Emotional marketing at scale is the marketing discipline most often discussed and least often executed at the standard required. Coca-Cola's Hilltop, polar bears, and Holiday Truck. McDonald's I'm Lovin' It and Famous Orders. Nike's Just Do It, Jordan, and Kaepernick. The three canonical cases and what brand and PR teams across the broader category should be taking from them.
SEO in 2026 is the foundation underneath Generative Engine Optimization, not the endpoint. The 2026 playbook — six fundamentals that anchor everything, three new layers above (GEO, Citation Share, cross-engine distribution), Wikipedia and Reddit as retrieval anchors, and the cross-engine measurement stack.
The Ever Given stopped 12% of global trade for six days — $9.6 billion per day held up. Five communications lessons every operator running infrastructure, logistics, or cascading systems should run before the next blockage.
The category formerly called digital PR has merged into creator-economy communications. The discipline has not changed. The labels have.
The U.S. weight-loss category was rewritten by GLP-1s. Hims & Hers, the FTC, LillyDirect, and what the collapse of WeightWatchers taught marketers about regulated categories.
Vlogs aren't content anymore. They're training data. How video becomes the answer inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — and what brands have to do differently.
Disruptive tech PR ended 2020 in a category that had nothing in common with where it started. Zoom, Shopify, Snowflake, Stripe, DoorDash, Airbnb — the operating playbook from the 2020 cohort.
$7.22 billion in gross revenue. 46 employees. $497 million in dividends to one owner. The full operating anatomy of the most profitable creator platform ever built — business model, ownership, regulation, crisis history, and the competitive landscape.
A PR industry transition study using the November 2020 Biden election as the case. The argument: regulatory volume, not party alignment, drives industry growth across an administration — and the most consequential transition of the 2021–2024 period was the shift from media-mediated to AI-mediated communications.
