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Top 10 Marketing & Communications Posts of 2017

Cision

2017 was quite a year for marketing and PR professionals. Earned media has become increasingly important with 89 percent of marketing/communications professionals saying they use it to support the demand generation goal of driving brand awareness. How Successful Journalists Use Social Media. Top 10 U.S. Radio Stations.

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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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Triple 7s: The Best, Worst and Most Loved Blog Posts in 2017

Sword and the Script

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogsblogs were everywhere. We started a blog for our employer, a startup in the IT operations space. Some of the newer and smaller startups that had been blogging for a while ran circles around us.

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Highlights from the State of Blogging in 2017 Survey

Sword and the Script

It’s easy to believe there are a million marketing blogs but that’s just not true. If you blog about marketing – especially with any semblance of frequency – you are in fact among a fair small group. There are more blogs focused on personal development than any other topic, according to the survey.

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3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]

Sword and the Script

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. Most marketers used paid media to fuel owned media. Of that segment of respondents, 72% use paid social media channels; 66% use sponsorships; 61% use pay-per-click advertising.

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33 Statistics Summarizing the Year in Public Relations, Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO

Sword and the Script

Writing is thinking, but more than that its the application of thinking; it transforms a passive activity into an active one. PR and media relations statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Paid media and advertising statistics. And here we go…here are the benchmarks from 2017. State of Blogging ).

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Originally Published August 23, 2017; Updated August 9, 2021 ; Updated November 2023 PR is always evolving. Today, landing earned media in publications that resonate with target audiences is only one small part of the earned-media mix. PR people may also develop guidelines for interacting with the media or even social media.

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