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Pitching for pants

Stephen Waddington

Brand promise and purpose The purpose of Skidz is to empower men to lead healthy lifestyles and realise their full potential. Our goal is to disrupt the market for male underwear and become a global brand within three years. As the UK’s next unicorn, we’re taking a big risk by placing our brand and growth in your hands.

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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. It was a very humbling experience.

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This AI is ‘Taylor’ Made for Media Relations; PRophet Adds Generative AI to PR Software

Sword and the Script

Former PR agency leader is a building software product focused on improving PR pitches with two different types of artificial intelligence I’ve started to use ChatGPT to rewrite and suggest alternate headlines. In 2010, he sold his agency to an advertising holdings company for an estimated $10-$15 million.

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What Shadow Banking Means for Your Financial Services PR Program

Shift Communications

However, given the sheer volume of companies that see the opportunity in “revolutionizing” finance, shadow banking continues to grow the competitive landscape to a size where any one brand has minimal chance of breaking through. Consider in-app advertising to fintech/finserv related sites. Take small business lending, for example.

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

In this digital age, many, many brands are still using press releases to connect their stories to media outlets. By 2010, three decades later, there were four PR professionals for every journalist in the U.S. What brands are going to rise and fall in this new landscape? Brand journalism is the key to a killer digital newsroom.

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3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML]

Sword and the Script

Brands should strive to be a trusted source that answer questions quickly. One of the earliest I recall is a PRWeb study of press releases in 2010 that found multimedia, including images and video, improved time on page by almost 30 seconds. What happens when people come to the realization these are pay-to-play pitches?

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The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]

Sword and the Script

Disruptive opportunities like the chance to rank first for voice search in search engines: “Beyond playing into trends, voice interactions with chatbots, virtual assistants and other IoT technologies have the potential to upend traditional search and display advertising models in the near future, even for giants in the space like Google.

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