So far, AI in the business world has been like the early days of the internet—a veritable wild west of often risky experimentation and trial-and-error usage with few guidelines or policies regulating it. With regulators now taking action in the fast-moving...

Talent marketing: Most Fortune 500 companies are failing to match candidates with the right work using data and context—how creative content helps
Talent acquisition and retention has been a tough obstacle to overcome across all industries in the post-pandemic age, and companies of all shapes and sizes are perpetually struggling to strategize against the odds. And this includes Fortune 500 companies, as new...
With a power boost from AI, visual-first communication and content creation is becoming the most economical way for brands to hire, market and sell
As communicators are well aware, visuals are critical for campaigns and promotions, especially video, and new research from visual communication platform Canva demonstrates how this picturesque approach is equally effective for internal comms. Its new study explores...
New research reveals an alarming customer experience decline, and consumers say AI is making things worse—marketers’ efforts need refining
The seamless customer experience has become marketing’s insurmountable hill—despite all the technology that explicitly offers potential solutions, communicators keep struggling with this fundamental concept. But with the help of AI, things are getting better, right?...
Corporate climate commitment: Although consumers have their doubts, 96% of workers say their firms now have or soon will have a climate action plan
Sustainability and associated ESG company initiatives such as climate action are at the top of consumers’ list of expectations, and brands and businesses have largely agreed that their companies must commit to and demonstrate their support as well. Although virtually...
B2B marketing gets personal: New study shows how emotional connections are key success drivers—4 in 5 will turn focus to human-centric strategies
B2B marketing has never been about tugging at the heartstrings with emotive storytelling. For decades, these comms pros have relied on facts and data to get the job done. Now, according to new research from creative branding ad agency Triptent, they're discovering...
ICYMI: The Top 10 most popular Bulldog posts in May tackle PR relevance, professional measurement, building a PR tech stack, accessibility, and more
The Bulldog train steamrolls into summer with more record-high traffic in May, and this time almost exclusively penned by our brilliant contributors. One incredibly popular research piece was the lone exception, examining the stressful outlook of millennials and...
Brand identity becomes an imperative—and a struggle: More than 8 in 10 leaders and employees agree their company identity must change
Building a successful and trustworthy brand identity was never easy, but it’s certainly gotten more complex in the post-pandemic age, as the variables that define it have multiplied exponentially—sustainability, DEI, stances on political and societal issues, and other...
Is your data AI-ready? 2 out of 3 data leaders have serious doubts about their own—but feel pressured by the C-suite to move forward anyway
Data preparedness has become the next critical obstacle in a long queue of generative AI-implementation roadblocks. But unlike the skills gap, responsible use, inaccuracies, job threats and other hurdles we’re still working on getting past, this one looks to be more...
According to Gen Z, your brand is a joke—but also an opportunity: New academic research digs deep into their unique idea of engagement
Generation Z is a pretty savvy group—these highly informed digital natives have been exposed to marketing messaging all their lives on their cellphones, so they learned young what brand authenticity looks like—and they can smell a rat from a mile away. So traditional...
Alignment needs a tune-up: New business research finds that 4 of every 5 commercial activities is done with no marketing/sales collaboration
If you were a working professional in the 90s, you likely remember how rare it was for any cross-functional collaboration, because communication was essentially primitive before the internet came along. How we got it all done I don’t recall, but unless you were in the...
Most Patriotic Brands in America: 2024 is littered with partisan politics in a divisive election season, but 4 of 5 consumers agree that patriotism is important
Patriotism is complicated these days—there are lots of values and definitions of it, depending primarily on which side of the country’s dividing line you’re on. For communicators, brand loyalty is a complicated concept now as well, because there are a host of...













