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2017 Crisis Management That (Mostly) Worked

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But in the spirit of fair play, here are some examples of reputation management that succeeded in 2017. Everyone recalls the PR fiasco United Airlines experienced in April when footage of a dazed and bloodied passenger being dragged from his seat went viral. Pepsi’s graceful mea culpa. Southwest Airlines’ soft landing.

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

Critical Mention

billion between 2016 and 2017. In 2013, to promote “Carrie,” a remake of the original 1976 version, its distribution company MGM Films created a Halloween surprise for customers who were taking a coffee break at a local coffee shop in New York. This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube.

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I’m in the Mood for a Good Holiday Story

Business Wire

When you’re in PR, the holiday season starts early with long-lead publication deadline dates and doesn’t stop until the final “last-minute gift ideas” blog posts published in late December. According to Vidyard’s 2017 Video in Business Benchmark report, a video less than 90 seconds in length sees an average retention at the end of 53%.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. The core algorithm linked to quality appeared around March 8, 2017. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral.

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A PR Approach to Building Your Law Practice

Mora Communications

When an attorney appears on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or their regional or local media outlets, their credibility grows by leaps and bounds. TV news viewership, on average, varies between 2-7 million people and can reach far beyond that when a segment goes viral. 2017 | PR for Law.

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2016 – A Year in Traditional Media

Shift Communications

“PR people often talk about ideas to make news go viral, but there is no way to predict or plan for when something will be a hit. So when a colleague and I pitched a local McDonald’s news story, little did we know what was to come. After an aggressive media relations push, we began to pick up traction in the local market.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Beyond PR

Google search algorithm updates in 2016 , for example, included a number of integrated changes in order to unify mobile SEO and local SEO along with paid and organic results. The core algorithm linked to quality appeared around March 8, 2017. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral.

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