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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. As HubSpot’s first agency partner back in 2008 , we’ve built our firm on the back of automation and have witnessed it transform the industry over the last decade.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By Then the economy changed.

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Behind the Headlines With Scott Beaudoin

Cision

For Scott Beaudoin, corporate social responsibility isn’t just good for society; it’s a necessary business practice. Here, he discusses his new role as chief strategy officer and executive managing director of corporate and brand purpose at RF|Binder and how he hopes to help companies become more purpose-driven and socially responsible.

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PRoust Questionnaire: José Manuel Velasco

PR Conversations

One can’t get more miserable than being forced to incorporate lies (or at least partial truths) as part of a supposedly transparent and ethical speech. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery in PR? What qualities do you most admire in a PR practitioner? I don’t think there will be an end…I will simply be forgotten.

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Shattering Stereotypes with Marketing: A Conversation with The BrandLab

MaccaPR

Why should it matter to a chief marketing officer that her advertising and public relations agency teams are all white, blonde and marinated in the same suburban, upper middle class culture? But when the agency showed the same TV spot to black women, they felt the kids’ behavior in the spot was rude and obnoxious.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

The first phase of study that led to the Excellence Theory consisted of quantitative, survey-based research of more than 300 organisations in Canada, UK and US, including a cross section of corporations, non-profit organisations and government agencies. Other challenges include ethics, power, propaganda and Western bias.

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Kotcher Inducted Into Page Society Hall of Fame; Declares “This Is Our Time”

PRSay

Aedhmar, you certainly have earned the Distinguished Service Award and, as we both are agency citizens, I am particularly pleased to share the podium with you this evening. At Ketchum — and in many of the other great agencies — this commitment is at our core. Anniversaries. They are exciting times, amazing times.