Shift Communications

MAY 10, 2022

Brands today are built on social, but social media marketing has never been more cut-throat. In our new blog series, we talk what’s working (and not) across key social channels. minutes, it’s poised to be the top growing and engaged with platform in 2022. By Lisa Zanchi, Director, Digital Marketing.

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NewsWhip

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our monthly analysis of the top brand coverage usually reveals hundreds of stories with several varying narratives, and only every so often do we uncover a theme that’s responsible for multiple brands making headlines in a big way. Let’s look at the other brands that made headlines in December. .

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Register now for ICON 2022, featuring top-notch thought leaders, breakout sessions and networking opportunities. 13 keynote address at ICON 2022 in Grapevine, Texas, Kay talked with PRsay about the power of confidence, the challenges of reaching younger news consumers and the importance of facts. The Saver Rate ends on Sept.

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s been a busy year for brand coverage, with what feels like years worth of media packed into 12 short months. In this blog, analyzing the top brand stories from 2022, we’re going to share the dominant brands, themes and voices driving public engagement. Twitter dominated attention. And it resonated with people.

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NewsWhip

JANUARY 19, 2024

That was Elon Musk’s somewhat predictable response to the announcement that Walmart was the latest brand to suspend advertising on X, following other major companies who left the platform back in November when the issue first began. Here are some other brands that captured attention in the news and on social media.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As always, we’ve been keeping our eye out for some exciting and stand-out social media and PR campaigns. The Parisian fashion brand used a sprayable, liquid fibre, developed by Fabrican, to cover Hadid’s body which was then fashioned into a beautiful white dress by a Coperni employee who shortened the length and added a slit.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The social media content world is an interesting place in 2022. If your feed is like most people’s you’ll notice a ton of: Branded graphics – Some brands’ entire feeds are made of up these graphics. Yet, brands continue to use it regularly in their social content.

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Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For many brands, LinkedIn is a key social media channel–especially B2B brands, where LinkedIn can be a key awareness, engagement and even lead driver. LinkedIn says a whopping 30% of a brand page’s engagement comes from employees. People were concerned that those employees were OK.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 2, 2023

Brands realize this, and as a result, nine out of 10 marketers who leveraged short-form video in 2022 plan to continue doing it in 2023. TikTok is probably the best-known platform for brand videos. But there’s another short-form video format taking social media by storm: Social Reels. How, you ask?

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Coincidentally, it was also a top story in a different sense, as it came out on top of our brands coverage analysis in August. Barbie’s marketing was the talk of the town on social media , with several partnerships becoming part of the discourse in their own right, but the coverage of the movie never really slowed down either.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 4, 2022

After four months of ostracism for slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards, Will Smith has posted a video apologizing for his behavior. The same is true for brands and businesses. ” When it comes to brand cancel culture, there’s often a constructive goal – to correct mistakes or encourage change. .”

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PR in High Definition

JANUARY 26, 2022

2022 is set to be a unique year in the comms world, as after two years of riding the wave of the pandemic, we are finally starting to see light at the end of what has been at times an incredibly dark tunnel. Navigating the waves of social media regulation. Maintaining synergy through employee comms.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 11, 2022

The phrase “Employer Brand” has taken on a life of its own the last few years. Companies are investing more and more in their Employer Brand–mostly because they have to! Talent is at a premium in 2022 and employers know it. Those are all pillars of any successful Employer Brand strategy on social.

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Prohibition

APRIL 7, 2022

With the social media landscape ever-changing, there are always different updates and trends emerging that social media managers need to be mindful of. Here, we’ve put together a round up of the most recent trends to be aware of across various social channels. LinkedIn remains key for business recruitment drives.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 15, 2022

We are officially over half-way through 2022 – where is the time going! and the general public calling out brands and individuals online, it’s safe to say we’ve seen our fair share of crisis management in play already this year. — Steven Bartlett (@SteveBartlettSC) January 7, 2022. No one cared.

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Prohibition

APRIL 7, 2022

With the social media landscape ever-changing, there are always different updates and trends emerging that social media managers need to be mindful of. If you prefer a quick video to learn for the latest social media trends here are the highlights from our latest webinar.

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Landis PR

MARCH 14, 2022

Five Key Steps to Introducing Your Consumer Brand to a New Social Media Platform. In a digital world, use of social media is no longer optional. Having a social media strategy can boost your brand and expand your market, but that doesn’t all happen overnight.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one. Reddit data.

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NewsWhip

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It was their job to try and crash-land the Adidas brand after Kanye West’s partnership sent their reputation into a tailspin. . The story began way back in September, when Kanye (now known by the name “Ye”) criticized the German footwear company in interviews and on social media. The Story in a Nutshell . Rule 1: Be Truthful.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As 2022 planning continues, teams are seeing the value of aligning PR tactics with their marketing strategies. The role of a PR agency in this alignment, and in building an organization’s reputation among customers, employees, and stakeholders, is central. So how do you get the most out of the PR firm relationship?

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Communications Conversations

MAY 23, 2022

Historically, social listening has been one of those things only the big companies with big budgets and social media monitoring tools do. However, according to a new survey by Social Media Today and Meltwater, a full 61% of companies now have social listening processes in place. And TikTok is just one miss.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As always, this year brought some truly spectacular “PR failures” by high-profile organizations and brands. By Monday, most of OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees were threatening to follow them. Yet, nothing happens in a vacuum. Some were management failures, while others were about corporate values or behavior.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 8, 2021

From TikTok, LinkedIn and Twitter to Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook – if you’re in marketing, you’re eager to predict how your brand can more effectively use social media in 2021. You’re seeing brands forced to use more user-generated content.” Listen To and Welcome Employees on Social. What about Twitch?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve spent the past few weeks breaking down the survey results from The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 (see these posts covering the executive summary , top challenges , organizational trust in media and views on media bias ). So says a 2022 survey conducted by PRWeek for ICR.

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Reputation Us

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From the November 28, 2022 issue of Financial Brand. Since taking over Twitter, Musk has put the world on notice that he’s in charge and more changes are coming,” Casey Boggs, president of the reputation and crisis management company ReputationUs, tells The Financial Brand. Such decisions have predictable consequences.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The response rate is slightly higher than all of 2022, but it’s lower than all of 2020. The top metrics for marketing communications leaders: 46% lead generation; 45% web traffic; 45% social media engagement; 35% conversion rate; 33% sales; 30% brand share of voice; 24% followers/social media; 18% ad impressions/ reach; and 11% SEO rankings.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 3, 2022

Oltarzhevskyi was critical of social media platforms. Misinformation corrupting public conversation Misinformation on social media platforms was the topic of a massive study of posts on the World Health Organisation Facebook page by the University of Sherbrooke, Canada.

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PR in High Definition

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most of us who frequent social media platforms will have probably given in to the recommendations of an influencer in one way or another. In 2021, 44% of B2C brands in Europe said they planned to increase their influencer marketing budget. Over the years, influencer marketing has been on the rise. What was a $1.7

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

I’m going to tip my hat to Occam’s Razor and call it media monitoring solution. I couldn’t find any financial data on the deal but in a separate piece for Media Post Laurie Sullivan writes that Kelp has 10 employees and “Signal AI has about 220 employees.” Cision settles claim by sales employees. Cision US Inc.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

as per 14 September 2022, the day immediately preceding announcement of the strategic review.” “The Talkwalker hired a new CEO and new CMO in late 2022 and appears to have done a round of layoffs in sales and marketing, according to multiple social media updates I’ve observed. million in November of 2021.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

This can include the media, customers, employees, and the general public. Public relations professionals create and maintain a positive image for their organization, often through the use of marketing, branding, and communication strategies. Marketing can also involve market research, product development, and branding.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2023

The survey found: 57% are crafting pitches; 48% are writing copy for social media; 48% are writing press releases; 44% are using it for research; and 25% say they are using it for strategy and planning. Poppulo “laid off 80 employees at the end of April, including 20 workers in Colorado,” according to the Denver Post.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

The report defines “biggest” in terms of those crises that got the most attention in the media and the most engagement on social media. Similarly, in the media charts Musk tops out around 14,000 media articles compared to 600 for Starbucks. So comparing the two is the equivalent of apples to goats. Congrats! ∞

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2022

It said these deals were bad for customers, bad for employees, and often bad for investors (LPs, not the fund managers). And here we go the PR Tech Sum for the month of June 2022…. Onclusive announced it acquired the media monitoring platform Critical Mention. The report is based on a global survey of its employees.

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Wadds Inc.

JULY 3, 2022

Oltarzhevskyi was critical of social media platforms. Misinformation corrupting public conversation Misinformation on social media platforms was the topic of a massive study of posts on the World Health Organisation Facebook page by the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. The study was undertaken manually.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For foreign tech and B2B brands operating in China, this means understanding and adapting to the unique preferences and priorities of Chinese customers. Organizations are increasingly recognizing that impactful internal communications play a pivotal role in fostering a positive employee experience.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Axios , which seems to have done an actual interview, which is rare these days, noted: “The money will also help co-founders, chief executive officer Greg Galant and chief technology officer Lee Semel, as well as early employees, liquidate some of their investment.”. Meltwater reviews “strategic alternatives”. PR tech mentions.

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