Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Instant Timeline promises to offer greater content variety to new users and perhaps existing users who opt into it. In a look at traditional media coverage, blogs, and forums, SHIFT found that in 2014, Twitter gained on Facebook consistently throughout 2014. What should marketers and communicators pay attention to?

Twitter 60

Twitter Mobile Video Advertising 60

Rock the Status Quo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Agencies, PR and marketing professionals, bloggers and anyone doing social media (who doesn’t?) You paid the photographer AND agency, after all, so it belongs to you!) She can be an agency or marketing departments best friend. Right where it counts! Nope, not on your kisser but, even worse, in your wallet.

Blogging 194

Blogging Agency Social Media Content Marketing 194

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. These pros will continue to be in demand – and those in need of public relations assistance should be aware of all the options available to them, including consultants, agencies, and of course hiring in-house.”. Happy New Year!

Marketing 215

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 215

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

AirPR: With PR as a focus, you have included marketing and advertising into your agency. Mika: TMI is a PR firm, but I partner with other firms to provide my clients expert consulting on social media, marketing, branding or advertising. AirPR: How do you see PR & content marketing evolving in 2018?

Interviews 284

Interviews Radio Small Business Pitching 284

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Put more succinctly, your customers know your content before they know your business.

Content Marketing 40

Content Marketing Marketing Engineering Advertising 40

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

Agency 95

Agency Trends Marketing Survey 95

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. Are they part and parcel of your content marketing strategy? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing How To 155

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To that end, I started blogging for business before starting this blog, which celebrated 10 years of publication earlier this month and eventually became a natural platform for starting an agency three years ago. It’s important for readers to keep in mind my world view is heavily filtered from the perspective of B2B marketing and PR.

Blogging 107

Blogging Survey B2B Analysis 107

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Agency life can be tough, but [L]earned Media’s CEO Sam Zises has got it down to a science. In our interview with Sam, he offered powerful insights into the world of content marketing, social media and “cutting through the clutter.” Q: Cutting through the clutter” is one of the core aspects of content marketing.

Interviews 79

Interviews Media Content Marketing Facebook 79

Polaris

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

creative agency. Its signature event is the Global Cardboard Challenge, held in 2013 and 2014 on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the 2012 flash mob. Content Marketing' Nirvan Mullick showed up looking for a door handle for his 1996 Toyota Corolla. The rest, as they say, is history.

Storytelling 199

Storytelling Reddit Video Creativity 199

Polaris

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Most useful offline reference resource: Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi. Joe Pulizzi, the godfather of content marketing, wrote this book in 2014. It’s an instant classic that helps us achieve improved results while marketing less by doing “epic content marketing.”

Marketing 251

Marketing Resources Content Marketing Leadership 251

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

According to The Holmes Report, only 27% of agency leaders responding to the survey think the term “public relations” will clearly and adequately describe the work they do by the year 2020. Google quietly filed a patent in 2014 that many in the search business feel presages an actual formula for tracking implied links.

Trends 124

Trends SEO Leadership Print 124

Cision

MAY 20, 2015

In 2014, the use of video content among B2Bs jumped 8 percent , meaning nearly three in five businesses have integrated video into their content marketing strategy. Video content creation is a powerful way to connect, engage and inspire audiences. Why wouldn’t they? Want to go beyond video?

Video 120

Video YouTube Content Marketing Film 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 6, 2016

billion in 2014. A PR agency employee starting in the business today will be creating programs, telling stories, and reporting to clients in ways very different from just a few years ago, in part due to the rise of digital technology and the blurring of lines between paid, earned, and owned media. billion, up from $13.5

SEO 204

SEO Analytics Measurement B2B 204

Shift Communications

MARCH 10, 2015

August 2013 : Facebook announces that it will feature more high-quality content, at the expense of content that isn’t as popular or well-liked. January 2014 : Pure text status updates from brand Pages will be seen less frequently in users’ News Feeds, in favor of more updates from friends. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

Facebook 60

Facebook Advertising Advertising Technology 60

Cision

APRIL 5, 2016

As a content marketer, you spend tremendous time and money to create content – be it brand awareness, thought leadership or lead generation pieces. Instead, we must now actively push our content out to our intended audience. Who doesn’t want an ad agency like that working for them? And then…no one sees it.

Advertising 120

Advertising Advertising Facebook B2C 120

Prohibition

APRIL 29, 2017

We won Prolific North’s and the CIPR’s Agency of the year and we had a record year with a number of exciting new account wins, including several high street brands, and as a result we need to expand our growing team yet again. No agencies please. It’s been another exciting and busy period for us all here at Prohibition.

Agency 54

Agency Creativity Hotels Social Media 54

Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2015

Serial , the This American Life spin-off podcast phenomenon, debuted in October 2014 and went viral. Edison Research’s Fall 2014 Share of Ear study shows that podcasting’s popularity continues to surge. That close relationship has many businesses wondering whether to add podcasting to their content marketing mix.

Radio 60

Radio Viral Content Marketing Study 60

Sword and the Script

JULY 28, 2020

Content marketing is about the audience. The same dynamic applies to content marketing too. >>> Looking for a consulting partner with the content chops to build a sound strategy and execute? The Content Marketing Shortcut: M&A There is a short cut: buy the audience through an M&A transaction.

Content Marketing 111

Content Marketing Marketing B2B Advertising 111

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 22, 2014

At last week’s MIMA summit, final keynote speaker Amy Webb of digital strategy agency Webbmedia shared a cleverly concocted look at what’s to come for the latest and greatest(?) From Ello to SnapChat and Whisper to Path, it seems like there are so many social channels to consider in our marketing strategies. MIMASummit.

Social Media 54

Social Media Media Facebook Conference 54

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

For example, an academic research project, that was written in 2012 and updated in 2014, about the microlending market studied: “…how traditional and social earned media affect sales and each other…Traditional earned media has a per-event effect on sales that is much larger than the corresponding per-event effects of social earned media.”.

Study 140

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 140

Shift Communications

JULY 31, 2015

LinkedIn, the dark horse of social networks, has consistently been a slow-but-steady growth play in the past, from revenue to marketing options. LinkedIn is thus shifting more of its portfolio of marketing solutions away from straight display to native content marketing and its lead generation solution, Lead Accelerator.

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LinkedIn Social Media Media Advertising 60

Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2017

But marketing is anything but stagnant. While that maxim had elements of truth five years ago, when I wrote that content marketing was the new branding , today I wonder if we’re not coming full circle, yet again. Is your PR agency bringing new ideas to the table? In 2017, however, this number increased to 61%.”.

Advertising 62

Advertising Advertising Print Study 62

Polaris

MARCH 31, 2015

The report, called Social Insights: CMO Edition, How CMOs Engage with People Brands and Content on Twitter , examines how marketing executives use social media to connect with their peers and learn about marketing strategies, as well as best practices. Where to find him: [link]. 7: @AlanSee | Alan See.

Twitter 60

Twitter Social Media Big Data Sports 60

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2016

When doing my due diligence for this post, I came across a transcript of the #PRprochat that happened in July 2014. Shonali Burke (@shonali) July 10, 2014. Distributing your PR content through that channel would be synonymous to taking one macro voice and turning it into (insert the number of your employees here) micro voices.

Employee 40

Employee Measurement Social Media Product Launch 40

ZudePR

JANUARY 21, 2016

Content Curation. So, back in early 2014, I plunged headlong into content curation. Content marketing had been mushrooming and seemed to explode as 2013 turned into 2014. Content marketing had been mushrooming and seemed to explode as 2013 turned into 2014. Truthfully. Rand’s Blog.

Digg 104

Digg SEO System Reddit 104

Shift Communications

MARCH 16, 2015

Let’s see how you might measure this change’s impact on your marketing communications and see if this change has in any way benefitted you. Set the date to 9/1/2014 to the present day and set up comparison to the previous period: Set up a segment to examine traffic from wire services. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

Google 60

Google SEO Web Comparison 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This year, we saw in-house teams get downsized and agency budgets get reduced. Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. It’s not working anymore because more tech companies are chasing fewer in-market buyers.

Writing 194

Writing Communications Marketing B2B 194

Sword and the Script

APRIL 24, 2018

The graphic shows how one dollar invested in small cap stocks in 1926 was worth more than $27,000 by 2014. This compounding effect is analogous to some aspects of content marketing , especially in audience growth. Here are several financial and investment analogies and the relationship to content marketing.

Content Marketing 61

Content Marketing Financial Marketing Banking 61

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sainsbury’s advert in 2014 was one that tugged on the nations heartstrings and perfectly captured the message the brand was trying to portray, ‘Christmas is for sharing’. Christmas is always a popular time of year when brands release promotional videos to tap into the festive period and showcase their Christmas offering.

Video 62

Video Sports Film Employee 62

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. Our top posts from the first quarter of 2014 focused on social media and content. The Role of PR in the Coming Content Marketing Collapse. Marketing Analyst. Here’s how.

Content Marketing 110

Content Marketing Facebook Infographics Social Media 110

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are so many thoughtful contributions – from people working on both the in-house and agency sides. Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. Content marketers will find new allies in PR.

Marketing 190

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 190

MaccaPR

APRIL 2, 2015

Joe Pulizzi , founder of the Content Marketing Institute, finds this tool to be incredibly helpful for brands to deliver targeted content. Garst suggested that brands need to be aware of the content they publish every day; each piece of content has future sales capability regardless of interaction.

Social Media 48

Social Media Pinterest Marketing Media 48

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Search marketing and SEO statistics. Content Marketing Statistics. 2) Content marketing supports lead nurturing. 3) Quality matters in content marketing.

Content Marketing 124

Content Marketing SEO Social Media Marketing 124

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Overall, the study found roughly one-fifth (22%) of 1,102 B2B marketers based in North America that answered the annual survey described their content marketing as “extremely successful” or “very successful.” Page 4 shows us why these B2B content marketers are successful. 88% measure content marketing ROI.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Marketing B2B Survey 60

ZudePR

JULY 20, 2016

In 2014, a whopping 581,000 businesses started up in the UK. She was seeing a few agencies and for some reason thought she might get a deal from me…. Widen your fields of influence and rather than seeing these industries as a threat to the traditional PR agency model, gorge yourself on their knowledge and expertise. Just don’t.

Digital PR 60

Digital PR SEO Small Business Blogging 60

Communications Conversations

JULY 10, 2018

Position within the agency or organization. Flat-out ability to influence others in our market (or, in a position to influence others in the market). And, she’s been volunteering with Social Media Breakfast since 2014. Alyssa Greve, Director of Content Marketing, Cambria. Why is she a power broker?

Social Media 24

Social Media Media SMB Tourism 24