article thumbnail

What You Can Learn in 2017 from our Favorite MaccaPR Posts of 2016

MaccaPR

Now that 2016 – our Minneapolis PR agency's 20th Anniversary Year – has rocketed to a close, join us for a tour of the most popular MaccaPR blog posts of the past 12 months. Let's dive back into your favorite posts from 2016 one last time! the Top MaccaPR Posts of 2016. We ask you to please enter at your own risk.

Crisis 48
article thumbnail

In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

Agency 97
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Can we press release that? 15 stories about the public relations industry (you won’t believe #10)

Stephen Waddington

The PRCA was started by a group of CIPR members in 1969 who wanted to create an organisation to address the specific needs of agency owners. None of the top 20 UK agencies participated in the recent PRWeek pay gap study. Publicists and agencies focused solely on the media exaggerate the issue. It’s a reasonable enough purpose.

Industry 153
article thumbnail

Behind the Headlines With Jim Hawker

Cision

Jim Hawker, co-founder and owner of London-based PR agency Threepipe, says focusing on the PESO model when working with clients helps his team be effective. Gain insights from Cision’s free State of the Media 2016 Report! What do you think was the key factor in the agency winning that account? Image via Jim Hawker.

Analytics 120
article thumbnail

Behind the Headlines With Sharon Ward Keeble

Cision

I wanted to be a writer from an early age and after I completed a National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) course when I was 18, I started working for my local newspaper in Cheshire, England, where I lived. Cision’s State of the Media 2016 Report found that 93 percent of journalists prefer to receive pitches via email.

article thumbnail

Medical Marijuana: What Pharma Companies Need to Know

Cision

To date , 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized its use, and a number of marijuana-related ballot measures will be before voters in 2015 and 2016. Drug Enforcement Agency as a Schedule I narcotic — an illegal drug with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Research and testing in the U.S.

Company 120
article thumbnail

The Death of the Press Release.

Maxim Behar

Whether you are the end reader or reporting major news for tomorrow’s newspaper doesn’t matter. For instance, Samsung launched their new Galaxy Note 7 phone in August 2016. There’s an earthquake? You get on Twitter and Facebook and learn the latest.