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45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020

Sword and the Script

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. The list below is broken into four sections: Marketing statistics from 2020. Public relations statistics from 2020. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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ICON 2020 Preview: Lata Nott on Communicators, First Amendment Freedoms and ‘Expensive Attention’

PRSay

What does this disruption look like to you in 2020? In the past], if you wanted to disseminate your opinions, you needed a printing press or access to someone who had one. At the Freedom Forum, I get contacted by people who say, “Facebook has shut down my account.” Speech used to be expensive. [In

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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. PR is a social science. Here are the headlines.

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. Over time, the digital community warmed to the term again.

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How COVID-19 will impact PR practice and skills

Stephen Waddington

That will continue, impacting outdoor, experiential, events, meetings and print Brands need to own and control their own media to engage with stakeholders. Planning and measurement If you work in media relations, COVID-19 could be an extinction event. Engagement and traffic on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp is up.

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Almanac: Challenges and opportunities for public relations 2022

Stephen Waddington

Carbon as a metric - PR practitioners must measure carbon in the rush to address ESG concerns as a report suggests that the UK is woefully unprepared for climate risk. In the past year Facebook has proven unfit to regulate itself. Facebook took down 1.3 million fake accounts between October and December 2020.

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Another PR Tech Startup Gets Venture Funding [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

In its funding announcement, the company says it can also “measure ROI from earned media including traffic, form submissions, purchases and other conversions.” In addition, it will soon “enable journalists and influencers to discover sources, manage their stories, and measure reach and sentiment of their published work.”.