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Is Lawsuit Against Marketing Firm’s Role in Opioid Crisis a Precedent for Public Relations?

PRSay

In the complaint, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges that from 2010 to 2019, Publicis Health partnered with the drug company on dozens of contracts, collecting more than $50 million “in exchange for marketing schemes to get doctors to prescribe Purdue’s opioids to more patients.”. A commitment to ethics.

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AVE Alternatives: Part 1 Measuring the Value of Coverage With G-AVE

The Resolution Blog

Back in the day, we relied on AVE to compare how much our placements were worth against other activity (hence why it’s called advertising value equivalent). Let us introduce G-AVE (or, in layman terms, Google Advertising Equivalent Value). For example, you can find out how much the advertising equivalent is on your latest blog post.

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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. ” Jeff : “Content marketing isn’t much different from advertising – it’s always rainbows and unicorns – nothing but happy stuff. It’s just a fact of life.

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PR history – prospecting for archival gold

PR Conversations

In the UK, the papers of the Institute of Public Relations (now Chartered Institute of Public Relations) are held at the History of Advertising Trust. For example for the Geneva meeting, the text reads blandly: “Code of Ethics & Discipline sub-committee of Professional Standards Committee formed, with Herbert Lloyd in the chair. “It

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

November 23rd, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Jackson Wightman I take part in a few Twitter chats when time permits. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Transparency, disclosure and ethics in new media are quickly becoming an area of interest of mine. A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts.

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PR history – prospecting for archival gold

PR Conversations

In the UK, the papers of the Institute of Public Relations (now Chartered Institute of Public Relations) are held at the History of Advertising Trust. For example for the Geneva meeting, the text reads blandly: “Code of Ethics & Discipline sub-committee of Professional Standards Committee formed, with Herbert Lloyd in the chair. “It

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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

Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales. Paid media refers to any type of media that is paid for, such as advertising. This is very old – like circa 2010 old. Marketing is focused on promoting a product or service in order to sell it.