Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

Three mega-trends are already on their way and will arrive at our industry’s shores before the year is out. We may get a great hit in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, but that hit will be one story among 200,000 or 300,000 for that day. What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017?

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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

How has the consumer changed the news cycle and impacted PR measurement? Communications methods & measurement standards. The consumer-driven news cycle & PR measurement. Trends in digital news. And it’s no longer about that measurement piece at the end. Watch webinar. Read transcript.

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

You’ll need to embrace the trends of tomorrow to stay ahead in the game. So if you’re the curious kind, we present to you the innovative, upcoming trends in the world of content marketing to help you deliver maximum value and minimize the impact of the ever-changing and demanding market. Interactive Storytelling.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

From online articles to advertisements to blogs to social media posts — numerous mediums are competing for your audience’s attention. Multimedia is a crucial component to impactful modern-day journalism. Journalists are no longer measured by the quality of their work; they are measured by the effectiveness of their work.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market.

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Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

PR has evolved to become more marketing-centric, but content silos and measurement have remained stagnant. When the same PR executives from USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism’s 2017 Global Communications Report were asked about the future of PR — 88 percent believe digital storytelling is the most salient trend.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? Even as this in-housing trend took hold, law firms amazingly continued to raise their rates year after year.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s that time of year–yes, trend season is underway, my social media friends! million trend posts between now and Dec. Most of these trend posts, mind you, will be complete and utter garbage. In fact, many of them are literally cut-and-pasted from last year’s trend posts.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Marketing and advertising teams A/B test ad copy to see which messages resonate the most with their customers. Many of the insights Riggs discovered were due to his use of PR analytics and measuring the nuts and bolts of PR campaign success. Marketing Goal 3: Keep your finger on the pulse of industry trends.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Growth of independent journalism. “We This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. And that requires good data – not only to find the right people and outlets but also to measure the reach and impact of these efforts.

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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. What are the global trends in communications?

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Check out the list below to see what you need to add to your reading list, along with insights from top thought leaders on how to be effective in today’s media landscape and what upcoming trends they see in our industry. Advertising Age Online. Search Engine Journal. Given that, ignoring or dismissing it seems massively flawed.”

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. If the in-house trend continues to develop in PR, the agencies that will be best positioned to grow are those that execute well or maintain some specialized capabilities.

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Cision

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s Get Mobile: The Wall Street Journal will release a mobile news app ( Capital ), Apple introduces its revamped news app, News ( NiemanLab ) and also introduces its new music streaming service, Apple Music ( Variety ). Want the latest media news sent to you? Subscribe to our daily or weekly emails now!

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NewsWhip

JUNE 2, 2020

Marketing and Advertising. Social media plays a pivotal role in Turbine Lab’s research – having the clearest signal on what’s trending now is essential to their core mission. We measure the reach, impact and value of consumer and media content and conversation in the context of the brand and its competitors. CASE STUDY.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The full report makes several recommendations, including, “Reduce technology overlaps to improve employee experience and measurement efforts by prioritizing multichannel integration and specialized ECA capabilities that address high-impact business scenarios.” PR measurement. CisionOne launches in the US.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

PR measurement has long been an outcast in marketing dashboards. Over the years, companies have almost created coping mechanisms for accepting weak PR reporting – either not measuring PR at all or relying on basic awareness metrics, like percentage increase of coverage and sentiment. By Seedepth. We hope so!

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Measured on clicks, quick hits.”

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Digital storytelling, social listening and native advertising will all dramatically increase in significance as well, even as blogs maintain an important role in disseminating information. Look for more PR shops to say they’re “data driven.”.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 19, 2015

Stations can see what is already popular and trending on social media, then pop it on the news that same day. Is that what today’s journalism stands for? What would happen if success of a story for a local news station were measured on local impact? It’s the news equivalent of clickbait.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 15, 2021

Further reading: Nurturing tomorrow’s leaders , Camier Communications, Isobel Camier How to build a PR measurement dashboard - Andrew Smith, director, Escherman Piotr Boiwka- Which data visualisation tool is the most worth to learn? Claudia Vaccarone - What are the top three indicators for measuring awareness?

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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. New LinkedIn research found that only 4% of digital marketers are measuring return on investment six months into a campaign or longer. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020.

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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. Simply that its algorithms did their job, but that they’d take measures to improve those algorithms in the future. Why Fake News Exists.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The internet created an obsession among marketers for measurement, but it overcorrected over the last 10 years or so. They have also proven crucial in measuring the efficacy of PR campaigns and customizing them. Local news and indy journalism more trusted. “I Marketing turns to creative to stand out from the clutter .

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Most people find independent journalism and earned media to be the most credible source of information. Advertising is a distant third. A study that included both a focus group and a survey which found: 67% of the focus group participants and 48% of the survey panel indicated journalism was the most credible source of information; and.

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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. Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Million and Eyes the U.S. Are you kidding?

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Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

PR measurement and Hispanic consumer sentiment models have evolved and can be layered to quantify sales impact. For those preparing to make the leap, it is important to write well, multitask, and be consumed with a variety of topics: pop culture, politics, media trends, and beyond. Short Response: 1.

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Presspage

APRIL 12, 2018

What are some trends you’re seeing evolve over time? Are we seeing the demise of the traditional newsroom in favor of more automated measures? It serves an important social need and legacy media like the Washington Post are showing that really good journalism can make a publication viable even in today’s fragmented market.

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Cision

MAY 5, 2016

I very much enjoyed journalism and had a blast doing it. By staying on top of trends, doing your homework and connecting the dots, you gain a better understanding of where your audience is getting their information throughout the day, so you can tap into that market and give consumers what they want, where they are looking for it.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

And thank you Aaron for that fascinating insight into how social media has changed journalism. Advertising and marketing people might have used to have control. In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Onclusive released a report called the 2019 Global Journalism Report , which it says “analyzed 2.1 According to the firm’s latest State of Creative Hiring data, 75 percent of advertising and marketing hiring decision makers anticipate expanding their teams in the second half of 2019, up from 60 percent six months ago.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 4, 2018

In Cision’s 2017 Global Comms Report: Challenges and Trends , we talked to communications professionals around the world to understand the issues they face. Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing. About Nick Bell.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 20, 2015

Currently a Technology reporter for the Boston Business Journal covering startups, venture capital and the tech sector. In today’s data-driven world, marketers must not only understand how to tailor their messages to audiences via different channels, but be adept at measuring the effectiveness of these messages as well.

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Marketing Privacy Big Data Technology 60

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The company surveyed 500 marketers in Europe and the US and found many admit to struggling to marry “digital advertising and powerful creative work.”. And then noted the statistics: “Nearly 70 percent of marketers surveyed believe that ‘digital growth in advertising has come at the expense of the quality of creative.’

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Presspage

AUGUST 15, 2017

In a previous article we discussed five trends that will affect public relations professionals in the coming decade. These trends included: the importance of influencers. the importance of measurability. Staying on top of the latest trends is one part of the equation. the importance of online reputation management.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 12, 2011

On July 5, the #measurePR chat discussed AVEs, specifically a Wall Street Journal Numbers blog post that challenges the notion that publicity can be equated with paid advertising. That led to a discussion about what the obstacles are for putting outcomes-based measurement in place. Here's her quick recap. and thank you, Jen!].

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