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DECEMBER 17, 2018

San Francisco, December 18, 2018 – AirPR ( www.airpr.com ), the data science company for communication and public relations, today announced the closing of its Series C financing of 8 million dollars. The PR and communication function, on the whole, has been losing ground relative to the advances in marketing technology.

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Analytics Data Big Data Technology 150

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. Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing. So what’s the solution?

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Measurement Tools Journalism Content Marketing 75

Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

Along the way content, distribution, analytics, and measurement tools have been acquired and bolted on. 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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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? This type of approach is reminiscent of marketing days gone by, but it isn’t representative of what works best in 2018. Journalism teaches writers to pivot and learn quickly when new technologies or angles change a story. About Dan Curran.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That was the opening to the August 2018 Monthly Scripts email newsletter and a fitting opening when one steps back and looks over the 10 articles out of a couple hundred that made the cut. Almost all of them reported something new – new roles, new responsibilities, new technology, new, new, new. 5) Feedback and measurement.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

As technology becomes ever-present, content strategies should include video, podcasts, games, comics, events and more. And as the content competition heats up, brands need to find ways to distribute their content, often through paid means like syndication and native advertising. Native Advertising.

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Cision

MAY 19, 2015

Many conferences, for example, have their own mobile app and other technologies to drive increased engagement and influence future sales. Use technology and social media to extend it as much as you can. Native Advertising. Spending on native ads will reach nearly $8 billion in 2015 and will reach $21 billion in 2018.

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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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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Modern marketing is constantly shifting, and the folks that are part of your marketing team need to be masters in all things technology, best practices, and trends. Look for opportunities to implement professional development programs to ensure and encourage that the marketing team is staying up on technology and trends. Technology.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Of those, 84% say they outsource content creation; distribution, technology, strategy and measurement were distant followers. Of that segment of respondents, 72% use paid social media channels; 66% use sponsorships; 61% use pay-per-click advertising. About half of businesses outsource some content marketing.

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Content Marketing Study Blogging Marketing 138

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. It’s a theme that Topi?

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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

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Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? Registration opens in October 2018, but you can sign up now for event updates and a special discount code. Improve AI: Monitor, measure and adapt based on performance.

Conference 59

Conference Marketing Analytics Case Study 59

Shift Communications

JANUARY 29, 2018

What actually happened, and how measurable has the impact been? Our timeframe of data was from December 1, 2017 to January 27, 2018. The Facebook algorithm change was announced on January 11, 2018. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Much ado was made during the month of January about Facebook’s Newsfeed changes.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

Recently, I’ve begun looking more closely at PR technology , companies. This is an effort to illustrate some of the interesting innovations occurring within the PR vendor community – and provide an agnostic source of information on tools and technologies I believe PR professionals should have on their radar. Sentiment analysis.

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market.

Media 57

Media Advertising Advertising Measurement 57

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? Registration opens in October 2018, but you can sign up now for event updates and a special discount code. Improve AI: Monitor, measure and adapt based on performance.

Conference 40

Conference Marketing Analytics Case Study 40

Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It follows the acquisition of ResponseSource, a network that connects media and influencers, in 2018. Its clients are a mix of enterprise brands such as Heineken, Mazda, NBC and Paramount and advertising agencies such as BBDO, Group M and Mother. #2 It’s why we invest in our people as much as our technology.

Marketing 60

Marketing Analytics Tools Data 60

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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Trends Media Report Technology 60

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In a recent Wyzowl survey , 81 percent of marketers indicated they were using video in 2018, up from 63 percent last year. People have different goals and different measures of success. In terms of technology, I think the next piece in the journey to keep engagement moving is interactive video. Here’s what he had to say.

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Marketing Video Product Launch YouTube 111

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The measure of “best” in this case is unique page views. 4) B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success. 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. The 7 Best Performing Blog Posts in 2017. But we can’t.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73

PR in High Definition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The story was hard to miss at the end of 2018. Companies that prioritise activities towards voice technology now have the chance to get ahead. The search engine will accept a lower bid from an advertiser if what’s being advertised is more likely to be clicked by the user. It will be, however, a challenge.

Engineering 67

Engineering Reputation Social Media SEO 67

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 28, 2017

New technologies are helping make the measurement of public relations results easier, less time-consuming and more meaningful. More PR agencies today are designating a measurement guru on its team to own analytics. Advance legwork can improve the odds of achieving measurable impact. Identify the “core measures.”

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Measurement Study Data Agency 120

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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Technology Software Company Marketing 12

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In addition, this same disruption – led by the 2024 election, the speed of misinformation and continued economic uncertainty – will require a strong measure of GRIT. Performance marketing has led the community to this wild notion that B2B marketing should only engage in measurable tactics. 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. The internet created an obsession among marketers for measurement, but it overcorrected over the last 10 years or so.

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 196

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. New LinkedIn research found that only 4% of digital marketers are measuring return on investment six months into a campaign or longer. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020.

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Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 105

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 16, 2021

Advertising offers a strong return. With the right audience data, Facebook advertising can get your brand in front of your targets. Its relatively low CPM offers a better return on advertising spend than LinkedIn in most cases. Here are B2B social strategies that perform best on Facebook. Looking to build brand awareness?

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B2B Facebook LinkedIn Small Business 344

Sword and the Script

APRIL 27, 2019

65% of journalists said audience metrics have changed the way they evaluate stories”; additionally, “43% of journalists globally reported their organization’s primary measure of success for their content is readership or viewers.”. Additional reading: 2018: 7 Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse….

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Survey Journalism Study Pitching 96

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Content marketing isn’t just a constant stream of advertisements. According to Scott Brinker’s 2018 supergraphic , there are 6,829 marketing technology solutions. It soon became clear that measuring the effectiveness of our content required measuring more than engagement stats. Using too many tools.

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Content Marketing Print Analysis Data 111

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. What do they do?

Marketing 64

Marketing Pitching Corporate Tools 64

Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2019

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. Constant Contact measures this by the highest open rate by local time. Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations: Tuesday 4:00 p.m. Here’s the data: 2.1%

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Advertising is a distant third. Registration forms are a measurable source of potential sales prospect; 44% of B2B marketing organizations say they gate content and of those “close to two-thirds (62%)…cited earning qualified leads as their reason for doing so.”. 77% say they have “more” or “much more” responsibility for technology.

Marketing 78

Marketing Publicity Survey Study 78

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Here we go…20 insightful PR and marketing predictions for 2018 follows below. My prediction for 2018 is continued investment in both AI tools and competencies and, in parallel, the data needed to leverage them.”. – In 2018 it will become even more about the customer experience. 1) Pay to play gains prominence.

Marketing 107

Marketing Content Marketing Crisis Management Data 107

Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

There's no formal methodology and they’re not so much predictions as a series of stories that I’ve recorded on my blog during 2018. Larry Fink, CEO, BlackRock, fired a warning shot in January 2018 about the contribution of corporations to society beyond profit. . #3 billion to the UK economy according to the PRCA Census 2018.

Publicity 120

Publicity Analysis Measurement Tools 120

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

People joined the internet at the rate of one million per day during 2018 according to We Are Social but universal access will take another decade in developing markets as internet access reaches countries such as Africa and India, and hard to reach areas of mature markets. Content must be authentic.

Publicity 79

Publicity Community Pinterest Reputation 79

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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