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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. At the same time, the words vendors use have shifted.

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Rebirth: LEGO

The Hoffman Agency

The arrival in 2004 of Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, an ex-McKinsey consultant, was the catalyst to a complete reversal of fortunes. Let’s set up a T-shirt printing department. The replica products are not compatible with LEGO, and so despite plenty of marketing and retail presence, LEGO remains an iconic toy worldwide. Rise of Vig.

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Forget “Better PR” — The PR Industry Needs Education

Doctor Spin

Social media began to emerge with behemoths like Facebook, founded in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. On the Internet today, everything is marketing and paid — except perhaps for Wikipedia and a few remaining journalists not hiding behind paywalls. How Marketing Kicked Our PR Ass. Marketers will protest. We had a window.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

We see this almost everywhere that PR is discussed online (and often in print too). Likewise, I’m concerned by those who say PR is marketing, yet display little understanding of the underpinnings of either domain. Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ).

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Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The New York Times printed the article in full. The industry has a wholly unrealistic expectation that graduates should be oven ready, and able to immediately undertake a stakeholder audit, write a blog, or pitch media. It’s a situation that is unique to public relations, and possibly marketing. It’s a reasonable enough purpose.

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