Good day! Your Tuesday Daily PR Brief awaits - July 28, 2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup offers an interesting lesson for communicators; Defend your marketing budget in language the CFO speaks; The company page is dead; and more!
Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
The FIFA World Cup fan experience: What the data revealed (Muck Rack - July 28, 2026)
The five questions internal comms pros need to ask before they hit send on a message (Ragan Communications - July 28, 2026)
Complaining About Bad Coverage Is the Surest Way to Amplify It (PRNEWS - July 27, 2026)
How to Defend Your Marketing Budget in Language the CFO Actually Speaks (Spin Sucks - July 28, 2026)
The company page is dead. Long live the expert. (Agility PR Solutions - July 27, 2026)
Agentic AI is here. Your accountability story isn't. (FINN Partners - July 28, 2026)
CSOM – Culture Is What People Experience (HMA PR - July 27, 2026) [PODCAST]
What the 2026 Big Apple Awards Shortlist Tells Us About Communications Today (CommPRO - July 28, 2026)
Social media updates and new features to know this week (PR Daily - July 28, 2026)
OpenAI Will Now Sell Anyone an Ad Next to the Answer. The Answer Itself Isn't for Sale. PR Already Owns It. (PR@ctical - July 27, 2026)
Perspective: PR's AI Governance Gap Starts at Home (PRovoke Media - July 28, 2026)
The pitch-perfect formula journalists wish you knew (Media First (UK) - July 28, 2026)
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The FIFA World Cup fan experience: What the data revealed
By Iskren Lilov
Muck Rack - July 28, 2026
Explore what AI and earned media revealed about the FIFA World Cup fan experience and discover what communications teams can learn from the findings.
The five questions internal comms pros need to ask before they hit send on a message
By Marissa Luznar Doyle
Ragan Communications - July 28, 2026
"Can you send this out?" is one of the most common requests internal communicators receive. Sometimes an email is the right next step. But often, it is only the visible piece of a larger communication need.
Complaining About Bad Coverage Is the Surest Way to Amplify It
By Nathan Burchfiel
PRNEWS - July 27, 2026
The most reliable way to draw more attention to bad media coverage is to complain about it publicly.
How to Defend Your Marketing Budget in Language the CFO Actually Speaks
By Gini Dietrich
Spin Sucks - July 28, 2026
Gartner predicts that more than 40% of CMOs who push for bigger brand budgets this year will lose influence with the C-suite—not because the money isn't needed, but because they can't connect the ask to what the business runs on.
The company page is dead. Long live the expert.
By Richard Stone
Agility PR Solutions - July 27, 2026
LinkedIn's 2026 algorithm update handed even more power to individual member pages and further reduced the traction of corporate broadcasts. Here, Richard Stone, founder of automation PR agency Stone Junction, explains what the collapse in company page reach means for brands and how to restructure before the gap widens further.
Agentic AI is here. Your accountability story isn't.
By Daniel Odonnell
FINN Partners - July 28, 2026
When an autonomous system acts on its own, enterprise buyers, regulators and analysts care about two things: "What is it allowed to do?" and then "Who takes the blame when it goes wrong?"
CSOM – Culture Is What People Experience [PODCAST]
By Abbie Fink
HMA PR - July 27, 2026
True company culture is both an identity and a set of shared practices shaped by daily actions, stories and genuine interactions. Inspired by her recent cruise vacation, Abbie Fink discusses what culture in action looks like.
What the 2026 Big Apple Awards Shortlist Tells Us About Communications Today
By CommPRO
CommPRO - July 28, 2026
The 2026 PRSA-NY Big Apple Awards shortlist showcases the campaigns, agencies, and organizations whose work is setting a new standard for excellence across the communications profession.
Social media updates and new features to know this week
By Allison Carter
PR Daily - July 28, 2026
Looking for the broadest reach in social media? You're still looking at the Meta family of apps, according to data from Social Media Today.
OpenAI Will Now Sell Anyone an Ad Next to the Answer. The Answer Itself Isn't for Sale. PR Already Owns It.
By Sarah Evans
PR@ctical - July 27, 2026
OpenAI will take anyone's money to stand beside the conversation. They can't sell what gets said in it.
Perspective: PR's AI Governance Gap Starts at Home
By Callum Haney
PRovoke Media - July 28, 2026
Callum Haney writes that as communications professionals counsel clients on responsible AI use, many organizations still lack the internal guardrails needed to govern their own use of the technology.
The pitch-perfect formula journalists wish you knew
By Iain Wallace
Media First (UK) - July 28, 2026
In our experience, the problem is rarely the writing. It is usually the thinking that happens before anyone starts typing.
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