Alef Aeronautics recently received a Special Airworthiness Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which grants them permission to start testing their “Model A” flying car. It doesn’t mean the cars are ready to go to market, but this is still a huge step forward for the technology.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, many college athletic conferences have decided to postpone or outright cancel fall sports, including college football. As Advertising Age points out, “The move would disrupt the fall marketing calendars of dozens of brands, from beers and sodas to automakers and insurance marketers, that rely on the sport's reach to capture coveted audiences.”
I studied postmodern American literature in college, so the idea of recycling historical content and putting a new spin, or voice, on it rings a lot of familiar bells for me. It seems that advertising has started to catch up to other industries in its efforts to recycle and reuse the gold mine of existing content at their disposal to trigger attention with a wave of nostalgia.
The best PR results happen when organizations do good things - not just say good things. I was recently reminded of this fundamental rule of public relations by an intriguing Popular Mechanics article that published today, "A Billboard That Condenses Water From Humidity."
