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#PRbyTheNumbers: Oppenheimer’s Rise in the Barbenheimer Era
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#PRbyTheNumbers: Oppenheimer’s Rise in the Barbenheimer Era

Since the beginning of July, “Barbenheimer” has become one of the hot topics covered by the media. Barbenheimer is essentially a term merging the movie titles two box office hits, Barbie and Oppenheimer. These movies are as different as can be. Barbie was ostensibly a fantasy story about fashionable dolls but it was really a...

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5 Simple Ways to Kickstart Measuring Communication Effectiveness (Tips from Indonesia’s AMEC Awards 2025 Winners)
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5 Simple Ways to Kickstart Measuring Communication Effectiveness (Tips from Indonesia’s AMEC Awards 2025 Winners)

The five - Asuransi Astra, Astra International, Pertamina,  KPP Mining and Maverick Indonesia, all took home global honors at the 2025 AMEC Awards, a record for the PR industry in Indonesia. What did they do differently? Simple, they shifted from measuring activity ("Look what we sent out") to measuring impact ("Look how we changed people's minds").

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The Remake Of The Press Release In The Age of AI Search
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The Remake Of The Press Release In The Age of AI Search

Longer headlines and multimedia releses are in as communicators adapt to LLMs. Headlines in press releases are getting longer because of AI, says the Global State of the Press Releaser report that was recently published by press release distribution network PR Newswire.

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The Real Cost of Going Viral: What the Blue Tantrum Tuku Tumbler Case Teaches Us
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The Real Cost of Going Viral: What the Blue Tantrum Tuku Tumbler Case Teaches Us

Who would’ve thought that losing a tumbler could spark a nationwide conversation, even cost someone their job?

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Shopping just got easier, thanks to ChatGPT
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Shopping just got easier, thanks to ChatGPT

Curious how ChatGPT decides which products deserve a place in your cart? This article breaks down Shopping Research, a new AI powered discovery layer that turns loose shopping questions into focused buyer guides and curated shortlists. Learn how this changes early product discovery and why brands with clear, credible product storytelling are more likely to appear in the shortlist that shapes the final decision.

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Maverick at GridOto Awards 2025, How Generative AI Is Rewriting Brand Reputation
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Maverick at GridOto Awards 2025, How Generative AI Is Rewriting Brand Reputation

Discover how Artificial Intelligence is redefining reputation and trust in Indonesia’s automotive industry. Maverick Indonesia, in collaboration with DataXet and GRID Network, reveals how AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity interpret, cite, and rank automotive brands shaping consumer decisions in the Zero-Click era where credibility, not visibility, drives influence.

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Visibility in the Age of AI: Why Being Selected, Cited, and Trusted Matters More Than Ever
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Visibility in the Age of AI: Why Being Selected, Cited, and Trusted Matters More Than Ever

In this new landscape, being found is no longer entirely in your control. Visibility is now defined by how AI models perceive and assemble your digital footprint, what they choose to include, what they leave out, and how they summarize your credibility. It’s not just about showing up; it’s about being represented accurately and trusted enough to be cited.

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Why AI Visibility Will Redefine Brand Reputation in 2026
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Why AI Visibility Will Redefine Brand Reputation in 2026

Whether you call it GEO, AIO, or SEO, one truth remains: visibility defines credibility for better or worse. In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, the question is no longer “Can people find your brand?” It’s “Can AI recognize, recommend, and represent it accurately?”

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Generative AI Is Changing the Game — But Not the Fundamentals
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Generative AI Is Changing the Game — But Not the Fundamentals

Audiences now turn to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for information. They receive synthesized answers that feel comprehensive and authoritative — often without ever clicking through to our carefully crafted content. This changes how reputation is formed and where visibility matters.

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The New Browser Wars: How Atlas and Comet Are Redefining Brand Visibility
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The New Browser Wars: How Atlas and Comet Are Redefining Brand Visibility

The browser wars are back, but this time, the fight isn’t about speed, tabs, or extensions. It’s about who owns discovery, context, and credibility in the age of AI. With OpenAI launching ChatGPT Atlas, and challengers like Comet, Perplexity Arc, Opera Aria, and Brave’s AI Navigator joining the fray, the web as we know it is being rewritten. These new browsers don’t just show information, they decide what matters, summarize what’s relevant, and recommend what’s credible. For communicators and PR professionals, this signals a once-in-a-decade shift: the battle for brand visibility has moved from Google’s search bar to AI-driven browsers that talk back.

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Navigating AI as the New Gatekeeper of Reputation
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Navigating AI as the New Gatekeeper of Reputation

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming the world’s dominant channel for information discovery. Yet, most studies on how AI perceives brands and corporations have focused on Western markets, leaving a major gap in understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) operate in Asia’s multilingual and often restricted digital landscape.

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Another possible cause of crisis: LLM Poisoning
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Another possible cause of crisis: LLM Poisoning

LLM Poisoning is a cybersecurity threat in which adversaries intentionally insert malicious, misleading, or manipulated data into the training or fine-tuning datasets of large language models (LLMs). The goal is to corrupt the model’s learning, introduce vulnerabilities (like backdoors), or bias its outputs.

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Is social media use in decline and what would that portend for marketing?
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Is social media use in decline and what would that portend for marketing?

A very likely solution for marketers being hit by this double whammy of falling social media use and dropping website traffic is to consider Generative Engine Optimization. People will still need the internet to discover brands and then, hopefully, interact with them. If social media is not driving as many users to their websites, then optimising their content in their owned and earned channels can do the job.

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The Future of News Consumption in Indonesia: Navigating the AI Era
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The Future of News Consumption in Indonesia: Navigating the AI Era

Why Do Indonesians Complain About News Quality? It isn’t always fair—but many people in Indonesia express concern about the quality of online news articles. These challenges raise the question: How will AI change news consumption in Indonesia?

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Generative Engine Optimization: Check In or Check Out
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Generative Engine Optimization: Check In or Check Out

Each new days brings more evidence that AI, in the form of LLM search, will profoundly change the way people discover brands and now even in the way they make their purchases.

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