Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Businesses will increase investments in marketing for the third year in a row according to the Gartner CMO Spend Survey for 2016- 2017. The survey showed the top three categories in 2016 marketing spend were web, digital commerce and digital advertising. of revenue will be allocated to marketing budgets to drive growth in 2017.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The 7 Best Performing Blog Posts in 2017. The measure of “best” in this case is unique page views. What is clearer was the sort of topics that attracted readers in 2017. 2) 2017 PR Salary Survey Suggests Demand for Talent Tightening. 4) B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success.

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Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 72

Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

Along the way content, distribution, analytics, and measurement tools have been acquired and bolted on. Cision has spent more than $1bn on the acquisitions of Visible Technologies (2014), Vocus (2014), Gorkana (2016), PRNewswire (2015), Prime Research (2017), Falcon.io (2019) and Trendkite (2019). They are also focused on earned media.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

PR measurement has long been an outcast in marketing dashboards. Over the years, companies have almost created coping mechanisms for accepting weak PR reporting – either not measuring PR at all or relying on basic awareness metrics, like percentage increase of coverage and sentiment. By Seedepth. We hope so!

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As we wind down 2017, our gaze inevitably turns to the horizon. Disruption happens to industries measured in weeks and months rather than years or epochs. Soon advertising may be the only way to reach some select audiences. AI-Powered Personalization of Advertising. The Big Picture. Christopher S.

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Cision

JANUARY 3, 2018

In Cision’s 2017 Global Comms Report: Challenges and Trends , we talked to communications professionals around the world to understand the issues they face. The organization type and discipline also impacted this metric: PR agencies are seeing the biggest budget cuts, followed by marketing agencies, in-house teams and communications firms.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? This post offers the cliff note version of a 10-year trend and underscores the similarities for PR agencies and marketing firms, that I think points to a similar future.

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The Resolution Blog

MAY 17, 2017

There have never been so many new-breed agencies offering similar services. How can PR agencies compete? With better measurement. And ROI measurements of success are exactly how digital agencies are reporting. Introduce overview reporting PR Measurement shouldn’t end with the campaign report.

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Cision

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is one very obvious reason why social media and influencer marketing do not make up the majority of a brand’s communications or advertising budget. The decade-old dilemma, whether you work for a brand or agency, is a limited budget. Brands are not married to the idea of TV advertising, print media, billboards, etc.

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Social Media Media Measurement Advertising 120

5W PR

JULY 11, 2018

Top Publicity Stunts of 2017-2018. It’s safe to say that PR has seen some incredible creations over the course of 2017 and 2018. In March of 2017, the Cancer Research charity blew us all away with an incredible interactive ad campaign. Measuring a publicity stunt’s success depends on the initial goal.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

On September 26, 2017, Twitter surprised its users by announcing that certain users would have their tweet character limits doubled, from 140 characters to 280 characters. Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Marketing and advertising.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media . PR grows more in demand.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. A technological skill set is a must to execute effective PR and Marketing campaigns in the digital age so what is your company doing to bridge the skills gap in the year 2017?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. It’s a theme that Topi?

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Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

Yvonne Lorie, the founder of ReFresh PR and a recipient of the 2013 HPRA Premio PR Achievement Award, has been elected president of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) national board for 2017. PR measurement and Hispanic consumer sentiment models have evolved and can be layered to quantify sales impact.

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Automotive Resources Strategy Consumer 245

Sword and the Script

JUNE 10, 2017

Bezos could see in 1997 Amazon would be selling anything you could buy at a Walmart in 2017. It’s why, as noted in the March 2017 edition of the Monthly Scripts newsletter , Sir Martin Sorrell, who leads what is perhaps the largest marketing services enterprise in the world, fears not Google or Facebook – but Amazon. Talk to Us!

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Trends Marketing Mobile Web 85

Beyond PR

JANUARY 4, 2018

In Cision’s 2017 Global Comms Report: Challenges and Trends , we talked to communications professionals around the world to understand the issues they face. The organization type and discipline also impacted this metric: PR agencies are seeing the biggest budget cuts, followed by marketing agencies, in-house teams and communications firms.

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Measurement Tools Journalism Content Marketing 75

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The complete report, which was conducted by Bizible , is available with registration: 2017 State of Pipeline Marketing Report. Also see: Marketing Budgets, Planning and Benchmarks for 2017 [UML]. If a publisher is looking at pageviews and bounce rates, they are definitely measuring it all wrong.”. Give our services a try.

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Study Marketing B2B Apparel 64

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

On one hand, competition is fierce (56%), people are increasingly intolerant of advertising (46%) and “information overload” is a genuine problem (44%). This is more or less flat with the $91,000 median reported in 2017 and the $92,125 reported in 2016. Are you looking for a content marketing agency partner that can both.

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Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 104

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. In fact, time-on-page grew by 16% this year, which I’ve come to believe is a useful measure of quality. This is one of my predictions for 2017. * * *. You might be doing it wrong.

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Blogging Content Marketing B2B Social Media 104

Beyond PR

MARCH 1, 2018

These are questions that enterprise marketers and their communications agencies have been asking for generations. If we ALL use reach, and advertising value equivalency in our reports, nobody will get asked the hard question about whether that actually matters!”. The people doing the measurement say it needs to get better.

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Media Measurement Enterprise Television 73

Shift Communications

JANUARY 29, 2018

What actually happened, and how measurable has the impact been? Our timeframe of data was from December 1, 2017 to January 27, 2018. appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Methodology. Major corporations in the Fortune 500. Musicians / public personalities. Christopher S.

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PR Conversations

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I see agencies offering communication research and audit services when they appear to have no-one in their team with any qualifications in research. Source: VMA Group Report: Beyond Communications (2017) (italics added). Source: VMA Group Report: Inside Insight (2017). Source: VMA Group Report: Inside Insight (2017).

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Training Ethics Data Analysis 65

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

PR Week reports the company was founded in 2017, has raised a little over a million in funding and has 22 customers. Edelman will be the first agency to cross-reference earned audiences with Cision’s 925+ million influencer profiles for targeted ongoing engagement. 2) Burton-Taylor offers a mixed assessment on PR tech M&A.

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Analytics Report Technology Pitching 68

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Podcasting is clearly growing – TVEyes CEO David Ives said in an announcement , “more than 30 percent of Americans listen monthly, more than 20 percent listen weekly, and these listeners skew toward demographics that advertisers and politicos alike seek to understand and influence.”. 3) Meltwater updates UX, adds new projects feature.

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Internal International Data Media 63

Flatiron Communications

JANUARY 11, 2018

2017 : Can the ethical breakdown of political PR with its purposefully spread false narratives poison other industry sectors? I’d even venture to say that the majority of their clients still measure their agencies’ value by the number and quality of these media “hits” and the audience impressions (and ad equivalencies!)

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Pitching Journalism Tools Agency 43

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Benefits of Being a Good PR Agency Client; Off Script #18: Rich Young. See Review Marketing Becomes Top Priority for 2017 ). – print advertising. – pay per click advertising. The rule is: if you can’t measure the results, eliminate it. I would cut: – Social media. – SEO.

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Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

3) Measuring the influence of coverage. You can view this measure in a couple of different ways – and the charts allow for you to drill down and take a look at the underlying coverage. In theory, this concept could definitively end the debate over PR measurement , at least from a marketing perspective. Sentiment analysis.

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Measuring the effectiveness of any marketing campaign begins with defined and clear KPIs. Measurable. To start, pull associated costs in areas like software (marketing automation, CRM system, web hosting), advertising, partners (agencies, designers), and events (tradeshows, webinars). Performance. Achievable.

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Marketing Technology Internal International 52

Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

With nearly 91 percent of people saying advertisements are more intrusive today than they were two years ago, earned media or word-of-mouth approach provides an excellent opportunity to improve conversion rates and generate sales. However, your goals must be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In addition, this same disruption – led by the 2024 election, the speed of misinformation and continued economic uncertainty – will require a strong measure of GRIT. This year, we saw in-house teams get downsized and agency budgets get reduced. There’s no point in building a reputation if the startup is facing an existential threat.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 14, 2016

, executive predictions on what 2017 will bring, and the often-dreaded End of Year reporting exercise. PR teams have long deplored the challenges of how to best measure your PR success and effectively report program results. With a variety of measurement categories available, it can be challenging to select the right mix.

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Measurement How To Trade Shows Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are so many thoughtful contributions – from people working on both the in-house and agency sides. In-house and agency teams will be hard at work supporting Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) with messaging that convinces their leadership colleagues and board of directors that preparing for cyber-attacks is critical. .

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Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 189

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Paid media and advertising statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. And here we go…here are the benchmarks from 2017. 9) Even advertisers want to invest in PR. The median salary for PR professionals was $91,000 in 2017, which is a small drop compared to the median salary reported in 2016 survey of $92,125.

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Content Marketing SEO Social Media Marketing 123

MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To start, the launch of 'Fearless Girl' by agency McCann New York for its financial client, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), generated 4.6 Compared to how you measure traditional advertising, with experiential marketing we measure buzz, impact, engagement and conversations generated by a campaign.

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Marketing Consumer Measurement Viral 76

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In fact, some 80% of respondents say they are doing content marketing according to 2017 survey data. Most often, what I’ve found to be effective, is to essentially be an “advertiser” in your own publication with use of the white space, distinct calls to action and event carefully managed content. Reporting on data. Use it here.

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Engineering Content Marketing Marketing Analytics 62

Sword and the Script

APRIL 27, 2019

65% of journalists said audience metrics have changed the way they evaluate stories”; additionally, “43% of journalists globally reported their organization’s primary measure of success for their content is readership or viewers.”. 2017: 3 PR Takeaways from the (2017) State of the Media Report by Cision. Volume of work.

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Survey Journalism Study Pitching 91