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Print newspapers still drive best ad engagement in Canada

Agility PR Solutions

Do newspapers still have ad power? They sure do in the Great White North, according to a new study from News Media Canada, which found that printed newspaper ads engage Canadians more than any other medium, print or digital.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

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. Advertisers have pulled campaigns, either because businesses have themselves been impacted by the crisis, or they simply didn’t want their brand appearing alongside COVID-19 news.

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Depressed and depressing: the state of UK news media

Stephen Waddington

News media in pain Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital. Popular newspaper brands have suffered double digit falls in print circulation with the Daily Star (-18%), Daily Mirror (-13%), and Daily Express (-12%) hardest hit. Facebook and Google account for almost 60% of the online advertising market.

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Maxim Behar for “24 Chasa": "PR crisis management became routine"

Maxim Behar

The PR expert Maxim Behar shared his opinion for 24 Chasa newspaper about the rapidly changing communications and the application of modern media tools in business. Globally, for years there has been a fairly rapid unification of the three elements of the business of public communications - PR, advertising and digital business.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

It grew eventually into a tech-based email list that was free for users with an advertising model. Eight vacant positions will be left without replacement and 23 “new functions will be created”, according to the newspaper Libération. Small text ads – written by Shankman – were included at the top of every email.

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How To Measure PR Outcomes: A Practical Guide

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

That’s right, kids, there were actual newspaper or magazine cuttings, each bearing a white tag that listed where and when the item appeared. For years, the PR industry’s response to the problem was to measure outcomes by treating earned media stories as paid advertising, with a dollar value calculated from standard ad rates.

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PR Campaign Tips: 10 Harmful Myths You Need to Avoid

B2B PR Sense

When it comes down to it, PR can be far less expensive than advertising and offer more benefits. Myth #4: PR is just advertising. PR goes way beyond advertising. When you boil it down, advertising is paid visibility while PR is earned visibility. That decision, however, needs to be based on strategy, not whim.