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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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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

A crisis is a crisis and when it goes viral it goes viral everywhere, not just on social media. In Fall 2013, the department rebranded the existing PR/social media course, PR2.0, If it’s truly a crisis, it will be published about in blogs and on news sites, and potentially make its way to traditional media.

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The Top PR Threats To Your Company’s Reputation

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The notorious 2013 hack of Target cardholders ultimately cost the company $242 million. The Viral Customer Complaint. Those viral customer complaints are almost quaint in light of today’s environment. The good news is that “viral” customer service works both ways. The Security Breach.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” Writing in a trade journal, Heather Ripley of Ripley PR says that what constitutes a crisis is oftentimes subjective. Identifying a PR crisis.

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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. Starting in 2013, brands started hiring journalists to work on their content programs. Their bosses shrugged off the failure by blaming an entire industry. “Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. Creativity strikes back.

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How To Repurpose Written Content to Reach 6x the Audience

Buzzstream

peaked in 2013, at 242 million units sold. If you’ve got some viral posts, then you’re ready for that “ebook.”. Designing an infographic is an excellent way of making your viral written content more popular and lifting up your posts that performed poorly. Interestingly, between 2010 – 2016, the sales of ebooks in the U.S.

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Remakes & Remixes: Replicating Successful Digital PR Campaigns

Buzzstream

me in 2013, from Throwing Sh*t Against the Wall & Analysing What Sticks, “by deconstructing the success of others you can improve your own chances”. ~ me in 2014, from Appetite for Deconstruction, Lessons in Virality from Axl Rose. study successful content & try to figure out why it worked”. ~ Or has the world moved on?