Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. There will be a glut of AI-generated content as well.

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Cision

APRIL 4, 2016

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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Cision

MAY 2, 2016

” – Emily Bell, writing for CJR. What this media consumption shift caused is a shift in how publishers view content marketing. Termed “distributed content” ( a term coined by BuzzFeed ), this is a strategy of content distribution that no longer relies on native websites to host and distribute content.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 26, 2016

I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Consider the following: Investments in content marketing continue to rise. Content partnerships with major media outlets are taking off. I can’t help it.

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Bad Pitch Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

But you should know that people are composing auto complete song lyrics and getting robots to write fiction. It''s designed to help startups with marketing tasks like Search Advertising, Content Marketing and what it calls "PR and Media" read: media relations. And I''m inclined to agree with you.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 25, 2015

In July 2015, the CMO Council released a report based on a content survey conducted with syndication platform Netline. Content marketing is maturing slowly and steadily. About half of all respondents label their content marketing maturity as either “high performance engine” (12%) or “steadily paced and planned (34%).

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If the world of SEO, inbound marketing, optimized content and landing pages thrills you as a marketer, then the following interview with Clint Danks is going to be your cup of Lipton. How did the ThinkSEM agency come to focus on search engine marketing and landing pages? What’s on the horizon for digital marketing?

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Beyond PR

JUNE 14, 2018

In 2015 his firm, Argyle Public Relations, rebranded to “Argyle Public Relationships” — a subtle but significant shift in emphasizing how he and his team are not only fluent in digital channels but in connecting with media and other stakeholders in a way that delivers results for clients. Argyle didn’t just change its name, of course.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 1, 2015

But the thing is, it’s true; when you’re strategizing or planning to implement social PR today, content is related to practically everything we do. Seeing as we’re almost halfway through 2015, I figured this would be a good time for us all to do a content review. Give Your Content Marketing a Human Face.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. A reset on advertising spend.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

5) Marketers will slow down. The Internet moves at breakneck speed, but that doesn’t mean that we as marketers have to do the same. We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. 7) Larger investments in SDRs and product marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 7, 2015

How to get off your ass and start blogging , August 2015: 5 comments. While that’s neat, your friends thinking what you write is awesome is relatively meaningless in the big scheme of things. The writing, the design and usefulness of the content has to inspire some kind of action. Does blogging still matter?

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

. — David Armano (@armano) August 14, 2015. How to Balance Ethics and Reality in #Influencer #Marketing [link] pic.twitter.com/BWn4QG8m0s. — Jay Baer (@jaybaer) August 19, 2015. You know there’s at least one person saying “Damn Twitter, I can’t write a Direct Message in under 10k characters.”

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Oh, sure, there are bits and pieces, but even the Wikipedia entry , at the time of this writing, is woefully incomplete. 5) March 23, 2015: Viralheat. 6) December 15, 2015: PR Newswire. As much as I believe in PR, and understand it’s potential, I’m also a realist: the biggest PR firms in the world are owned by advertisers.

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Cision

JANUARY 11, 2016

Twitter’s growth stagnated in 2015 , and although there were some interesting newer aspects of the network (most notably Periscope) it evidently wasn’t appealing enough for the 77 percent of Internet users that don’t use the platform. What’s the big takeaway for communication professionals and marketers?

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Communications Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

I organize them by categories: MN blogs, advertising blogs, PR blogs, content blogs. Was this really written in 2015? Contently, The Content Strategist. Mostly because Contently tackles virtually every angle of the world of content marketing. But, does that drive everything he writes about?

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

You work in public relations, SEO, content marketing or social media marketing. You’re thinking of completely overhauling how you market your company. So I jotted down a list of PR/digital/SEO/content marketing influencers. “Writing makes me aware. I think so. Ask The Experts.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“Can we automate content creation using artificial intelligence? More specifically, can we use machines to write blog posts at scale?”. These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. Curate content.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. It is simple: participants first write their ideas without discussion on Post-it notes. Writing a blog post? For example: writing a blog post. It is a challenge to keep up. Failure demand.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This year, more than 20 professionals – real people that do real marketing and PR work every day – responded and with high-quality ideas that I found to be invigorating and thought-provoking. 19) Movie franchise approach to content marketing outpaces the newsroom model. More content marketers will get frequency right.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The near-collapse of much of US journalism employment and the seeming vulnerability of PR coincided with America’s top marketers who - smitten with digital advertising - diverted billions of dollars from their traditional ad budgets into online. Exhibit A: The Death Knell of “Advertising’?

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