Digital & Technology

 As crisis PR pros know, effective messaging and corporate reputation depend, in large part, on earning audience members’ trust. Dropping deepfakes into the equation certainly complicates PR maxims concerning trust. Accordingly, deepfake technology is making the battle against disinformation more formidable.

As part of our Explainer series, PRNEWS offers brief thoughts about the metaverse and its potential implications for communicators and brands.

With the word “recession” looming over the U.S. economy, Ketchum provided insight into how measurement and data-driven planning can optimize strategy.

AI offers PR and marketing tremendous potential for providing useful business insight. Yet applying AI without proper consideration for useable results will yield unmanageable data sets.

It’s imperative that PR be part of integrated marketing. Making that happen requires that PR focus more on measurement, technology and critical thinking, writes Anna Ruth Williams.

The savvy PR pro is preparing now for a federal data protection regime. Job one is collaborating with data governance and privacy teams.

With the harried pace of PR, AI tools, in theory, should make communicators’ lives easier. For example, AI can assist with measurement and campaign assessment. Similarly, perhaps AI can add the equivalent of a few extra hands during a PR crisis.

PRNEWS welcomed Urska Srsen, cofounder of women’s health tracker, Bellabeat to discuss privacy and communication for women’s’ health tracking products.

The pace of change for privacy regulations shows no signs of slowing in 2022 or in the years ahead. The patchwork of state-level laws in the US will present a daunting compliance challenge for communication professionals, not only for corporate communicators but for PR pros in firms, those they represent and their businesses. Here, we offer a brief update on recent changes and what is ahead.

While it may seem intimidating to begin making content and communication more accessible, the resources and education are available.