Stephen Waddington

JUNE 29, 2021

This is likely to be most applicable to agencies in the creative and professional services sector. Projects must advance science or technology, overcome uncertainty, and overcome an issue in a professional field. According to HM Revenue & Customers £5.3bn of R&D tax relief support was claimed for the financial year 2018-19.

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? And it’s killing your ability to be creative with your campaigns. This type of approach is reminiscent of marketing days gone by, but it isn’t representative of what works best in 2018. Staying Creative With Content.

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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. When I left comms agency work for PR technology I felt I had to unlearn many of the techniques I’d built up over 13 years. Online advertising has changed. Could there be a future standard for article strength?

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Still, according to an article in Business Insider , 34 percent of marketing executives felt unprepared for this change in 2018. In today’s digital landscape, rife with an oversaturation of advertisements, customers have high standards when it comes to personalized experiences. Creative skills (26%). None (27%).

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

However, fifty years later, technology and our media consumption habits are almost unrecognizable. The collision of these two cultural behemoths is going to create six weeks of extreme congestion across TV schedules, news agendas, advertising buys and of course, consumer attention.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 6, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, the Wildfire team went along to the latest meet-up from creative marketing magazine Contagious. Speaking at the event, Contagious’s team of creative experts presented their list of the top trends that “ nobody cares about in 2018 ”, and guess what made the list? And we’re not alone.

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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.”. 6) Technology that will change reporting. What stood out for you?

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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

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.” The Role of Technology on the Legal Market.

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Mark My Words

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The late monarch herself was no slouch when it came to technology , conducting meetings by Zoom during Covid and later when she was no longer well enough to attend in person. Although they remain estranged, Harry and Meghan provided the impetus for the Cambridges’ revitalised media strategy.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That was the opening to the August 2018 Monthly Scripts email newsletter and a fitting opening when one steps back and looks over the 10 articles out of a couple hundred that made the cut. Almost all of them reported something new – new roles, new responsibilities, new technology, new, new, new. creative ideas and execute them?

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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? Registration opens in October 2018, but you can sign up now for event updates and a special discount code. trillion in 2019, ramping up to $3.9 Visit www.MAICON.ai

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Interestingly, the top three “skills” marketing leaders look for in new hires are: a) creativity – 25%; b) natural leadership ability – 21%; and. c) marketing technology ( martech ) platform experience – 18%. The full report in PDF format is available without registration: The CMO Survey Highlights and Insights August 2018.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. The issue lies in the inability of PR to achieve its value.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

I call it the PR technology summary ( PR tech sum ) and here’s what I found over the last 30 days. The press release doesn’t spell out any specific technology initiatives, so it seems this is merely an agreement allowing each business to sell the others’ products. “Q4 new research from staffing firm The Creative Group shows.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Don’t be afraid to add paid into the mix If your campaign is creative enough, you can set things in motion with just one ad. Playing off of it’s Made In, Made For New York event , Facebook aimed to work alongside the chosen marketers to help bring to life engaging advertising campaigns. there’s no limit to how creative you can be.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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? Registration opens in October 2018, but you can sign up now for event updates and a special discount code. trillion in 2019, ramping up to $3.9 Visit www.MAICON.ai

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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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wiredPRworks

JUNE 10, 2020

According to the Entertainment Software Industry, 2018 was a record-breaking year with total video game sales exceeding $43.4 Thanks so much to Kristin Loretta of Kristin Joy Public Relations for providing the following creative content and inside scoop on the Yappa story. Video Game Industry Statistics. We LOVE Tony Hawk.].

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Mark My Words

JUNE 15, 2018

Mark spoke at the Westminster Media Forum on the 26th April 2018 ¬ the subject Next steps for tackling fake news – impact, industry response. Responding to the challenges: media literacy, responsibilities and options for policy Mark Borkowski, Founder and Creative Head, Borkowski PR. and options for policy.

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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]. Technical expertise is particularly relevant to the B2B technology space. 61% trust academic experts.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

5) Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report. Last year an advertising spot during the Super Bowl cost $5 million. Everyone is doing “more content” when what might actually make the budget go further is a little planning, creativity and even daring to be different.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But it’s easy to imagine this technology being used in more subtle but dangerous ways, such as politicians ‘saying’ things that are not totally out of character but more extreme or subversive than anything they would really say. AI will continue to have a profound impact on creative and marketing fields, including PR.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And, given the vast amount of time I pour into writing about PR technology , I’m really pleased with the long list of contributions from the PR technology vendor community. Marketing turns to creative to stand out from the clutter . The pendulum has swung too far and at the expense of creativity in marketing.

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Prohibition

MAY 4, 2017

The company has hired former AOL, Buzzfeed and Google executive, Kate Burns, as executive vice-president – who has said that the first of its kind website has been designed to “attract millennials from across the globe“, a critical audience for advertisers to reach. 5) James Rodriguez (@jamesdrodriguez) Twitter: 12.2m/Instagram:

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Karen Freberg

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

I am pleased, and extremely excited, to announce a new class I am going to be offering in the Spring 2018 semester: Advanced Social Media Strategy , otherwise known as #FrebergSM. If you have been following me on Twitter, you would have seen some of these updates already in place. But, this advanced class is going to be pretty awesome.

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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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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 14, 2021

In early March 2021, Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, sending the targeted advertising industry into a tailspin. While the long-term impacts of the move remain to be seen, one likely change is that content will play an even more important role for brands and advertisers trying to reach customers online. “If

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 28, 2017

New technologies are helping make the measurement of public relations results easier, less time-consuming and more meaningful. The brand has pulled off a successful multi-pronged campaign – part advertising, featuring Ferris Bueller with nods to “Stranger Things,” and part incredible marketing comeback story.

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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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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

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Advertising is a distant third. Technology and innovation may be intertwined, but marketer leaders say their responsibility for both have grown. 77% say they have “more” or “much more” responsibility for technology. 77% say they have “more” or “much more” responsibility for technology.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. There are a lot of technology vendors out there pitching better collaboration. A Creative Press Release for B2B Tech. Or do so, knowing you might overlook a good creative idea. This is a press release.

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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. Content must be authentic.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Trust in the media The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer (opens as a PDF) puts the trust between the public and media at 41% worldwide. Advertising, production, and distribution have all fundamentally changed. Amazon, Google and Facebook created highly efficient digital advertising markets leaving media struggling to compete.

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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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