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The Enduring Significance of Broadcast Media: Why TV and Radio Remain Essential for PR Professionals

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

In today’s digital age, where streaming platforms and online media dominate the landscape, it’s essential not to overlook traditional broadcast media’s enduring relevance and significance, such as television and radio. Since 2016, there has been a slight increase in online news consumption and a slight decrease in print news consumption.

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State of Social Q4 2016: Facebook Aims For the TV

Shift Communications

The largest social network in the world – and to some people, the entire Internet – released its Q4 2016 and year end earnings. Not only is Facebook the largest communications medium on the planet, but CEO Zuckerberg has aimed his sights on the lucrative television market. User Growth. Facebook now sports 1.86

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Adapting Strategies for Effective Storytelling in the Social Media Era

PRSay

The fusion of these groups truly mirrors the current state of the news making and storytelling industry as a whole. Story timelines have shifted from traditional long-lead or daily print opportunities to instantaneous news with the introduction of social as the go-to storytelling platform.

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Why Brands Need to Get Emotional

Cision

Far from a secret pheromone added to the air in a clothing retailer — or subliminal cues placed in television advertising — emotional, truth-based storytelling plays on a consumer’s state of mind and makes them want to believe. Brands that do it well leverage our memories, fears and dreams to position themselves in the market.

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What Content Teams Can Learn From ‘Saturday Night Live’ About Keeping Things Fresh

PRSay

So how have they managed to stay one of the most popular shows on television for more than four decades? That’s my job: To protect peoples’ distinct voices, but also to get them to work together,” he said in a 2016 interview. “I It doesn’t take comedic genius or a nationally-televised show to take some inspiration from SNL.

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To Break the Glass Ceiling, Simply Blow it Up Blockbuster Style

wiredPRworks

Of the top 100 films in 2016, only 34 had a woman lead or co-lead. Instead, we have a history of storytelling where women who have any personality at all are punished severely for it. While in school, she was selected as the General Manager of Trojan Vision, heralded as the Best College Television Station in the World.

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The New Measurement: Shifting from Traditional PR to Growth PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Instead of publishing repetitive press releases and campaigns built on educated hunches, the Growth PR era is fueled by data-driven, iterative storytelling. PR is responsible for digital storytelling, Earned Media and, increasingly, Owned Media. Enter the era of Growth PR. Too Much Noise Across Too Many Digital Channels.