Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Virtually everything in marketing, advertising, and PR is measurable. The statement, more accurately worded, is that not everything is worth measuring. It’s not worth measuring – but that doesn’t mean it can’t be measured. Why don’t more companies and brands measure PR and marketing?

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NewsWhip

MARCH 31, 2021

What happens when influence outshines advertising? I mean, I think it starts with really that technology layer, because now there’s so many things that we can start to kind of measure in comms that we really couldn’t measure even just one, two years ago. MARCH 26, 2021. Watch webinar. Read transcript.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

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. If you don’t already have measurement tools and dashboards in place, these questions commonly asked by clients and brand management alike can be a good indicator that it’s well past time to get started.

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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.

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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. Measurement templates.

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Cision

JUNE 30, 2017

The need for earned media professionals, including communications and traditional PR, to catch up to their peers in advertising and marketing is real, and it’s urgent. The market opportunity this creates for Cision as the clear global industry leader in enabling data, tech, and measurement for them is huge. It can make or break brands.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Tae Hea Nahm of Storm Ventures, an early investor in Marketo, shared, “I see significant parallels between how companies like Marketo and others took marketing to a new level based on data and analytics and what AirPR is doing for PR and the communication function.”.

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Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

PR has evolved to become more marketing-centric, but content silos and measurement have remained stagnant. Emerging media, technology and the influx of data enables communicators to strategically reach and engage their target audiences across numerous online and traditional channels. How to Bridge The Measurement Disconnect?

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. Heck, just keeping up with the news is a challenge, never mind closing the gap on technological skill sets you need to execute effectively. So, how in this wave of ever changing technology do we keep our heads above water here at SHIFT?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And now, here’s this month’s PR technology summary…. Analytics – open rates and response rates – which is useful to know if a reporter even saw you pitch. This means they can measure earned the same way they do paid or owned, and make more fully informed investment mix decisions.”. 1) Israeli vendor builds CRM tool for PR.

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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. Analytics was still at the early stage. That’s not really the way to measure PR.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, advertisers generated pre-Super Bowl excitement for their brands with teaser ads the week before the game that drove viewership and excitement. The Super Bowl stands as the high point of advertising, where companies vie for coveted spots to showcase their products to millions of viewers. and Jermaine Dupri.

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Cision

JANUARY 3, 2018

Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing. Know that there are tools that solve the content and earned media measurement challenge. Know that there are tools that solve the content and earned media measurement challenge.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 7, 2023

Google Analytics 4 Certification It’s impossible to succeed in the field of marketing without a deep understanding of data, and how to apply meaning to that data for actionable takeaways. But, most marketers are not data scientists, which is where Google Analytics 4 Certification comes in. Classify AI applications.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales. How is public relations measured? Public relations (PR) practitioners use a variety of methods to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The 10 Most Common Ways Comms Pros are Measuring PR.

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

Samsung has used fear in their advertisement to talk about the serious issue of increasing selfie deaths. Measure the Sentiment That Matters. So, how do you measure online sentiment? One of the easiest ways of measuring the emotional response from your consumers is sentiment analysis. Humanize Your Brand.

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PR for Anyone

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this episode, Erica sits down with Christina to discuss the impact of technology both in the workplace and our education system, evolving dynamics between generational workforces, current issues such as remote work, and recent shifts occurring in the professional landscape that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PRSay

JULY 10, 2018

While we need measures to safeguard our information, it’s equally important to consider the ethics of the data we curate and use. As PR professionals, we often use social media advertising in our campaigns, and we rely on data and analytics to strategically develop campaigns. Facebook has also updated its privacy policies.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 2, 2017

According to Nielsen’s Global Trust in Advertising study , consumers trust earned media and recommendations from friends and family more than any other source. However, paid media has historically had a significant advantage over earned when it comes to measuring success. So how can brands build trust? Audience Data. Browser used.

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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 has spent more than $1bn on the acquisitions of Visible Technologies (2014), Vocus (2014), Gorkana (2016), PRNewswire (2015), Prime Research (2017), Falcon.io (2019) and Trendkite (2019).

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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. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

This summary of PR technology news – the PR Tech Sum – is back after a two-month hiatus. The former “founded Weber Shandwick’s analytics practice” and the latter “was former head of strategy at Publicis Media.”. This is effectively native advertising, which Cision says is “proven to be more trustworthy.”

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Social Media Ecommerce Marketing Imagine this as a big umbrella that covers lots of stuff—building up your brand’s popularity, guiding customers to your website, advertising and selling products, and even the art of social selling and social commerce. Getting all the cyber risks measured and assessed is required for a better user experience.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Clients now expect PR people to also be search experts, content experts, working knowledge of Google Analytics, knowledge of all sorts of tracking tools to measure effectiveness, while filming, producing, and editing video and managing multiple social media accounts.”. Pressure on measurement. Analytics and ROI.

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Cision

MARCH 20, 2017

Cision has big ideas on the future of earned media technology; we’ve been moving fast, and we’re ready to move faster. Most notably you’ll see us expanding features of the Cision Communications Cloud ™ technology platform such as big data, measurement and Cision ID solutions. You can read the full release for all the details.

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Reputation Us

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The proliferation of data, technology and automation has transformed the composition of companies’ assets. Willis Towers Watson participated along with its partners, including lead insurer Liberty Specialty Markets, and PoleCat, a data and analytics provider. Recognizing The Big Risk. Exercise Your Reputation. “If

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NewsWhip

APRIL 14, 2020

As the CIO, Zach oversees Kivvit’s investment in data tools and technologies and leads the Kivvit Insights team, which supports the firm’s research and analytics functions. But Zach and his team are utilizing leading-edge technology and analytics to find the trends.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Marketers will no longer be able to ignore new technologies and trends, even if they aren’t sure of the application or ROI. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert. Advertising Week. Search Engine Land.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Of those, 84% say they outsource content creation; distribution, technology, strategy and measurement were distant followers. Of that segment of respondents, 72% use paid social media channels; 66% use sponsorships; 61% use pay-per-click advertising. 49% check analytics for every post. The metrics content marketers track.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 22, 2016

Some example skills to look for are expertise in the following areas: Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, HTML and SEM. Google offers the Analytics and AdWords certification exams for free. Google offers the Analytics and AdWords certification exams for free. Digital Marketing + Google Analytics = 1,990,000.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 22, 2016

Some example skills to look for are expertise in the following areas: Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, HTML and SEM. Google offers the Analytics and AdWords certification exams for free. Google offers the Analytics and AdWords certification exams for free. Digital Marketing + Google Analytics = 1,990,000.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2015

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Odds are that you’ve heard someone say that PR can’t be quantified, or social media ROI can’t be measured, or that a media impression or social post generated an advertising value equivalent (AVE) of hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? For those brands and professionals who do not engage machine learning technologies in their work, they will see their relative share of voice decline. The solution to this quandary is the owned audience. Dark Social and Influence.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. Let’s take a look: PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap. All helpful in measuring the true influence and effectiveness of an influencer. Here’s how.

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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? How do you gain access to analytics?

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 29, 2019

NEW YORK — Critical Mention, the leading earned media measurement and monitoring platform, today announced 10 consecutive months of record new bookings. Critical Mention offers real-time media monitoring, intelligence and analytics for broadcast television, radio, online news and social media. FY 2019 Achievements.

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