Corporate communications in 2026: the ten sub-specialties, the press pool, the three-cadence operating model, and the four structural questions every CCO has to answer.
EPR's canonical Procter & Gamble reference — the largest CPG brand house in the world. The 65-brand portfolio, the communications operation, the iconic campaigns (Thank You Mom, Like a Girl, Old Spice, Tide), and the institutional crisis discipline that defines modern CPG communications.
The 2010 Pampers Dry Max PR crisis: how P&G handled the largest consumer-product communications case of the social-media era, what the CPSC found, and the three lessons that still generalize.
How Procter & Gamble is actually showing up in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews in 2026. Where the heritage brands win, where the DTC challengers eat the answer space, what the architecture is missing.