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Huffington Goes Viral with Data Science – You can Too

Flack's Revenge

Their efforts have propelled merely popular stories into through-the-roof viral successes. Geetu Ambwani, Principal Data Scientist at Huffington Post, recalled the days when their editors monitored searches trending on Google to inform content creation and curation. Project Fortune Teller: Data Predict Viral Success.

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Get Inspired by These 3 Content Marketing Innovators

Cision

Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed. This Internet media company has been making waves for almost a decade, focusing on churning out content that spreads. Upworthy’s target audience is quite general: all Americans.

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Big Brands: Content Marketing isn’t a Campaign, It’s a Culture

Sword and the Script

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé.

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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). That means only 20% of business buyers are ‘in the market’ over the course of an entire year; something like 5% in a quarter – or put another way, 95% aren’t in the market.” That makes sense.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

If you want to see who are seen as the best both by data and peer review, then typing a search term, such as “Top Content Marketers,” will be revealing. ” So it looked at these (and more) content marketing innovators and modeled its tactics. Implement viral marketing tactics. Define goals.

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7 Things You Need to Know Before Starting a PR Business

Deirdre Breakenridge

There’s nothing like a grueling weekend spent unsuccessfully following up on pitches for coverage of a client’s innovative, disruptive, and ground-breaking new technology release to make you start daydreaming of starting your own firm. Each year brings new technology and new table stakes skills for communications professionals.

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How to Leverage Emotions to Boost Digital PR

Cision

When your target audience feels entertained and happy, they are more likely to share the content. Unveiling surprising facts or data can also make your online PR content go viral. This technology can track up to 32 muscle groups in the viewer’s face about 15 times a second. About Avinash Nair.