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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

Sword and the Script

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Social media statistics from 2020. Social Media Statistics from 2020. Traditional media drives social media.

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How to Generate Coverage From Conferences

Cision

Use your media database to ensure the contacts on your influencer list still cover the topics your conference will explore. Cision’s 2016 State of the Media Report, to be released Tuesday, found that the majority of journalists (93 percent) prefer to be contacted via email. Send a press release. Want to take it one step further?

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Are You Using These 33 Ways to Promote Your Content That Most Marketers Overlook?

MaccaPR

For content marketers seeking to generate leads from that new blog post, white paper, case study, event, infographic, research report, or webinar, here are 33 ways to ensure that your content is found, downloaded, clicked-on and consumed. Social media services like Edgar can help you reuse your best social posts to bring in more views.

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Trust, Disclosure & Content: 3 Keys to Thought Leadership in the Media [Report Review]

Waxing UnLyrical

” On the flip side, this doesn’t give you a pass when it comes to creativity with your content and pitching; leverage that to generate even more earned media through your outreach efforts. Digital media journalists are watching, [which] creates communication opportunities.” So, overall takeaways?

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Blogging vs. Press Releases vs. Coverage; Unscripted Marketing Links

Sword and the Script

Whether it’s email, newsletters, SEO, PPC, social media marketing — it’s imperative to ensure these are integrated and complementary. Mainstream media coverage “doesn’t move the needle like it once did” because “readers have cocooned themselves in their algorithmically curated.”. “We

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The Dynamic Web: Pop-ups, Persistence and SERP [UML]

Sword and the Script

For example, social media once lauded for democratizing publishing is largely a paid game today. Social media has become, in many senses, the very thing it once disintermediated. The top spot in an organic search is many ways what page 1 above the fold in a printed version of a newspaper used to be many years ago.

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5 Things to Know About Branded Content

Beyond PR

Think back a few years when you read a certain kind of newspaper article. In 2016, Facebook announced that all sponsored content (another name for branded content) would have to be identified as such, and the advertiser tagged. Branded content isn’t just going to be published on social media and a brand’s website.

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