PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Whether it’s sales, growth, or marketing, leadership must implement a plan with measurable goals. With many business models built on in-person experiences and traditional marketing, pivoting to a virtual world came with a significant learning curve. But what happens when the unexpected strikes? Don’t skip this step!

Marketing 68

Marketing Resources Advertising Advertising 68

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, advertisers generated pre-Super Bowl excitement for their brands with teaser ads the week before the game that drove viewership and excitement. Our take : Super Bowl LVIII was a marketing masterclass in capturing audiences’ attention. and Jermaine Dupri. And then there’s Taylor… but more on that below.

Sports 86

Sports Television Advertising Advertising 86

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For the past few years, video marketing has become a dominant tool for captivating audiences and expanding brand awareness. Public relations (PR) can be one of the solutions available for marketers and business owners to support their video marketing campaigns. We’ll delve more in-depth into PR and marketing.

Video 110

Video Marketing SEO Social Media 110

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

With a host of media, advertising and adtech companies on the roster, many of our teams at SHIFT are grappling with stories relating to how native advertising is impacting these industries. But we have probably thought a little less about how it is affecting our own corner of marketing land. Mutually Assured Disruption.

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Advertising Advertising Print Pitching 60

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. It grew eventually into a tech-based email list that was free for users with an advertising model. Measurement templates. Muck Rack said it will soon release “outcome-based templates to measure” the value of media relations.

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Reddit Software B2B Technology 178

Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

Digital marketing success is fueled by creating great content and building a targeted audience, but there’s a third piece missing from that equation—ignition. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. Aligning a brand with a celebrity is the oldest type of influence marketing.

Marketing 239

Marketing Television Handbook Web 239

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 26, 2013

While you may be enamored with a wonderful strategy, if you can’t measure its impact, you can’t justify using it. In this post you will find some planning and goal-setting methods to help judge the impact of your marketing and PR efforts. Set a clear, measurable goal. Outline your strategy – make sure it fits the goal.

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Creativity Measurement Print Analysis 97

5W PR

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improving brand awareness and profitability boils down to integrating PR, marketing and other sales strategies to optimize a brand’s overall message. On top of that, an integrated campaign ensures messaging remains consistent across multiple platforms like social media, print media, advertising and internal communications.

Marketing 68

Marketing Analysis Content Marketing Social Media 68

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.

How To 52

How To Print Analytics Advertising 52

Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Media monitoring tools scan various sources (print, online, social media, TV, radio) for mentions of specific keywords or brands. PR professionals use this data to assess sentiment, measure reach, identify emerging issues, and adjust communication strategies accordingly. How Do You Measure Media Coverage? sponsored posts).

Viral 52

Viral Crisis Communications SEO Reputation 52

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Understanding Social Media Ecommerce Marketing, Social Selling, and Social Commerce Social Selling Social selling is the process of forging relationships that lead to sales later. Unlike social media marketing, social commerce lets buyers find products while strolling through their feeds. Access to a Vast Market.

Social Media 87

Social Media Media Mobile SEO 87

Cision

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Much has been talked about regarding the importance of marketing personalization and a 1:1 approach. We have used this philosophy in our own marketing efforts at Cision and PR Newswire, and it has significantly improved the effectiveness of our marketing programs. How are you measuring your programs? Let me explain.

Marketing 120

Marketing Financial Strategy Analytics 120

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. Sometimes you can use UTM tags to measure an incremental online action attributable to PR, but truly measuring behavior change (sales, votes, donations) is very difficult. The company calls this Cision Activation.

Publicity 90

Publicity Media Advertising Advertising 90

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

October is typically a time of year with special urgency for many in marketing. To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. 16% on marketing analytics. 16% on marketing analytics. “As of revenue to 10.5%

Marketing 66

Marketing Survey Study B2B 66

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ~ Peter Drucker. But I am smart enough to realize that a company’s marketing, advertising and public relations efforts—my efforts—have a direct and attributable effect to the bottom line of my company. THAT you can measure against. Find a way to measure engagement instead.

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Measurement Advertising Advertising Enterprise 40

Cision

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is one very obvious reason why social media and influencer marketing do not make up the majority of a brand’s communications or advertising budget. Brands are not married to the idea of TV advertising, print media, billboards, etc. They go where they can obviously measure success. I’ll get to that.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Measurement Advertising 120

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The October 13th edition of #measurePR focused on measuring content. Our kick-butt guests included: Brandon Andersen , Chief Strategist at Ceralytics; Janet Fouts , CEO of Tatu Digital Media; David Klein , Director of Marketing at ClickTime; and Fay Shapiro , Publisher at CommPRO Global Inc. A4 Inches in a print mag.

Measurement 40

Measurement Comparison Banking Print 40

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. It was clear that soon they will be one business.

Crisis Management 83

Crisis Management Crisis Advertising Advertising 83

Shift Communications

JANUARY 20, 2015

As you might expect at an event called “Future of Marketing,” we spent a lot of time talking about, well, the future of marketing. We had a chance to interview some of the top thinkers driving innovation and transformation in the marketing world, and get their perspective on the Big Question: What IS the future of marketing?

Marketing 60

Marketing Privacy Big Data Technology 60

Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Brand journalism and content creation falls closer to advertising than PR and while we agree it’s very important in this day and age, it certainly doesn’t oust media relations altogether. Sure, budgets are smaller, print is moving to digital-only and some high profile journalist moves out of the industry have made headlines.

Media Relations 50

Media Relations Measurement Report Media 50

Critical Mention

JULY 16, 2019

As the cost of paid advertising across various digital and broadcast channels increases, brands are increasingly focused on earned media as a way to build awareness and generate revenue. Estimated audience is another effective way to measure the reach of an earned media event. Estimated Audience.

Media 76

Media Advertising Advertising Measurement 76

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 13, 2015

Twitter made a number of advertising product (or inventory) announcements recently including a plan to sell ads on other websites. Certainly Twitter has a good case – there is undoubtedly a sizable audience that lurks on Twitter – and measuring the outcome of such visibility is challenging. Why is Earned and Paid is so Important?

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Twitter Marketing Media Advertising 60

Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In their book, “Think Like a Freak,” Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe an group of marketers who assert that video advertising is four times as effective as their print advertising. In other words, TV ads only ran when people were most apt to buy stuff.

Social Media 120

Social Media Facebook Print Advertising 120

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. Other disciplines, notably marketing, have encroached on PR practice in areas that lead with paid media, such as influencer marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO).

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

5W PR

MAY 20, 2020

The answer to that question can be found in measuring the campaign plan, execution, and results based on a few specific factors. Instead, a clear objective goal should be set that measures the brand at the end of the campaign against where they are before the launch. Podcasts, print advertising, or paid influencers?

Measurement 88

Measurement Print Local Social Media 88

Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As new markets keep reaching out and needing PR representation, her team is ready to jump in. Having to switch gears so often was a great prelude to broader agency work where we work on various clients from 3D printing to beer. What are the most important PR and marketing tools for this kind of product? Simply: do they work?

Communications 253

Communications Data Local Survey 253

Prakkypedia

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

A feature of every Monday print edition of The Australian since I can remember, Media publishes “the latest media news” and includes columns and Media Diary, a selection of snippets that is part business update, part breathless gossip. It also has six print editions a year. You can also subscribe to media email updates. Media Week.

Media 76

Media Journalism Radio Print 76

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In the time I spent in-house for a global company and focusing on marketing to lawyers, one of the questions I’d consistently hear in the course of work from attorneys was this: There’s so much noise in marketing, how can I tell what is real and what is snake oil? 1) What are the top challenges facing law firm marketers today?

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Below is an excerpt from the new book, Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit , written by Joe Pulizzi ( @JoePulizzi ) and Robert Rose ( @Robert_Rose ). Does What We Know Hold Us Back in Marketing? In each case, some part of their marketing and/or sales process was broken.

Marketing 53

Marketing Enterprise Print Film 53

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

When communications is too tied to marketing, it is more difficult to keep a pulse on the broader business,” wrote Tammy L. In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young.

Employee 150

Employee Print Writing Survey 150

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. In a previous article I explored the use of the PESO model in modern marketing and public relations campaigns. The strategic use of paid media and real time campaign management is a discipline called performance marketing.

Media 103

Media How To Advertising Advertising 103

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 9, 2020

There was no other form of marketing involved or grand strategic plan. No advertising, no sponsorship, no sales promotion or other fundraising efforts. For example, print has fallen off the cliff on which it was already teetering precariously. It has struggled to produce, distribute, and monetise during the pandemic.

Radio 89

Radio Skype Print Local 89

Stephen Waddington

MAY 17, 2020

End of the nine to five week - flexible working schedules will help address physical spacing and act as a counter measure to overcrowded commutes. The college and university campus - the market for international students won’t recover until we learn to live with COVID-19. Advertising revenue will follow where it hasn’t already.

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Tourism Fashion Travel Retail 118

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

It may be added to the website newsroom feed, distributed to contacts in email marketing, or occasionally in paid advertising. The story can be pitched targeting media in another vertical, or the agency may approach a broadcast outlet in the wake of a print story. PR measures up.

Report 136

Report Interviews Pitching Construction 136

PR 20/20

AUGUST 22, 2017

At times, working in a marketing department can feel like being on trial. HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound Marketing annual report asked marketing teams about their top challenges. The primary reason I’ve seen inbound marketing programs get squashed is not lack of resources, lack of data or lack of success, but lack of buy-in.

Marketing 87

Marketing Resources Technology Internal 87

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The addition of marketing, analysis, trade show consultation, managing professional organizational memberships and everything else has made every day a whirlwind of tasks, to-do lists and semi-controlled chaos.”. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur. Real effort into digital and social. Giving voice.

Communications 124

Communications Crisis Internal International 124

Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

Since that point, the health of the business-to-business market has been mixed. The freelance PR market shut down in the first week of April as agencies and in-house teams reacted to the markets they serve and cut costs. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint.

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Crisis Government Energy Community 151