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PR vs. Advertising: What’s the difference?

5W PR

When most people hear about PR and advertising, they assume it’s roughly the same thing. The mistaken belief might arise from the fact that both of them have to do with the information found about a person or brand in the media, making both of them marketing. The starkest difference between them is that advertising is controlled media.

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5 Reasons Not To Cut PR In A Recession

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Already, Facebook parent company Meta has warned of an advertising slowdown. PR has unique advantages and challenges, and a suspension can cost more in brand trust and reputation than it saves on paper. In the fascinating piece “Roaring Out of Recession,” published in 2010, the authors call their findings “stark and startling.”.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Is Lawsuit Against Marketing Firm’s Role in Opioid Crisis a Precedent for Public Relations?

PRSay

In the complaint, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges that from 2010 to 2019, Publicis Health partnered with the drug company on dozens of contracts, collecting more than $50 million “in exchange for marketing schemes to get doctors to prescribe Purdue’s opioids to more patients.”. All of our work was completely lawful.

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Can You Measure PR?

5W PR

Still, a company’s brand is typically its most valuable asset and must be treated as such. Many PR professionals swear by the Barcelona Principles, a set of seven voluntary guidelines created in 2010 by a team of PR practitioners. As a PR expert, you’re likely investing considerable time, and money, into your PR campaigns.

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AVE Alternatives: Part 1 Measuring the Value of Coverage With G-AVE

The Resolution Blog

Back in the day, we relied on AVE to compare how much our placements were worth against other activity (hence why it’s called advertising value equivalent). Let us introduce G-AVE (or, in layman terms, Google Advertising Equivalent Value). For example, you can find out how much the advertising equivalent is on your latest blog post.

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How to Power a Public Relations Campaign with Instagram

5W PR

But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Your IG theme should be easily tied to your brand and what makes your business stand out from the rest. And the pictures on your IG account should tie easily to that theme.

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