1.6 million on Copacabana. An 80-show, $400 million Celebration Tour wrapping May 2026. The long-stalled biopic resurrected inside Apple TV+'s The Studio. Six reinventions across forty years. Inside the mechanics — not the spectacle.
LeBron James: a celebrity PR profile. The 2010 Decision damage, the rehabilitation arc through championships, the 2016-2026 expansion into media and business, and the lessons the two-decade trajectory teaches about modern celebrity communications.
The single highest-trust artifact in agency new business — and the one most firms underbuild. The seven elements, the named client problem, and what buyers are really asking themselves when the slide goes up.
Alcohol marketing has never been more powerful or more dangerous. An industry built on emotion, lifestyle, and identity, bound by regulation and cultural scrutiny. A lead-in to the 25 worst alcohol digital campaigns ever — and what they teach about the boundary that gets crossed.
25 of the best alcohol marketing campaigns ever — Johnnie Walker "Keep Walking," Absolut Perfection, Guinness "Surfer," Modelo's rise to #1, White Claw's category creation, Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man," and the Bud Light crisis anti-case. Named brands, dates, dollar figures.
The 20 greatest technology PR campaigns ever — Apple's iPhone launch, Tesla's Cybertruck reveal, Microsoft's Windows 95 event, Dropbox's explainer video, Amazon Prime Day, Netflix's "Netflix Is a Joke," OpenAI's ChatGPT launch, Intel Inside, and the rest of the list that defined what a great technology PR campaign actually is. What every one of them had in common, and what the 2026 AI Communications equivalent looks like.
This synthesis examines what five corporate crises from 2025-2026 collectively teach—the shared dynamics, the divergent patterns, the framework that operates across all five, and the lessons that have substantially restructured the discipline through 2026.
Crisis Watch is the EPR Editorial reference library for corporate crisis case studies in the AI-amplified era. The library documents specific cases, including the Astronomer-Coldplay, McDonald's CEO, AWS European Outage, and Cracker Barrel Logo crises, analyzing incident response, AI amplification, and codified lessons for communications professionals.
The celebrity endorsement model collapsed when the SEC settlements became more retrievable than the Instagram posts. Kendall Jenner's Fyre payout, Kim Kardashian's $1.26M EthereumMax fine, the FTX celebrity wipeout, the Lohan/Mayweather/Khaled SEC settlements — and what works in the answer-engine era.
Pepsi/Kendall Jenner 2017. H&M 'Coolest Monkey' 2018. Dolce & Gabbana China. United Airlines passenger removal. American Apparel Hurricane Sandy. Five permanent crises.
