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Predictions for 2020

Mark My Words

2020 will see your major print and TV campaign derailed by the death of or the revelation of how many children our Prime Minister has (or insert other incident). 50% of people selling you PR will still not know the difference between advertising and storytelling.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

He published a paper called PR 2020 on behalf of the CIPR in 2011 that examined the future of PR. The PR 2020 project was based on interviews with PR practitioners throughout the UK and the outlook for the forthcoming decade. They are all issues that will occupy us all in 2020. Here are the headlines. Issues in practice 1.

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Newsprint in pain as COVID-19 bites, so what’s next?

Stephen Waddington

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. The COVID-19 crisis is hastening the digitisation of news from print to internet services. Print accounts for 80% of UK newspaper revenues and digital 20%.

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Nonprofit Local News Gains Steam

PRSay

Already decimated by staff reductions, many print and broadcast newsrooms have been acquired by large corporations that are often more interested in online clicks and monetizing news than in factual reporting, Todd said. Opportunities for independent journalism.

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2020 Marketing Budget Planning: Here’s How Marketers Say Spending is Shaping Up

Sword and the Script

To that end, I’ve poured over two surveys and re-visited a third to see what the wisdom the marketing crowds had to say about 2020 marketing budgets. but most CMOs (61%) expect “their budgets to rebound in 2020” according to The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. The CMO Spend Survey by Gartner. Budgets fell modestly this year from 11.2%

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How COVID-19 will impact PR practice and skills

Stephen Waddington

Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint. That will continue, impacting outdoor, experiential, events, meetings and print Brands need to own and control their own media to engage with stakeholders. Newsrooms have been cut back to the bone and journalists furloughed.

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Challenges and changes for PR in 2021

Stephen Waddington

In short, 2020 into 2021 has been tough and, while there is most definitely light at the end of the tunnel, patterns have emerged that have changed and will continue to change forever the industry and how we practice communications.