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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

A crisis is a crisis and when it goes viral it goes viral everywhere, not just on social media. In Fall 2013, the department rebranded the existing PR/social media course, PR2.0, If it’s truly a crisis, it will be published about in blogs and on news sites, and potentially make its way to traditional media.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Writing in a trade journal, Heather Ripley of Ripley PR says that what constitutes a crisis is oftentimes subjective. Identifying a PR crisis.

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State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back

Contently - Strategy

I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. Starting in 2013, brands started hiring journalists to work on their content programs. Their bosses shrugged off the failure by blaming an entire industry. “Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. Creativity strikes back.

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Remakes & Remixes: Replicating Successful Digital PR Campaigns

Buzzstream

me in 2013, from Throwing Sh*t Against the Wall & Analysing What Sticks, “by deconstructing the success of others you can improve your own chances”. ~ me in 2014, from Appetite for Deconstruction, Lessons in Virality from Axl Rose. study successful content & try to figure out why it worked”. ~ Or has the world moved on?

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

But I am curious if consumer trust has reached a point where more and more brands will look to intentionally create content that ‘goes viral’ due to its divisive or outrageous nature. ” What’s happening in public relations is happening right now in independent journalism. “Not all predictions are positive.

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News You Can’t Use

Flatiron Communications

The presenters included journalists from The AP, NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. When you dig a little deeper, we learned that the photo was not from 2014, but actually from 2013 when there were riots in Sao Paulo. Carrie Melago, Wall Street Journal/NY. We also can predict which videos are about to go viral.