Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

That changed in 2018. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. It’s worth putting a little paid spend to boost links to announcements, invitations and blog posts with targeted social media advertisements. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2023

Definitions of EMV vary but, broadly, it means the value of earned publicity in unpaid third-party channels such as traditional media, social media and blogs. It’s unlikely that any amount of paid advertising would have built the same value for the brand. EMV is starting to sound like a reincarnation of AVEs.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. AirPR: With PR as a focus, you have included marketing and advertising into your agency. AirPR: How do you see PR & content marketing evolving in 2018?

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This blog published about 60 new posts in 2018. And so here’s the annual look at the most read, least read, and posts I recommend reading, that were published on Sword and the Script in 2018. The 7 Most Read Posts in 2018. Here are the posts readers read the most in 2018 – as measured by readers clicks.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. The 3 Behaviors Driving the Most Creative Content Marketers Using a lovely ice cream analogy Jay Acunzo, founder of Unthinkable explains the behaviours that are helping the best in content marketing succeed. The results?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As anyone with even a slightly popular blog knows, ‘guest post pitching’ has gotten out of hand. It’s good news for contextual advertising companies, who have already started reaping the benefits of marketing’s ‘identity crisis.’ You’ll find my own prognostication at the very bottom. Blogger outreach gets personal. Fast-vertising.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

The news cycle was faster, social media was hitting the early majority in the Geoffrey Moore sense, and blogs…blogs 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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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In this blog, we outline how AI is changing the face of marketing in 2019 and beyond. Still, according to an article in Business Insider , 34 percent of marketing executives felt unprepared for this change in 2018. Creative skills (26%). Where humans outperform AI: Creative thinking (70%). Image recognition software (4).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

1) The average blog post is 1,236 words. How long is the average blog post? How long does it take to write the average blog post? Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML].

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This blog is a guest piece from Chris Smith, Senior Strategist at the Red Consultancy, who used NewsWhip data in their latest report on the World Cup and Christmas. Comms and PR planning has changed massively in recent years, but it remains a crucial pillar of any proactive press office or communications program.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

According to a 2018 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) survey, 75% of marketers are using influencers as a marketing tool and 43% plan to increase spending on it in the next 12 months. And in a 2017 TINT article, only 4% of consumers declared trust in marketing in advertising in general. They create fresh content.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing turns to creative to stand out from the clutter . The pendulum has swung too far and at the expense of creativity in marketing. That’s all going to change in next year because creative work is the essence of differentiation and a key driver of revenue and profit. Strengthening community-building and connections.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. For example, citing the Edelman Trust Barometer, Digiday reported , “trust in traditional media has increased from 48 percent last year to 61 percent in 2018.”. You can also edit and delete a blog post relatively easily.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

There shouldn’t be a barrier between the press office and the digital team - media relations people should be running blogs and engaging with journalists via social forms of media such as Twitter,” said Alex Singleton, author of The PR Masterclass. Advertising, production, and distribution have all fundamentally changed.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. But it’s not advertising, and it’s not ‘influencer marketing’ in the Kardashian style. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020. 5) Marketers will slow down.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Finally, don’t forget this is still a social media platform, that means it’s not just about advertising your product or service, it’s also about building an interactive group.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Make your team members track everything that matters within your marketing department – blog views, cost per lead, conversion rates at every stage, webinar attendance rate, paid search efficiency… and report their own KPIs up to you. Do you blog regularly? Creative employee communications. Test, test, test.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2021

The intensely competitive alcohol industry has led many beer manufacturers to become very creative marketers: from elaborate point of purchase displays in retail stores to highly produced commercials during Super Bowls. on advertising. Is it serious social responsibility or is it a straightforward advertising-spend?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Vuelio named this blog the best PR and communications blog in 2019. Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. Bold creative and excellent campaigns cannot be delivered by an organisation with a sick culture. That’s thanks to you.

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Barokas

JULY 10, 2019

Maybe it’s a logo, a product or even an advertisement. But in 2018, the company sent out a single tweet that was provocative enough to turn heads; coming out in opposition against President Trump’s decision to reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah: Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. .

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

While it’s a tricky tightrope to walk, as cultural and political issues continue to saturate the news and social media, more companies will take a stand through marketing and advertising that resonates with customer loyalties. 8) Creativity over productivity. Also see PR and Storytelling; Off Script No. 7: Lou Hoffman.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Writing on the company’s blog , Lindsey Woodward , who leads the client support team said, “Whether jumping on a call to assist in creating an internal newsletter or report for your boss or setting up new employees on the Meltwater platform, we want our clients to have personal and open communication with Meltwater.”.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 15, 2021

Each of the speakers has kindly responded to the questions that we didn’t cover in the blog post below. You do need the storytelling, relationship building, creative and analytical skills. Start a blog and manage proactive social media around it. More than 150 people turned up and engaged in the conversation.

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The Hoffman Agency

JULY 28, 2020

“Des Rocs is not super famous and only made his debut in 2018; however, this song was used in a beer commercial in Korea and interested many Koreans including me. Thanks to the advertiser and Gong Yoo, I became acquainted with a remarkable song.”. . The post HA Jamz Rocks appeared first on "What's HAppening" Blog.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 15, 2019

Typically, it involves a representative from an advertising agency ranting about the wrongdoings of the industry. This year will mark the third anniversary for the business (though the blog will celebrate 10 years and some 700+ posts). The trend to take more work in-house is quite true for creative and media buying.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. Experiential storytelling. Tech industry.

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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. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” But that’s a talent supply issue for a different blog post.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This post originally appeared on the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute's blog. Artificial intelligence has reached peak hype stage, but is it possible that its potential to transform marketing, and your career , is even greater than advertised? The Marketing AI Institute was created and is powered by PR 20/20.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In 2018, he and his good friend Erik Requidan started The Minority Report Podcast to create a platform where people of color, women, and LGBTQ individuals in marketing could tell their stories and have candid conversations. In the early days, it was just blog posts and whitepapers. He’s also not afraid to speak his mind.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

While the PR community has heard inklings of in-housing anecdotally – Richard Edelman recently cited it as a cause following disappointing earnings for the year ending 2018 – to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we’ve seen this trend surface in a survey of the communications industry.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

While we are a group of creatives in a beautiful riverside boathouse in suburban London, we’re also bunch of mad scientists who like to conduct experiments on all aspects PR — and we like having a logical, methodical approach to our work. Tom Fishburne (@tomfishburne) August 5, 2018. The same was pretty much true of PR.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Blair is CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training and coaching program for creative professionals, and has spent 25 years in advertising and design. He also wrote The Win Without Pitching Manifesto and Pricing Creativity: A Guide to Profit Beyond the Billable Hour. Where to start: Seth Godin - This Is Marketing, Nov.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

This sort of thing happens every day and on a massive scale and we can see it in the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer , which says this year will be a “battle for truth.”. Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]. For Heaven’s sake, don’t buy Bitcoin. Search Engines, Social Media and Journalism.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 17, 2018

By his own assessment he “started out as a young, idealistic creative” with a degree in art history. It led him down the path of B2C advertising and it all seemed fine until he stumbled into the world of B2B and was hooked. 1) How would you characterize the state of marketing infrastructure in 2018? Well, in a word, chaotic.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

People joined the internet at the rate of one million per day during 2018 according to We Are Social but universal access will take another decade in developing markets as internet access reaches countries such as Africa and India, and hard to reach areas of mature markets.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You shouldn’t immediately start sending one-sheeters and demo request forms one day after someone signs up for your blog’s newsletter. This space is typically reserved for blog posts, infographics, social posts, and e-books. Marketers typically think of the top of the funnel as the place where they get to be most creative.

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