Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Telling stories that provoke engagement and resonate with desired audiences is a surefire way to create a strong brand. No matter what type of brand you’re representing, it’s important to create compelling messages and content to hold your audience’s interest. Once you find something that truly works for your brand, stick to it.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

A recent study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the USC Center for Public Relations found that marketers plan to increase staffing and overall spending on public relations over the next five years. Here’s a “cheat sheet” to help brands get a leg up on the PR universe this year.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

While top-tier marketing and advertising are valuable, associated PR campaigns can help propel a brand to the next level of emotional attachment. You feel connected to these brands. Some customers are initially attracted to certain brands because they like their ad message. 4 ways PR creates brand attachment.

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PRSay

JANUARY 21, 2020

Each new season brings a flood of social media buzz, non-stop advertisements and climbing ratings. As a communicator, I’m giving my colleagues full permission to watch this guilty pleasure program without any guilt, and this is because “The Bachelor” is a textbook case in storytelling. Top-notch production.

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Communications Storytelling Film Training 160

NewsWhip

MARCH 31, 2021

What happens when influence outshines advertising? As the CIO Bryan Pedersen leads MSL’s digital and innovation center of excellence that includes developing new offerings and tools, as well bolstering core capabilities like storytelling and influencer marketing. MARCH 26, 2021. Watch webinar. Read transcript.

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Onclusive

MAY 4, 2020

Marketing strategies are being altered and advertising budgets are being slashed. The role of public relations is to positively place a brand into news stories. There is simply no better instrument during a widespread crisis than communications. The modern communicator is not just a great storyteller.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

An effective content marketing calendar will complement a PR campaign to help differentiate a brand and generate business growth. It’s considered the most credible and influential source for storytelling. Sponsored content is content that an organization or brand pays to place and promote. What is sponsored content?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 30, 2020

Because they’re easy to consume and offer a certain intimacy, brands are using podcasts to inform, entertain, and be visible. Here’s a roundup of some top advertising and marketing podcasts. It features brand marketers and CEOs in travel, retail, FMCG, health and wellness, among other high-growth and heavily COVID-affected industries.

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Cision

MARCH 22, 2017

How communicators can bring effective change to today’s media landscape. Today’s communicators are finding themselves stuck in ruts of all kinds when it comes to communicating the right message to the right audience. These ladies all agreed: the question isn’t whether or not it’s good content, but if it’s in context.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A Q&A on McDonald’s Employer Brand Building with Megan Gaffney, VP, Consumer Team. It’s hyper-regional and a huge part of our work is employer brand, so promoting McDonald’s as a great place to work and highlighting the people that make the brand all that it is. Give us the 10,000-foot view of the campaign.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 9, 2022

In the PR world, when we kick-start a new engagement we may ask a client, “Where do you want to see your brand? What may be one company’s tier-three can be another brand’s tier-one. . To execute a strong PR program and target the media outlets that will work best for your brand, assess your goals. Assess your audience.

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Media Retail B2B Journalism 310

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. It can make or break brands. It’s an exciting time. But ironically, it is simply not getting its just due when it comes to measuring its impact.

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Onclusive

APRIL 9, 2019

The acquisition brings together AirPR’s industry-leading communications measurement solution with Ozmotik’s content marketing and analytics offering, creating a unified platform for companies to discover their most valuable earned media and to deliver it to its intended audience at scale. Measuring Reader Engagement and Brand Impact.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. Director, Global Corporate Communications, Mimecast What’s the secret to success? However, the integration process can be challenging.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. Director, Global Corporate Communications, Mimecast. This perspective can be helpful for communicators as they articulate the benefits of working together to their marketing colleagues.

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wiredPRworks

APRIL 27, 2020

Marketers love storytelling. I’ve presented all kinds of storytelling programs, including digital marketing and storytelling. Yet, is storytelling the right way to build brands – and even tell stories? Prior to joining AMA, Russ Klein quarterbacked teams for many of the world’s foremost brand names.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This post is part of our monthly roundup series, where we identify hot topics that PR pros and communicators should be aware of, along with our own takes on them. Additionally, advertisers generated pre-Super Bowl excitement for their brands with teaser ads the week before the game that drove viewership and excitement.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 29, 2017

What if you paint pictures with words and tell tales around something as seemingly boring as a brand? While technology continues changing every industry I can think of, many communications and public relations professionals hold tight to the more poetic side of storytelling. Connecting Data and Storytelling. Who saw it?

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Storytelling Data Communications Technology 73

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Brand shaming has become commonplace. It is enjoying significant growth.

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Barokas

MAY 22, 2019

With so many brands vying for our attention through various channels – from social media, TV, radio, print, smartphones and the endless barrage of emails flooding our inboxes on a daily – sometimes hourly – basis, it’s easy for your message to get lost among all the noise. The post Storytelling Isn’t Just for Kids.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Compelling storytelling is an incredibly powerful way to communicate with your target audience. Digital storytelling is at the top of the list of communication trends that PR executives believe will dominate in the next five years. Example: How Cotopaxi leveraged storytelling to sell its brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 30, 2020

Because they’re easy to consume and offer a certain intimacy, brands are using podcasts to inform, entertain, and be visible. Here’s a roundup of some top advertising and marketing podcasts. It features brand marketers and CEOs in travel, retail, FMCG, health and wellness, among other high-growth and heavily COVID-affected industries.

Marketing 204

Marketing Advertising Advertising Industry 204

Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many commonalities between the two departments have emerged, however, communicators must overcome a few lingering gaps before we see a full convergence. Emerging media, technology and the influx of data enables communicators to strategically reach and engage their target audiences across numerous online and traditional channels.

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Masters in Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As Harrison Monarth writes in The Harvard Business Review : Storytelling evokes a strong neurological response. Here's why storytelling is such a powerful tool: The Power of Synchronicity. Storytelling creates a certain synchronicity between the teller and the listener. Storytelling is also a powerful tool for persuasion.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2018

Still, a prime impediment to PR teams’ showing out-of-the-box creative chops is clients’ aversion to risk– something not so prevalent in the advertising field. Creativity helps express company values in a distinct brand voice. Creative PR facilitates the identification and amplification of a company’s differentiating brand voice.

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Creativity Small Business Storytelling Travel 174

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Yet for some reason, brands continue to drone on about facts, instead of taking the same, tried-and-tested approach for emotional communication. Why Storytelling is So Effective. In a world that’s saturated with marketing, it’s more important than ever for brands to make a lasting impression with their customers.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 22, 2016

The most important part of branding is storytelling. And the most important part of storytelling is connecting with your audience. You must cultivate a brand story that adds context and meaning to what would otherwise be dull facts and figures. Your brand story should be authentic, relatable, and deeply human.

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Presspage

JANUARY 23, 2024

Digital transformation in PR Jan-Willem Schalkwijk, CEO of Presspage, explains why digital transformation is such a relevant topic in the industry right now, and why it is at the heart of the new campaign: ‘These days, a high-impact communication storm can develop overnight. Communicate to the world’, says Schalkwijk.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Brand advocacy will grow. Shortly before the inauguration of the new president, some brands went against convention and waded into political territory. Visual storytelling will be better and easier. If you’ve any doubt about the power of visual storytelling, check out these superb examples by brands large and small.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Enhanced relevance Cultural marketing allows brands to be more relevant and relatable to specific cultural groups. When people see themselves in a brand’s marketing, they’re more likely to engage with that brand. Competitive advantage Brands that invest in cultural marketing gain a competitive advantage.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That means creative work, like generating innovative ideas for programs, and like — storytelling. And the heart of public relations is in storytelling. They want to know why a company exists and what its brand stands for. There are a few things that PR-driven storytelling does that will never be mechanized or automated.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 8, 2015

The post outlined the success the New York Times brand studio (T Brand Studio) is having with their custom advertising content (referred to as “paid posts”). First, read through these “paid posts” the T Brand Studio is putting together. But, this level of native advertising is different.

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Cision

MARCH 30, 2016

Since a lot has already been written about how Facebook’s change from a chronological timeline to an algorithmic one impacted brands, we wanted to focus on the impact of longer videos. Prior to the recent announcement, Instagram had previously let advertisers extend videos to 60 seconds, but now it’s anyone’s game. Longer Videos.

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Instagram Video Brand Branding 120

Prohibition

AUGUST 3, 2023

For brands, using video content is an almost certified method to drive strong engagement and increase brand awareness in doing so. The ‘Spark’ platform is a powerful toolkit, created to allow users to create AR ‘friendly’ content and use it (where appropriate) in social advertising campaigns.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. The only person I’ve come across who does is Tim Siedell who parlayed his Twitter account from a job in advertising to writing for Comedy Central.Now, try to be clever in half that space.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

When Carnival Cruise Line was faced with several crises back in 2012 and 2013 , it was a deficit that many brand experts predicted would take at least four years to dig out of. Want more insights on how your brand can combat a crisis? Read the crisis communications white paper! You need to invest and over-communicate.”.

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Crisis Brand Branding Crisis Communications 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 18, 2019

Think in terms of measurable brand preference, increases in website traffic, lead generation, or even specific deliverables, like speaking opportunities generated for the CEO. Successful PR plans work to convey messages and stories that are – at least to a degree – ownable by the company or brand in question.

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