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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

PRSay

During the pandemic, economic crisis, racial tensions and partisan arguments that have marked 2020, we have started communicating differently. 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. Our brains on stress.

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The Media Spin No. 2: Dumpster Fires

Doctor Spin

Unboxing Is So 2012. That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies “Those mega-viral images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes.” Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals. The Benner cycle. Not so sure.

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

In 2012, LG wanted to show the world how lifelike its new range of IPS monitors was, so they put a series of nine monitors on the elevator floor. This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube. The video went viral after its launch with over 600,000 views on YouTube. LG’s falling elevator.

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Wishing for a Better 2021? You’re Going to Need a Plan.

Barokas

I’ve been thinking since that interview about whether barbell and antifragile strategies hold relevance for marketing, PR and communications professionals. So, I’ve taken a stab at a few ways barbell and antifragile can be used in communications, and how to build upon those as you kick-off annual planning season. Created a viral video?

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” The perpetuation of a “viral” story on digital channels can be hours.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

Launched in April 2012, Google’s Penguin update was aimed at sites which spammed search results. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. A lot of the websites did so by bulk link-buying or getting them via link networks. Contact us today!

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