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Why Content Marketers Shouldn’t Ignore Traditional Media

Cision

Online is where people go to have questions answered, but traditional media — radio, television, and print — is where people learn about what questions to ask. The distinction holds severely restrictive repercussions for thought leaders, marketers and journalists alike. Credibility. Ability to Decide What Is Presented.

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Guitar Center: Content Marketing and Storytelling at Their Best

Polaris

Guitar Center’s YouTube channel beat out hundreds of leading brands, including Target, Four Seasons and General Electric, to snag the Project of the Year award at Content Marketing Institute’s 2014 Content Marketing Awards. Host Harcourt is best known as a former radio music director and on-air personality in Santa Monica.

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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

The statistic goes like this: A 2015 Microsoft study shows that the average consumer has an attention span of eight seconds down from 12 seconds back in 2000. It’s the premise for a persuasive argument about why marketing needs to do a thing or two. Maybe you heard a Harvard academic citing them on US radio.

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The Top 50 Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Cision

. — 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. Jeff Barrett (@BarrettAll) August 12, 2015. Branding, Social Media, Marketing, PR & Professional Coach. Jay Baer – @jaybaer.

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Case Study: Bauer

NewsWhip

NewsWhip client Bauer Media, one of the UK’s influential media brand networks, had a strategic problem to solve at the start of 2015 in its Radio division. Despite having 107 individual media brands, reaching 22 million people across radio, digital, TV and magazines, Bauer realised that some of its brands were operating in silos.

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MediaPulse | A Weekly Media Round-Up

Cision

New Launches: Neil deGrasse Tyson premiered Star Talk , a late-night science and pop-culture show based on his radio show of the same name ( Space.com ); and new site Weedhorn launched on April 20 (probably not a coincidence) with the aim to make marijuana consumption more mainstream ( Fast Company ). Don’t miss the latest media news.

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The 2015 PR Quiz

Flatiron Communications

In fact, how much change have we seen over the last five years across every business operation — from marketing to sales to CRM to IT? Hence, here’s a refresh that may again test your PR mettle: The 2015 PR Quiz. KNX Radio __. Q15) What’s all the hype with “content marketing?” Inquirer _.