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Visual Content and your Brand

The Proactive Report

For your brand to penetrate that noise and actually make any meaningful contact with your intended audience, you have to be ahead of the pack these days. It’s no wonder then that visual content is the top marketing trend for 2016. VISUAL REAL ESTATE. Especially when you’re talking about marketing and digital PR.

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5 Tips for Getting Into Live Streaming

Cision

But in the first half of 2015, live streaming moved to the masses with the launch of apps and Facebook’s subsequent announcement that it would test live video capabilities among celebrities. . As the social media giants roll out live video, social media influencers and brands have been the first to embrace the trend.

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What about Snapchat? Part 1 of 2

Shift Communications

To give some context, let’s look at the 2015 social network awareness among all ages: We see Facebook, of course, with almost total brand awareness; Twitter and Instagram follow closely behind. The quandary facing marketers and communicators is this: Snapchat provides almost no meaningful measurement. Stay tuned.

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11 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Cision

You could develop a content marketing strategy , but that doesn’t mean that it will be a good strategy, or that it is related to the corporate goals in any meaningful way. What I want to do in this post is to identify 11 content marketing mistakes that you should avoid. Social Media Today (@socialmedia2day) April 10, 2015.

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Don’t Quit Facebook Yet

Shift Communications

Earlier this week Forrester analyst Nate Elliott released another one of his bi-annual “Facebook is failing marketers” reports that takes aim squarely at Twitter and Facebook when it comes to marketing tactics. It simply penalizes brands that are using Facebook incorrectly. million pageviews (an outdated metric, perhaps?).

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How To Transform Your Brand’s Online Newsroom Into a Media Magnet

MaccaPR

When your brand is mapping its media outreach strategy, it’s easy to get hung up on the usual suspects: public relations, paid advertising, social media and content marketing. According to statistics from the American Society of News Editors, print news staffing fell by 65 percent from 2005-2015. Exhibit B: Also Starbucks.

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UGC and Social Hubs: #DigitalPR Chat with Alicia Whalen

The Proactive Report

Alicia has been an advocate of using consumer-generated content (UGC) in the PR and marketing mix for the last ten years. Twenty-five percent of search results for the world’s 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. Q2: Recent research shows that brands are publishing more content, but engagement is down.