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PR vs. Advertising: What’s the difference?

5W PR

When most people hear about PR and advertising, they assume it’s roughly the same thing. The mistaken belief might arise from the fact that both of them have to do with the information found about a person or brand in the media, making both of them marketing. The starkest difference between them is that advertising is controlled media.

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5 Amazing Facts You Must Know About Facebook Advertising

Cision

According to the 2016 Content Marketing Benchmark Report by the Content Marketing Institute, the top three paid advertising methods used by B2B marketers to promote/distribute content are: Search Engine Marketing (66 percent); Print or Other Offline Promotion (57 percent); Traditional Online Banner Ads (55 percent). That is staggering.

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PRLab and PRStudChat Prepare Students for an 18-Hour Pro Bono Marathon

Deirdre Breakenridge

On November 21, 2014, PRLab, the nation’s oldest student-run public relations agency, will host its third PRoBono event. During PRoBono, students from PRLab and AdLab — Boston University’s student-run advertising agency — come together for 18 hours to complete public relations and advertising work for five nonprofit organizations.

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State of Social Q4 2014: LinkedIn is the real MVP

Shift Communications

LinkedIn’s performance was stronger than ever to close out Q4 2014, with some astounding numbers. Even communicators could potentially use the service for pitching, if your media targets tend to be active on LinkedIn. Advertising LinkedIn Marketing Social Media' Let’s jump into the details. Christopher S.

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Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]

Sword and the Script

Use PR to build a brand and advertising to defend it. The point of that philosophy used to be that, while you can build a brand with advertising, it’s very expensive. Social media, which was once the path around the traditional gatekeeper, today has become the gatekeeper, and not a better one since ideas are surfaced for a price.

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The FDA Speaks on Advertising via Limited Character Platforms: Guidance on the Guidance for Pharmaceutical Communications

ISEBOX

The FDA is tasked with regulating pretty much all aspects of drugs and medical devices in the US, including “promotional labeling” – or, advertising, as the rest of the world refers to it. The Agency has already spoken on post-marketing reporting requirements via Guidance issued in January 2014.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 1) Earned media is sales enablement. A tech PR firm recently published a study that showed promising effects media relations can have on the sales cycle for B2B marketing organizations.

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