Stephen Waddington

JUNE 5, 2017

Data for the US shows that consumers spend an average of 5.6 4 Internet advertising set to pass television. Global spend on internet advertising is set to overtake television advertising in the next six months. It’s a key reason that digital advertising is growing so strongly. 2 Internet usage continues to grow.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this blog, we outline how AI is changing the face of marketing in 2019 and beyond. AI is among the fastest-growing marketing trends, with 80 percent of marketers predicting in 2016 that AI would revolutionize marketing by 2020. Customers in the B2B space don’t want to be delivered messaging tailored to B2C consumers, and vice versa.

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Cision

MAY 12, 2017

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

There’s an old saying in marketing that half of the advertising budget is wasted, we just don’t know which half. Advertising spots for the big football game this year grew to $5,000,000 for a mere 30 seconds of airtime. See these related posts: How Long Should a Blog Post Be? [A And that’s the theme for this week.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In an era where consumers are increasingly sceptical of advertising and corporate speak, PR offers a more authentic and credible way to communicate with the public. You cannot “do marketing” towards these groups; their informational needs differ from those of potential consumers. Journal of Marketing, 80, 122 – 145.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues. At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more. Every new channel reduces the friction needed for consumers to get what they want.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics. Growing smarter.

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Cision

JUNE 14, 2016

Creativity will always be what attracts consumers to brands, says Kipp Jarecke-Cheng, global chief communications officer at Publicis Health. From the perspective of government regulation, 2016 has been an interesting year, especially as we’ve seen the presidential primaries play out. Does your content provide value or fall short?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

He publishes notes to the podcast on Earnworthy , his company’s blog: 7 Chrome Extensions for Marketers. 3) Native advertising risking non-compliance. When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published guidelines for native advertising in 2015, 29% of publishers were in compliance. Brands like Warner Bros. Talk to Us!

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PRSay

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Editor’s Note: Anne Green is presenting Why “Partnership Relations” Is the New PR at the PRSA 2016 International Conference on Sunday, Oct. And with so many critical cross-overs between industries, technologies, consumer needs / experiences / behaviors and societal issues – the possibilities are significant.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 21, 2018

The original promise of the internet was that mainstream media would be disintermediated and the public would have access to a huge variety of blogs and websites. In time it also turned its attention to shared and paid, as search and social media advertising and promotion matured. But these are exceptions and not the norm.

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Mora Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Yes, you can advertise and post on social media. More than ever, consumers have their defenses up when watching or listening to the media. Advertising is paid media and public relations is earned media and when it comes to establishing yourself as trustworthy, earned media wins the day. 2016 | Top PR Firm Los Angeles Blog.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics. Growing smarter.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

As with every week, below are three exceptional articles, reports or blog posts, that I’ve vetted and recommend for further reading. with $1 million of advertising; in return, Hershey could use E.T. Mr. Ross is the Gartner analyst that wrote the assessment on content marketing for the Digital Marketing and Advertising Hype Cycle 2016.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. advertising, content marketing, ecommerce, email, social media, website, etc.), Intelligent Automation Solutions. Let’s dive into each area.

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PR Conversations

MARCH 8, 2016

Late last year I received an email from Dr. Beverley Wood in Victoria, Australia about Mabel Gertrude Flanley in respect of reference to Mabel in a comment I’d made on a blog post in May 2014. Beverley kindly shared with me the photograph of Mabel, which I’ve supplemented with a newspaper report of her work.

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Beyond PR

MAY 12, 2017

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. Image Source: [link].

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Each statistic links to the blog post that covered that particular study or survey and links to the underlying source. On one hand, competition is fierce (56%), people are increasingly intolerant of advertising (46%) and “information overload” is a genuine problem (44%). Statistics about content marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 23, 2018

Can public relations help consumers fall in love with a brand? Make consumers love your brand. The best brands have distinct profiles distinguishable through messaging, graphic identity and even spokespeople – each meant to connect with a certain kind of consumer. Define your brand’s “type.”

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

As always here are three thought-provoking articles or blog posts we’ll worth carving out some time to read carefully. Leyla Arsan (@leyla_a) July 1, 2016. But one thing that hasn’t changed in nearly 20 years is the way we consume content online. 1) 60% of People Share Links without Reading. j4V1meSZ4B.

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Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 27, 2015

You see, Max’s blog on consumer electronics had gained such a following that the likes of Dolby and HP were courting Master Swisher. While many fixate on native advertising, the partnering of publications and brands in the making of journalism is the more jarring trend. Meet Max Swisher. It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2017

News outlets have been struggling for years to balance advertising, sponsored and editorial content. The result is that the lines between opinion and news are becoming more and more blurred, and consumers of news are confused about which news outlets and stories to believe. The reason?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

They enable consumer brand marketers to connect with influencers who have large followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, in a straightforward transactional manner. Performance marketing and digital ad spending will continue to become less effective as consumer brands continue to fight for the same broad audiences. The good news?

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

2016 : The growth in the use of social influencers as trusted “third-parties” to create awareness and action (“ Content Marketing is So Last Year” ). I’ve seen a number of industry stories and blog posts lately from PR pundits who insist that media relations as a core PR competency is over.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Finally, don’t forget this is still a social media platform, that means it’s not just about advertising your product or service, it’s also about building an interactive group. Instagram Generation.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

By telling the story of how Lego came to be, consumers are getting a behind the scenes look, and, simultaneously, learning about the people who built it. The "Unzipped" brand publishing platform that offers "a deeper look inside Levi Strauss" through Throwback Thursday vintage photos and blog posts on its culture and social progress.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. But it’s not advertising, and it’s not ‘influencer marketing’ in the Kardashian style. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020. 5) Marketers will slow down.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As much as video content has grown in advertising, marketing, and PR , data shows that it continues to expand. Video enhances SEO, has the best ROI, keeps consumers engaged longer, and is more shareable than many other content forms. Verizon’s Oath uses video to take the traditional case study beyond the usual infographic or blog post.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Paid media and advertising statistics. 1) How long should a blog post be? The average post today is 1,142 words long but it’s clear that blog posts are getting longer – 41% longer than the typical post three years ago. Bloggers, by an overwhelming majority (76%), choose to run their blogs on WordPress.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123).

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 11, 2016

Now that our MaccaPR blog is heading into its fourth year, come with us as we revisit the most successful posts of 2015. advertising, PR and marketing managers are African-American? advertising, PR and marketing managers are African-American? percent of U.S. percent of U.S. Absolutely.

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MaccaPR

JULY 27, 2016

“I put clothes on because people don’t like me to be in the woods naked,” growls prodigiously-bearded professional lumberjack Adrian Flygt, in a video feature produced by agency BBDO Minneapolis to kick off its 2016 “Lumberjacks Eat Moore. It takes consumers through the journey the lumber guys went through,” says Haan.

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Mindful Marketing

APRIL 23, 2023

Insurance companies like Aflac, Geico, and Progressive are well-known for luring consumers with levity via advertising slapstick, usually at the expense of their own corporate characters: Duck, Gecko, and Flo. One such company is the global consumer goods producer Unilever. ” ​ Subscribe to Mindful Matters blog.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 21, 2016

In today’s hyper-digitalized marketing world, consumer brands must take a hard look at how they distribute content - infographics, e-books, videos, recipes and more - online. Our consumer-facing clients have received marketable branded content from partner bloggers, plus a staggering number of consumer impressions delivered per campaign.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

For content marketers seeking to generate leads from that new blog post, white paper, case study, event, infographic, research report, or webinar, here are 33 ways to ensure that your content is found, downloaded, clicked-on and consumed. Pin all your landing page URLs and blog posts to encourage sharing of them!

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

And so I spent, six, seven years essentially marketing consumer financial products. And so as like an affiliate lead gen person, like I was always so interested in like how Consumers were navigating our site, how they were converting, where they weren’t converting. And I started my career in the lead gen affiliate space.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This blog published about 60 new posts in 2018. This was flat with the $91,000 median originally reported in 2017 and the $92,125 originally reported in 2016. The point is advertising is not content marketing. 2) The Aesthetics of Text: Writing Readable Blog Posts. 5) Did Outbrain Try to Pitch Content Marketing at Cannes?

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