Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Brands focused on using social to sell. Advertising has taken over. So, with that backdrop, here are 3 reasons I think you might want to think long-and-hard about de-prioritizing engagements as part of our social media strategy in 2022: 1: People’s behaviors have changed on the primary social media networks.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 12, 2022

2022 will be a year of consolidation for a news industry that has been disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, changing audience behaviour and technology. 2022 is set to be a year of consolidation for the news industry. Publishers say that, on average, three or four different revenue streams will be important in 2022.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2022

It’s a brand new format and brands just haven’t jumped in–which is not new at all. So, some solid reasons why brands haven’t been more involved so far. However, I see audio as a HUGE area of opportunity for brands in 2022 (and beyond). These are your brand ambassadors.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Just last year, advertisers paid an average of 6.5 Who won the Super Bowl ads in 2022? Yes, the Los Angeles Rams did win the coveted Lombardi Trophy in 2022, but we’re talking about brands here. As expected, the public embraced 2022 Super Bowl ads. million U.S. But just how impactful are these ads? Time will tell.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 26, 2022

If you’re like most brands, it’s probably spend in content creation and ads. Or, what about advertising. My guess, content creation and advertising probably take up at least 75% of our time as social media marketers. Clearly, many brands are minimizing community management as well. Sometimes 5-7 hours.

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Konnect Agency

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s hard to believe that in the blink of an eye, we are already staring at 2022. At Konnect, we’ve grown accustomed to the fourth quarter craze and are well underway with 2022 planning for our clients. Read on for the trends we believe will be impactful for 2022. Nothing seems to ring more true than how quickly 2021 flew by!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2021

2021 saw emerging platforms that B2B brands were eyeing to for their marketing plans, and some may have been missteps. In fact, there are several social media approaches that should be reassessed as we enter 2022. The main goal of social media marketing is to generate a dedicated audience for your brand. Audit current content.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I definitely have more thoughts on the skills the social media pro of 2022 should have. So, I asked five social media professionals right here in Minneapolis what they think the top 5 skills social media pros need in 2022–here’s what they had to say: Giuliana Clanin, associate director-social media, Life Time.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Whether your focus is fitness, food, or fashion, TikTok offers the potential for brands to grow their reach, attract new customers and connect with a highly engaged audience. billion users by the end of the year, TikTok is now an essential platform for marketing, advertising – and can even be utilised for PR.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 13, 2022

Whether your brand is making a splash at a trade show or an executive is speaking at a conference, professional events combine direct customer contact with press opportunities. And the biggest of these events – like the Cannes Advertising Festival, the Consumer Electronics Show, or the E3 Expo, attract equally high-profile media.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 24, 2023

Insider recently named multiple Crenshaw Communications clients to its second annual list of up-and-coming advertising tech talent. She is also a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Prebid Addressability Group.” million in revenue in 2022 [and] her sales teams beat their yearly quotas by 73% last year.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Crenshaw Communications, an award-winning B2B PR firm representing leading ad tech brands, recently welcomed Patrice Gamble as PR account director and Anna Julow Roolf as chief of staff. Anna brings over a decade of experience in the B2B PR industry, including leadership roles in agency and SaaS startup environments.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

That makes things more interesting, and possibly more complicated, for those who work in PR for ad tech and entertainment brands. . With advertisers taking notice of the growth, there’s been an uptick in brands adding streaming to their media ad spend strategy, resulting in more streaming-specific PR goals for adtech providers.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

That makes things more interesting, and possibly more complicated, for those who work in PR for ad tech and entertainment brands. . With advertisers taking notice of the growth, there’s been an uptick in brands adding streaming to their media ad spend strategy, resulting in more streaming-specific PR goals for adtech providers.

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Shift Communications

MAY 10, 2022

Brands today are built on social, but social media marketing has never been more cut-throat. minutes, it’s poised to be the top growing and engaged with platform in 2022. The platform was made for influencer marketing, with subject matters like #BookTok perfect for brands like Barnes & Nobles or Book of the Month.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past few years, digital PR has become significantly more important for brands and now goes way beyond ‘building links’ It includes increased brand awareness, brand positioning, SEO ranking, marketing share, share of voice, social media performance, organic traffic, sales and more – all encompassed in one.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As always, this year brought some truly spectacular “PR failures” by high-profile organizations and brands. Don’t be wishy-washy: Bud Light and Target Like many brand-watchers, I thought the backlash against Bud Light over its partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney would fade away. It was a lose-lose.

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Even as DEI became a front-seat priority for brands and businesses in 2022, broadcast media has seen a 10-percentage-point decline in Black viewers who are more likely to buy from brands that advertise in inclusive content compared to 2021.

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5W PR

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Not only that, but the platform itself has been working on introducing brand new features that can help companies directly connect with their target audiences a lot more effectively. billion users by the end of 2022. It continues to be one of the most downloaded apps on Apple’s app store (as of Q2 2022).

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 30, 2022

I’m talking about brands that post videos on LinkedIn in the wrong format (vertical). I’m talking about brands that post videos on Facebook without captions. I’m talking about brands that re-post their most recently 60-second spot on Insta. These brands aren’t taking social video seriously.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

2021 was the year that several brands got multicultural marketing right. Strategies that consumer brands who serve multiple cultures (which should apply to most!) Strategies that consumer brands who serve multiple cultures (which should apply to most!) should consider implementing in 2022.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 26, 2022

link] — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2022. We’ve admittedly seen some of Twitter’s impact for brands diminish. Brand safety & misinformation vigilance. Advertising landscape changes. If toxic content increases alongside changes to empower free speech, advertisers could boycott Twitter.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For smaller brands, Twitter’s noisy platform and algorithms that determine what users see often work against their best efforts. We’ve all seen users tweet about poor customer service, but via Twitter brands can offer to resolve those issues faster than any other method. But are PR professionals delivering what journalists need?

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This comes as Instagram continues to double down on video as part of their 2022 plans, after extending reels to 90 seconds after the previous 60 second limit. Should these be implemented permanently, they will open up an array of opportunities for advertising on their platforms. LinkedIn expand their advertising tools.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

billion in 2022 and grow to $4.56 I’m not here to bash advertising or LinkedIn. LinkedIn had done a lot of good with it’s think tank and restitution of the value of branding and genuine thought leadership in B2B marketing. Display advertising is essentially renting an audience – why not invest in building one that you own?

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Prohibition

JANUARY 20, 2023

Trend #1: Decline of Twitter and continued takeover of TikTok In 2022 we saw Twitter turbulence amid the Elon Musk takeover as he strived to bring the platform back to life in terms of profitability, to retain advertisers and generate more of a revenue stream. Opportunities for brands to tap into this are endless!

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Prohibition

AUGUST 19, 2022

Here we’ve taken a look at the background of podcasts and why it can be useful for brands. According to Podcast Host as of April 2022, there were 512,480 active podcasts on the Apple Podcast platform. In 2021 the advertising spend on podcasts in the UK was £46m pounds. How to get your brand involved with podcasts.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 10, 2022

Influencer marketing is therefore offering a lucrative opportunity for brands and advertisers as well as influencers. The rapid growth of this marketplace, both in scale and in technical innovation, has outpaced the capabilities of UK advertising regulation. The closing date for responses is 1 June 2022.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Meta expands on advertising rules Under new advertising rules introduced by Meta, advertisers on Instagram and Facebook will be limited in their ability to use personalised data to advertise to under 18’s. Get in contact today to find out how we could help you.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

2022 has been a busy year so far for social media changes and updates, with significant shifts being made frequently on every platform. Should this be rolled out globally, there will be a significant impact on the micro-influencer space which brands will need to consider, as this group will effectively be able to work more independently.

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Prohibition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

After an array of changes to reels and the look of the platform itself, Instagram are now planning to drastically scale back their shopping features as they shift their focus away from e-commerce and more toward those that directly drive advertising. This will be an interesting one for e-commerce brands as the trend evolves.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 7, 2023

There are a handful of ad tech companies that provide this form of advertising – a gas stations aren’t the only place that host it. Full year 2022 revenue was $438.7 For the full year 2022, the company lost $25.8 For the full year 2022, the company lost $25.8 Q4 2022 one-time expenses were $6.8 million YoY.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2023

Studies show B2B buyers are getting younger and want to engage with companies on social media; B2B marketers are finding social media supports both leads and revenue About one-third of respondents find new products and hear about brands for the first time on social media. It includes both organic posts, sponsored posts and paid ads.

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that video content is pure entertainment , but consumers are itching for branded videos. In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Video is now the main way people consume content online. Incentivize them with gift cards and other rewards.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Social Influencers have quickly risen to one of the most important assets to brands in just the past few years. By working with influencers who are relevant to your brand, you can extend the reach of your brand voice online and on social media. Trust in your Brand. for every dollar invested. Reach a Wider Audience.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If your company has made a DE&I commitment, ability to deliver on it has long-term implications for your business and brand. Here are a few ways to continue evolving your programs in 2022 and beyond. DE&I communications in 2022. Want to improve your DE&I Communications Plans in 2022?

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