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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. It was a very humbling experience.

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The evolution of mainstream media and the need for every company to become a media company

Presspage

By 2010, three decades later, there were four PR professionals for every journalist in the U.S. Here’s a scary stat I read in Wired magazine regarding national election reporting: In November 2012, it took four employees at the Washington Post, 25 hours to compile and post a fraction of the election results.

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Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI? PR Tech Sum: Talkwalker, TVEyes, Meltwater, SocialChorus, Cision, Signal AI and Burrelles

Sword and the Script

Podcasting is clearly growing – TVEyes CEO David Ives said in an announcement , “more than 30 percent of Americans listen monthly, more than 20 percent listen weekly, and these listeners skew toward demographics that advertisers and politicos alike seek to understand and influence.”. 3) Meltwater updates UX, adds new projects feature.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

This can include the media, customers, employees, and the general public. Internal communications: PR practitioners may also be responsible for communicating with employees and stakeholders within an organization. What is public relations? Marketing is focused on promoting a product or service in order to sell it.

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Behind the Headlines with Kristin Daher

Cision

In this interview, Daher sat down to discuss with me the challenges of being a new agency owner, how to deliver effective pitches, and how she’s embracing the many changes in the field of PR. I initially entered college seeking a career in broadcasting, transitioned to advertising, and then found my true calling in PR.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Vocus had, in years prior, acquired brands including PRWeb for $28 million in 2006, Help a Reporter Out, aka HARO, for an undisclosed sum in 2010 , and iContact, for $169 million in 2012. The press release, issued at closing, indicates Prime Research, which is headquartered in New York, NY, has 700 employees around the globe.

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PR Winners: The Best Stories of 2018

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Marketers may have differing opinions on Nike’s brand advertising campaign around former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this year. There was no apparent hesitation, no poll-tested apologies, no mealy-mouthed mea culpa, just a corporate statement that was pitch-perfect. Nike scores with Kaepernick.

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