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Communication Choices Played a Major Role in Sinking Silicon Valley Bank
A lot of businesspeople ridicule communication as a low priority, nice-to-have soft skill. It’s likely these same people missed how large a role communication played in the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
Gregg Castano on Leveraging Multimedia to More Effectively Tell Your Company's Story
In this video from Leading Entrepreneurs of the World, Gregg Castano the Founder & CEO of News Direct, discusses how in today's day and age it’s even more difficult to build awareness when most people are besieged with a tidal wave of information from all directions.
PR Pros Know These Four Things to Stay Agile
Agility has become a buzzword du jour. We’ve seen more courses in agile development, agile leadership and agile marketing pop up.
When AI Goes After Your Job
Competition is an inevitable part of life: Each day people contend for everything from parking spaces to produce, but perhaps the most intense competition occurs when one’s livelihood is on the line.
“History = Pride” Celebrated in Florida
If it was a national hate day yesterday for one group, you wouldn’t have seen anything but love for another community gathered at the Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library’s 50th Anniversary Gala.
How In-House Content Creation Helps Boost Demand
Content creation is essential for a business’s success. Today’s consumers want to experience closer relationships with the brands they trust, and content is a great way to do that.
Twenty-Four Hours News Cycle Makes Oceans Out Of Sun Showers
Is the 24-hour news cycle a vehicle for making minor stories seem important? In my opinion, the answer is a resounding “yes.”
How B2B Companies Can Appeal to More Customers
In today's market, B2B companies need to do more than provide quality products and services.
Using RFPs to Hire PR Agencies: New Public RFP Option
Finding the best public relations agency to grow or promote a business and brand is among the most significant decisions corporate communications and marketing leaders make.
The Greatest PR Stunts of All-time
Numerous public relations gimmicks have earned a place in history as some of the best and most enduring ever.
Newspaper Headlines Provide PR Lessons Not Taught in Communication School Texts
For years, I’ve been telling PR staffers who reported to me that there are PR lessons they can learn that are probably not taught in communications school texts.
Chinese Spy Balloon Provides Important PR Lessons
For decades I’ve told PR people that important lessons can be learned from paying attention to news events.
Lessons Everyone Should Have Learned From The 2022 Super Bowl As We Approach The Big Game on February 12
This year’s Super Bowl will be played between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
Black Box No More: Transparent, Efficient, Data-Driven PR Is Here With Hypemachine
For so many clients, the hiring of a PR team is a leap of faith, followed by many, many more such leaps. Whether you’re a startup heading into another funding round or a brand who’s been beloved for years, the process of vetting and getting PR can feel like a black box.
Thinking About Hiring an Agency? Don’t Make These Mistakes
We’ve all seen the wave of layoffs in big tech over the past few months, many impacting the marketing and communications functions. Having been in the business since before the Great Recession in 2008, I’ve seen the economy on the downswing before.
Mike Pence’s Book is No Flamethrower Like Prince Harry’s, the Duke of Sussex’s Hardcover, ‘Spare’
Pence is sparing in his resentment over a mob incited to lynch him.
Biden And McCarthy: Two Different PR Crises With Simple Remedies
It didn’t take long for the first two major PR crises to emerge in 2023.
2022 Cable Breaking News: Not Really
In this world of uncertainty, one thing is constant: With scant exception, the news delivered by cable broadcast channels will either be incomplete, misleading, prejudicial or outright lies.
Yes, Harry and Meghan Boldly Aired Their Grievances, Yet There are Other Takeaways From That Dramatic Docuseries
Harry and Meghan seemed nowhere even near to being villainous in their six-part docuseries on Netflix, but some like the law firm representing Meghan’s half-sister Samantha see a vastly different Duchess of Sussex.
The Palestinians’ World Cup Propaganda Victory (With An Important Lesson for PR People)
Over the years, regular readers of the New York Times have seen countless articles whose reporting tells about the plight of the Palestinians under the what the Times calls “the occupation of the Israelis.”

