Buchanan PR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Good taste and notable presentation – important factors to consider both when whipping up a dish, and when constructing a marketing campaign in the food and beverage industry. Grimace’s chaotic and fun vibe interested the younger consumers, and they began creating TikToks and memes revolving around the character and his drink.

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The Hoyt Organization

APRIL 11, 2024

As brands look for new and innovative ways to reach their target audience on social media, leveraging the power and audience reach of influencers has become a popular and effective tool. How can PR professionals leverage this new influencer power to create authentic and personal connections with consumers on behalf of brands?

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Presspage

AUGUST 24, 2023

With an overflow of information vying for the spotlight, brands must adapt their strategies to stand out amidst the noise. First-party data has taken precedence, offering invaluable insights into the preferences and behaviors of consumers. The culture that brands exude is more important than ever.

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5W PR

APRIL 13, 2022

When companies in the SaaS industry use a sound PR strategy , they benefit from brand awareness, media coverage, and attracting the right consumers. Plenty of companies in the SaaS industry haven’t realized that they don’t always have to create brand new or original content to grab the attention of the media.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Everywhere we look, it seems that a brand is just waiting to entice us with flashy marketing or advertising. Brands have gotten smart about where to find their target consumers, but one of the risks of the “ads everywhere” approach is that consumers can become jaded and sick of always being sold to. Does this make sense?

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Can a good story create value for a brand? Jeffrey shared this on a panel of CMOs presented by the Marketing Society within the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). JC: I started my career in consumer-packaged goods. JC: Storytelling is, in my mind, the essence of brand development. 1) How did you get into marketing?

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Cision

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

With social media and access to this information being so easy, anybody with a smartphone and an idea can become a viral source of news. Recent studies by Forrester suggest that 40 percent of consumers in both the B2B and B2C space have a high willingness and ability to shift current spends. Listen to Increase Customer Spend.

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Karen Freberg

APRIL 9, 2023

However, what if you write, sing, and release a song that was featured for a short second in the movie to make it go viral? Brands jumped all over this – along with users – as it was being discussed across the board on and offline. Tap into nostalgia content and opportunities for audiences, but present it in a new way.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In what could have easily been a sold-out event on StubHub, Landsberg’s standing-room-only presentation at Social Media Week in Chicago focused on using consumer actions to drive content. According to Landsberg, “ great content is grounded by human truth, [it] fills a specific consumer need and creates reciprocal value.”.

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Cision

JUNE 29, 2017

What if you paint pictures with words and tell tales around something as seemingly boring as a brand? There’s no doubt the way we consume stories has changed. But, if the Wall Street Journal mentions your brand, what is that worth? Too often, marketers present metrics that look good instead of metrics that matter.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

“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. Prepare in advance.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While this may be true to an extent, when it comes to pronouns one study determined that reaction depends upon the relationship between brand and consumer. In the Journal of Consumer Research , researchers examined people’s reaction to the pronouns “you” and “we” in brand communication.

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The Stalwart Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This presents a problem to organizations who will more than likely see the economy start to slow in 2018 and require them to reduce their workforce. The more layoffs that occur, the more likely consumers and employees will see their bosses as greedy. The American Backlash Will Be Real.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2015

“The biggest challenge is that we are moving from an industry that could create one amazing commercial to reach consumers to an ecosystem with a diversified channel structure,” according to Mike Scafidi , marketing operations with PepsiCo. In a phrase, as the paper suggests, “Marketers looking to reach consumers in new ways.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2016

By attacking the advertising model that supports sites like World News Daily Report and NewsBuzzDaily, they might help slow the viral spread of false, defamatory, and even dangerous stories. Like many PR professionals, we’ve had experience with web-based rumors that threaten a brand’s reputation. Everything counts.

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Prohibition

JUNE 17, 2021

This means there are so many avenues for brands to utilise video content to engage their target audience. If you’re unsure on this, it might be a good idea to build a consumer persona, which is a detailed description of your target customer. Stationery brand Notes did a great job of storytelling using a simple set of handwritten notes.

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Cision

JUNE 10, 2016

According to a 2013 study by ThinkGoogle , the average consumer consults 12 sources before making a purchasing decision. Feature senior leaders from your target industry in your content marketing to build awareness of your brand and association to respected influencers. We’ll tell you. The Networking Model. Exponential reach.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It also presents businesses a conundrum: the need to reach and convert online consumers has accelerated, yet much belief about digital and social customers is counter-intuitive. The actual data presented describes that year-over-year Twitter users are participating in more Black Friday promotions than in years past.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 19, 2021

It is not uncommon for reputation issues to lurk on the internet indefinitely, to explode virally to an audience of millions, or to carry someone from public support to public criticism within the span of a few hours. Managing and maintaining your online brand is a necessity for everyone. The problem may not be with your brand.

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NewsWhip

MARCH 31, 2021

They explore MSL’s approach to linking up earned, owned, and paid media in a world where consumers are in the driving seat. I mean, I think that we all know this just inherently as consumers ourselves, the last thing that you’ve bought you’ve consumed. And I think also just from the clients, right?

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photobombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

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Ishmael's Corner

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

While consumer brands use SlideShare, its marriage of in-depth content and social make it a natural for B2B companies. True, a SlideShare deck isn’t going to have the same emotive power or viral reach of a video. Then again, these qualities don’t carry the same value for a B2B company as they do for a consumer brand.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. From legacy videos and anniversary books to corporate birthday events and digital archives, what follows are five ways smart brands have leveraged their company histories in brand storytelling. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2019

In 2017, my organization, Goodwill Industries International, then a 115-year-old social enterprise; one of the oldest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit brands; the leading workforce provider in North America; and the #1 brand doing the most good by enso and featured in Fast Company Magazine – faced a pretty significant challenge.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photo Bombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

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Karen Freberg

MARCH 31, 2022

” The class that spread virally across social media – reaching all aspects of industries, classrooms, and communities. We sometimes forget there is a person – another human being – on the other side of the screen reading, consuming, and reflecting on the content that is shared and presented to them.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 29, 2017

What if you paint pictures with words and tell tales around something as seemingly boring as a brand? There’s no doubt the way we consume stories has changed. But, if the Wall Street Journal mentions your brand, what is that worth? Too often, marketers present metrics that look good instead of metrics that matter.

Storytelling 73

Storytelling Data Communications Technology 73

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These days, customer acquisition, retargeting, retention, and support are all being carried out through social media channels across the whole consumer experience. Similarly, each brand will have a type of audience and message that must be considered when developing a paid social campaign. Hence, the popularity of paid social.

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5W PR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Navigating this evolving landscape of digital PR requires a keen understanding of the opportunities and challenges that the digital age presents. As the virtual realm continues to expand, brands and PR professionals must adapt and harness the power of digital PR to effectively engage their audiences and build lasting relationships.

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Viral Digital PR Storytelling Reputation 78

Karen Freberg

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The past few days have been somewhat of a whirlwind of creating content, consuming coffee (wait… that happens every day!), Well, I was able to participate in a few different events related to several brands and teams I admire and respect, but I also was able to help create content to share with the #SMSports community.

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NewsWhip

MAY 12, 2021

How PepsiCo’s Creators League transforms trends into brand activations. PepsiCo’s nine human drivers for consumers | 5:28-7:33. Turning insights into brand content | 8:18-9:58. And, I think progressing in that role, I started to not just look at brand conversations, right? What are people saying about our brands?”

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Your brand and company may never employ a 12-time Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer such as Ryan Lochte as its celebrity spokesperson. And, more importantly, what can your company learn from the metaphorical burning of Lochte at the media stake – so your brand doesn’t get torched by the same crisis flubs? But he did, oh how he did.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s important to point out, while I did try to group some predictions centered on common topics, there’s no order of merit to the presentation. 3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability.

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Flack's Revenge

JULY 12, 2017

And consumer marketers have a decided advantage over B2B when it comes to emotion. Viral cat videos, real news, fake news, vacation pictures and political rants all get mixed into the same soupy mess. These days, many brands are publishers too. The Growth of Social News Sharing.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The success metrics a marketer should measure depend upon what your brand is and how it’s currently perceived,” adds Pappas. Are you a brand so prominent that all people have to do is hear your name on a TV spot and they’ll be reminded to buy your product? People hundreds of miles away will see an event on Facebook, on Twitter.”.

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Marketwired

MARCH 10, 2016

If you look at the content that is most virally shared online, it is often shorter-form content, including 90-second videos, vines,gifs, and lists. Yes, content that goes the most viral often fits these demographics, but most businesses aren’t chasing viral success. Well, the numbers do sometimes lie.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 21, 2019

While this is often considered to be a good problem to have, it nonetheless presents a challenge. When it comes to companies seeking out influencers to bolster a marketing campaign, employing the help of an influencer marketing agency can help amplify the voice of the brand and extend its reach.

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