Criticizing your customers is a risky play. Regardless of the venue, when a CEO speaks about those who buy their products, there’s risk of alienation. Take, for example, an investor presentation for Ubisoft that GamesRadar spotted, where Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot labelled feedback from customers as “bashing” and that the “toxicity in games and services” […]
Alerts Ain’t What They Used to Be
Media alerting needs a deep rethink, providing more than just a clip notification. The problem I have with alerts isn’t that they aren’t useful, they are, it just isn’t enough. News alerts were created by media monitoring vendors to replace human alerting workflows. The idea was that automated boolean and NLP capture applied against a […]
Your Next Pharma Crisis Will Start in Someone’s Group Chat
Picture this: Tuesday, 10 p.m. Your Slack channel lights up. A TikTok video claiming your GLP-1 trial “shrunk kidneys” has exploded from 200 to 20,000 shares while you were brushing your teeth. That familiar knot forms in your stomach. Sound familiar? Recently at Ticket-to-Biotech, Angela Dwyer (FullIntel’s Head of Insights) and I explored how biotech […]
Human-in-the-Loop Technology: Why It’s Essential for Modern PR
Credible predictive PR metrics are finally available, necessitating the need for hybrid media intelligence. The problem with PR measurement isn’t that there aren’t good metrics or that there isn’t enough science validating what those metrics can predict. Evaluating media at the depth required has been a challenge to automate. Consider this: in some cases, predictive […]
Social Media Monitoring Software: The PR Pro’s Radar
Threats are incoming. Deploy chaff and all social media monitoring resources in my position! Radar is an amazing technology that bounces electromagnetic waves off of incoming clouds, planes, and even missiles. Social media monitoring is a powerful process that can warn a brand of incoming danger. It isn’t just about using social media monitoring to […]
MattAI Chatbot: Bringing Conversational AI to PR Teams
With information overload becoming the norm, PR professionals are drowning in data. Here’s how AI chatbots are throwing them a lifeline. Futurist Alvin Toffler, in his groundbreaking book Future Shock (1970), offered a prediction that feels particularly relevant today: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but […]
Trump vs VP Harris: In 2024 Trump’s ‘Ceiling’ is Harris’ ‘Floor’
Momentum Shift Among “Unique Authors” Indicates Trouble for Trump’s Campaign In terms of consequential days in a Presidential election, an assassination attempt of one participant and the other dropping out and being replaced by their VP of the other takes the cake. We’re in the middle of the summer, the Olympics are on, and people […]
Pride Is A Protest: Intersectionality and Protests Within Pride
Pride events and marches were born as protest movements. Fighting back against prejudicial attacks by governments, police, and communities, Pride is itself a protest. So why is the media so surprised when protests take place within pride itself? It should be no surprise that the 2SLBGTQ+ community has differing viewpoints and opinions. Even so, news […]
Fall 2024 Release: Fullintel’s AI-Powered Future
Communicators today are just starting to understand how much data and information they need to ingest to navigate the media landscape of 2024. For leaders in Fortune 500 companies, timely and precise market insights are crucial for public relations, strategy, and corporate governance. At Fullintel, we’re harnessing the power of AI and human expertise to […]
Greedflation Drives Canadians Nuts: R/loblawsisoutofcontrol Ascends
Brands are built by marketers, consumers, communities, and leaders. But the same people can also dismantle a brand, and when consumers and communities begin to organize against one, I call that an interest group. Brands that court controversy or earn it for whatever reason can see large numbers of people mobilize online in ways that […]