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Five Ways PR Pros Can Get More Value from Cannes Lions

June 16th, 2026 by

The most successful attendees don’t treat Cannes as a series of meetings, panels and parties. They approach it with a clear strategy and a disciplined plan.

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AI Search Is Rewriting Your Company’s Reputation. Here Is What You Can Do About It.

June 15th, 2026 by

The more consequential question is about vulnerability: What does AI search reveal when someone is actively looking for controversies or criticisms?

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PR Roundup: When Culture Moves, Brands Follow—Lessons from Kalshi, the World Cup and Toy Story 5

June 11th, 2026 by

PR Roundup covers how communicators can interpret Kalshi’s compliance move, which brands are actually breaking through the World Cup noise and why “Toy Story 5” is giving brands a nostalgia-fueled engagement boost ahead of its release date.

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Explainer: Share of Voice

June 10th, 2026 by

Share of voice (SOV) is an evolving PR benchmark.

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The Seasonal PR Mistake Brands Make Every Year (and How to Avoid It)

June 9th, 2026 by

Consumer brands often make the same seasonal PR mistake: They start pitching when shoppers begin buying. Editors, however, start planning those stories months earlier. While marketers and communicators focus on summer promotions, Prime Day and… Continued

PRNEWS Celebrates Women in PR, Communications and Marketing at the 2026 Top Women Gala

June 9th, 2026 by

PRNEWS celebrated the 2026 Top Women Gala at Current in New York City last week. And for the first time the event brought together two groups of incredible women professionals: the 2026 PRNEWS Top Women in PR and Communications and Chief Marketer’s 2026 Top Women in Marketing.

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PR Roundup: “No Comment” Gets Called Out, Amazon Resets the Retail Calendar, the Pope Appoints a New Head of Comms, and Dolly Hits the Road

June 4th, 2026 by

PR Roundup features Amazon’s Prime Day move, “no comment” doing more harm than good, Pope Leo XIV’s historic hire, and Dolly Parton’s foray into the American highway.

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Ask a Journalist: Jason Spells of ESPN on Why Networking Is So Important

June 3rd, 2026 by

Jason Spells, an ESPN on-air personality who’s been in the game for years, offers first-hand insights into what has changed in media and what still moves the needle.

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Five Questions With Michelle Ciciyasvili: Keeping Betches Relevant With Media Relations Patience

June 3rd, 2026 by

Ciciyasvili spent three years cultivating a relationship with a contact at Variety before it resulted in a feature story and podcast appearance for Betches’ CEO.

The New PR Measurement Stack: What Comms Leaders Should Track When the Audience Is Behind AI

June 2nd, 2026 by

The traditional PR measurement dashboard needs to sit alongside a second, AI-native layer that answers a different question: when someone asks a generative engine about our category, are we in the answer?