Sword and the Script

JANUARY 21, 2017

She uses a series of case studies to illustrate the impact of monitoring and metric can have in shaping a crisis communications response: “Remember the Rutgers University debacle in 2013? Some of the monitoring tools designed around social media, provide storage for just a few months of data.

Social Media 60

Social Media Crisis Marketing Media 60

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

Communications Conversations

APRIL 18, 2019

What’s Castle Danger doing with their social media? Surely, their social media strategy must be rock-solid to drum up that kind of support! And, to a good extent, Castle Danger does do a nice job with its social channels. 2: Focus a significant portion of your social content strategy on the North Shore.

Social Media 76

Social Media Instagram Media Marketing 76

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There’s something in here for every discipline of marketing – be it strategy, PR, content marketing, SEO, digital, social media, customer marketing, and so much more. There will be a notable uptick in socially conscious marketing. 9) Brands across the aisle. “I 3) Emotional connection with customers. “I

Social Media 90

Social Media Marketing Media Creativity 90

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 14, 2016

Lord & Taylor recently settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission for running afoul of disclosure rules for a social media campaign on Instagram. Something similar happened with YouTube video gaming network Machinima, which was involved in the promotion of X-Box in 2013. Compliance. Overexposure.

Marketing 120

Marketing Advertising Advertising Measurement 120

The Proactive Report

JULY 4, 2014

With over a billion users and millions of brand pages there is a glut of content on Facebook. Most people don’t have enough time to see them all,” wrote Facebook engineer Lars Backstrom in a blog post in August 2013. People enjoy Facebook because it allows them to stay connected to people and brands they genuinely like.

Facebook 226

Facebook Analytics Video Advertising 226

Norton's Notes

JULY 26, 2017

I speak a lot to student and marketers alike about social media crisis management as I believe it can have a huge impact on a brand’s reputation and share price if you get it wrong. Even today I am amazed at how many brands just pass the social media content to the most junior member of the team.

Social Media 49

Social Media Airlines Media Viral 49

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. Similar to the algorithms which drive many of our online purchases, brands will begin to communicate with their customers as if they have personal connections with them.

Marketing 99

Marketing Content Marketing Advertising Advertising 99

Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In a recent AdAge profile , Laundry Service CEO Jason Stein describes the huge opportunity that influencers offer to marketers, communications professionals and brands: There is a major convergence between influencers, brands and publishers, and the ones who are really successful are all three of these things.”

Marketing 120

Marketing Groups Journalism Social Media 120

Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of questions from friends and clients about LinkedIn advertising–specifically promoted posts. And it makes sense because these are still relatively new to a lot of folks (even though, technically, sponsored content has been around a long time on LinkedIn–since 2013, to be exact).

LinkedIn 97

LinkedIn B2B Exercises Advertising 97

Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

Yvonne Lorie, the founder of ReFresh PR and a recipient of the 2013 HPRA Premio PR Achievement Award, has been elected president of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) national board for 2017. What are brands doing differently today? What is your secret to Public Relations and media relations success?

Automotive 245

Automotive Resources Strategy Consumer 245

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Who can forget Oreo’s brilliant “dunk in the dark” tweets during the famous Super Bowl blackout of 2013? Where that campaign was genuine, true to the brand and fun in its spontaneity, the pancake waffle weigh-in was just illogical and offensive. The best ideas are workable across media platforms.

Publicity 120

Publicity Fashion Twitter Advertising 120

Cision

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Forty-five percent of executives think it’s okay to share other brands’ information as either digital or print paid content. Social media has shifted discussions on this topic and last month’s decision on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act made the lines between copyright and fair use even blurrier.

Examples 120

Examples Viral YouTube Infographics 120

Cision

JUNE 29, 2015

This is a guest post by Jeremy Bamidele , a brand strategist, publicist and adjunct professor at Rancho Santiago Community College District. No longer are people getting their news recommendations from media publishers, instead they are getting it from their relationships on social media.

Comparison 120

Comparison Television Print Social Media 120

Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

According to a 2013 Technorati study , blogs are one of the most important online sources of purchase influence. In fact, they ranked third after retail and brand sites—well above online magazines and news sites. While independent bloggers often have lower audience reach than legacy media, their communities are typically more involved.

Media Relations 232

Media Relations Marketing Media Fashion 232

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Ed: A version of this post originally ran on September 20, 2013 on Vikypedia.in. dollar (as of December 1, 2013). The falling rupee has hit many Indians, and seems to have caught up with the Indian media in the past few months. Ad spending on social media has shot up from Rs.94 300 crore (~$48.3M) in FY 2013.

Digital PR 79

Digital PR Newspapers Advertising Advertising 79

Mark My Words

OCTOBER 25, 2021

BrewDog, the self-styled punk brewer, displayed some softer edges this week after finding itself on the wrong side of an Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling. The ASA upheld 25 complaints and a chastened BrewDog ate humble pie, blaming a “miscommunication between its marketing and social media teams”.

Strategy 60

Strategy Marketing Insurance Insurance 60

Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Quite rightly the PRCA says: “Now more than ever, in-house teams surveyed see themselves as the owners of digital/social media strategy and execution, with agencies providing supporting roles.” Companies and brands can only be truly social if they do it themselves.

Digital PR 60

Digital PR Training Report Social Media 60

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This immediacy brought on by the rise of social media and all things digital has led to real-time marketing (RTM) becoming one of the biggest industry trends in recent years. What social media guru Ekaterina Walter aptly called the “newsfeed mentality” at last month’s FutureM conference lies at the very heart of RTM.

Marketing 138

Marketing Conference Trends Viral 138

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Are you active on social media (at least the top one or two platforms where your audience spends time)? Brand-to-brand collaboration. Likely see more brand-to-brand and brand-to-influencer collaborations. Meeting buyers where they congregate. Digital matters now more than ever. Do you blog regularly?

Marketing 167

Marketing Employee Content Marketing Training 167

Shift Communications

MARCH 10, 2015

No other social network can reach that many people on Earth. The flip side of this coin is Facebook’s continued reduction in what brands and companies can do for free on their service. May 2012 : Facebook rolls out Promoted Posts for brand Pages. It’s intentional, another step taken to reduce the organic reach of brand Pages.

Facebook 60

Facebook Advertising Advertising Technology 60

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A few highlights: Maintaining Brand and Autonomy: The PR 20/20 brand remains, and all full-time staff were retained. This was just the right time and the right opportunity for me and my family, and what I believe to be the best possible fit for our team, our clients, and the agency moving forward.

Financial 98

Financial Conference Agency Resources 98

Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After all, this was an advertising panel. Most of the folks I know come from the PR, comms or social media worlds. Holly is now the vice president of corporate branding and partnerships at Polaris. Holly’s one of those folks who started in marketing right at the beginning of social media.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Creativity Internal 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 23, 2016

It allowed up to four people to participate in a live video chat and quickly became popular among marketers for its ease of use and integration with social media.”. Having once lost some 200+ posts created over a couple years when a site called Posterous shuttered in 2013, I couldn’t agree more. 2) Experiment with a purpose.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Digg Marketing Social Media 60

Beyond PR

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

When crafting campaigns, brands often have reaching various language groups on their radar. Communications professionals are aware of the importance of targeting, for example, the considerable number of Hispanics who prefer to consume media in Spanish. percent in 2013 and exceeding the numbers for both whites and Hispanics.

Television 72

Television Education Groups Community 72

Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Are we over-relying on media relations in PR? I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. For many years, media relations has been one of the core aspects of PR.

Media Relations 60

Media Relations Media Newspapers Print 60

Journalistics

MAY 26, 2015

Now in its 14th year, the report is one of the best indicators of the health of the news media industry. The major theme from this year’s report is the rising challenge news organizations face managing mobile and social media audiences. Why are mobile visitors less valuable? How big is “significant”?

Newspapers 71

Newspapers Mobile Media Facebook 71

Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Today, your brand has more channels to communicate through – and more audiences to communicate with.

Content Marketing 52

Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Resources 52

Ishmael's Corner

JANUARY 27, 2015

Credit to social media guru Steve Farnsworth who captured the debacle as a case study. While many fixate on native advertising, the partnering of publications and brands in the making of journalism is the more jarring trend. Change : Publications are behaving like PR companies to land a slice of the owned-media pie.

Industry 60

Industry Storytelling Journalism Corporate 60

MaccaPR

JULY 23, 2014

Though there''s disagreement on the accuracy of that specific number, we can all agree that telling your brand''s story through photos, gifs and videos can be much more engaging than plain text. In fact, social channels with a laser-focus on visual content are exploding. Stay "on brand." Source: Benefit Cosmetics ).

Pinterest 91

Pinterest Storytelling Infographics Social Media 91

Doctor Spin

APRIL 17, 2023

This policy encourages customers to try products without fear of commitment and builds trust with the brand. To create these “zombie loyalists,” Shankman recommends focusing on exceptional customer service, going above and beyond to ensure every customer has a positive experience with your brand.

Strategy 52

Strategy Customer Service Airlines Hotels 52

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Convenience’ (more of it) and ‘friction’ (less of it) are going to be critical terms for brand messaging in 2018, whether through marketing or PR efforts. People want to buy from brands that they can trust and feel that share the same values. Ecommerce brands use their app to offer discounts, free shipping, etc.

Marketing 101

Marketing Content Marketing Crisis Management Data 101

Cision

APRIL 24, 2015

The term “content marketing” casts a wide net when it comes to ways to promote and publicize a brand or organization. It can include social media, tip sheets, and emails, as well as paid promotions like native advertising and promoted posts on social platforms.

Community 120

Community Mobile Blogging Publicity 120

MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

Just as we did in 2013 with " PR and Social Media Counsel from MaccaPR''s Most Popular Posts ," we''re now taking a look back at the most successful recent posts on MaccaPR, according to our readers. His post features tips for how your brand can use YouTube and other social media channels to conquer your competition. #3.

Blogging 48

Blogging Wikipedia YouTube Content Marketing 48

Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

For 20 years, the media and marketing world has been beholden to the pageview, a deeply flawed metric that only captures the most superficial impression of how people behave on the web. The paper traces the use of pageveiws for measurement to online advertising, where CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, became standard for advertising fees.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60