Carroll Strategies Public Relations Tip of the Week - February 1, 2021

The Grand Canyon turned 100 this week, or we should say the National Park turned 100, as the Grand Canyon is 70 million years old.

Delta Airlines passed out napkins for people to flirt with strangers on a plane.

Are you ready to give up your smartphone? What if someone paid you $100,000 for one year of no cell phone?

Coors knows a good promo when they see it. When 101-year-old World War II veteran Andrew Slavonic was asked how he lived so long, he said cracking open a Coors Light every day at four o’clock.

Burger King had a problem - sales were down and people weren't downloading its app. So it came up with a new promotion. The ONE CENT WHOPPER.

Nebraska had a problem. It was ranked 50 on the list of states people wanted to visit. Why? Flat, boring, lots of corn, no beaches, not a lot to do.

"We got Banksy-ed," said Sotheby's auction house in Europe. At an auction in London on Friday, a painting by the England-based street artist known as Banksy sold for $1.3 million and then immediately self-destructed

Two Asian teenagers saw a blank wall at a McDonald's and realized that Mickey D's didn't have any Asians in their in-store marketing photos.

Coke's taking a hard look at bringing cannabis-infused drinks to the market. It was leaked this week that Coca-Cola is in talks with a Canadian cannabis company to infuse drinks with CBD, cannabidiol

We always tell our clients the best PR is to run a good company, an ethical operation, and then your story is a lot easier to tell. Well, Wells Fargo didn’t take our advice and opened millions (yes, millions) of fake accounts for unsuspecting customers

As crisis managers, we manage crisis situations every week. We recommend telling the truth, active intervention, full accountability, real consequences, and a way forward.

For those of us who drive around Albuquerque every day, there is a vague recognition that we are a city of murals, but no one, until now, has made it official.

Every year, there are a lot of drafts, the NFL draft, the NBA draft, the baseball draft, but there's never been a draft like this one. In Pittsburgh, they had a baby draft.

For pancake lovers, the world turned upside down this week. IHOP, formerly International House of Pancakes, changed its name to IHOB, with the “B” standing for burgers.

Smirnoff. Jack Daniels. Coca-Cola??? Well, maybe. Coca-Cola has launched its first three alcohol drinks, calling them lemon flavored "alcopops," with alcohol content ranging from 3% to 8%.

One incident can spark a revolution. Last month, two black men hanging out at a Philadelphia Starbucks were denied use of the restrooms and asked to leave when they didn't buy anything. An employee called the cops and the men were arrested