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PR Roundup: Lucky Charms Wins RushTok, AI Search Rewards Relevance Over Scale, and eos Shows What Community Engagement Looks Like

August 20th, 2026 by

PR roundup covers Lucky Charms’s sorority partnership, what new data on AI search visibility means for GEO, and why eos’s U.S. Open activation is a case study in letting community lead the way.

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AI Recycled a Dead Promotion and Sent Customers to a Client’s Doors

August 17th, 2026 by

A restaurant ran a Teacher Appreciation and Nurses Week promotion in 2025 which included free food. In 2026, the client chose not to repeat it. AI did not get the memo.

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PR Roundup: Buc-ee’s Trademark Trouble, DuckDuckGo’s Brilliant Non-Product and a Data Wake-Up Call for Communicators

August 6th, 2026 by

This week in PR: Buc-ee’s trademark enforcement sparks national backlash, DuckDuckGo sells out with a privacy stunt, and Cision reveals why more data isn’t always better for brands.

PRNEWS Announces 2026 People of the Year

August 6th, 2026 by

PRNEWS announced its 2026 People of the Year honorees—an accomplished group of leaders, innovators and rising talent redefining the future of PR and communications.

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Meow Wolf’s Former VP of Comms: AI Is Telling Your Story. Is It Getting It Right?

August 3rd, 2026 by

Communications teams already have the skills to manage how AI machines answer the questions. Use them now, or spend years explaining an answer you had no hand in shaping.

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Complaining About Bad Coverage Is the Surest Way to Amplify It

July 27th, 2026 by

The most reliable way to draw more attention to bad media coverage is to complain about it publicly.

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PR Roundup: Olive Garden’s Accidental Politics, Gen Z’s New Rules of Fandom and Why Kraft Heinz Is Betting on Disney Magic

July 23rd, 2026 by

PR roundup covers an Olive Garden pasta promotion becomes a political flashpoint, new research on how Gen Z is rewriting the path to sports fandom and why the Kraft Heinz and Disney alliance is one of the best brand partnerships.

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Why Podcast Show Notes Win at GEO and Earned Media

July 20th, 2026 by

Most teams treat podcast show notes as a chore. Used well, they teach an audience something real and leave a permanent AI answers citation for your spokesperson.

Winners Announced: The 2026 PRNEWS Experiential & Event PR Awards

July 16th, 2026 by

PRNEWS announced the winners of the 2026 Experiential & Event PR Awards, celebrating the year’s most impactful experiential campaigns, activations and event-driven communications.

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Apple’s AI Problem Isn’t Siri. It’s the Story Apple Can No Longer Tell.

July 13th, 2026 by

Siri became the place where Apple’s mythology cracked, following the launch of the Apple Intelligence initiative.