PRSay

JANUARY 29, 2019

When Graham joined Amazon Web Services in 2016, there were 10,000 employees. Being able to stay on top of how people consume information is critical to even making a small dent.”. Content is still king,” Graham said, “but how you deliver it determines how well [the audience] will receive it.”.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In an age of ad blocking, brands have to transition away from solely sponsoring or being associated with the content their customers or prospects want or need. Instead, brands have to also produce the desired content. 1) The Parallel between Product Placement and Content Marketing. It’s well worth a read as well.

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The Resolution Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

That’s an hour back a week for creative! If you try it & can’t get at least 1 good content idea for your next campaign I’ll cry. They distill the latest behavioural economics & consumer psychology research down into helpful little brain gems. PR planning for 2016? We love [link].

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

The Old “New Media” and Marketing Tools with Novel Twists [UML]. 2) Is your brand investing in the right content? One of the primary reasons I believe businesses struggle with content marketing is that they are too reliant on best practice, and not thinking enough about being different. Talk to Us!

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At some point summer came and went, flying by just as fast as Usain Bolt crossed the finish line during the 2016 Summer Olympics. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and fall and winter’s other holidays will be here sooner than you know it, bringing with them plenty of inspiration for engaging content.

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Cision

MARCH 31, 2016

Read Cision’s free “State of the Media 2016 Report!” How has content marketing changed over the years? Likewise, if brands are still just churning out “content” in the same old way, I think they’re doing it wrong. What was behind your decision to switch from journalism to PR? They’re about people.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently. “I

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PR 20/20

JUNE 25, 2019

Technology and data have supercharged consumer expectations for a personalized, connected experience. And 67% have switched vendors for a more consumer-like experience. Nearly two-thirds of global consumers (64%) will buy from or boycott a brand solely based on its position on a social or political issue. Content production.

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PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. More Intelligent” Marketing Automation. I love traditional marketing automation. Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute.

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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. ” ~ Morgan McLintic , CEO, Firebrand Communications 6.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s 16: Ted Seward.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 23, 2018

In time we plan to share the database in a Creative Commons format and develop a web app to interrogate the data. We’ll adapt as we have with social media, content marketing, influencer marketing and PESO. It claims that the UK PR and communications industry is worth £13.8bn up 7% since 2016, and employs 86,000 people.

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The Stalwart Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

A few months ago, our agency learned that more of our clients and prospects were in need of greater content marketing assistance. While we’ve always been a PR and Marketing agency, the majority of our work has primarily been focused on media relations. However, things are changing and that is no longer the case.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Online video marketing stats abound! Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5 Statistics like these are pervasive and underscore an undeniable truth: Videos continue to be part of the regular mix in marketing strategies. To autoplay or NOT to autoplay.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This was flat with the $91,000 median originally reported in 2017 and the $92,125 originally reported in 2016. 6) Is Creativity a Skill or Talent? It seems to me if creativity is a talent it can be fine-tuned, like a natural athlete trains to compete in professional football. The point is advertising is not content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

A 2016 study by Edison Research found avid listeners spend four hours and 10 minutes every week listening to an average of five different podcasts. That figure is up 86% from 2016, when the study found that podcast advertising captured $169 million in revenue. What Does It Take to Implement Content Marketing Effectively in B2B?

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PR 20/20

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The content will be used to attract users who are interested in other solutions on the market, then prove how this brand’s next-generation solution is actually superior. It would be prohibitively difficult, as of late 2016, to code a system to write this article—and you would need a data set from which to translate numbers into words.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Icebreaker: What’s a cool piece of content you’ve seen that’s inspiring or super creative? But before I do, when I just throw out like a little icebreaker, I know you’re a man of content out there in the business, what do you like? There are a lot of SEO tools and content marketing tools on the market.

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The latest content marketing trend our PR agency is seeing is the move toward less content creation and more content promotion. In that rush of adrenaline to immediately promote your new e-book or video ASAP, content marketers risk the opportunity to be creative with promotion.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

You have the luxury of being more creative because you have more time. But now I can marinate a little bit in the project, breath and test my creativity a bit more. I was most recently an anchor/reporter at WHO-TV in Des Moines, from 2005-2016. ” I’ve been surprised by how similar content marketing is to journalism.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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. These are just a few of the seemingly endless examples of how AI has become prevalent in the companies we use everyday as consumers. The Marketing Machine Age.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2016

There’s a growing body of research suggesting doodling sparks creatively. While there’s plenty of scientific evidence as to why visuals and imagery are so important to humanity, the marketing and PR firm LEWIS commissioned research to understand it’s importance to marketing. Top 5 Challenges Facing B2B Marketers in 2016.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 30, 2016

As marketers, we are forever pressed for creative, performance-driven ideas. In the era of fast-paced, connected consumers, we must constantly evolve to prove our marketing success. In a recent blog post , Paul Roetzer articulates the challenge: “There have never been more choices for marketers. You know the drill.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

New habits were formed and reading Cal Newport's book Deep Work: Rules for Focused (sic) Success in a Distracted World (2016) crystallised my thinking. He's also a world-leading web strategist, content marketer, author, and speaker. They are not only difficult to avoid they can consume significant time. What is Deep Work?

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. million words.

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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. 8) Creativity over productivity. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. 12) More dramatic platform changes will challenge marketing.

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. million words.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 20, 2019

There is a way out of the empathy trap without abandoning content marketing entirely. Some marketers have an empathy problem. Companies build dedicated audiences by trying to relate to their unique circumstances and creating useful content. The company didn’t force anything.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 15, 2016

Yes, that’s where more and more consumers sate their media appetites these days. One would be hard-pressed to find a media event (or rather, an “activation”) today that did not employ one or more social media “influencers” as part of its marketing mix for driving branded buzz. Peter Himler (@PeterHimler) January 13, 2016.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Consider three news items that suggest how marketers are spurning traditional paid advertising and instead, re-embracing the back-and-forth engagement of public relations and its cousin, content marketing. million - had become the last successful, worst-polling candidates in the 2016 race. What’s a marketer to do? “To

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