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Challenger Brands: Here’s How To Win At PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Regardless of the industry, a challenger brand can have a natural PR advantage. Challenger brands can shake things up through unique points of view, innovation or a better story. But many brands don’t have Casper’s $240 million venture funding. Everyone remembers their viral, bro-y YouTube ad in 2011 , for example.

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What is Newsjacking?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Since David Meerman Scott coined the term “ newsjacking ” in 2011, our team has written nearly 30 unique blogs on the subject — possibly more than any other topic. Newsjacking can also tie a brand to timely topics that lend themselves to stories in top-tier media outlets that can otherwise be hard to crack with things like company news.

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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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2 Enduring Strategies for These Content-Saturated Times

PRSay

2011 — Facebook follower numbers seemed to grow on their own. 2017 — Snapchat went public with a soaring valuation and lots of brands jumped on that bandwagon. Get more media pitching knowledge from Michael Smart here. Your audiences would find it when they searched, so why bother with those pesky reporters?

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5 Ways Our Weekly FB Live Show Helped Grow Our Business & Our Work Culture

Deirdre Breakenridge

What started as a social media experiment has quickly become an integral part of the Socialfly brand, company culture and our favorite part of the week! Video content is the future of social media and for brands, businesses or influencers questioning the benefits, we detail five ways going live has improved our agency.

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

PRSay

Works like Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” (2011) and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” (2012) show that they — and our target audiences — are not. Audiences, craving authenticity, are calling out brands when they smell hypocrisy. Right now, that advice is more crucial than ever as we begin 2021. Black Pride. She wasn’t.

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What is Newsjacking?

Landis PR

What can an organization do to keep its brand top-of-mind when there’s no news? Here’s the pitch: In 2019, Landis Communications Inc. As the anticipation of the Royal Baby Birth reached a fever pitch, LCI worked closely with hospital staff to promote CPMC’s own “royal babies” the day the news broke. By Robin Carr. We newsjacked!