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3 Tips for Pulling Off a Viral Event, According to the Founder of the Fraud Street Run

Solo PR Pro

Though Jeff does have a marketing background — he works in web development at a local university — this was by no means a planned marketing campaign. When you’re doing this sort of viral, online guerilla marketing,” Jeff says, “you’ve got to get out quick and strike while the iron’s hot.” Move quickly and ask for help.

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The Rise and Fall of the Pumpkin Spice Latte

Cision

In 2015, in an analysis of news media, web forums and 1% of Twitter conversations, we found 90,140 mentions. Before starting your next viral social campaign, head down to your local coffee shop and enjoy the autumnal bounty of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon — or don’t because you know it will be back next year.

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August Publisher Rankings

NewsWhip

This analysis includes English-language content from publishers, ranked by Facebook likes, shares, and comments to their web content. These were the top web publishers on Facebook in the month of August for 2019. These were the top 15 web articles on Facebook in August 2019. This time we see it for Chicago.

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These were the top publishers on Facebook in January 2020

NewsWhip

This analysis includes English-language content from publishers, ranked by Facebook likes, shares, and comments to their web content, ranked by domain. The latter of these is a viral site associated with feel-good content and spirituality that has been rising rapidly up our rankings in recent months. . million and 5.7

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

In 2013, to promote “Carrie,” a remake of the original 1976 version, its distribution company MGM Films created a Halloween surprise for customers who were taking a coffee break at a local coffee shop in New York. This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube. The video has almost 100 million views.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The updates mainly affect web traffic, conversions and content, leading to SEO and PR professionals scurrying for changing their existing strategies. Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. It’s a big web world and growing at an exponential pace. Today, it is so much easier and it’s a lot more transparent with the advent of search engines and a social web. The Key Steps.

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