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The Rise of Dadfluencers How Brands are Harnessing Diverse Perspectives on Fatherhood

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

They use their platforms to document their experiences, offer parenting advice, and share glimpses of their daily lives as dads. You may recognize him from the viral post showing him at his young daughter’s kitchen play set, where he gives a hilarious review of her “restaurant.” They even wear matching outfits in many posts.

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

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. It seems almost quaint now, given the explosion of reputation-killing headlines that have followed the brand “scandal.” But what about the crisis situations that are handled well?

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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. I treat every story as a valuable source of information for readers—and a valuable gateway to a brand.” Whether I’m penning a reported piece, ghostwriting, or composing a blog post for a brand, there are a few fact-checking measures I always take.

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Your Greatest Foe on Social Media – How to Fight Back

Flack's Revenge

It’s been documented that emotion-rich posts and content are the ones that are most shared. 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. And what rises to the top?

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5 Lessons Marketers Can Learn from the Popeyes/Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Twitter Wars

MaccaPR

Fried Chicken Sandwich battle went viral on Twitter — and led to a complete sell-out of the sandwich in all 2,400 Popeyes stores across the U.S. Not since Wendy’s lambasted rivals McDonald’s and Burger King with its “Where’s the Beef” TV spots has brand vs. brand combat so entranced consumers.

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2018 Predictions: Consumer PR Edition

Shift Communications

With editorial staffs evolving and new brands popping up every day, the media have a constant barrage of news, trends and pitches coming their way, let’s remind ourselves about the relationship aspect of media relations while the rest of the world attempts autonomy. That said, brands cannot be expected to respond to every issue.