PR Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/pr/ Advertising News and Know-How Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:46:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png PR Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/pr/ 32 32 29582147 The Trump Team and His Backers Believe in the Power of Advertising https://www.adpulp.com/the-trump-team-and-his-backers-believe-in-the-power-of-advertising/ https://www.adpulp.com/the-trump-team-and-his-backers-believe-in-the-power-of-advertising/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 16:08:22 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40137 The election came and went, but the campaigning never ends. Welcome to the new not normal, where the Trump administration invests millions of dollars in advertising to persuade people who have already voted. Maybe you’ve seen the commercial from the Department of Homeland Security featuring its newly appointed leader, Kristi Noem (the former Governor of […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/the-trump-team-and-his-backers-believe-in-the-power-of-advertising/feed/ 0 40137 Authenticity Or Bust https://www.adpulp.com/authenticity-or-bust/ https://www.adpulp.com/authenticity-or-bust/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:36:13 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=38877 In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods see everywhere. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In his pithy and spot-on book, On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt writes about the above lines of poetry, “The point of these lines is clear. In the old days, craftsmen did […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/authenticity-or-bust/feed/ 0 38877 TikTok Tells The Story of Its Satisfied Customers on TV https://www.adpulp.com/tiktok-tells-the-story-of-its-satisfied-customers-on-tv/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:39:41 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37862 TikTok’s rising popularity is a dangerous threat to national security. TikTok must be banned. That’s the conclusion of lawmakers and university presidents who want to restrict access to the site. These lawmakers and academic leaders fear the Chinese firm that owns TikTok will collude with the Chinese government and use the data it collects from […]

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]]> 37862 United Auto Workers Is Battling the Culture of “Corporate Greed” https://www.adpulp.com/united-auto-workers-is-battling-the-culture-of-corporate-greed/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:56:54 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37780 American workers are tired and tired of being overlooked while struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, corporate profits are soaring to unheard-of heights. According to the Economic Policy Institute, profits at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis almost doubled between 2013 and 2022, totaling $250 billion. Is that money trickling down to the workers in the […]

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]]> 37780 Apple Answers To Mother Nature https://www.adpulp.com/apple-answers-to-mother-nature/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:02:41 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37773 It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature and Apple wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing. The company mines precious metals to use in its products and creates a non-renewable waste stream from these same products, and runs massive data centers that suck electricity all day every day, nevertheless, Apple is aligned with Mother Nature. […]

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]]> 37773 The Valley’s High Priests Want AI Allegiance and Adoption https://www.adpulp.com/the-valleys-high-priests-want-ai-allegiance-and-adoption/ https://www.adpulp.com/the-valleys-high-priests-want-ai-allegiance-and-adoption/#respond Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:20:33 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37726 The Valley’s hype machine has been in full grind mode since the dawn of AI as a mass market tool. Since the start of 2023, I’ve seen a lot of over-the-top nonsense masquerading as product promotion, but what I saw last week in venture capitalist Mark Andreesen’s verbose defense of the technology, is unprecedented. This […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/the-valleys-high-priests-want-ai-allegiance-and-adoption/feed/ 0 37726 Sky High on AI https://www.adpulp.com/sky-high-on-ai/ https://www.adpulp.com/sky-high-on-ai/#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:05:40 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37693 AI. Have two letters in combination ever received the hype, press, and speculation behind them that AI presently enjoys? One has to wonder what’s so special about the latest shiny object and exactly who stands to gain the most by seeing artificial intelligence take off. The pace of AI-related product releases and promotions since November […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/sky-high-on-ai/feed/ 0 37693 How Much Do You Really Know About Monosodium Glutamate? https://www.adpulp.com/how-much-do-you-really-know-about-monosodium-glutamate/ Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:10:41 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37579 Americans pour mountains of salt onto their food. We also reflexively say, “No, thank you,” to Monosodium Glutamate, which could lower one’s salt intake. We’ve been saying no to MSG for decades, but why? According to one of MSG’s leading manufacturers—Ajinomoto—MSG’s bad reputation is both undeserved and rooted in racism. In the 1960s, a wave […]

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]]> 37579 Keep Bastrop Boring https://www.adpulp.com/keep-bastrop-boring/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:23:43 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37506 Bastrop County is a fast-growing neighbor to Travis County—the home of Austin, the University of Texas, the state capitol, Austin FC, Austin City Limits, Oracle, Tesla, and so on. Bastrop is also directly downriver from Tesla’s new world headquarters and car-making factory. When Elon Musk moved from California to Texas, his Boring Company quickly set […]

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]]> 37506 The Public Relations Handbook Sheds Light On The Darker Persuasive Art https://www.adpulp.com/the-public-relations-handbook-sheds-light-on-the-darker-persuasive-art/ Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:54:57 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37485 I’m pretty biased, but I’ve always considered advertising, in the more traditional sense of the discipline, to be more honest than public relations. Advertising tends to present itself more nakedly — you know an ad when you see one because it has an identified sponsor. Public relations works in many not-so-obvious ways. It can be […]

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