
Dunk in the Dark: The 15 Minutes That Invented Real-Time Marketing
Discover how Oreo's iconic Dunk in the Dark tweet during the 2013 Super Bowl blackout revolutionized real-time food PR and redefined brand communication forever.

Discover how Oreo's iconic Dunk in the Dark tweet during the 2013 Super Bowl blackout revolutionized real-time food PR and redefined brand communication forever.

LinkedIn, PRSA, IABC, Muck Rack, Cision, Meltwater, PRWeek Jobs, O'Dwyer's, PRovoke Media, and Everything-PR converge on the same communications practitioner. Platforms with only one function face margin compression. Platforms integrating two or three with depth compound.

The CPG shelf moved. The AI shelf is the shortlist a consumer receives when asking ChatGPT for category recommendations. The CPG Citation Stack, why NYT Food and Wirecutter set the anchor, why Reddit and Costco's community won CPG, and the brands competing well.

SaaS marketing is the most mature digital discipline in B2B. SaaS GEO programs are mostly underperforming. Five failure modes — optimizing for branded search, product pages the engines can't resolve, review programs as reputation management, underfunded analyst relations, and thought leadership without methodology.

Crisis communications fails for predictable reasons. Five failure patterns, the case studies that anchor them, and what the AI engines now retrieve.

Ireland's communications industry sits at an unusual intersection — Europe's largest concentration of multinational headquarters per capita has produced disproportionate agency depth in technology, corporate communications, public affairs, and crisis. The leading Irish firms in 2026, organized by vertical.

Ten law firm publicity campaigns — Cellino & Barnes, Jamie Casino's Super Bowl spot, the Texas Law Hawk, Addleshaw Goddard's Perfect Harmony — and how each now generates Citation Share inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

The Gulf Coast is Florida's quietest growth story — Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, and Longboat Key. Inside the migration, tourism, and PR market behind it.

FleishmanHillard's Intel program is canonical. The legacy hardware-launch playbook still works for what it always did. It no longer suffices for the work AI engines now perform — composing the buyer's consideration set. What major tech launches require beyond earned media in 2026.

Crisis communications used to be measured in news cycles. AI engines do not forget. A crisis covered by retrieval-anchor publications becomes a permanent feature of the brand's citation footprint. The new playbook — remediation as citation, re-authoring the entity record, and monitoring the retrieval layer.