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Everyone talks about spurring creative thinking and being nimble. Mondelez International found a way to do just that as it created its millennial-inspired snack line Vea. We spoke to VP Marketing Jason Levine to find out how they did it.

A professor of marketing provides insight on how to improve the communications skills of your team by using classroom assignments meant to do the same for college students.

Our weekly roundup of trends, news and personnel moves in PR and marketing. This week’s page includes stories about President Trump’s possible communications change, J&J’s powder burn and two firms open their 5th offices.

It is a surprise that video is growing like a mushroom on Facebook? Provided exclusively to PR News, Shareablee data for the first half of 2017 bears this out for B2B brands, with Informatica leading the pack. Mark Zuckerberg will be pleased.

In this regular feature we ask PR leaders to tell us about people who’ve influenced their career, the best advice they’ve received and trends they’ve spotted. This week’s interview is with Heather Dueitt, director, marketing/communications, at NoteVault. She discusses lessons learned about social media.

With social media’s ability to give everyone a chance to comment, brands must be particularly vigilant to monitor the cultural landscape. Here’s an example of a brand that thought its ad for athletic footwear was in good taste. It was, except several tragic news events made it far less so. Tips on how your brand can avoid a similar issue.

Our look at influencers, courtesy of data from Shareablee, provided to us exclusively, shows food influencers had a fantastic June. Food was up 5% despite offering 4% fewer pieces of content month over month. Travel influencers were not as fortunate, with all 5 leaders on our list falling in terms of consumer engagement, month over month.

Everywhere we look we hear about influencers. YouTubers, Instagrammers, bloggers and more are building online communities. Working with influencers is not as simple as merely finding someone to write about your brand, however. In this article we provide tips to help you find influencers who will be the right fit for your brand.

Dealing effectively with the news media always was a core PR skill. It’s been temporarily overshadowed as social media rises to one of PR’s top priorities. In fact social and traditional PR can and should work together. This article demonstrates how to use elements of both to gain media coverage.

Greg Kunkel, a communicator at the NW Pacific Laboratory, provides a step-by-step look at how PR can use Google Analytics to its advantage. Along the way you’ll learn about how UTM codes can help and why you need to learn about acquisition tabs if you don’t already.