Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. It is almost a sport on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Workplace, launched as a commercial product in 2016, applies all the learnings from the consumer product to a private enterprise environment.

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ISEBOX

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Especially since Pinterest and Instagram are basically the same: Both are image-driven social media platforms, using visuals in marketing that encourage sharing and engage your target audience. Instagram: A platform that enables you to capture visual content that you find engaging and would like to share with your community.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Storytelling: Telling a story that resonates with your target market is essential if you want to cut through the noise online. Users on Facebook and Instagram spend half their time online watching videos. The success of Reels on Instagram led to Meta expanding that feature to Facebook as well. Video trends for 2023.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2015

From ancient cave drawings to photojournalism and broadcast TV, people have enjoyed visual stories for the speed at which people can consume the content and the emotion it elicits. Don’t forget to share your video across your channels and cut them up to post on Vine and Instagram. But how can you get started? “ Get the free e-book now!

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5W PR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Beauty brands face unique challenges and opportunities in a landscape where trends, consumer expectations, and digital platforms play pivotal roles. Brands are leveraging digital channels to connect directly with consumers, share brand stories, and showcase products. PR can highlight these engaging moments through media coverage.

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5W PR

AUGUST 28, 2023

Beauty influencer marketing has transformed the beauty industry by changing how brands engage with consumers. Beauty influencers, often makeup artists, skincare enthusiasts, or beauty enthusiasts themselves, have built substantial followings on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.

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Buchanan PR

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The convergence of social media and e-commerce is becoming increasingly prominent as many consumers turn to online shopping and look to social media influencers for trusted purchase reviews. In fact, a report from this year found that consumers ages 18-54 prefer to find new products on social media.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 3, 2023

From short-form content on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels, to live streaming on Facebook and YouTube, video content has revolutionised the way we connect, share, and engage with others online. Instagram ‘video’ is now almost completely reel content, video captured in a vertical format.

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Masters in Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As Harrison Monarth writes in The Harvard Business Review : Storytelling evokes a strong neurological response. Here's why storytelling is such a powerful tool: The Power of Synchronicity. Storytelling creates a certain synchronicity between the teller and the listener. Storytelling is also a powerful tool for persuasion.

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Communications Conversations

JUNE 18, 2020

Let’s look at four big shifts that have been happening in 2020 so far, and how I would argue most social media marketers have reacted: Shift #1: Customers don’t want ‘storytelling’–they want exceptional customer service. Meanwhile, consumers seem to be screaming that they want better customer service!

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5W PR

JULY 19, 2023

In the apparel industry, competition is fierce as multiple brands vie for consumer attention. Showcase the brand’s uniqueness through compelling visuals, storytelling, and consistent messaging. Consumers are drawn to captivating images and videos that showcase the products in an appealing and aspirational way.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

With more than 400 million users monthly, Instagram can be a powerful tool in a PR campaign — as we previously noted here. Store openings, fundraising rounds, new product launches — consumers and businesses have come to expect these, but our Instagram feed shows us they don’t have to be a yawn.

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Beyond PR

APRIL 28, 2017

People who work in the marketing communications field have grappled with a very existential question in recent years: If marketing comms is becoming a more data-driven profession, then what happens to the art of storytelling I’ve cultivated my whole career? The science of data and the art of storytelling shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.

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The Hoyt Organization

MARCH 25, 2024

The channels you choose depend on your target audience’s preferences and where they will most likely consume information. For instance, younger demographics are more active on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter, while older audiences prefer traditional media outlets such as newspapers and television.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

Pressure from consumer privacy advocacy groups and regulatory entities is part of the reason why Google is now changing its M.O. Craft high-quality content and on-site microexperiences that encourage product recommendations, offer loyalty rewards, or feature interactive storytelling.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Wondering if it’s worth the time and effort to build a business account on Instagram? According to cision.com, Instagram gets 4.21 But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Instagram Generation. 07 percent for Facebook. Hashtags.

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5W PR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This helps them build brand awareness, credibility, and loyalty among consumers. Storytelling and education Skincare influencers can effectively tell the story of a skincare brand’s products. A well-rounded approach involves leveraging Instagram , YouTube, TikTok, blogs, and other relevant platforms.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 1, 2023

Vegan and vegetarian brands can leverage platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok to engage with their target audience directly. Through engaging storytelling and partnerships with celebrities, they effectively communicated the health and environmental benefits of their products.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 23, 2023

Videos are also a great storytelling device. Strong visuals or animation, supported with powerful audio, captivates audiences and can generate genuine feelings of sentiment among consumers towards your brand or business. For example, the type of video that suits an Instagram audience may not work for a LinkedIn audience.

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Konnect Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Consider what insights or consumer behaviors your client can offer that resonate with the broader context. Instagram’s Collaborator Tool can help you reach new audiences by leveraging the impression power of both brands. Lack of Storytelling: Effective marketing often revolves around storytelling.

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Shift Communications

JULY 3, 2019

Her key points touched upon tips and tricks regarding social governance, engagement, storytelling and social strategy. Understanding what exactly your audience wants to get out of the content they consume is essential in order to maximize your social content. How does your audience want to consume your content? Maddie Peters.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Unlike advertising on social media platforms such as Instagram or Facebook, TikTok requires users to be constantly engaged with the latest trends to ensure their content has maximum reach and impact. The importance of storytelling in PR. Tap into trends to inform PR proposals . Leverage Influencer Partnerships.

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The most engaged article about climate change this year was CNN’s coverage of the fires consuming Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. While Twitter was a live feed of the strikes and everyone’s opinion about them, Instagram was a more concerted effort to document the event, and brands showed out to support the strike as well. It garnered 1.3

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 31, 2019

As a result it’s created a foothold with younger consumers while more dominant QSR players like McDonald’s have failed. In just four years, it has used social media, particularly visual storytelling on Instagram, to create a globally-recognized travel lifestyle brand. Away, the luggage company, is another example.

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Cision

MAY 10, 2016

Storytelling has changed. Francis College, says transmedia storytelling is the path brands need to take. Francis College, says transmedia storytelling is the path brands need to take. We are moving away from the age where there was one linear master story plot and storyteller. But what is the right way?

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As a sponsor of NYC’s latest “museum of Instagram,” The Color Factory, My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream had an opportunity to host a an event in the space. 5W brought both brand and product storytelling to life in the multi-room space in creative, socially-sticky ways in order to inspire and earn social play—i.e. How did we activate?

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Storytelling is bigger than ever—and it’s a skill that marketers will continually need to hone to stay ahead of the competition. Though marketing pros have been telling stories for a long time, consumers are looking for increasingly short, visual and engaging tales in order to hold their attention and build a connection. SEOBook Blog.

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5W PR

JANUARY 8, 2019

The space got crowded and loud, but heading into 2019, consumer interest in new product discovery is at an all-time high, paving new roads for strong, smart campaigns to succeed. Smart 2019 beauty PR campaigns will meet consumers where they are and follow them home via digital touch points. Telling a specific, transparent brand story.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JULY 11, 2023

Dadfluencers may have large followings on Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok, where they share photos, videos, and stories about their parenting journeys. One of the coolest dadfluencers is Chris Kyle (nearly 40k followers on Instagram). Chris’ Instagram is full of heart-warming interactions with his daughter.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

From brand storytelling to new commerce opportunities, social channels offer companies an unmatched opportunity to reach and engage consumers: Engage with your target audience. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are extremely popular with major brands and their followers. Social media users passed the 3.5

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Cision

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

When a brand can’t dictate the message anymore, it has to connect with its consumers. A Fast Company article, inclusion in Cosmpolitan’s Snapchat Story or organic content from the right influencer on Instagram all can create the same value. This means that brands will have to connect to consumers in different places. It’s vital.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 16, 2022

To mark National Espresso Day, Costa Coffee tapped into the trending TikTok and Instagram hack – dying white trainers in coffee. July saw the launch of Birds Eye’s ‘Welcome to the Plant Age’ campaign, which sought to reappraise and challenge consumers eating habits. Costa Coffee’s ‘Costa-Misation’.

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Presspage

JUNE 11, 2019

We’ve been touting the importance of the brand storyteller in your company’s newsroom for a while now. As narrative becomes ever more important to a brand’s success, editors have to be experts not only in language, but in storytelling. Bolster the Brand. In order to do this, the editor must wear many hats.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Marketing in the Business to Business (B2B) world is a completely different beast to that in the consumer industry. Then the expansive coverage in consumer news sites put their brand in front of thousands of people?—?including B2Bs are faced with marketing products to their audience’s “work” personas and gain company buy in.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As social platforms have exploded, many companies have turned to influencer or celebrity marketing, especially those in consumer product categories. Fake followers, bots, and influence pods have become a real problem , especially on Instagram. But too many companies confuse popularity with influence. But it can also do much more.

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Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

Consumer adoption of technology is unpredictable, and social networking sites are dynamic and constantly innovating their products. To stay relevant in a very distracted world, you can’t get too caught up on the next bright and shiny object like Snapchat or Instagram. Employee storytelling. The industry is moving at rapid speed.

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Bianchi Biz Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Improving the charging experience is going to go a long way in improving the consumer EV adoption rate. Lately, I’ve been focusing on the medium for storytelling and trying to take the most advantage of the tools at my disposal. You can follow The Buzz on Instagram here: @thebuzzev. What story or stories are you most proud of?

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