Beyond PR

JANUARY 4, 2018

With a new year around the corner, communications professionals are gearing up to get their plans ready to conquer the world in 2018. With more than 20 years of technology marketing experience, Bell has held executive-level positions with marketing technology firms including Oracle Marketing Cloud, Eloqua and Adobe.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Our team covers transportation and mobility, including electric vehicles, driver-assist technology and connectivity. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? I then worked as an investigative reporter at the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, and went back to school for business journalism and data journalism.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The trend creates a ripe opportunity for communicators who manage earned media programs to secure better investments in 2018. As the Wall Street Journal reported , many of these wasteful ads ended up on sites with fake web traffic and views from bots that pumped up conversion metrics. “It’s time to grow up. Far from it.

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Flack's Revenge

JANUARY 10, 2019

Despite all of the controversy around Facebook this year, usage levels are still extraordinarily high and marketers are still finding it to be a very effective advertising channel. What Will It Take for Advertisers to Back Away From Facebook? Social media 2018 put the spotlight on data, video, Stories ( Marketing Land).

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. For example, citing the Edelman Trust Barometer, Digiday reported , “trust in traditional media has increased from 48 percent last year to 61 percent in 2018.”. 4) Emphasis on professional journalism. Comment: Amen.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. He’s hung a shingle and runs a consultancy focused on marketing technology. 1) How would you characterize the state of marketing in 2018? PR, marketing, sales and journalism.

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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. 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.” The Role of Technology on the Legal Market.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 28, 2018

The IDG Influencer Network consists of carefully vetted technology experts, leading industry practitioners, analysts and other IT pros who produce content on behalf of our clients , under the direction of IDG content strategists. Vendors aren’t advertisers, they are “clients.”. Build or Buy an Audience? Some say it’s already broken.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Media and journalism. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. has been exploring in her work on women in journalism. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock, used his annual letters to business leaders in 2018 and 2019 to call companies to account on their societal impact.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Some clever guy with a political bent bought a domain and polished up a site to look like journalism. There is something wrong with perpetuating erroneous information and dressing it up to look like journalism.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” But in the run up to this year’s Advertising Week conference in New York, it seems CMO patience has started to wane. This creates a ripe opportunity for communicators who manage earned media programs to secure better budgets in 2018. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market. It’s time for action.”

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Mark My Words

JUNE 15, 2018

Mark spoke at the Westminster Media Forum on the 26th April 2018 ¬ the subject Next steps for tackling fake news – impact, industry response. The cost of journalism and the will of many people to go into journalism is diminishing dependŠ whatever the rhetoric, the corporate rhetoric has been placed out. I wish to return.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. The press release doesn’t spell out any specific technology initiatives, so it seems this is merely an agreement allowing each business to sell the others’ products. “Q4 Here we go…. The company has raised a total of $66.3

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary ( PR Tech Sum ), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision. 3) September 15, 2014: Visible Technologies. Newly combined Vocus-Cision acquires Visible Technologies , a provider of social media analytics.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

5) Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report. Last year an advertising spot during the Super Bowl cost $5 million. 4) The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. What would you like to see in 2018? Too many metrics and it becomes cumbersome. Social alerts.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But it’s easy to imagine this technology being used in more subtle but dangerous ways, such as politicians ‘saying’ things that are not totally out of character but more extreme or subversive than anything they would really say. Finally, 2024 also brings another U.S.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Local news and indy journalism more trusted. “I I predict the continued rise in readership of local news channels and independent journalism.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 27, 2019

1) The top challenges in journalism. I’ll leave the ethical implications of this trend in journalism to the media critics and ombudsmen – but will note it’s introducing new ethical considerations for PR pros. Additional reading: 2018: 7 Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse….

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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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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 14, 2021

In early March 2021, Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, sending the targeted advertising industry into a tailspin. While the long-term impacts of the move remain to be seen, one likely change is that content will play an even more important role for brands and advertisers trying to reach customers online. “If

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 17, 2018

It led him down the path of B2C advertising and it all seemed fine until he stumbled into the world of B2B and was hooked. He says he spent the next several years as a small agency partner focused on technology clients and “the redeye from San Jose to Atlanta became my new nightmare.”. But it also brought experience.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2019

“In 2009, The Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that email was dead. across 170 clients in Q4 2018 according to Epsilon; and. The closest thing to an open rate they have is a “read rate” which was 24% across all verticals in 2018. Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations: Tuesday 4:00 p.m.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Blair is CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training and coaching program for creative professionals, and has spent 25 years in advertising and design. The creators: You know the Wall Street Journal, it’s one of the largest newspapers in the U.S. Overview: Discover how science and technology are revolutionizing our lives.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Advertising is a distant third. A study that included both a focus group and a survey which found: 67% of the focus group participants and 48% of the survey panel indicated journalism was the most credible source of information; and.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Trust in the media The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer (opens as a PDF) puts the trust between the public and media at 41% worldwide. Advertising, production, and distribution have all fundamentally changed. Amazon, Google and Facebook created highly efficient digital advertising markets leaving media struggling to compete.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Artificial intelligence - The UK Government’s National AI strategy outlines a plan to invest in the AI ecosystem, to support the transition to an AI-enabled economy, and to ensure the governance of technologies. These companies have a stranglehold on advertising and have effectively become a tax on small and medium-sized business.

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Flatiron Communications

AUGUST 26, 2018

Hardly a day passes without my seeing a tweet from or about Civil , a new enterprise that will use blockchain technology and the sale of tokens to revive and sustain the badly battered journalism profession. Civil (@Join_Civil) August 24, 2018. The Wall Street Journal : $15.60/month month digital. month digital.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

Rallies against Kellogg’s after it pulled its advertising from Breitbart. Automobile companies (and the military) are the largest advertisers on television. Richard Levick: On the crisis side, we are in a technology revolution which is much more complex. Richard Levick: There’s an immense amount of truth in that.

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