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Lessons in Brand Cross-Promotions from ‘Barbenheimer’

PRSay

Consumers were amused by promotions such as Burger King’s Barbie burger with pink sauce, and the Barbies and Kens who started popping up on the Bumble dating app. In some industries, such as entertainment or food and beverage, consumers are aficionados whose love for the industry has enough space to hold more than one favorable brand.

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Only 5% of B2B buyers are in market today; but where did that statistic come from?

Sword and the Script

I got fed up with the attention span of goldfish statistic a couple of years ago; it’s 100% fictitious and yet went viral). Corporations change service providers such as their principal bank or law firm around once every five years on average. If you read my posts, they are all about surveys and studies and I checked the sources (i.e.

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9 Social Media Trends Every Marketer Must Know For 2021: A Conversation with Arik Hanson

MaccaPR

Startling fact: 90% of consumers say user-generated content influences their buying decisions more than promotional emails or search engine results, according to a TurnTo Network study. Brands know they should listen to consumers, but what about listening to employees? Popular Paint-Mixing TikToker Fired By Sherwin-Williams.

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7 Important Principles Of Media Coverage Every Business Needs To Know

Polaris

A few years ago, a media frenzy surrounded Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) plans to use foreign workers to replace 45 people in their IT department. He talked about the legality of what Royal Bank was doing, the impact it had on him, his family and on the people in his department. It was a sad story that pretty much went viral.

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The Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

That’s a mouthful of buzzwords, but Ryan Reeves, a product manager for the company, added some context on LinkedIn: “Signals uses AI to continually read trillions of articles to detect important company trigger-events (viral articles, product launches, financials, partnerships, headcount changes, etc.)

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Conference Recap: Reaching Rural Americans, Preventing Social Media Crises and Using the PESO Model

PRSay

“If you’re not paying for your social media campaigns, then no one is seeing them,” said Haworth, who recalled her childhood in small-town Indiana as one of eating “government cheese” from food banks and spending the Christmas season with her parents who couldn’t afford presents. Meet people where they are. During the Oct.

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Inside Innovation: Ogilvy Los Angeles

The Resolution Blog

On a recent trip to the United States, Stella went to meet the consumer PR team at Ogilvy in Los Angeles and interviewed Vice President, Ashley Dos Santos to find out how their creative process is doing a lot more than just facilitating ideas. What inspires you? However, at Ogilvy LA we have quite the opposite.