Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can’t just spend your way to success in social media advertising. You can have the best research, personas, targeting, messages and creative – and still miss the mark. They can and do comment on paid promotions as this advertisement for AT&T Fiber demonstrates. Because your customers and prospective customers get a vote.

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Advertising Advertising Social Media Twitter 60

Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This includes identifying customer needs, developing products that satisfy those needs, setting prices, determining distribution channels, and promoting the products through various forms of advertising and promotion. The focus is on creating compelling messages that encourage consumers to purchase.

Publicity 52

Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

Prohibition

JANUARY 6, 2023

Videos allow your brand to communicate its unique messaging, offering or products in a creative and emotive manner that snaps the attention of your audience, instead of getting lost in overly long text. Advertisers spend billions across social media platforms, targetting businesses and consumers alike with their messaging.

Video 62

Video Strategy SEO Engineering 62

PR in High Definition

APRIL 23, 2020

I was scrolling through social media over the weekend, looking at all the wonderful banana breads and creative projects people have taken on during lockdown. Would a discount on baggage really sway consumers to make that purchase in such an uncertain time? Naturally, this slightly unsettled me.

Crisis 71

Crisis Communications Airlines Web 71

Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Marketing and advertising teams A/B test ad copy to see which messages resonate the most with their customers. They often go it alone without checking in with PR, instead leaning on the fact that they’re working with the creative team’s copywriter, and copywriters are all the extra “messaging expertise” the marketing team needs, right?

Marketing 170

Marketing Measurement Trends B2B 170

Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

We’ve been able to observe the impact of the virus on consumer behaviour and media consumption thanks to data from Brandwatch, OFCOM, Reuters Institute and YouGov, among others. In the consumer sector, the entertainment, gym, hospitality, sports and travel industries in the UK shutdown on 23 March when a lockdown was applied.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2019

For businesses to remain competitive, a significant effort in achieving marketing automation is required, as the gains to consumer interactions and experience, and company productivity and profit are many to be had. Automation can remove the human side of tracking the time a customer has spent on a given web page. Feature #9: Forms.

Marketing 67

Marketing Web Software Technology 67

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Though marketing pros have been telling stories for a long time, consumers are looking for increasingly short, visual and engaging tales in order to hold their attention and build a connection. Advertising Week. Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang. Web Ink Now. Creativity Unbound.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

Cision

AUGUST 2, 2016

In this interview, Angie discusses how to stay relevant with consumers, create an impactful message and build better relationships with the media. Even if it is “fast-fashion,” consumers should be able to identify with what the brand represents and in turn want to represent that brand’s message.

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Fashion Apparel Pitching Consumer 120

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics.

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Financial Conference Agency Resources 98

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. Changes are made either automatically or manually to refine targeting or ad creative. Make your campaigns work hard by evaluating the results daily and optimising your targeting, creative and copy. Native advertising.

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Media How To Advertising Advertising 103

Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

Since April 2020, we’ve been busy exploring what the impact of COVID – and the related national lockdowns – really mean for brands, and how this has impacted customer and consumer behaviour. These changes are symptomatic of broader consumer attitudes and relationships with brands. What does this mean for brands? Responsible influence.

Social Media 62

Social Media Trends Consumer Video 62

Cision

JANUARY 6, 2017

Adrienne and Greg Weiss sat down with us to explain their branding strategies, the importance of relevance and resonance with consumers, and the most important branding advice they’ve learned throughout their careers. Story telling, club making and building a culture that feels like a country is a powerful way to connect with consumers.

Retail 225

Retail Consumer Brand Branding 225

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. The issue lies in the inability of PR to achieve its value. What we do 5.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 18, 2021

In Ries and Trout’s book Positioning, the battle for your mind they said, “PR starts the fire, marketing and advertising fan the flames.” All aspects of the campaign used similar creative so that the message was consistent across all platforms. Get creative and get smart. The top of the funnel is filled by PR.

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Small Business Fashion Groups Local 213

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services. Our agency’s been helping clients with search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) online advertising for seven years. What’s on the horizon for digital marketing?

SEO 98

SEO Interviews Blogging Engineering 98

Sword and the Script

JUNE 16, 2015

Following the likes of BuzzFeed, Gawker and the WaPo , among other media outlets, CNN is going all in on native advertising with an in-store studio or so to speak. The division will fashion and distribute “branded content” across CNN’s fleet of properties, from TV to the Web and newer platforms like Snapchat….

Advertising 60

Advertising Advertising Ethics Journalism 60

Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

Since April 2020, we’ve been busy exploring what the impact of COVID – and the related national lockdowns – really mean for brands, and how this has impacted customer and consumer behaviour. These changes are symptomatic of broader consumer attitudes and relationships with brands. What does this mean for brands? Responsible influence.

Trends 62

Trends Social Media Consumer Video 62

Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

Strategy 67

Strategy How To B2C Content Marketing 67

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Avid podcast listeners consume an average of five a week – listening for four hours and 10 minutes (chart nearby used with permission by The Marketing Companion ). For marketers, the growth in audio content means adjusting strategy to make it easier for consumers to find exactly what they’re looking for via voice.”. Talk to Us!

Tools 60

Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Consider how much time and money you and your team spend performing repetitive marketing tasks such as: creating social media updates, writing blog posts, personalizing emails, developing advertising copy, managing digital media spend, optimizing web pages, testing creatives, and extracting insights from analytics.

Financial 52

Financial Conference Agency Resources 52

wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

Creativity 52

Creativity How To Engineering Advertising 52

wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

Creativity 52

Creativity How To Engineering Advertising 52

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Today, with over 2 billion smartphones in use, the ways in which consumers experience brands is fundamentally different. In the internet of a decade ago, users experienced brands primarily through web browsers. Marketers and advertisers pay attention to this. Now, brands have two options: adapt or go the way of the desktop.

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Mobile Examples Brand Branding 60

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

As it is on the web, our paths have crisscrossed occasionally over the years. One part of an answer is bound to sound like a “get off my lawn” response, but I think there’s been a decline in the effort younger marketers put into learning the craft aspects of creative. Yet, Erik’s perspective isn’t only limited to journalism.

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Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. Google Analytics gets responsive Google analytics users will now be able to obtain information about web traffic more easily and quickly with natural language. Online advertising has changed. What do you guys think?

Tools 136

Tools Publicity Measurement SEO 136

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2015

Why: Ketchum’s Tyler Durham outlines ways to create “a culture and organizational architecture that promotes creativity and innovation.” Why advertising should remain a key part of your communications mix. The Best Weapons in the Battle for World-Class Talent and Ideas. Measurement in #PR – Social Network Analysis.

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Conference Analysis Journalism Employee 40

Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

What is Consumer Sentiment? What is the current perception of your brand among consumers? Make sure to observe the most up-to-date consumer sentiment towards your brand. You can do this by using tools that track keywords related to your brand and monitor consumer behaviour and sentiment on the web.

Crisis 62

Crisis How To Crisis Management Crisis Communications 62

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

They enable consumer brand marketers to connect with influencers who have large followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, in a straightforward transactional manner. Performance marketing and digital ad spending will continue to become less effective as consumer brands continue to fight for the same broad audiences.

Marketing 190

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 190

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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Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 101

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Authentic storytelling continued to excel “For PR, authentic storytelling will continue to excel as consumers seek honest, genuine experiences and solutions. The prevalence of AI will increase but best, consumers and journalists will come to expect it, along the lines of having eco-friendly packaging.

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Writing Communications Marketing B2B 194

Flack's Revenge

JULY 11, 2018

Most who are familiar with the concept of a Big Idea know it from the world of advertising. PR is not as well-known as advertising or associated with glitzy pitches or Mad Men style theatrics. The phrase has specific meaning in advertising – and PR too, as we’ll learn. Examples are all around us.

Insurance 204

Insurance Insurance Advertising Advertising 204

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. For consumers, this means those sneakers are less likely to stalk you around the internet just because you browsed Zappos one time. For brands, however, it means a paradigm shift.

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Privacy Google Advertising Advertising 124

PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Paid search (41 percent), search engine optimization (39 percent), social media monitoring (37 percent), email marketing (33 percent), web analytics (32 percent), marketing analytics (30 percent), and marketing automation (28 percent) are among the digital activities being farmed out to integrated agencies and specialty shops.

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Maxim Behar

APRIL 2, 2024

This has entirely changed with social media, which has uplifted the quality of Web 1.0 to a whole new level, a whole new dimension, that of the interactive Web. To a great extent, PR experts need to know the target consumer, their traits, media consumption habits, preferences, everything. No dialogue.

Print 64

Print Social Media Web Television 64

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

However, remember that AI should not replace human-written content and creativity. AI for ideas & inspiration Humans are creative and can think of many different ideas, and now AI dramatically increases the number and novelty of ideas. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros.

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Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

We’ll use X’s Advanced Search feature, which allows you to be a little more creative with your searches. Finding websites and publications and then identifying journalists can be time-consuming. Common examples include (web producer, webmaster, digital producer, digital reporter, multimedia reporter, etc.) Ah, much better.

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