Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. Conducted in February 2018, the online survey solicited the thoughts and opinions of 5,500 JOTW newsletter subscribers, mainly consisting of senior in-house and corporate communications professionals across a variety of industries. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

Cision

JULY 20, 2015

According to one expert, word-of-mouth marketing isn’t a meritocracy (not entirely, anyhow). What I want to do in this piece is to use Berger’s word-of-mouth framework to highlight five businesses that have had success leveraging word-of-mouth marketing. Practical value. Want to build word-of-mouth?

Energy 120

Energy Viral Storytelling Community 120

PR Conversations

JANUARY 29, 2016

In 2001, a British installation artist, Michael Landy, won a commission for his work, Break Down, that involved the destruction of all his possessions as a reaction to the consumerist society. Online Owned media becomes the easy to control option – although who really seeks out a digital magazine or corporate video?

Publicity 40

Publicity Ethics Creativity Travel 40

Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. 1) Storytelling, analytics and thought leadership are the top PR tactics and trends.

Survey 99

Survey Media Relations Corporate Communications 99

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

My friend, Lou Hoffman calls it the “F word” in storytelling – failure. 3) Augment media relations with content marketing. There are a lot of PR myths about content marketing , but the fact remains, it’s a genuine opportunity to fill an information gap and build an audience. A voice of reason implies transparency and candor.

Survey 377

Survey Media Relations Media Ethics 377

Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

A new survey of primarily corporate communications professionals identified the hottest trends and tactics in PR – and perhaps those that aren’t so hot too. Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. 67% said thought leadership.

Survey 72

Survey Trends Communications Storytelling 72

Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

So far, we've seen the development of targeted advertising, big data collection, analytics, and other digital tracking methods for more efficient marketing and information dissemination (called Big Data), all of which have potentially sinister as well as positive uses. There are potentially sinister reasons for doing this. style vs substance.

Ethics 52

Ethics Communications Print Television 52