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4 PR Trends for 2017

Cision

And that’s just one PR trend for 2017. If your bosses or clients can combine their industry with trending topics like data, analytics, artificial intelligence and/or virtual reality, their thought leadership will boom in 2017. This means, if you don’t have a strong influencer marketing program set for 2017, you will be way behind.

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Three Public Relations Mega-Trends in 2017

Shift Communications

What does the public relations industry have to look forward to in 2017? In 2017, the tsunami of content will only increase. Our goal is public relations professionals can no longer be to simply try to reach everyone through the media en masse. However, the year that the bubble bursts will not be 2017.

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Are we still over-relying on media relations?

Communications Conversations

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: Are we over-relying on media relations in PR? I’m talking about the broader scope of PR here–media relations, content marketing, social media marketing, community relations, etc. Social media marketing is not slowing down.

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Why innovation in PR tech is so slow

Stephen Waddington

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). Kantar Media, itself owned by WPP, acquired Precise in 2014. They are also focused on earned media. But this too is also changing.

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PR Agency Search: Priorities in a PR Expanded World

Deirdre Breakenridge

Almost four in 10 respondents to a survey of corporate communications, marketing and industry leaders for CommunicationsMatch’s new PR and Communications Agency Search Report said they were looking to hire new agencies in 2017. Digital marketing and social media closely followed in the rankings of importance, with traditional marketing next.

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Nonprofit Local News Gains Steam

PRSay

At the same time, however, the advertising revenue that local news organizations have long counted on has continued to drop. Following a year in which unprecedented headlines appeared almost daily, public demand for high-quality news reporting with a community focus has never been higher. Opportunities for independent journalism.

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Earned Media Poised for New Prominence in 2018 [UML]

Sword and the Script

If there’s one theme that plagued digital advertising throughout 2017, it was controversy. 1) Advertisers looking to invest in PR. In May 2017, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) surveyed 100 of its members and found most plan to increase their investment in PR.

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