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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

In 2013, to promote “Carrie,” a remake of the original 1976 version, its distribution company MGM Films created a Halloween surprise for customers who were taking a coffee break at a local coffee shop in New York. This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube. MGM films staged a telekinetic surprise.

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How designer brands are targeting new consumers

NewsWhip

Since June 1st, the story has resulted in almost 400k interactions across the web. Roger’s dresses blew up on the popular app Tik Tok, especially after a video went viral of two women calling the pieces “ hideous.” Balenciaga x Crocs. All of the traffic caused the website to crash , as TMZ reported in their article with 6.1k

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

One of the great examples of crisis/not crisis was the 2013 hacking of Burger King’s Twitter account by a McDonald’s fan. In The New Rules of Marketing and PR , David Meerman Scott argues that social media and web publishing have forever changed the PR profession.

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Remakes & Remixes: Replicating Successful Digital PR Campaigns

Buzzstream

This piece is a remix: Unicorn League is a piece we created for Sage, which sadly is no longer live on the web (like much of my work). 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”. ~ Now let’s take a look at remixes.

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4 Examples of Fair Use Debates in the Digital World

Cision

In 2013, a photographer brought a lawsuit against BuzzFeed for the use of a photo he originally posted in Flickr. After he sent a takedown notice, the website took down the photo and updated its post, however, the photographer alleges the photo had already spread virally to other websites without proper attribution.

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

But I am curious if consumer trust has reached a point where more and more brands will look to intentionally create content that ‘goes viral’ due to its divisive or outrageous nature. Related predictions posts from around the web: 7 Tech CEOs Share Marketing Trends And Predictions For 2020 (Forbes / Kimberly Whitler ).

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Your Favorite MaccaPR Blog Posts: Ellen's Oscar Selfie, Death of PR Spin and Online Content Secrets

MaccaPR

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. Is it website or Web site? Top 10 MaccaPR Blog Posts of 2014. #1. If you haven''t already, this is a great post to bookmark.