Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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Content Marketing B2B Survey Analysis 65

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

The in-housing trend in PR isn’t entirely surprising. It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. (By Then the economy changed.

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Barokas

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Pew Research reported a 25 percent drop in newsroom employment from 2008 to 2018. Earlier this year, Onclusive released a study based on analysis of more than 2 billion pieces of editorial content between 2018 and 2018, which revealed that the percentage of authors contributing to mass media is down 11 percent.

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Marketing Employee Trends Study 78

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

What we made, on a platform called Moveable Type in 2008, was a pretty good start, but there was also a lot of red-tape. The measure of “best” in this case is unique page views. 3) The Future of Marketing Looks More like Public Relations. 4) B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success. But we can’t.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73

Cision

MAY 7, 2015

New ways to accurately measure and track PR’s value. In the last five years, the biggest changes in public relations have been social media and the rise of sponsored content or branded journalism. Although social media really began to percolate around 2007-2008, it was more of a novelty in the early days.

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Social Media Video Agency Healthcare 120

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Shonali said that she enjoyed participating in PR chats, particularly when measurement issues were discussed—but noted that there was little being done to curate them. This was back in 2008-2009, so Shonali did what most of us do when we think about PR measurement. She called Katie Paine. SeeDepth Inc.

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