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Social media advertising blunders- a look at past advertising failures and what brands can learn from them

Prohibition

Social media has the potential to grow a brand’s identity and consumer base extensively. However, advertising can just as easily be detrimental for businesses, and blunders are commonplace in the industry. Competitor brand KFC brilliantly responded “the best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it.

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The Statistics, Effectiveness and Politics of Super Bowl Commercials [UML]

Sword and the Script

1) Statistics on the Super Bowl audience and advertising. Marketing Charts published a piece – Super Bowl 2020 Data – summarizing advertising research about the Super Bowl from Kantar and the National Retail Foundation , among others. What does an advertisement in this year’s Super Bowl (54) cost? According to Ms.

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The Influencer Marketing Measurement Enigma

PRSay

We used to calculate the value of earned media placements according to advertising value equivalency (AVE), based on the cost of a print media ad and the publication in which it appeared. A case in point is the brand S’well. It’s unlikely that any amount of paid advertising would have built the same value for the brand.

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Your Brand is Not the Hero…Your Customer is the Hero

Sword and the Script

The story stems from a 2011 commercial for the Volkswagen Passat – the “Darth Vader Super Bowl commercial.” This is instructive for one big reason: the brand isn’t the hero, the little boy (or perhaps arguably his father) is the hero. Too many brands miss this important point. The company is trying to make its brand the hero.

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AirPR Raises $8 Million Series C Financing – Bolsters Platform With the Release of Author Intelligence™ Solution

Onclusive

We connect content to business outcomes for the first time, and leverage artificial intelligence to reveal which communication strategies drive actual brand engagement. AirPR was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Judy Luk-Smit , VP of Product at AirPR, previously product management at Dell.

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False Online Reviews: How to Deal with Damaging Internet Posts about your Business

Melissa Agnes

In fact, a 2011 Washington Post article cites a Harvard Business School study that revealed a one-star rating change on Yelp can lead to a difference in revenue for a company of five to nine percent. Fake Reviews: How to Protect Your Brand (Video). 3 Benefits of a Pre-Crisis Online Vulnerability Audit.

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Reputation on social media – Comms must own it or lose it

NewsWhip

Brand reputation, intellectual property, and contractual rights comprise the three most valuable intangibles in company valuations today – and intangibles comprise the vast majority of value in large corporations. . Traditionally, marketers gave audiences simple stories, delivered through advertising. No More Heroes Any More.