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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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Conference Recap: Reaching Rural Americans, Preventing Social Media Crises and Using the PESO Model

PRSay

” For example, there’s an assumption that the internet or social media are not the best tools for reaching low-income Americans. Market research is vital to understanding how target audiences consume info,” said Haworth. 3 Ways to Maintain Control of Your Corporate Social Media. Meet people where they are.

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

Consumers are spending more and more each year on Halloween, with an increase from $8.4 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. billion to $9.1

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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. Add to this the fact that social media has made audiences more cynical, and in this unprecedented time, we need new rules for communication.

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads. Honestly, this traditional format is completely obsolete now.

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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As almost 200,000 folks get ready for their annual excursion to Las Vegas for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , those of us who toil in B2B tech public relations will be looking for 2017 trends to better take advantage of industry moves and stake out positions for clients. PR will embrace paid media. B2B content must be shareable.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

Waxing UnLyrical

A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In his research on viral advertising videos , he found that a very small percentage of advertising videos (0.1%) actually go “viral.” His findings are pretty illuminating. Why we share.

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