ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

Find creative ways to make the standard announcement. Yes, real news and announcements merit media coverage on their own, but creative storytelling tactics can make a bigger splash and leave a more lasting impression. Here are some PR lessons we gleaned from some of our favorite Instagrammers. Appeal to the imagination.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 17, 2016

We are no exception, with outreach occurring now in categories as varied as 3D printing, online advertising and wearable tech, to name a few. Pitch to your strengths. Think video, slides, stills or a combination. Though your speaker’s expertise may be 3D printing for example, is a 3D printing conference the best option?

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

In fact, a creative media kit that showcases the brand’s personality, is much more likely to be successful than a simple set of documents. Media kits used to be presented following a pitch at a press conference or other large event, but starting in the early 2000s, the best practice shifted to individualized pitches via email.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Media outlets present stories much differently, shifting from traditional print editions to mobile-friendly video recaps. Today, 23 percent accept pitches via social media. This social platform is great for building relationships with reporters before you need to pitch them, Ian says. Want to score more media hits?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this article I explore how smart public relations practitioners are putting search at the heart of their campaigns and seeking followed links from the media sites they pitch. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution. As a result print circulation has fallen dramatically.

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Cision

APRIL 1, 2015

You put so much effort into writing press releases and pitching the media , so why wouldn’t you take the extra step to have a single place where you keep all the PR-related content you’ve developed? Get our free “10 Do’s and Don’ts of Media Pitching” tip sheet now! That’s where an online newsroom comes in handy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This means posting links and images to all brand social accounts of course, but there are also opportunities to get more creative. Use the photos or video accompanying the piece for other posts, and give a social shout-out to the journalist or the outlet in question. But do use it in a pitch to a morning talk show.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Each member of the team has a particular hit that they are extremely proud of purely based on the fact that good old creativity, industriousness and smarts resulted in a hit that wowed the client and broke through. So when a colleague and I pitched a local McDonald’s news story, little did we know what was to come. Take a look….

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Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As technical editor of Power & Motion I work with my fellow editors to create content – whether that be written, video or otherwise – focused on modern motion systems and their power sources including pneumatic, hydraulic, electric and hybrid. What advice do you have for PR people that want to pitch you?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Soliciting customer review videos on social media enables decision-makers to assess the customer’s experience and define creative, targeted solutions for improving the product. Burrelles comprehensive monitoring allows you to track mentions (and sentiment) in real-time from all media — print, online, broadcast, and social.

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OnePitch

MAY 12, 2022

What are the benefits of a broadcast placement rather than a digital/print one? Video is powerful. If a picture is worth a thousand words, video is worth a million. Video puts a face and personality on a story. Video comes with sound, movement, gesture, eye contact and often a conversational feel—it’s alive.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This strategy lets you connect with your existing customers uniquely and authentically by infusing your brand’s personality into creative content. The exceptional popularity of TikTok in recent years makes it imperative for brands to leverage this short-form video platform for business growth and increased visibility.

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Cision

MAY 11, 2015

The Zimbabwe native received her bachelor’s in print journalism from Claflin University, and later received her master’s in communication from Johns Hopkins University. ​​ How do you innovate PR? What would’ve been a cold call or cold email becomes much warmer because I can refine my pitch through my social media research.

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Presspage

JULY 25, 2018

You’d love to get that major publication or TV network to cover your event, embed your video or quote your chief executive in an economic forecast story. Yet ill-considered pitches keep flooding the inboxes of the dwindling number of journalists. How to stand out? Here are a few tips: 1. “Better to use something generic.”

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Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Pushing products in your pitches won’t gain you any media coverage. If you want journalists to respond to your pitches, you need to explain why your news is important and relevant. Adriana Stan, public relations director at W Magazine, says being empathetic to the contacts you are pitching is the key to winning them over.

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Cision

MARCH 24, 2017

I have immensely talented colleagues at Austin & Williams: Madison Avenue veterans and young, inspirational creatives. If you find the compelling human story in what you’re pitching, you’ll be successful. There’s a sense of coming home — of being in the right place at the right time.

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What does it mean for PR: Consider a publisher’s revenue and publishing models, as well as your need for exposure, when pitching a story. The immersive aspect of VR could dramatically change how we respond to news coverage, as it can activate empathy in ways that print and video may not.

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Doctor Spin

JUNE 28, 2022

I’ve been training spokespersons and pitching their stories since 2005. In this blog post, I’ll detail my process of how I start training corporate spokespersons (and why I always bring a video recorder). Instead, I start the video camera. After each attempt, I play the video back. Table of Contents.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

to match these themes in the months when my search volume is highest, so that I’m in print when people are already finding my website. Using the above as an example, my PR team would advise me to write content they can pitch for precision marketing. Second, my PR team would help me plan for 2018’s marketing search season.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

Universal Information Systems pitches itself as a “concierge service” for all things media monitoring. A video demonstration of the tool says PR pros can enter up to 10 key messages, an optional quote and select options for tone and length. There are several that pitch generative AI to marketers for creating blog posts.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

We’re now looking at online content outweighing print content, not only in volume but in value for media outlets ; think of how social media influencers have taken over, and the fact that video is tipped to make up 80% of the content we view online by 2020, and the power of digital content becomes clear!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 31, 2017

Feeling creative? The social platform for video-sharing was touted as the next big thing, until it wasn’t. In routine sessions participants may come unprepared or be reluctant to share, relying on others to do the heavy creative lifting. Sometimes the process can be daunting but it doesn’t have to be.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This information helps digital PR teams understand the media landscape and craft targeted pitches or campaigns. Or a food journalist for print media. Its value proposition lies in offering a centralized platform that enables users to discover journalists, pitch stories, monitor media coverage, and measure the impact of PR campaigns.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This information helps digital PR teams understand the media landscape and craft targeted pitches or campaigns. Or a food journalist for print media. Its value proposition lies in offering a centralized platform that enables users to discover journalists, pitch stories, monitor media coverage, and measure the impact of PR campaigns.

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Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

We’re now looking at online content outweighing print content, not only in volume but in value for media outlets ; think of how social media influencers have taken over, and the fact that video is tipped to make up 80% of the content we view online by 2020, and the power of digital content becomes clear!

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PRSay

AUGUST 12, 2016

For those who work in sports and entertainment PR, there are many areas of our practices we should be evaluating from how we pitch media in the social media era, to crafting captivating press releases, packaging media stories and effectively communicating our messages to the right audiences in real time.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MAY 20, 2010

We’ve been receiving more than a few pitches from Jennifer on behalf of Retrevo. And for this she’s getting a good pitch seal of approval from the Bad Pitch Blog (we used to call it Glinda the Good Pitch, but how cool is that, really?) Before we post her pitch, we asked Jennifer a few questions.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

over the next year; 40% of budget goes to paid media; 16% of budget goes to print media; 8% of budget goes to paid social media; 6% of budget goes to paid search; 4% of budget goes to display; and. Often B2B marketers will use these to send white papers and pitch webinars but again thought leadership content is a good option here.

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Doctor Spin

MAY 21, 2021

For inspiration, I suggest checking out famous vlogger Case Neistat’s video “Make It Count” that he made on behalf of Nike: Make a list of employees and ask them how each of them would spend 10,000 EUR from your budget if they could spend it any way they wanted with no constraints. See also How to write a PR pitch.

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Beyond PR

JULY 26, 2016

When you open up your earned media strategy, you’ll find a mix of print, television, radio, digital and other channels. Now, though, there’s more video content to compete with and more limits on the types of branded content a newsroom will take. DO Get Creative. Needless to say, it’s all a bit overwhelming.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

With such alterations in the media industry, PR agencies have a window to get more creative and embrace newer avenues, such as social media platforms, more aggressively than before. Pitching journalists via phone calls, e-mails, and SMS’ are not the only ways of securing media coverage anymore. 300 crore (~$48.3M) in FY 2013.

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Bad Pitch Blog

MARCH 13, 2009

In this video he weighs in on why PR people should think more visually. Armano noted that in the creative process you might start drawing before starting to write to form your thoughts. Also, when creating presentations, print the PowerPoint deck out and lay it out on the floor. Get the picture?

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

88 percent value creativity and craft in content creation. You can spend months writing a white paper or spend thousands on a video, but if it’s not laser focused and doesn’t reach the right audiences it’s not going to convert. percent close rate , while outbound leads (such as direct mail or print advertising) have a 1.7

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

We think about how to deliver information succinctly in a news feed, in an email, in a video and packaging it to fit on a mobile screen. Chris Lynch: Is print media dead? You’re seeing a lot of brand content that is exciting and that you haven’t seen before and it’s creative. It is an amazing gift to invite them into our spaces.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

I remember being shocked years ago when the Star Tribune sent a reporter to cover a “Junkyard Pilates” class that our PR agency client was offering – she put away her notebook and took out a camera to shoot a video interview. I remember when Chen May Yee pitched that story to me. How multimedia tentacled do your reporters have to be?

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

According to the Cision’s report, a multimedia journalist is a skillful storyteller, capable of communicating not only in words, but also in images, video, and emerging multimedia formats (GIFs and 360-degree video come to mind). These are now factors you should consider before pitching a journalist.

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

According to the Cision’s report, a multimedia journalist is a skillful storyteller, capable of communicating not only in words, but also in images, video, and emerging multimedia formats (GIFs and 360-degree video come to mind). These are now factors you should consider before pitching a journalist.

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Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40