ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 28, 2018

Yes, 2017 feels like a lifetime ago, given our breakneck news cycle, but there were plenty of public relations lessons over the year for big brands and business categories. Samantha Guthrie and Hota Kotb announced Lauer’s sudden departure with grace and poignancy – in real time, on live television. The Winners. Mainstream media.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. It seems almost quaint now, given the explosion of reputation-killing headlines that have followed the brand “scandal.” But what about the crisis situations that are handled well?

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 5, 2017

4 Internet advertising set to pass television. Global spend on internet advertising is set to overtake television advertising in the next six months. The ability to target and measure ad performance makes digital ads attractive to brands. The rise of ad blocking was the story of Meeker’s 2016 report. 9 Talk to me.

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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. There’s still some way for the technology to go before it becomes truly mainstream. The US is the largest market accounting for almost 70% of sales.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. Big Brands: Content Marketing isn’t a Campaign, It’s a Culture. It’s well worth a read as well.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 26, 2016

In 1954, the television had reached a critical milestone : 26 million U.S. Long before product placements and sponsored content, one iconic American brand placed a big bet in creating its own television program – another example of an early content marketing initiative – at the urging of its public relations department.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that VR will be the firm’s focus in 2016 with the launch of its Oculus VR headset and technology in Q1; Samsung’s VR technology will integrate with Oculus by the 2015 holiday season. Are you ready for this level of technology? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that VR will be the firm’s focus in 2016 with the launch of its Oculus VR headset and technology in Q1; Samsung’s VR technology will integrate with Oculus by the 2015 holiday season. Are you ready for this level of technology? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated that VR will be the firm’s focus in 2016 with the launch of its Oculus VR headset and technology in Q1; Samsung’s VR technology will integrate with Oculus by the 2015 holiday season. Are you ready for this level of technology? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I believe there will be an acceleration towards humanizing brands, putting individuals in front of a corporate identity, in an effort to emotionally connect with customers.”. – BJ Schaknowski | Vertafore. 9) Brands across the aisle. “I What this does to the customer experience and brand loyalty is significant.

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The Stalwart Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

The announcements and how they’re evolving is fascinating, especially now with technology changing so drastically every four years. It makes sense that many 2016 candidates are slowly revealing themselves on social media, although younger voters may think platforms like Facebook are passé. Lesson: considering a presidential run?

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

As technology advances, we require up to the minute information quickly and efficiently. Mass communication is a subarea of communications studies in the US, and social science with some elements of physical science - especially when designing systems and technology to transmit messages. Mass communication aims to meet these needs.

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Ethics Communications Print Television 52

Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

A 2016 study by Edison Research found avid listeners spend four hours and 10 minutes every week listening to an average of five different podcasts. That figure is up 86% from 2016, when the study found that podcast advertising captured $169 million in revenue. Podcasts have been on a steady growth streak for years.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Thanks to the latest technologies, PR now has the potential to be a data-driven powerhouse that maps to real business results, earning a seat at the table alongside Marketing generally, or, at least, other important marketing activities. Marketing and Communications are converging as PR is poised to evolve radically over the next decade.

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Measurement Storytelling Data Technology 56

Sword and the Script

MAY 21, 2016

How Are Brands Meeting, and Exceeding, Customer Expectations? Customers don’t view these interactions as channel-centric or as journeys, paths and lifecycles in the same way a brand might view them. So in 2016 our past VP of marketing is now 46. In his latest book, Content, Inc., In crunching “6.6 That’s a lot of revenue!

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Social Media Marketing Media Content Marketing 64

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 6, 2019

There’s a lot that’s happened over the last month among vendors that make technology for public relations (PR) professionals – and I can’t wait to show you this month’s summary of news from the PR technology community. TrendKite has become the primary technology for the Cision media monitoring capability.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

New habits were formed and reading Cal Newport's book Deep Work: Rules for Focused (sic) Success in a Distracted World (2016) crystallised my thinking. I think it's telling that a lot of popular fiction these days focuses on apocalyptic scenarios where the survivors inevitably live much simpler (though rougher) lives without technology.

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