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Top Data-Driven PR Trends of 2016: Interactive Infographics

Shift Communications

In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. Trend #1: Interactive Infographics. We marketers and communicators have killed the infographic. Can the news media absorb the volume of infographics we churn out? In a word, no.

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How Data-Driven Storytelling Drives PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Here are some compelling reasons why tech PRs should embrace the trend. 5 reasons to embrace data-driven PR. Data-driven pitches win points with journalists. Journalists look for pitches that are backed up by data in the form of charts, graphs, tables, or interactive infographics.

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Share your data for a better PR program

Shift Communications

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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Where Do You Find Data For PR Storytelling?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Media love poll-results story pitches, especially when accompanied by visuals like infographics. See our earlier post for more on how to make surveys work for PR. Quality data may already exist. ” Our out-of-pocket cost was $200 for the statistical software that made the calculations.

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Social Media Game of Thrones: A Song of PR and Social

Shift Communications

We took published user base data for as many social networks as we could round up, loaded them into analytics software, and turned the data into treemaps. The post Social Media Game of Thrones: A Song of PR and Social appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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What’s the New “Norm” for B2B Marketing?

Shift Communications

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. Living on the B2B side of the house, I’ve been thrilled by the enthusiasm we’re seeing for deeper understanding on how these elements play into our PR programs and the RFP’s we’re receiving. But more importantly my 3 year old son loves trucks and shouts “diggers!”

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What PR Professionals Should Have Learned at IBM World of Watson

Shift Communications

Instead, we toss out a chart, an infographic, or a good quote and hope no one notices that we haven’t done our homework. Part of the reason is that few PR professionals are data analysts; the other part is that many of us don’t have access to quality analytics software. Why does software matter?