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Our weekly roundup of trends, news and personnel moves in PR and communications. This week’s stories include the fallout at Facebook from Cambridge Analytica, LinkedIn adds video tools, Levine and Smiley fight back at #MeToo and Starbucks’ search for a new cup may produce a pot of gold for a lucky engineer.

It sometimes seems that brand communicators and marketers operate in silos within their companies. When it comes to social media, though, they appear to be reading from the same script. In 2017 the Consumer Electronics sector followed the pattern of other industry sectors by posting fewer pieces of social media content, but gaining more consumer engagement.

Katie Paine compares crises at Oxfam and KFC in her regular Image Patrol feature. In this edition she explores how transparency and even humor can be prime tactics for managing crisis.

It’s hard to argue that the online life is a fad when you see how many Americans are online daily (77%), according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. Want more? 40% of Americans 18-29 say they are online “almost constantly.”

Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in communications and marketing. This week’s stories include Google’s transparency on fake content is something Facebook should consider, a slap from Google at Amazon, Wells Fargo offers its CEO a large increase, Theranos’ Holmes gets off easy and Chipotle’s chief marketer is out.

With the March for Our Lives set for Saturday at venues around the country, what should brands be doing, if anything, to prepare? We asked Barie Carmichael , a senior counselor at APCO Worldwide and a former communicator at iconic brands. In sum, it’s a delicate dance and one size does not fit all.

The Global RepTrak 100, the gold standard of corporate reputation, shows corporate reputation declining for the first time since 2009. Why has it declined and what can brands do about it? We answer those questions and more in our coverage.

In a new survey small businesses, those with fewer than 500 employees, are shown to be fairly large proponents of SEO. Some 55% of small businesses surveyed said they use SEO, a slight increase from 2017. More than 90% said last year they would be using SEO, according to Clutch, a B2B researcher.

We continue our examination of consumer engagement with brands’ social posts during 2017. Data is provided exclusively by Shareablee to PR News . This week we look at the top 10 travel websites, ranked by consumer engagement. Airbnb is the leader.

Our weekly look at news, trends and personnel moves in communications and marketing. This week’s stories include James Levine’s ouster at the Metropolitan Opera, a House committee looks deeper into the U.S. Olympic Committee amid the Larry Nassar scandal and Twitter halts accounts that were tweetdecking.