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9 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule The Roost In 2016

Cision

Soon 2015 will fade into history, so it’s time to forecast which content marketing strategies are most likely to follow through in 2016 and which of them will die a fast death. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016? And social media is another 2015 trend on the list and is likely to make waves in the year 2016.

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SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q2 2016

Shift Communications

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. In April of 2016, Facebook decided to change the game and reporting methods for the typical influencer. Want to see how to do this for your blog? Here’s how. Prioritize and share.

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2016: The Year of the (Marketing) Monkey

Shift Communications

2016 in the Chinese Zodiac is the year of the Monkey, whose attributes include being “smart, quick witted, frank, optimistic, ambitious and adventurous.” Tools are getting smarter and faster, but there still is no one source of truth for measurement – and we shouldn’t expect it to magically arrive. Here’s to an exciting 2016.

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Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016

Shift Communications

It’s the fall – which means back to school, back to work and pretty soon planning for 2016. Both in-house and agency marketing teams will be defending the year’s work, planning for 2016 and securing (or hopefully expanding!) How can you showcase your current work in the best light and set the stage for an even more successful 2016?

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The Competitive Edge of Marketing Tools Stems from Application [UML]

Sword and the Script

There is more than one way to view tools of the marketing or PR trade. Speed is a staple value proposition of technology and tools clearly have an influence on a craft, whether carpentry or PR or something else. The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]. Brands like Warner Bros.

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How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News

PRSay

Independent third-party tools are available that provide such data about news and political publishers. Many PR pros already use tracking and listening tools to stay on top of media and social media mentions of their clients but knowing more about the source of those mentions can help you respond in the most intelligent way possible.

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Why innovation in PR tech is so slow

Stephen Waddington

A market gets the tools that it deserves. There is a long-standing joke in the PR industry that the most popular tool is Excel. Excel isn’t used to track the value that the PR industry creates but instead as a crude relationship management tool. It’s the wrong tool for the wrong job. It isn’t very funny.

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