Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Now in its sixth year, the report is derived from a survey of 1,521 North American B2B marketers. My perspective on last year’s B2B survey can be found here: Study: Effective Content Marketing Has One Element. The survey found considerable organizational confusion as to what effective content marketing looks like.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Note: Professor Moorman also champions The CMO Survey. 3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. Example: A favorite food brand that also knows what kind of vehicle you drive, where you stop for gas and your preference in podcasts.

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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. PR practitioners have long helped clients amplify video content through social media promotion and earned media coverage, but they may be underusing video as branded content. 7 best PR uses for video. A public-facing CEO.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

There’s a vast amount of campaign types for your brand to use to grow online authority, everything from infographics to hero campaigns, to newsjacking campaigns. An example of a survey led digital PR campaign is one we did for a leading food and drink brand , Black Sheep, who champion quality cask ale. Dream Jobs.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You can get data from survey platforms like OnePoll , YouGov , Survey Monkey , and Pollfish if you don’t have user data. Depending on how you visualize your data studies and survey results, you may choose to use an infographic, which is the next tactic on this list.)

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Cision

MARCH 21, 2016

Cision’s State of the Media 2016 Report lists the four most important media trends, according to a survey of more than 300 journalists. Multimedia content, such as infographics or Slideshare presentations, will help you stand out from other brands pitching the same old standardized template. Native Advertising.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

That’s according to a new survey of 288 senior marketing executives – the CMO Survey – conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the American Marketing Association and McKinsey & Co; Duke has run this survey twice a year since 2008. The survey found 69.9%

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, this Consumer Survey from Fashion Revolution ranks for the key term “fashion survey,” which gets 30 searches per month. For instance, if I was thinking about travel, I could search “travel survey” in Google and see the number of backlinks each post has received without needing to leave Google.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, this Consumer Survey from Fashion Revolution ranks for the key term “fashion survey,” which gets 30 searches per month. For instance, if I was thinking about travel, I could search “travel survey” in Google and see the number of backlinks each post has received without needing to leave Google.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In either case, I’ve paused to delve into three social media studies or surveys that crossed my screen in recent months and distilled them to the most important findings. These three studies seem to, in part, answer these three questions: How is our brand doing in social media relative to comparable brands?

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s a common fallacy that PR is great for increasing brand awareness but not so great for actually converting people into shoppers. But when paired with other advertising methods, PR is a great way to leverage those marketing efforts. Part of the current struggle for many companies is humanizing their brand.

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Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Quite rightly the PRCA says: “Now more than ever, in-house teams surveyed see themselves as the owners of digital/social media strategy and execution, with agencies providing supporting roles.” Companies and brands can only be truly social if they do it themselves. However, there are some interesting indications.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 21, 2018

At that time, that basically limited him to email and search advertising. I’m afraid the data people will win, and it will all become a commodity if brand and creativity don’t matter anymore. 3 Tips for Effective Infographics: Data, Design and Distribution [UML]. 1) Creative and analytics as whole-brained partners.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

It appears that most marketers do and reported gating “ 80% of their major content marketing assets ” according to a survey vetted by MarketingProfs. The same study points out there’s some content – infographics for example – is rarely gated. It’s a question as old as the web – should you gate your content?

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Sword and the Script

MAY 20, 2017

A new survey of 2,400 B2B marketers suggests content marketing is the top priority this year – and by a wide margin. While that percentage is a plurality, the next highest priority, brand building, trailed with 24% of the votes. Luckily, there’s one type of content that can put an end to that issue right away: opinion content.”.

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PR 20/20

MAY 17, 2018

These campaigns come in the form of gated content offers like survey reports, coupons, free events, job applications, and much more. This could be in the form of a visual checklist, infographic, SlideShare presentation, quiz or even a Facebook Live webcast. This could be through search, like AdWords or social media advertising.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2017

Cision’s annual survey of more than 1,550 North American journalists and influencers reveals key findings on how journalists use news releases and multimedia to tell better stories. Journalists value news releases and want brands to provide high quality content. The top three elements include photos, social media posts and videos.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I review a lot of marketing studies and surveys – and write about the one I think will be helpful for readers. but most CMOs (61%) expect “their budgets to rebound in 2020” according to The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. Read more: 6 Benchmarks from a Survey of CMOs through the Lenses of B2B Marketing. of revenue to 10.5%

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 22, 2015

So it wasn’t a huge surprise that the survey really focused on whether, and how, journalists would use externally-produced video. So any time you have brand integration involved, that means your disclosures have to be that much more clear.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Given advertising deadlines, buying ad inventory is usually much smoother if you plan both content and budget for it in advance. For example, if your business released a statistically significant survey or data-rich industry trends report, a webinar that breaks down what it means would be useful.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 3, 2017

Back in December, one of my colleagues penned a piece on using surveys to generate coverage and increase brand awareness. If a quick Google search reveals that your survey results are old news, a reporter is likely to pass. Developing a clear and succinct hypothesis is even more important than the survey questions themselves.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 18, 2019

In the ideal world a PR budget has room for everything — a robust media relations component, branded content, strategic events, influencer outreach, and possibly borrowed-interest tactics designed to ramp up news during quiet periods. Survey results can easily become infographics or the centerpiece of a customer newsletter.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You have two options: Promote through paid media (pay-per-click advertisements & sponsored posts). Brands who blog have more indexed web pages, which boosts SEO. An active blog authenticates your brand, revealing your personality, expertise, and values, which helps to build your subscriber base and sparks customer loyalty.

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ISEBOX

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Results of a survey published January 26, 2017 by InCrowd, a provider of market intelligence for pharma marketing firms, might send a shiver down the spine of every marketer in the health and life sciences world. More than one-third of physicians say that direct-to-consumer advertising should be banned. Read Time: 2 minutes.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Understanding an integrated marketing environment will feed success when pitching brands and working on campaigns by allowing you to clearly show revenue ROI that will make your results more tangible to business leaders. Conduct surveys polling the dynamics of your industry and build reports from that data. Test paid ad channels.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Daniel Lemin, President, One Good Brand. Last year the amount of video from people and brands in Facebook’s News feed increased 3.6X Posts on Facebook brand pages with photos saw the most engagement—accounting for 87% of total interactions. You can download the full infographic of the 15 skills here. year-over-year.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You have two options: Promote through paid media (pay-per-click advertisements & sponsored posts). Brands who blog have more indexed web pages, which boosts SEO. An active blog authenticates your brand, revealing your personality, expertise, and values, which helps to build your subscriber base and sparks customer loyalty.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 30, 2018

An infographic is included that shows how Cision Impact builds on the Cision Communications Cloud ® , to deliver the most complete PR workflow platform — from identifying influencers to reporting revenue generated. . The infographic below breaks down the five key steps to comprehensively manage earned media programs.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

It’s a specific person who’s attracted to your brand message and the way that you articulate that message. Far too many brands make the mistake of speaking to their peers in their blogs, and not their customers. This means photos, infographics and other graphic elements that break up large chunks of text. Infographics.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The last CMO was a train wreck and therefore a) we need fire an agency; b) initiate a restructuring; and c) launch a re-branding. ” The company says it surveyed 400 U.S.-based based marketing and advertising professionals for the survey. We see it in business, government and non-profits too.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 7, 2016

When your brand is mapping its media outreach strategy, it’s easy to get hung up on the usual suspects: public relations, paid advertising, social media and content marketing. A similar survey by TheNewsMarket found that 66 percent of journalists visit online newsrooms every week, while one third visit them daily.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. These skill gaps are roughly the same as they were the last time the survey was done. Source: PR Academy annual qualification trends survey. It is a challenge to keep up. Everyone wants a piece of the cake.

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Cision

MAY 29, 2017

Marketers are now keen on making brand content discoverable to ensure better awareness and traffic. In fact, a survey carried out by Forrester Consulting found social media to be the most preferred source of discovery for news and information among online adults between the ages of 18 and 55. Enter content discovery!

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NewsWhip

MAY 27, 2021

Brand relevance versus brand reputation | Jump to text. Wellness brands during the pandemic | Jump to text. It showed how this is happening through some really beautiful and smart simulation which was essentially just this animated infographic. Companies have scaled back their advertising. What’s that?

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Beyond PR

MAY 30, 2017

Marketers are now keen on making brand content discoverable to ensure better awareness and traffic. In fact, a survey carried out by Forrester Consulting found social media to be the most preferred source of discovery for news and information among online adults between the ages of 18 and 55. Enter content discovery!

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