Technology
Internet Video 2026: Streaming, Creators, Short-Form, and AI Discovery
Over the past five years, online video streaming of movies and television shows has skyrocketed.
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PR News
Amazon Became the Library. Publishers Are Paying.
Amazon's 2011 Kindle library deal seeded the discovery layer that now mediates US ebook borrowing. Libby dominates. Publishers pay the freight.
Insights & Strategy
Apple, Google, P&G Lead in Most Admired Companies Top
Apple, Google and Procter & Gamble lead in the top of the most admired companies worldwide, according to a survey by Fortune and the Hay Group. Four thousand brilliant minds of the business world analyzed the largest corporations world wide and came up with the top based on their business strategies, approach to new technology and environmental issues.
PR News
Best Customer Service Plug-ins for Your Website
Customer service plug-ins that integrate live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, and review collection directly into a brand site. Which ones work, which ones over-promise.
Automotive & Mobility
When the Second Recall Hits: The Repeat-Recall Doctrine
Toyota announced today a voluntary recall involving approximately 245,000 2006 through 2007 Lexus GS300/350, 2006 through early 2009 Lexus IS250, and 2006 through early 2008 Lexus IS350 vehicles sold in the U.S.
Financial Services
Goldman's 2011 Facebook Valuation: $50 Billion Then, $1.5 Trillion Now
In January 2011, Goldman Sachs organized a $1.5B private round in Facebook at a $50B valuation. The SEC pulled the U.S. portion. Sixteen months later Facebook IPO'd at $104B. Meta is now over $1.5T. The case study in late-private-stage valuation, the SEC structural questions it exposed, and Goldman's reputation arc through the period.
Generative AI
Qwiki, the 2011 Startup That Predicted AI Engines — Storytelling vs Search, a Decade Early
Qwiki raised $9.5M from Eduardo Saverin, Jawed Karim, and Pradeep Sindhu in 2011 on the thesis of narrative-as-answer instead of search. Yahoo acquired and shut it down in 2013-2014. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini delivered the vision a decade later.
Insights & Strategy
Video Ads in 2026: CTV Ate Everything
U.S. CTV ad spend cleared $30B in 2025. YouTube ate linear TV. Where brand video budgets actually go in 2026, and what happened to Vevo.
PR News
Steve Jobs: The Apple Doctrine That Outlived Him
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned via NeXT in 1996, died October 5, 2011. The operating doctrine he built outlived him by 15 years and is now passing through its second CEO succession.
PR News
iPhone Alarm Glitch Doesn't Bug Apple's PR Team
Apple's PR team enjoys sleeping late. The company fails to respond to numerous reports criticizing an iPhone app that failed three days in a row.