Cision

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Your audience no longer responds to traditional advertising. In fact, custom content is 92 percent more effective than traditional advertising. So how can you create content that will spread awareness of your brand and drive sales? Make sure your brand journalism plan is concentrated on your brand’s goals.

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Stephen Waddington

APRIL 14, 2020

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, local media is down by 50% and national media by 30%. The split in advertising is roughly equal.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 13, 2019

Even the most trusted brands like the BBC are seen as biased especially on issues such as Brexit and climate change. News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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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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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Syn: AVE, Advertising Value Equivalency, Earned Media Value, Impressions Like the mythical succubus, AVE (advertising value equivalency) and other bad metrics suck the strength out of your PR campaigns. They reduce your value to the “equivalent” of advertising by reducing your efforts to the “value” of a column inch.

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Cision

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You can no longer simply email journalists and hope to get coverage online or in print-based media. This practice is also useful after launching a press release to track what’s being said about your brand and the recent news development. . Check out this monster case study from AccessDirect. Press Release Distribution.

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B2B PR Sense

JANUARY 5, 2018

A solid PR campaign has the power to bolster your brand. Among its benefits, PR can build relationships with the public, boost brand awareness, increase your credibility, and create loyal customers. If PR can do so much for a brand, why don’t more brands use public relations to begin with? Myth #4: PR is just advertising.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2018

Every B2B tech PR person dreams of the splashy feature that will help make their company brand instantly recognizable. Just as some celebrities are famous for being famous, big-media notoriety can build the ego without building the brand. Those hours, of course, include studying trade journals, reviews, and analyst reports.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 2, 2019

But, it continues to be a topic of discussion–mostly because not every brand has the budget of Walmart and can continue to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars each year into social media advertising. But, I still can’t help but get a bit twitchy when I see studies like the one recently offered by Social Media Examiner.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 8, 2017

Beyond generating brand visibility, what do you want your PR coverage to communicate? A brand’s top messages are typically the basis for its narrative, and it can take time and skill to shape and convey those attributes in the right way. But that’s just the beginning. Prepping for Press. Define your message.

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Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Similarly, the same study showed that 70 percent of adults say their purchasing decision is affected by content they see shared on the web. Aligning a brand with a celebrity is the oldest type of influence marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 22, 2020

However, brands looking to enter the market with PR and digital content campaigns must have a command of the complexities inherent among APAC countries. . Before launching a campaign, brands and marketers should understand the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and approach each market differently. As in the U.S.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And PR teams have had to be more vigilant than ever to provide guidance that will keep a brand in good stead. And, just for fun, this interview with Dawn Ostroff, the president of Condé Nast Entertainment, offers cool insights as to how the formidable print company has morphed into a digital media company.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. A study called the Velvet Ghetto commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) first called out the gender pay gap in the PR profession in 1986. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. Broom, David M.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The copy I bought of David Ogilvy’s “ Confessions of an Advertising Man ” roughly 15 years ago was used. To the best of my recollection, it appeared the book was out of print, yet there was a seller on a little startup called Amazon.com willing to part ways with a hardcover copy. It was akin to a desktop manual for my profession.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We were about thirty enthusiasts, PR, marketing and advertising specialists, mainly from Europe, but obviously there was a need to gather at a high level, because in just three years we were already 250 people from all over the world and the forum created its own life, again in Davos. Now everything is PR, communications, and management.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

PR and CX go hand in hand, since it’s PR’s role to burnish a brand reputation and the job can only be done when the customer experience lives up to expectations. The smart B2B tech PR team will leverage CX team experiences to create compelling case studies and content. PR must function in real time.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

From General Mills and Campbell’s Soup to Swiffer and Target, America’s biggest brands are embracing the challenge of supporting social justice, diversity and cultural change. We've gathered a few examples mentioned - and more - for you to use as inspiration for your next brand marketing campaign. Gracie" - General Mills' Cheerios.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 21, 2018

A series of recent studies report on the health of the business of news. In time it also turned its attention to shared and paid, as search and social media advertising and promotion matured. Print, not news, in decline The quarterly Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) data is a depressing read. It almost seems unfair.

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ReimaginePR

MAY 23, 2016

I’m finding it in everything from print advertisements to Facebook ads and almost everything else in between. As much as we don’t always admit or realize it, we make our buying decisions based on how the brand, product, or even the person behind the brand makes us feel. Click To Tweet. Get rid of the persuasive copy.

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Cision

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In fact, according to Edelman’s 2016 EARNED BRAND study , 86% of surveyed consumers rely on peer sources for learning about brands and 71% rely on peer sources for buying decisions. Meanwhile, brands have their own networks — both internally and externally. However, brand listening needs to go way past this.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Ad numbers like this don’t tell the whole story, but it is an indicator of how brands are using their time and budgets. Meanwhile, print circulation numbers among the nation’s largest newspapers are plummeting. Just give this shocking post a read. That’s not exactly a recipe for sinking more money into media outreach.

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Media Relations Media Newspapers Print 60

Masters in Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Some neurological studies show that storytelling puts the storyteller's mind in sync with the listener's because both minds are working through the complex nature of the narrative. A recent psychological study observed participants who either did or did not hear an absorbing story before the researcher walked into the room.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

In this interview, Adriana discusses the nuances of promoting media brands, the evolving role of social media in media relations and how to adapt your public relations strategy to the changing media landscape. How do you approach public relations for fashion, luxury and entertainment brands versus other types of brands?

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Fashion Pitching Journalism Social Media 120

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Due to tight marketing spends, even advertisers are shortening their commercials while maintaining or increasing the number of times they are aired, to ensure maximum spread for their ad spends. Today, simply getting a news release online is of not much value to Indian clients as opposed to a good spread of print coverage.

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Stuart Bruce

JUNE 24, 2015

The reality (as I see it and experience it) is that PR has always been more in the truth business than advertising has. Advertising makes stories up and shares them.” ” The problem is that advertising is often better at telling stories, but that today people prefer the truth so PR needs to tell its true stories better.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Now we’ve all heard that journalism is dying and brand content is taking over and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day the same principles apply to PR that have always applied – third party credibility and endorsement is crucial and that third party being a media outlet still matters and will continue to matter.

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Media Relations Measurement Report Media 50

Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Old fashioned press releases and advertising can lead to bona fide editorial coverage. Million and Eyes the U.S.

Software 121

Software Case Study Advertising Advertising 121

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 25, 2020

Print is down but digital is booming. COVID-19 boosts news consumption across all mainstream media (except print) The COVIDA-19 crisis has substantially increased news consumption for mainstream media. Consumption of printed newspapers has fallen as lockdowns undermine physical distribution. The future of news is complicated.

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Cision

DECEMBER 19, 2017

According to a study conducted by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, not having a content marketing strategy is the death knell for most people’s content marketing efforts. In fact, the study found that 60 percent of businesses with a documented strategy will get results. You’re likely to close 14.6

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. As opposed to paying for advertising, PR pros earn media coverage by pitching stories reporters want to write, and readers want to see.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Not every platform or tactic will be right for your brand. In this interview, Kathy discusses the importance of knowing what is being said about your brand, how to properly prepare for potential crises and why basic marketing principles are still relevant today. What are the biggest marketing mistakes brands make?

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Top of funnel is the land of brand awareness and affinity. You want to tease your whole content program and make your brand look like a voice worth following. So when you’re creating mid-funnel content, you’re typically working on case studies, product stories, and webinars. Top of funnel: Content to build awareness.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Ideally, this is the person the brand has been dealing with, at least in part, since it issued an RFP or began an agency search. It may also comprise development and oversight of brand messaging, though at some agencies that is handled by a strategic services specialist. Here are the roles to look for when onboarding an agency.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. At FH, we dont pay for posts.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Research is simply the most effective way to discover who is using your brand, to understand just how they are using those products and services, and to decipher how they feel about your brand. Boomers are still reading their news in printed copies of newspapers (41%) and are avid TV news watchers (78%). Millennials.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 21, 2017

According to a study conducted by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, not having a content marketing strategy is the death knell for most people’s content marketing efforts. In fact, the study found that 60 percent of businesses with a documented strategy will get results. Not Integrating SEO into Your Content Marketing.

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