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PR vs. Advertising: What’s the difference?

5W PR

When most people hear about PR and advertising, they assume it’s roughly the same thing. The mistaken belief might arise from the fact that both of them have to do with the information found about a person or brand in the media, making both of them marketing. The starkest difference between them is that advertising is controlled media.

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5 Reasons Not To Cut PR In A Recession

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Already, Facebook parent company Meta has warned of an advertising slowdown. In the UK others speculate that businesses will “trade down” to PR by cutting more expensive marketing programs. What the data shows about marketing in a recession. Yet why should anyone take a PR person’s view on this?

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

PRSay

In early May, the state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Publicis Health for its work with Purdue Pharma, claiming its “unfair and deceptive” marketing practices helped fuel the national opioid crisis. Publicis Health acted solely as an advertising agency. Publicis Health, part of Publicis Groupe S.A.,

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

Sword and the Script

Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. It grew eventually into a tech-based email list that was free for users with an advertising model. Acquisitions PR software company Vocus acquired HARO in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. And now onward with this month’s PR Tech Sum. >>>

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Can You Measure PR?

5W PR

Many PR professionals swear by the Barcelona Principles, a set of seven voluntary guidelines created in 2010 by a team of PR practitioners. Still, the rejection of AVEs is problematic for three reasons: user experience, buyer experience, and the free market.

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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). Alternatively, chat with your marketing team to see if they’re already using a similar tool.

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What Are The 7 Barcelona Principles Of Public Relations?

The Hoyt Organization

More often than not, it’s challenging to attribute specific outcomes such as market dominance shifts, sales spikes, or ranking increases directly to isolated PR efforts. They were crafted and endorsed at the 2010 2nd Annual European Summit on Measurement, which took place in Barcelona, Spain.