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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

According to Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard: “Last month’s striking surge in audience attention has ebbed week by week and has now largely washed away.” The data shows: “…as of right now, news traffic to news sites, both in the U.S. The spending on paid search and SEO jives with similar surveys published on this roundup last week.

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

Sword and the Script

a) Survey of 1,000 Journalists by Muck Rack Muck Rack is back with its annual survey of journalists. 48% of journalists responding to this survey said they get between 1-5 pitches a day; 18% get between 5-10; 12% get upwards of 10-20; and 13% get 20 plus pitches a day. Try our services. 2) Volume of PR pitches received.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

And despite digital and legacy media outlets shuttering or laying off, there is a slew of independent, niche and grant-funded newsrooms starting up or getting help from organizations like Press Forward, Local Media Foundation, News/Media Alliance, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, the American Journalism Project and others.

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Is Media Relations Getting Harder?

Sword and the Script

That’s according to a recent survey of communication professionals , which yours truly conducted in collaboration with Ned’s Job of the Week. The survey found more than half (51%) said media relations is getting harder. How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows. 3 More Reasons Media Relations is Harder.

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Triple 7s: The Best, Worst and Most Loved Blog Posts in 2017

Sword and the Script

2) 2017 PR Salary Survey Suggests Demand for Talent Tightening. 7) How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows. This makes it really important to get the most out of these events – and there is a lot you can do before, during and after the show to better leverage your existing investments in conferences and trade shows.

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Study: Marketing Budgets Take Aim at Digital, Social and Mobile

Sword and the Script

That’s according to a new survey of 288 senior marketing executives – the CMO Survey – conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the American Marketing Association and McKinsey & Co; Duke has run this survey twice a year since 2008. The survey found 69.9%

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Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script #29: Tom Pick of Webiquity

Sword and the Script

Event marketing , at gatherings like annual customer meetings and trade shows, was huge in the 90s. Year after year, in every survey, the top priority, challenge, and metric for success is leads. PR, marketing, sales and journalism. Pre-Internet, that was because print ad space was so costly.