Your 2026 communications strategy can’t rely on “emotional storytelling” and traditional news making, especially if your stakeholders skew younger. Read on for the latest in incidental attention and post-truth fact blasting. 1. News is...
The online conversation about your organization — every byline, public thread, news article, video — is teaching AI how to talk about your brand. ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models (LLMs) are trained on billions of web pages, including news...
Where do you get your news? Where do your customers get their news? The answers will help you navigate 2021. Pew has vital data on our changing media habits; their American News Pathways report has a lot to say about how people understood 2020. In short, we mistrust...
Are you working with ‘influencers’? EMarketer found most US marketers aim to do so in 2021, despite very low trust in this type of content. The growth of the practice — and a host of issues including fraud — prompted the FTC to regulate the...
If you haven’t already heard, the Fyre Festival was an epic failure that is still smoldering. The music festival promised the “unparalleled best” experience on a private island in the Bahamas, but, instead of arriving to high-end accommodations,...
We recently shared our point of view on healthcare word of mouth in Strategic Healthcare Marketing magazine. The summary: authentic, trusted voices are essential in the context of rising healthcare consumerism and declining institutional trust, and there are specific...
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