Comms Bestie Group Chat [Friday, July 18]

Hey,

Here’s your weekly group chat drop. I had to work hard to make it not all Astronomer memes… 

• 😘 [S.W.A.K.] What else could top the list this week but the Astronomer CEO caught canoodling with his Chief People Officer on the Coldplay Kiss Cam? If you pitched this as a movie, it’d get cut for being too on the nose. Thoughts and prayers to the comms team. This is what Twitter X was made for.
• 🫣 [CC OMG] In today’s episode of “stop cc'ing journalists on internal threads”: Barron’s gets accidentally looped into legal removing “diverse” and “inclusive” from a DraftKings comms statement. In 2025? That tracks.
• 👏 [GOALS] If you run a exec's social, take notes from Bobbie’s Head of Brand Kim Chappell. Absolutely crushing it.
• 📉 [FOR REAL LIFE] While the U.S. moves to slash funding for NPR and PBS, Bluey (yes, Australia’s public broadcast gem) remains the most-streamed show this year. (Side note: Baby Race makes me cry every time.)

-Gab Ferree
Founder, Off the Record & Your Comms BFF

PS: Last week’s most-clicked was a TA pro’s take on the “Open to Work” banner debate. Apt. (Couldn't stop myself).

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