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State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back

Contently - Strategy

I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. Creativity strikes back. Starting in 2013, brands started hiring journalists to work on their content programs. The post State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back appeared first on Contently.

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How to Create an Online Newsroom That Journalists Love

Rock the Status Quo

Creativity counts when it comes to a media pitch, the headline of your press release and share-worthy blog posts. A few additional resources of interest: This Inc 500 online newsrooms report 2013 from Sally Falkow is interesting, as are these three articles: Six Elements Your Online Newsroom Must Have by Arik Hanson, PR Daily.

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#InnovateNow With Mercy Chikowore: The Power of Passion

Cision

What would’ve been a cold call or cold email becomes much warmer because I can refine my pitch through my social media research. One of the most innovative PR and social media projects I worked on was introducing Bitcoin Shop (at the time an e-commerce company for digital currency users) to the media scene back in summer 2013.

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Content Marketing: Is Now a Good Time to Double Down? [Coronavirus]

Sword and the Script

All this got me to thinking about an old statistic out of Forrester Research that’s been kicking around content marketing since 2013: “Although it varies with product complexity and market maturity, today’s buyers might be anywhere from two-thirds to 90% of the way through their journey before they reach out for a salesperson.”

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SHIFT Communications Creates HAROLD: First Artificially Intelligent, Cloud-Based PR Employee

Shift Communications

It would take your average account team several weeks to pitch a 5,000 person media list. HAROLD fulfills many of the tasks that humans find onerous, such as writing press releases, making coffee, and sending email-based pitches to journalists and influencers. 2013: SHIFT Branded Coffee Shops. Christopher S.

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26 Thoughtful Marketing Predictions that Could Actually Happen in 2019 Across PR, Content, Digital, Social Media and Customer Success

Sword and the Script

This, in turn, will make consumers more reliant on companies for their news and less reliant on mass media as less and less content is pitched to 3rd parties.”. – Aub Driver | Shelf Life Agency. 8) Creativity over productivity. Performance marketing companies will work to build out their creative capabilities. 7: Lou Hoffman.

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Power to the People

PR Breakfast Club

Every agency has its own unique culture, but the general stereotype is that agency life is fast-paced and creative, and that a successful PR professional is one who can “sell” an idea. It takes a special environment to enable employees to promote their ideas both internally and to the editors and others being pitched. Creativity.