Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Our top posts from the third quarter of 2014 focused on a big hire, a tough test and several key Google Analytics updates. Scott is also involved in exploring partnership opportunities with outside allies and helping develop and integrate new agency offerings across SHIFT’s account services, marketing technology and creative teams.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Jumpshot closure will be problematic for many marketing and PR tech vendors, which purchased consumer data from Jumpshot and used the data as panels to create “attribution” models for marketing and communications campaigns. . Avast developed Avast Antivirus in 2014.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dozens of marketing and PR professionals express aspirations for 2020 along with educated guesses about the future . I’ve grouped all predictions this year into categories, which is an effort to make it easier to read: Marketing predictions. Marketing predictions. Efficient marketing execution and measurement.

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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. How do you use the data to make changes in your business and marketing that are meaningful in 2015?

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PR in High Definition

JULY 8, 2014

Below is the transcript of Firefly CEO, Claire Walker’s opposition to the motion that “Wearable technology is an ethical nightmare for the PR, marketing and communications professions” given during a CIPR debate at the House of Commons on the 7th July 2014.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

LinkedIn’s performance was stronger than ever to close out Q4 2014, with some astounding numbers. For marketers and communicators, the momentum has reversed in terms of balance between corporations and job seekers. For middle of the funnel marketers, LinkedIn’s new Sales Navigator mobile app may also be worth a look.

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Offleash

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Think of all the technology innovation we’ve witnessed over the past two decades. Technology trends and the very tools powering our business now weren’t more than a twinkle in a founder’s eye when the agency started. Our team puts companies on the map and has launched dozens of tech startups from stealth including Snowflake in 2014.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 28, 2020

Content marketing is about the audience. The same dynamic applies to content marketing too. The Content Marketing Shortcut: M&A There is a short cut: buy the audience through an M&A transaction. A few months later, the parent company of a PR technology vendor swooped in and acquired the company out of bankruptcy.

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NewsWhip

MARCH 15, 2024

In early 2014, Disney Parks decided to bring some of their analysis work in-house. I was open and searching for an entry-level marketing role that would let me stay at Disney, and I met a phenomenal leader who was willing to take a chance on me and teach me about the world of social media listening! Short answer: both!

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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? Content marketers should make use of the feature and test it with short form video. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 27, 2015

There are a few interrelated themes that have gotten a lot of play in technology press over the past few months. It does seem many of the market’s unicorn candidates are waiting longer to go IPO, buoyed by their valuation status. Massachusetts has the second highest average technology salary nation-wide. (2).

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

A market gets the tools that it deserves. The PR industry tool market emerged from Cision , Kantar Media formerly Precise, and Meltwater. Cision has spent more than $1bn on the acquisitions of Visible Technologies (2014), Vocus (2014), Gorkana (2016), PRNewswire (2015), Prime Research (2017), Falcon.io (2019) and Trendkite (2019).

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 29, 2015

Facebook has released its fourth quarter and calendar year 2014 earnings report. The social networking behemoth revealed some interesting facts for marketers and communicators to digest: Above, monthly active users grew 3% quarter-over-quarter to 1.393 billion people. US and Canada growth has been flat since mid-2014.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

More than 10,000 marketers, sales professionals, agency owners, developers, entrepreneurs and students gathered in Boston for the four-day event called INBOUND. Strategy Technology Industry' It can be seen in the exponential growth of HubSpot’s ( @HubSpot ) annual conference, with attendance nearly doubling every year since 2010.

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PR 20/20

AUGUST 18, 2014

Following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and a preview of my proposed SXSW Interactive 2015 session (voting open until Sept. Strategy Technology'

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

E ditor's note: This post was originally published in 2014 and has been updated to be more current and comprehensive. The proliferation of marketing channels, apps, mobile devices, social networks, and content has given consumers more choices and greater control while increasing complexity for marketers. Evaluate (Steps 1 – 2).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked a whole bunch of smart people for their marketing predictions or PR predictions for the next year. And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In 5) Marketers will slow down.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 14, 2018

Voice assistants are a nascent form of technology made possible by advances in speech recognition, high speed internet connections, and raw computing power. The US is the largest market accounting for almost 70% of sales. There’s still some way for the technology to go before it becomes truly mainstream.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 18, 2014

‘Tis the season when brands release heart-warming Christmas videos and marketing bloggers write about the best holiday gift ideas , new year’s resolutions and marketing trends for 2015. In addition, many are predicting the marketing developments we witnessed in 2014 will continue: 1. Wishful thinking? I hope not.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In going through the reader analytics for the full year, these are the top 10 most-read posts on this blog about public relations (PR) and marketing. In addition, I publish a monthly newsletter ( sample ) that curates must-read articles from across marketing and PR. If you’ve been a reader in 2019, thank you! Click To Tweet.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 27, 2015

As you might expect at an event called “Future of Marketing,” we spent a lot of time talking about, well, the future of marketing. We had a chance to interview some of the top thinkers driving innovation and transformation in the marketing world, and get their perspective on the Big Question: What IS the future of marketing?

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Shift Communications

APRIL 21, 2015

We’ve been tracking the marketing industry convergence and conversation around data, and when marketers start actively talk about solving “dark social” and “gray social” – it’s for a reason. Marketers are digging deeper, trying to get to every last bit of data to understand its meaning. The data is coming – are you ready?

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Stern + Associates

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, marketers can spread uplifting messages. Dunn’s investigations at UBC’s Social Cognition and Emotion Lab, affectionately called “The Happy Lab,” focus on how to optimize scarce resources – such as time, money and technology – to enhance happiness in life and at work.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) is out with its annual list of content marketing predictions. The organization published its list in a blog post yesterday titled 60 Content Marketing Predictions for 2015. 60 Content Predictions for 2015 by Content Marketing Institute from Content Marketing Institute.

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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.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 6, 2015

Thanks to all the advances in data and technology taking place today, the future of marketing has never been brighter. It has also never been more rapidly evolving, forcing marketers and professionals from all industry walks to work harder than ever to keep pace. Elements of marketing today that are both working and not working.

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Agility PR Solutions

JANUARY 10, 2019

When we first launched theEMPLOYEEapp back in 2014, the employee communications technology market was focused on a new breed of solution. Slack was the Silicon Valley darling of the moment and so too were collaboration and peer-to-peer, chat and messaging technologies with many of the behemoths vying for a piece of the action.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. The In-House Effects on Law Firms.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Here we go…20 insightful PR and marketing predictions for 2018 follows below. Convenience’ (more of it) and ‘friction’ (less of it) are going to be critical terms for brand messaging in 2018, whether through marketing or PR efforts. 6) Finding a content marketing niche. 6) Finding a content marketing niche.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Educate the market and modify perceptions. Spin Academy | Online PR Courses What Public Relations Does “Public relations and marketing both use relationship-building techniques, but their missions and philosophies are fundamentally different.” Public relations and marketing: Dividing the conceptual domain and operational turf.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Fueled by a mix of youthful exuberance, adrenaline and caffeine, I set out to redefine the marketing agency model with a focus on standardized services and value-based pricing. Register for Marketing AI Conference (MAICON) 2021 Virtual, Sept. Invest in your future! That tagline has never been more relevant than it is today.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 13, 2015

This represents quite an imbalance, especially given many of the products marketed at the conference targeted women, and that women account for 89 percent of the decisions to buy consumer electronics. At Orate , we often hear that event organizers struggle to find female speakers for their events, particularly in the technology sector.

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PRSay

JANUARY 17, 2019

While the job market is strong, with low unemployment and strong hiring numbers, the stock market is in near-constant flux; trade concerns loom in many industries, including manufacturing and technology,” says Challenger. There’s a lot of uncertainty as we begin 2019.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Building a PR tool platform A report published last week called Martech: 2020 and Beyond published by BDO, WARC, and the University of Bristol, estimates that worldwide marketing technology is $121.5 Marketing, sales and finance have all been modernised by technology and software as a service.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You guessed it, they’re each an opportunity to become a more educated marketer and professional. ??????. And if you want to absorb marketing news and insight from industry leaders during your commute with a new podcast, we’ve got you covered with 12 of our team’s favorites. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 7, 2020

That’s part of the reason that advertising spend on online video is up 114% since 2014. . Jessica is a marketing professional in the hospitality and tourism industry with a passion for content creation and digital marketing strategies. SCHEDULE A DEMO. Jessica Pickering.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Good CX combines people, process and technology to understand, anticipate and consistently deliver a high-quality experience across all of a product or service brand’s touch points, from website to customer service. We’ve seen how powerful real-time marketing is for consumer brands that are active on social channels.

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