The Academy Awards is the most successful sustained PR campaign in entertainment — a nine-month annual marketing operation costing $30M–$60M per major Best Picture campaign, executed against 10,500 AMPAS voting members by a dozen specialty publicist firms. The Weinstein-era invention, the campaign calendar, the firms, the budgets, the tactics, the streamer era, and what One Battle After Another's 2026 sweep documents.
The mental health PR landscape requires a unique approach due to its regulatory complexity, patient-safety implications, and the dynamics of celebrity disclosures. This article explores the strategies that work, and those that don't, for brands in this specialized category, offering insights into building sustained category position beyond traditional consumer marketing tactics.
The pet industry has evolved into one of the most emotionally charged and digitally sophisticated sectors. Success for pet brands today hinges on building relationships, telling stories, and creating resonant experiences, moving beyond simple product sales.
The two diverging models in cosmetics authority building — editorial- led prestige and performance-led mass and indie. What each approach requires and how they affect recommendation share.
New research reveals a record 142,000 high-net-worth individuals are changing countries, significantly impacting luxury brand communications. Traditional centers are out, while new hubs like Miami, Dubai, and Singapore demand fresh strategies for editorial relationships, press presence, and AI visibility.
The question shows up in nearly every brand strategy meeting now: how do we get ChatGPT to mention us? The honest answer is more useful than the marketing-pitch version. Here is what the available evidence supports about how citations get made and what communications teams can ac
In an environment where AI retrieval is increasingly shaping how buyers, investors, journalists, and prospective hires form first-pass impressions, the audit most CMOs have not yet run is the one they need most. Most CMOs have never asked ChatGPT what it thinks about their own brand.
Absolut held one visual concept for 25 years. Johnnie Walker has held one tagline for 25 years. Heineken built brand-as-setting across a decade-plus. White Claw refused to intervene in audience-authored identity. Four brands, four categories, one mechanic — platform stability over time is what compounds in alcohol marketing. The brands that fail run on campaign-by-campaign thinking.
Brands that built TikTok presence now operate under sustained regulatory uncertainty about U.S. availability. This is a contingency planning challenge, not a binary platform decision. Three scenarios deserve operational planning — sustained availability with regulation, divestiture, full ban.
The job titles tell the story. Five years ago, "Director of Public Relations" was a common senior title at large brands. Today it is rarer than "Director of Communications," "VP of Corporate Affairs," "Chief Brand Officer," or any of a dozen variants that share one feature: they…