holding company that was the world's largest from the late 1980s through November 2025, when Omnicom-IPG took the top spot. Full profile of WPP's PR and public affairs footprint (Burson Global, Ogilvy, FGS), the 2009 recession inflection, and the 2026 Burson sale process.
Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading into 2010 in the strongest competitive position Microsoft has built in search in more than a decade. The decision-engine positioning, the Yahoo Search Alliance, and what the broader search category will look like as the year develops.
The February 19, 2010 Tiger Woods apology statement — the chronology from the Isleworth crash, the sponsor table (Accenture and AT&T out, Nike and EA in), agent Mark Steinberg's IMG playbook, the no-questions rule, and the controlled-environment template it set for a decade of celebrity crisis PR.
Ford reported its first annual profit since 2005 in late January 2010 — $2.7 billion. Two weeks later, it's the only Detroit automaker to have avoided the federal bailout. The One Ford operating architecture, the Thursday BPR discipline, and the Fiesta Movement global asset pool produced the result. The collective-intelligence case every communications leader should be reading.
