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How the FTC’s New Social Media Guidelines Affect Your Brand

Cision

For the first time in five years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated the FAQ page of its endorsement guidelines. Besides the demand for clarity from influencers, the latest guidelines also require disclosure for contests and sweepstakes, videos and images. Lucas says, “Be creative and deliver something in that contest.”

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Four Tips on Successfully Building Your Own Creative Department

Deirdre Breakenridge

Recently, my colleague Patrick Walsh shared a few great tips on finding the right creative partner to take on some of your design projects. It’s time to start thinking about bringing your creative work back in-house. You want to build the right creative team, and to do that you need to consider a few factors: 1.

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Should Highway Signs be Hilarious?

Mindful Marketing

There’s not much that can be done creatively with boxy LED letters on a black background, but humor is one amendable approach. Despite my decades of driving experience, I’m no expert on road signs, so I reached out to a few people in my home state of Pennsylvania who are well-qualified to address the FHWA’s new guidelines.

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Tackling bias in how we create and tell stories

Stephen Waddington

The Institute of Development Studies has developed guidelines for inclusive storytelling. From creative treatment through scripting, the act of producing a story to inspire response has the potential to reinforce stereotypes and, however unwittingly, inequalities. Subjects should have an active part in how their story is told.

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Utilising AI for Content Creation

Prohibition

It’s ability to process vast amounts of information can be a goldmine for generating creative concepts. AI can enhance productivity and speed up the process of things, but it will never be able to replace the creativity and communication style of human creators. Don’t neglect brand guidelines. Don’ts: Don’t solely rely on AI.

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FTC Endorsement Guidelines: What Agencies Need to Know

Shift Communications

In 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) came out with guidelines regarding disclosure of endorsements that were significantly updated to take into account the ever-expanding domain of online advertising and social media. Reading and then understanding said guidelines in the Federal Register caused many a migraine for marketers.

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How We’re Using AI in Public Relations & Protecting Against It

Shift Communications

They are as follows and are based on those internal discussions, as well as on outside perspectives, including the PR Council Guidelines on Generative AI. The PR Council’s guidelines have a dozen questions to help suss out any potential bias while using generative AI in public relations. Understand its bias.