Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Benchmarking CTR data for consumer display ads on Google range from an abysmal.09% I’m not here to bash advertising or LinkedIn. In other words, pitch a story , not a product. Display advertising is essentially renting an audience – why not invest in building one that you own? that’s written like journalism.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In an era where consumers are increasingly sceptical of advertising and corporate speak, PR offers a more authentic and credible way to communicate with the public. Source: Journal of Communication 1 Botan, C., & Taylor, M. Journal of Communication, 54, 645–661. Source: Journal of Accounting and Economics 5 Brown, L.,

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Recently our Chicago team invited Jessica Wohl , Food and Restaurant Reporter at Advertising Age , into its offices for a Lunch and Learn with the media team. Her journey began in college when a professor inspired her to pursue a career in journalism. Buzz on Twitter / consumer response; i.e., Red Starbucks cups.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. Growth of independent journalism. “We Emerging channels like podcasts will continue to grow in influence, which means PR pros have to become more fluent in strategically pitching and forming relationships in these channels.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing.

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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.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content.

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Pushing products in your pitches won’t gain you any media coverage. If you want journalists to respond to your pitches, you need to explain why your news is important and relevant. Adriana Stan, public relations director at W Magazine, says being empathetic to the contacts you are pitching is the key to winning them over.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

When a brand can’t dictate the message anymore, it has to connect with its consumers. Want to learn the new rules of media pitching? Getting your client coverage in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal still has value. Conventional advertising is struggling. Sign up for Michael Smart’s Feb.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

They now include the use of sophisticated consumer data sets to inform messaging and media channels, tapping social influencers to drive brand esteem and consumer behavior, and even getting into bed with the Facebook-Google advertising duopoly to deliver impressions, engagement and conversion.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In the 1890s, it was called yellow journalism and was a tactic designed by greedy newspaper publishers to sell more newspapers using scandalous (and not necessarily true) headlines. But many sites that rely on traffic to attract advertisers will create clickbait headlines that are so scandalous, people can’t help but click.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The advertising strategies of the past no longer stack up to today’s audiences. Here, she discusses Kiip’s tremendous growth over the past year, her approach to PR in the tech industry and the evolution of consumers in today’s digitally-focused world. I studied journalism with a few PR courses sprinkled in between at St.

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Buzzstream

MAY 16, 2024

Some simply buy links on large guest posting directories, and others pitch quality content to get published on an external site. In our podcast with Linkpitch.io’s Aaron Anderson , he recommends avoiding sites that blatantly advertise the links. Do They Advertise the Price for a Post? This is where it gets a little hazy.

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MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Until recently, our getting a Maccabee PR client interviewed on a podcast was seen as a peripheral “nice to have,” built upon “must-have” interviews with traditional media such as "USA Today" or the "Wall Street Journal." How to Pitch a Podcast Producer with a Potential Guest (Without Driving Them Mad). “I It’s a time waster.”. (

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 27, 2018

A third added, “The changing face of journalism has left many newsrooms bereft of veterans and reporters with historical knowledge.”. While I do think the economics of journalism has also played a starring role in this sector, there are a number of other contributing factors. Pitch a story about how the world is ending.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

Chris Lynch: It’s overwhelming to consumers and brands. Rallies against Kellogg’s after it pulled its advertising from Breitbart. Chris Lynch: It’s overwhelming to consumers and brands dealing with issues around brand credibility. Automobile companies (and the military) are the largest advertisers on television.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We consume news through TV, mobile apps, PC and social media. It’s a challenge for those in the journalism industry and the public relations industry alike. Clickbait and advertising excess Media outlets such as The Daily Mail, The Sun, and The Mirror flourish in digital and print. It devalues print coverage as readership falls.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 It’s doing this through a partnership with an adtech company called Nativo, which as the brand name suggests, is a native advertising platform. Million and Eyes the U.S.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Earned media still the most credible source of info Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Advertising is a distant third. She and her research team conducted a focus group with 46 participants and also using a panel to survey 1,500 consumers. Try our services.

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PR Fuel

JULY 24, 2018

And since you’re pitching news, doesn’t it make sense to follow the pattern set by the publications you’re targeting? Every Pitch is a Learning Experience. With today’s journalist shouldering more responsibility than ever before, it’s essential that you master the art of pitching stories. When did you send the pitch?

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

PR’s job is to pitch and secure stories that align with the brand, as told through third-party endorsement. Marketing and advertising teams A/B test ad copy to see which messages resonate the most with their customers. Marketing’s job is then to identify key audiences and directly market to them through the lens of the brand.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These are three traditional job titles in the journalism world which have been around for over a century. So, do you pitch to an editor in the hope they pass the story to a freelancer? So, do you pitch to an editor in the hope they pass the story to a freelancer? Columnists. News been framed!

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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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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. The good news?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Top tip: Using earned media as part of a Paid, Earned, Shared and Owned (PESO) or Search campaign Trust in earned media may be dented but it remains higher than other forms of media, notably paid such as advertising or promotional editorial. Broadband internet access became a mainstream consumer proposition in 2000.

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Cision

MAY 8, 2015

Scott herself studied painting and printmaking before entering the advertising world. Lindsey Wehking, assistant account planner at FleishmanHillard and the most recent college grad of the bunch, was a journalism major with a minor in anthropology. Jesse Dienstag, executive director and head of planning at Golin , studied theater.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Valuable and free content for the industry and consumer paid for by low-cost sponsoring, advertising, and partnering—all beautifully designed. Why the story matters to the company and should matter to the customer or consumer. How long have you been in journalism and how did you get started? Any pet peeves with PR people?

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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. Even as a PR pro, I value credible and independent journalism and the lines of native ads threaten to bleed the edges. It’s a question of ethics.

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Cision

AUGUST 9, 2016

In this interview, Brandon shares why brands shouldn’t focus too much on competitors, how to streamline your pitches to journalists and how social media can help your brand in a crisis. I joined the journalism classes writing news articles for the college news website and began studying public relations for my degree.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. 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 ). Help Humanize Marketing?

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. Exhibit A: The Death Knell of “Advertising’? What is even worse is that I know the people who are making it now that I’m going to hate it.

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PR Breakfast Club

MAY 12, 2014

In late March, Avión Tequila’s PR firm, Allison Brod PR, sent a media pitch claiming “ consuming tequila has some serious health benefits.” The pitch offered cocktail recipes and sourced an American Chemical Society study that suggested agave could lower blood sugar, aid in weight loss and boost insulin production.

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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.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Founder of Crenshaw Communications, Dorothy handles clients in CE and digital technology, retail, consumer products, and health promotion. Earlier roles include Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Worldwide Consumer Marketing at the PR unit of Grey Advertising and Edelman Worldwide as a senior vice president.

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Rock the Status Quo

MARCH 30, 2015

They aren’t likely to cannibalize my video reach as a pay-for-play advertising opportunity when they make revenue stuffing commercials in front of videos already, and do that based on organic reach. It could be used for customer service, sure, but how about journalism? For PR pros wanting more brand visibility?

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 15, 2021

Why PR is finally getting its share of SEO budgets - Angharad Planells, head of client success, Radioactive PR PR unleashed: why the value of PR is being recognised by organisations in 2021 - Koray Camgoz, director of communications and marketing, PRCA Please follow this link if you’d like to pitch to present at a future event.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When I looked at his background to develop relevant questions, his experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) was what stood out to me. As it turns out, he got his start selling radio and television advertising and only later went to work in the CPG industry after earning an MBA. Consumers have become more cost conscious.

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