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.
Regional identity is a PR asset, not a liability. Target's Minneapolis design-democratization. Kohl's Wisconsin promotion-PR plus the Sephora transformation. Meijer's Michigan family-owned supercenter doctrine. The actual mechanics behind three canonical Midwest retailers.
Digital PR for alcohol brands can be a unique challenge due to advertising restrictions and the need for responsible messaging.
The media landscape has undergone a seismic shift in recent years.
Small businesses can't out-spend Sephora or Home Depot — but they can out-cite them. The 2026 playbook for SMB AI visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
The brands buyers find inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews are no longer the brands with the biggest budgets. They are the brands the models can lift cleanly. Six moves small brands use to win Citation Share.
The surprise drop, Lemonade, Ivy Park, Beychella — and the controlled-scarcity architecture underneath the most-studied digital PR case study in modern pop. The most important sentence in modern celebrity digital PR is the one Beyoncé does not post.
Resilient brands are built before the crisis, not after. Domino's 2009 YouTube response. Tylenol's 1982 cyanide recall under James Burke. JetBlue's 2007 Valentine's Day stranding apology. Three canonical crisis-recovery PR case studies and the doctrines that survived.
YouTube PR in 2026 — the platform is a search engine, a retrieval substrate, and the second-largest source of consumer product research after Google itself. Discovery architecture, thumbnails, retention, community, and how the platform now feeds the AI engines.
Content creation is essential for any successful digital PR strategy.