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Why Tech Is Important To PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

PR firms have withstood the rise of many possible “PR killers” including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media, often integrating or using those disciplines to grow their business or even make earned media more effective. For the most part, the PR industry’s slow approach to technology adoption has worked fairly well.

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Why you can’t afford to leave digital out of your media mix

Agility PR Solutions

As recently as 20 years ago, marketers’ options for advertising platforms basically boiled down to broadcast television, radio, newspapers, and billboards. Now, advancement of digital platforms from web banners to social media ads have relegated these channels under the heading of “traditional media.”

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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

There are thousands upon thousands of web, print, audio and video outlets, and as we’ve all become acutely aware, many of these publishers spread misinformation and extremely polarizing political content. Most consumers (inaccurately) believe that brands proactively select all the publishers upon which they advertise.

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The Dynamic Web: Pop-ups, Persistence and SERP [UML]

Sword and the Script

There’s a tag I’ve kept on this blog over the years called “ dynamic web.” It’s a personal interest in just how much the web shifts and changes – and the impact that has on marketing and PR. From native advertising to content marketing , the dynamic web is about the blurry and blurring lines in marketing.

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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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13 stories about the future of news

Stephen Waddington

Consumption of printed newspapers has fallen as lockdowns undermine physical distribution. Newspapers and web sites remain primary media for local news In most countries, local newspapers and their websites remain the top source of news about a town or region, reaching four in ten (44%) weekly.

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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. The quality of queries changed too as the web evolved. Eight vacant positions will be left without replacement and 23 “new functions will be created”, according to the newspaper Libération.

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