Sword and the Script

MAY 6, 2017

“Some 30% of respondents say when they see a brand being advertised alongside offensive material, they believe the advertiser is somehow endorsing that material; 20% do not see it as an endorsement, 33% say the brand may or may not be endorsing the material, and 16% have no opinion.”. 3) Context in measurements. Talk to Us!

Measurement 66

Measurement Marketing Survey Advertising 66

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.

Advertising 88

Advertising Advertising Measurement Facebook 88

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. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

Study 138

Study Media Relations Media Measurement 138

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. The metaverse, Web 3.0, Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media .

Marketing 214

Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 214

Konnect Agency

JUNE 8, 2022

This list of tactics is endless, with search and social advertising, email and SMS marketing, organic social posting, search engine optimization. These metrics are easily measured by having Google Analytics installed on your website and proper UTM terms attached to your digital content. Your website should be no exception!

Analytics 52

Analytics Google Measurement Advertising 52

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

and found, as a result of the pandemic, the top three changes businesses have made in hiring are: 54% are conducting remote interview and onboarding 42% have shortened the hiring process; and 42% are advertising fully remote jobs. >>> Can your agency bring big ideas and execute? The survey also covers retention.

Survey 99

Survey Trends Marketing Creativity 99

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 11, 2018

Don’t laugh; in a busy agency, it’s easy to double-book the same line for two calls!) Most importantly, the PR agency and client will assess whether the story helped accomplished their objectives and how to merchandise it to key audiences. PR measures up. PR leverage and amplification. Time to leverage the win.

Report 136

Report Interviews Pitching Construction 136

Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

Similarly, the same study showed that 70 percent of adults say their purchasing decision is affected by content they see shared on the web. In an era where paid advertising access to consumers on television, radio, and print is drying up, influence marketing may become a primary source of consumer connection. It’s in a cafe in Berlin.

Marketing 239

Marketing Television Handbook Web 239

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert. The lesson is obvious—marketers need to be vigilant with agencies and influencers.” – Seth Arenstein, Editor, PR News. Advertising Week. Web Ink Now.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Snapchat’s revenue saw the traditional fourth quarter bounce that all established social networks see: Fourth quarter earnings almost always are strongly positive as advertisers pour money into social networks for the holidays. B2B companies pay to retarget in order to close deals, while B2C companies solicit consumer purchases.

B2C 74

B2C Web Advertising Advertising 74

The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

Tools 136

Tools Publicity SEO Measurement 136

Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

Many of the open-ended comments from the survey point to underlying causes such as the rise of social media and self-publishing, disruption of the advertising-heavy business model in news, subsequent cuts to editorial staff, growth among the ranks of PR, and the deluge of pitches reporters receive. Measured on clicks, quick hits.”

Media Relations 110

Media Relations Media Survey Pitching 110

The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

I’ve had experience with agencies where I’ve produced great work, but there was no real way to measure it. As the web has evolved and we’ve started to understand where things come from and how they affect a business’ growth, that has started to evolve. What are your thoughts on having a proxy measurement?

Marketing 120

Marketing Analytics Measurement Data 120

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

There’s an old saying in marketing that half of the advertising budget is wasted, we just don’t know which half. Despite the maturation of digital marketing and web analytics, this remains a challenge. Advertising spots for the big football game this year grew to $5,000,000 for a mere 30 seconds of airtime.

B2B 66

B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 66

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It used to be we had three choices: Rent a medium with advertising; Earn coverage in a medium by being useful; or. 5) Feedback and measurement. Now, we can measure web traffic acquisition and behavior with accuracy. Looking for a content marketing agency partner that can both bring. 4) Message distribution.

Software 97

Software Comparison Measurement Content Marketing 97

Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The PRCA (Public Relations and Communications Association) worked with YouGov to poll 203 in-house and PR agency executives to find in-house digital PR budgets have risen by 9% in a year, with expectation they will grow further over the next 12 months. Over half of agency people require more digital/social media training (53%).

Training 119

Training Digital PR Media Training Education 119

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. It’s a theme that Topi?

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

PR 20/20

MAY 12, 2016

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Marketing Performance Blueprint , and was also published on the HubSpot Agency Post. As CMOs navigate the marketing talent gap , they are increasingly seeking performance-driven agency partners that are immersed in marketing technology and staffed with digital-savvy professionals.

Agency 40

Agency Marketing Financial System 40

PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Recent patents granted for contextual advertising and social media tag recognition are good evidence of the deep thinking that goes on here, every day, about improving the strategic value and unique insights to be gained through use of our comprehensive broadcast media database and index. Earned media impression measurement and analysis.

Television 77

Television Sports Web Advertising 77

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Social media sites dislike external links because it takes people away from the platform which disrupts the advertising business model. As these so-called content snacks zip around the social web, the marketing brain is squirting dopamine with every like and share, but it’s not moving the needle for your business. Talk to Us !

Social Media 115

Social Media Brand Branding Media 115

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. Build a Better Agency Summit.

Conference 97

Conference Marketing Case Study Content Marketing 97

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

BrightEdge is a global leader in SEO and content performance marketing that blends search intent discovery, optimized content creation, and performance measurement into one integrated solution. Sitecore is a software development company providing web content and customer experience management solutions. Personalization.

Tools 71

Tools Marketing Enterprise Software 71

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is effectively native advertising, which Cision says is “proven to be more trustworthy.” I agree, but only because native advertising tricks readers into thinking its bona fide coverage. Muck Rack released an integration with Google Analytics (GA) that helps PR measure web traffic from media placements.

Publicity 85

Publicity Survey Enterprise Pitching 85

Mark My Words

JUNE 9, 2017

Working out exactly what’s distinctive about Borkowski as an agency, what makes it tick, and why it’s been so successful has taken a long time. It’s only now, nearly thirty years since the agency was founded, that it’s possible to provide a semi-systematised overview of something which has been instinctual for years.

Advertising 60

Advertising Advertising Consumer Mobile 60

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2015

2015 found brands reevaluating their agency relationships in an unprecedented way , turning over partners looking for a better mix of nimble, efficient and integrated. Based on the conversations we’re having with existing clients and prospects, agencies will be required to embody all of these attributes and more. Derek Lyons.

Marketing 60

Marketing Mobile Pinterest Analysis 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

The freelance PR market shut down in the first week of April as agencies and in-house teams reacted to the markets they serve and cut costs. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint. Newsrooms have been cut back to the bone and journalists furloughed.

Crisis 151

Crisis Government Energy Community 151

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Several surveys reviewed by eMarketer suggest social media advertising continues to advance – and Facebook is often voted the most effective paid platform – even for B2B. Unlike traditional advertising, the audience gets a vote in paid social media. Finally, and one last point that must be part of the process is measurement.

B2B 60

B2B Facebook Marketing Social Media 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. Here’s an example from web analytics: Look at those four standout events that are above and beyond normal traffic.

Analytics 155

Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing How To 155

Sword and the Script

JUNE 10, 2017

It’s easy to identify a trend in hindsight – the web is littered with post-trend analysis breaking down why or how something happened – but the question remains: how do you get ahead? See these related posts: Twilight of Web 2.0: Can your agency bring big ideas – and execute them? Somehow “internet trends” sounds quaint.

Trends 84

Trends Marketing Mobile Web 84

PR 20/20

JULY 6, 2020

From certifications, to professional association memberships, to events, and to using our strengths to give back to the community — pouring time and resources into our team comes back to the agency tenfold. A practicum exercise to put what we’ve learned into actionable recommendations for the agency. Agency Practicum.

Training 72

Training How To Course Software 72

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

It’s hard to measure but there’s negative consequences for not doing it.”. ” Certainly, the digital fingerprints of the web provided better mechanisms to measure indicators in these areas. There are, it seems, two ideological camps: “can’t measure” and “measure everything.”

Marketing 60

Marketing Measurement B2B Content Marketing 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2016

The survey showed the top three categories in 2016 marketing spend were web, digital commerce and digital advertising. Sixty-five percent of marketing leaders said they plan to increase their spending on digital advertising, with 23% expecting a significant increase and 42% anticipating a slight increase.”.

Marketing 60

Marketing Survey B2B Study 60

Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

This is because Onclusive takes broader crawl of the web, which matters to PR because the media landscape has fragmented. 3) Measuring the influence of coverage. You can view this measure in a couple of different ways – and the charts allow for you to drill down and take a look at the underlying coverage. Sentiment analysis.

Case Study 116

Case Study Software Data Web 116

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Web visitors that bounce, maybe more valuable than businesses give them credit for, according to research by Parsely , and reviewed by Lucia Moses of Digiday for a piece titled, Turns out the flyby reader is more valuable than often thought : “Parsely looked at 1.6 Also see: B2B Blog Metrics: 4 Effective Categories to Measure Success.

Study 64

Study Marketing B2B Apparel 64

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my travels around the web in those days, one of the legal marketers I’d consistently run into was Larry Bodine. He started his web and marketing consulting business in 2000 after working 9 years as the marketing director at Sidley Austin , LLP in Chicago. The Benefits of Being a Good PR Agency Client; Off Script #18: Rich Young.

Marketing 62

Marketing SEO Pharmaceuticals Google 62

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

In the Indian context, the web has begun to move beyond a media genre that was no different in terms of interruption when compared to conventional media like television and radio. As privacy and choice gained momentum, permission-based Internet activity has led to what we now describe as the social web.

Social Media 78

Social Media Web Media Measurement 78

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Podcasting is clearly growing – TVEyes CEO David Ives said in an announcement , “more than 30 percent of Americans listen monthly, more than 20 percent listen weekly, and these listeners skew toward demographics that advertisers and politicos alike seek to understand and influence.”. 3) Meltwater updates UX, adds new projects feature.

Internal 63

Internal International Data Media 63