Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

On November 21, 2014, PRLab, the nation’s oldest student-run public relations agency, will host its third PRoBono event. During PRoBono, students from PRLab and AdLab — Boston University’s student-run advertising agency — come together for 18 hours to complete public relations and advertising work for five nonprofit organizations.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Celebrating 15 years of bringing together the who’s who of the advertising and media ecosystem from all over the globe, this year’s Advertising Week boasted 4 bustling floors of activity over 4 days at the AMC Loews Theatre in New York. How have you seen the advertising industry evolve over the past 5 years?

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Shift Communications

JUNE 24, 2016

In this series, we’ll examine the tools, techniques, and strategies of paid advertising as they apply to public relations work. Advertising Strategies. The four advertising strategies to drive attention, awareness, trust, and behavior are syndication, brand building, direct response, and retargeting. Let’s explore each of these.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 20, 2020

This blog was originally published on AdAge.com on December 18, 2019. In particular, the comms team or PR agency generally has the best catalog of earned media articles available to the company. They will also have experience trafficking advertising — especially targeting media, which is an element of amplifying earned media.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

3 Trends We Saw at AdWeek 2023 AdWeek, the annual advertising and marketing conference, is a crucial event that brings together industry leaders, marketers, and innovators to discuss and forecast the evolving landscape of advertising. Advertisers are actively exploring AI for personalization and automation.

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Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

If you read our last post on Media Mix Modeling (MMM) , you have a basic understanding of what the methodology is, and why agencies and private companies alike are implementing this approach. It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives.

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Media Measurement Analysis Television 221

5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2017

Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message. Measuring your Website Traffic–It’s important to take a look at your website traffic before, during, and after PR.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This includes diverse models, actors, and real customers in the advertisements. Measuring cultural impact Use analytics to measure the impact of multicultural marketing efforts. Cultural marketing agencies Navigating the complexities of cultural marketing can be challenging, especially for businesses that are new to this field.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Whether you work at an agency or with the in-house PR team, there will always be upper-level management or clients asking you why you do what you do, how it impacts the business and how you can show results. We talk a lot about measuring PR on this blog and as a reader, you know that not all PR tactics directly impact the bottom line.

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Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

If you read our last post on Media Mix Modeling (MMM) , you have a basic understanding of what the methodology is, and why agencies and private companies alike are implementing this approach. It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives.

Media 195

Media Measurement Analysis Television 195

Onclusive

MARCH 23, 2020

If you read our last post on Media Mix Modeling (MMM) , you have a basic understanding of what the methodology is, and why agencies and private companies alike are implementing this approach. It’s important to remember that MMM exclusively measures the impact marketing efforts have on meeting certain objectives.

Media 195

Media Measurement Analysis Television 195

Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. PR Measurement is Not One Size Fits All.

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PRSay

MAY 9, 2019

In a Muck Rack survey of 800 communicators, ranging from boutique agency coordinators to chief communications officers at global brands, 72 percent said that the top challenge they face is “measuring business impact,” with the second most prominent challenge (at 65 percent) overcoming the “lack of quantifiable measurement.”

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5W PR

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Its primary aim is to create a stir, provoke conversation, and gain attention in a way that traditional advertising often can’t. Measure and Analyze Results: After the event, evaluate its effectiveness against your goals. Measuring the Impact of PR Stunts The true success of a PR stunt is gauged by its measurable outcomes.

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Konnect Agency

JANUARY 7, 2022

By working with a PR agency experienced in B2B marketing and the franchise industry, their team of experts can help create a fully integrated multichannel program for your franchise development needs. How A PR Agency Fine-Tunes Your Strategy Plan. How A PR Agency Targets Your Audience.

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Konnect Agency

JANUARY 7, 2022

By working with a PR agency experienced in B2B marketing and the franchise industry, their team of experts can help create a fully integrated multichannel program for your franchise development needs. How A PR Agency Fine-Tunes Your Strategy Plan. How A PR Agency Targets Your Audience.

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5W PR

JANUARY 15, 2024

This synergy between communications and marketing amplifies the impact of advertising campaigns, product launches, and other promotional activities. Measuring impact and adjusting strategies One of the distinctive features of strategic communications is the emphasis on measurement and evaluation.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2018

I was intrigued by the story of its co-founders who had invented PR Attribution – a credible way to tie corporate communications to real business outcomes, i.e. the holy grail of marketing measurement. But new forms of measurement are not necessarily sufficient to command re-investment in an industry or function.

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5W PR

AUGUST 31, 2023

Crafting a winning advertising campaign for a beverage brand requires a blend of creativity, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of consumer preferences. Whether it’s exceptional taste, health benefits, sustainable packaging, or a unique ingredient, the USP should be the foundation of the beverage advertising campaign.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 30, 2024

Join us as we take a look at all of the Meta, X and LinkedIn updates coming to the advertising platforms that you need to be aware of. We have previously written a blog all about Advantage+ and how it can help your campaigns. DoubleVerify is here to maximise brand safety and ensure Meta is delivering the results where it should be.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These initiatives set limits on betting, require “know your customer” (KYC) procedures, mandate tax reporting, and place restrictions on advertising. For instance , in Germany, strict regulations prohibit gambling advertising on any medium between 6 p.m.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

As PR agencies go, Wildfire is unashamedly nerdy. So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. Measurement by output — pretty useless for the most part.

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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. So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? This post offers the cliff note version of a 10-year trend and underscores the similarities for PR agencies and marketing firms, that I think points to a similar future.

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The Resolution Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Within the PR and advertising industries, there’s often talk about the PESO model (paid, earned, shared, and owned media). The Ability to Measure Sets Paid and Editorial Apart On paper, the glaring difference between paid and editorial PR is that one is paid, which means that placement is guaranteed.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Before we answer this question, we must not conflate advertising or marketing with PR. Advertising is a costly technique to bring potential clients and customers to one’s marketing platform in order to make a sale. In grossly simplified terms, marketing creates a platform for sales. Engaging in PR, then, merits serious consideration.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The performance of marketing strategies is carefully measured across the web, mobile and social media, and then it’s compared to the industry competitors or any available challenger brands for the company. There are different benchmarks for every channel, as well as for advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), and email.

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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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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

We have all been on the front lines of the convergence of marketing and communications, but the transformation has not been without challenges: cultural challenges, organizational design challenges and measurement challenges. That’s not really the way to measure PR. Becky Saeger, Board of Directors, E*Trade Financial. “I

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Both in-house and agency marketing teams will be defending the year’s work, planning for 2016 and securing (or hopefully expanding!) Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. Figure out where your audience is and don’t be afraid to remind them with targeted advertising. Check out our PR measurement tool.

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5W PR

AUGUST 30, 2023

Utilizing sponsored ads Amazon offers various advertising options, including Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, which can help increase visibility for the products and drive traffic to the Storefront. After that, it’s time to log into the Seller Central account and open Manage Stores in the Advertising tab.

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PRSay

APRIL 5, 2023

Here’s the breakdown: 54% of respondents work at PR agencies, 24% work for corporate PR departments and 22% work as independent PR practitioners. Organizations with 250 or more employees were more likely to select reporting, measurement and freelancers as their highest budgetary expenditures. Illustration credit: alphaspirit ]

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. If you want blogs, you don’t want press releases.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In May 2016, the blog Sword and the Script became the digital foundation of an Atlanta-based PR and marketing agency: Sword and the Script Media, LLC. After seven years of blogging, and 570+ posts, this struck me as a natural progression. I kept blogging too. My 7 Favorite Blog Posts from 2016.

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5W PR

JULY 18, 2023

Advertising Online advertising can significantly boost a brand’s visibility and drive targeted traffic. Performance Regularly track and analyze key performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of the brand’s online presence.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 28, 2020

Along the way content, distribution, analytics, and measurement tools have been acquired and bolted on. Cision, Meltwater and Kantar are aimed at the enterprise agency and in-house market and are expensive. Until recently few PR agency or communication team budgets had a line item for tools. Thank you to all the contributors.

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5W PR

JULY 5, 2023

Real-time analysis of vast amounts of data enables companies to identify potential security threats and take proactive measures to prevent damage. Analyzing customer data and behavior allows businesses to deliver targeted advertisements, recommendations, and experiences that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Konnect Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To ensure your campaigns stand out above the noise, it’s essential to get prepared for the upcoming holiday advertising season by defining objectives, developing compelling ads, and budgeting and timing campaigns effectively. When setting objectives, make them specific, measurable, achievable, and relevant.

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