Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Data is everywhere, and in every industry you have access to lots of it – so let’s see if we can make it less scary to approach and show you the value of the information that you hold. Social Media Data. This data can help you find promotion opportunities or even indicate where you could spend an advertising budget.

Data 117

Data Data-Driven PR Big Data Analytics 117

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve talked a lot in the past year about Facebook, from the evolution of its advertising offering to the almost complete destruction of organic reach for brand pages. As a brand manager, the best thing you can do is accept this fact and adjust strategies.

Data-Driven PR 60

Data-Driven PR Facebook Analytics Google 60

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. Reputation Is Brand. To compensate, more walls will go up, making media less visible to PR professionals and their audiences.

Trends 161

Trends Publicity SEO Advertising 161

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Impressions are a diagnostic metric; if your earned media placement or advertisement isn’t seen by anyone, then we know its impact to your business is also zero. For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on my commute to work. I can’t recall a single brand or product on any recent drive.

Analytics 132

Analytics Measurement Software Survey 132

Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

As businesses and brands, this is one of the key challenges facing us. While some well known, loved brands will likely see their demise in the year ahead, new challenger brands will take their places. For brands with some advertising budget, the paid media world offers more choices and power than ever before.

Marketing 60

Marketing SEO Data-Driven PR Advertising 60

Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

Do we help build confidence in a brand to nurture or ease the selling process? Once we have qualitative data, we blend it with quantitative data to understand our customer behavior, then modify our sales, marketing, advertising, and public relations strategies to align with our customers. Christopher S.

Measurement 147

Measurement Data Study Advertising 147

Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

However, if we distill down the essence of public relations, it’s to build awareness and trust in a brand, such that people want to share it, talk about it, and ultimately buy from it. The biggest problem brands face – for the most part – isn’t negative press. What is branded non-negative search?

Measurement 107

Measurement SEO Policies Reputation 107

Shift Communications

MAY 14, 2015

At SHIFT we’re big proponents of data-driven PR. We’re constantly pushing clients and prospects to embrace elements such as Google Analytics, Twitter advertising, measurement beyond pure clicks and the like. In essence I wanted to know how they are using their most public face (their website) when marketing their brands.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Construction Analytics 60

Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

Social Media Analytics – Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook all offer analytics and insights into brand pages. Digital Advertising – Specifically starting with paid social media promotion. Digital Advertising – Specifically starting with paid social media promotion. Get to know them! Amanda Grinavich. Senior Marketing Analyst.

Marketing 60

Marketing Data-Driven PR Analytics Training 60

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. Christopher S.

Trends 83

Trends Publicity Analytics Software 83

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Of all the industries using the new format, B2C financial services – banking and retail investment brands – are using the most characters in the new format. Marketing and advertising. The accounts are a mix of individual users/people, as well as brands. Who’s the most verbose? Floral and gifts. The Fortune 10.

B2C 103

B2C Airlines Pharmaceuticals B2B 103

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Impressions are a diagnostic metric; if your earned media placement or advertisement is seen by zero people, then for certain we can determine that its impact to your business is also zero. For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on the commute to work. Impressions are worth nothing by themselves.

Analytics 60

Analytics Measurement Software Advertising 60

Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Today, with over 2 billion smartphones in use, the ways in which consumers experience brands is fundamentally different. The way we think of the “internet” as a place for brands must fundamentally change to reflect the rise of mobile. In the internet of a decade ago, users experienced brands primarily through web browsers.

Mobile 60

Mobile Examples Brand Branding 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In what is becoming an unsurprising story, Facebook also grew its revenue significantly; below, every region showed Q3 revenue growth from advertising: Above, what’s interesting is the very strong growth in the US and Canada, continuing a trend from the previous quarter. The only region that weakened was the EU.

Facebook 60

Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In what is becoming an unsurprising story, Facebook also grew its revenue significantly; below, every region showed Q3 revenue growth from advertising: Above, what’s interesting is the very strong growth in the US and Canada, continuing a trend from the previous quarter. The only region that weakened was the EU.

Facebook 60

Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In what is becoming an unsurprising story, Facebook also grew its revenue significantly; below, every region showed Q3 revenue growth from advertising: Above, what’s interesting is the very strong growth in the US and Canada, continuing a trend from the previous quarter. The only region that weakened was the EU.

Facebook 60

Facebook Social Media Mobile Video 60