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.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Was it not enough that he alienated Twitter’s most committed and notable users, as well as advertisers, with nonsensical fees , rules and misleading descriptors ? Apparently, he also had to dispose of the platform’s most valued, and valuable asset, its brand name. But it was not enough for Musk.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Nissan (largest indoor illuminated advertising billboard).

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NewsWhip

JULY 15, 2021

Since the way those manifest every year is different, the team at PepsiCo has begun to look at macro trends and some of the sub-trends within them to identify brand passion points. It’s easy to want to jump on every trend, but Powell emphasizes the importance of staying within territories that work for your brand. “[If

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. But, it takes strategic insight and smart planning to communicate a brand’s history well. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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NewsWhip

MAY 12, 2021

How PepsiCo’s Creators League transforms trends into brand activations. Turning insights into brand content | 8:18-9:58. Monitoring for corporate social responsibility | 13:13-14:58. And, I think progressing in that role, I started to not just look at brand conversations, right? What are people saying about our brands?”

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PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

” For the10company, this influence is directly tied to today’s heightened scrutiny of corporations and C-suite politics. “Younger customers, in particular, are pushing brands to engage politically and socially on real issues, in ways that are often polarizing.”. Here are three main takeaways from their report: 1.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recently, PR teams have been pressed into crisis duty in a series of corporate missteps that have something in common: marketing or advertising departments that shows a type of “cultural appropriation” – borrowing a sensitive ethnic or cultural theme for commercial purposes. Bodega’s botched branding.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

On March 29 th , top editors, thought leaders and a Fortune 500 digital brand innovator gathered at Cision to discuss their insights and recommendations for communications and public relations practitioners. Chris Lynch: It’s overwhelming to consumers and brands. Rallies against Kellogg’s after it pulled its advertising from Breitbart.

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

In fact, consumers think of brands and products as something, or someone, that could address their emotional needs. Unveiling surprising facts or data can also make your online PR content go viral. So, Samsung, a leading mobile brand in the country, unveiled a new road safety campaign called #SafeIndia. Humanize Your Brand.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Marketing and PR professionals marveled at how Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen turned an online duel with rival Chick-fil-A into $65 million in “free" advertising this past August when its. Fried Chicken Sandwich battle went viral on Twitter — and led to a complete sell-out of the sandwich in all 2,400 Popeyes stores across the U.S.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In advertising and communication, oftentimes you need to introduce a new concept or product to your publics. While this may be true to an extent, when it comes to pronouns one study determined that reaction depends upon the relationship between brand and consumer. “you and brand X”). “you and brand X”).

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PR Fuel

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The term “free advertising” might conjure up the image of a famous brand making the headlines in the newspapers. Wouldn’t it be great if your business could get that sort of “free advertising? Wouldn’t it be great if your business could get that sort of “free advertising?”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And as smart marketers know, an affectionate nickname is branding gold. A brand nickname is like a viral video. In both cases, the corporation was trying to dictate the change, rather than responding to something that happened organically. In my view, it’s an awkward name that violates two unwritten rules of branding.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Paid social advertising has evolved into an integral part of advertising on social media platforms. Each social network has a distinct approach for acquiring followers and generating engagement, and paid advertising plays a significant role in those strategies. What is Paid Social? provide customer service to their clients.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

First statements say a lot about what a brand stands for, and they reflect on the quality of its leadership. When a passenger’s video of water flooding a Carnival cruise ship hallway went viral on May 3, it spawned thousands of references to Titanic and some sensational news headlines. Five crisis PR first responses.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Not every platform or tactic will be right for your brand. In this interview, Kathy discusses the importance of knowing what is being said about your brand, how to properly prepare for potential crises and why basic marketing principles are still relevant today. What are the biggest marketing mistakes brands make?

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

3 Ways to Maintain Control of Your Corporate Social Media. The speed and accessibility of social media means that brands are always teetering on the edge of a crisis. Corporate leaders need to guide their workers on how they should (and should not) represent their brand their online. Prepare in advance.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For public relations and reputation experts, it’s easy to point out the brands and personalities who mishandled bad news or missed opportunities after public mistakes. Marketers may have differing opinions on Nike’s brand advertising campaign around former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this year.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. Similar to the algorithms which drive many of our online purchases, brands will begin to communicate with their customers as if they have personal connections with them.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

But for PR professionals, the Olympics are also an opportunity to monitor a variety of communications-related topics — personal branding, corporate sponsorships, new technology — on a universal stage. The power of brand is front and center, with athletes as influencers, influencers as fans and the media creating a news feed.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But for PR professionals, the Olympics are also an opportunity to monitor a variety of communications-related topics — personal branding, corporate sponsorships, new technology — on a universal stage. The power of brand is front and center, with athletes as influencers, influencers as fans and the media creating a news feed.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Compared to how you measure traditional advertising, with experiential marketing we measure buzz, impact, engagement and conversations generated by a campaign. The success metrics a marketer should measure depend upon what your brand is and how it’s currently perceived,” adds Pappas. In contrast, experiential is bulls-eye targeted.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

So when your brand offers any opinion related to a hot-button issue, you’re guaranteed to alienate at least one customer base and bring in another. What place, if any, do corporations have in political discourse? However, big brands have much more leniency when being adventurous in the world of current affairs.

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 4, 2020

During a time focused on re-opening the economy after the onset of a viral pandemic, there are glaring signs that the United States is suffering from another type of pandemic—racism. ” It’s good that certain companies finally have resolved to remove overtly racist branding (e.g.,

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Mark My Words

APRIL 18, 2018

Whether or not this adage is entirely true, the pub chain has created a brand of cheap-and-cheerfulness that has have left its competition in the gutter. No doubt other brands -our much maligned rail operators, for example- share these frustrations: might they be next to call last orders on social? Does Martin have a point?

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Cision

AUGUST 8, 2016

So what I want to do in this post is take a look at how effectively businesses can currently reach an audience on the most popular social platforms for free, through search and through advertising. Paid content: One of Facebook’s greatest strengths is leveraging its audience to generate advertising revenue.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2019

Ostensibly, the idea was that thirsty guests would avail themselves of the product samples, appreciate the refreshment, and gain a positive impression of the brand. ” It’s also worth noting that of the several Fiji Water girls stationed on the red carpet at the Globes, Cuthbert was the only one whose presence went viral.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 23, 2023

Video content is a fantastic way to engage audiences, informing and capturing your brand’s message to your target audience in ways which still imagery simply cannot. Before posting video on your brands socials, its of vital importance to consider what kind of content works best for each channel.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 5, 2016

There seems to be this general consensus that a brand presence on social media inevitably leads to viral appeal. Up until recently, these two approaches defined the difference between brand that found success on social media and those that didn’t. What’s the engagement rate of a brand page on Facebook that doesn’t advertise?

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photobombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov. 2 - Surprise!

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I think some in the C-suite do know things like brand awareness are important and they kind of just feel it in their gut that it’s the right thing to do. We’re going to discuss the chatter about your brand among external sources, which is higher than ever, and that old chestnut about tightening budgets.

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Cision

JULY 20, 2015

” Similar to Birchbox, Triberr also is heavily invested in increasing their utility acquiring Scoutle , an analytics company that can help bloggers to predict the virality of their articles. Every product can’t go viral or generate a lot of word-of-mouth buzz. Conclusions.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

Since MaccaPR first launched in late 2012, we''ve averaged a new blog post nearly every week for our loyal chief marketing and PR officer, corporate communication directors and marketing professional subscribers. His post features tips for how your brand can use YouTube and other social media channels to conquer your competition. #3.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 27, 2015

It wasn’t the message (smile and dial) that captured my attention, but rather as regular Twitter advertiser , it was the realization I was the target – and by a firm with which I’m familiar (I’ve seen some ads on Facebook too ). These four categories correspond roughly to the areas of advertising, PR, marketing, and sales.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photo Bombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov. 2 - Surprise!

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As consumers are becoming more aware, they recognise when they are being retargeted, they understand when viral videos are being produced, they know about influencer marketing. Brands turn to 360° video as a key component of their digital marketing strategy, and it’s easy to see why. 360 Degree Videos. Vertical Video.

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