CPG email campaigns that delivered measurable results — personalization tactics, segmentation, lifecycle automation, and the editorial decisions behind brands that built durable email engagement.
Cheerios has been sold since 1941 and still leads the category. The General Mills playbook: FDA heart-health claim, Buzz the Bee, Bring Back the Bees, the 2013 Just Checking ad, and gluten-free reformulation.
Ten home and housewares campaigns that missed — Home Depot, Keurig, IKEA, Crock-Pot, Serta, Tefal, Lowe's, Whirlpool, Dyson, Le Creuset. What each one got wrong, and the operating pattern underneath.
Three soap brands, three completely different PR doctrines. Dove built #RealBeauty for 21 years. Dr. Bronner's runs label-text PR and activist CEO David Bronner. Method built design-as-PR to SC Johnson acquisition. In a 150-year category, PR is the only moat.
MiiR turned impact reporting into a citation asset. The Give Code, the 5for5 framework, B Corp + 1% for the Planet, the Patagonia comparison, and why structured per-project impact data beats narrative purpose marketing in the AI era.
Six OTC PR campaigns that defined the category — Tylenol's 1982 recall, Mr. Mucus, Zyrtec's Allergy Face, Live Claritin Clear, Vicks' Touch of Care, and J&J's Family Company positioning.
Shun, Benchmade, Gerber, Victorinox, Wüsthof, Opinel, The James Brand. Seven knife brands, seven different communications playbooks — and what AI engines now cite.
Easter is the second-largest US candy season — $3 billion in three weeks. Inside the plays that work: Reese's Egg, Cadbury Creme Egg, Peeps, and the pop-ups Cadbury and Ferrero run every spring.
Liquid Death — $1.4B. Olipop — $1.85B. Poppi — $1.95B PepsiCo exit. Three challenger beverages built billion-dollar valuations on three different digital PR machines. The tool-by-tool breakdown of how each one outflanked the soda incumbents.
Modern interior-design PR is sustained personal-brand architecture, not magazine pitches. Magnolia built HGTV + Silos + Network + Gaines books. Studio McGee built Instagram + Netflix + Target. RH built Source Books + Galleries + Restaurants. Three doctrines.
