Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Search Engine Land. Search Engine Watch. Search Engine Journal. Storytelling is bigger than ever—and it’s a skill that marketers will continually need to hone to stay ahead of the competition. Search Engine Roundtable. Branding Strategy Insider. Social Media Examiner.

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Rock the Status Quo

JUNE 30, 2015

If you do anything in the digital space – PR, content marketing, search engine optimization, social media – the one thing that matters most is experience. The growing interest in storytelling requires skilled writing abilities, too, adding a layer of polish and sophistication to the copy you churn out. Enter multitasking!

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. Did it drive traffic, engagement, or sales? This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. SFM: Yes, exactly. You can’t argue with the data.

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ReimaginePR

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here’s how to use it to your brand’s advantage: Click To Tweet. Let’s talk about why video is so effective and how to make it work for your brand. It’s the old adage: people buy from people, not brands, and certainly not soulless corporations. And Google also gives search engine priority ranking to YouTube videos.

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ReimaginePR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

While content marketing often works independently of search engines and social media, that’s not to say their paths never cross. In fact, content marketing relies heavily on both search engines and social media for content promotion and exposure to new leads. So, what does this have to do with you? You need one-stop-shop content.

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Presspage

MARCH 13, 2018

In January, the social media platform announced it was making branded posts less prominent in users’ news feeds, dramatically decreasing organizations’ already struggling reach. He says: The brand managers who are best at their jobs are data driven from the start.

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PR Fuel

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Making sure that you have a positive relationship with the public is the best way to promote your brand and to show that you can deliver on your brand promise. Essentially, public relations is storytelling. It’s a strategic communication process that helps to build relationships between a brand and the public.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Considering the culmination of traditional advertisements (newspaper, TV, radio and billboards) and digital advertisements (banner ads, pop-ups and sponsored posts), how many advertisements a day do you think you’re exposed to? Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Experiential storytelling. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers.

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PR in High Definition

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

It’s not only Facebook that is hoping to clear the smoke screen around its advertising. Twitter has also just launched an Advertising Transparency Centre after its potential role in helping to promote Russian-backed content. So, what does this mean for the wider industry? How is this impacting and reflecting on marketers and PRs?

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 11, 2015

In case you haven’t heard, Meerkat is the new social video app that uses Twitter as its engine to share live video streams across the web. YouTube continues to be an “A platform” with marketers and advertisers. Sure, it CLAIMED to solve a problem (no more brand advertising!). So, along comes Meerkat.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 10, 2024

Only then can we understand where brand conversations and messages make sense. In the media business, we talk a lot about how brands can get into those conversations through advertising. Mobile ecommerce is booming, with 54% of millennial and 55% of GenZ shoppers saying social is their preferred channel for discovering brands.

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MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Eight years ago, Unilever’s Dove brand began exploring how its female consumers perceived beauty by using real women—of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds—as the faces of its marketing campaign from agency Ogilvy & Mather Brazil. The brand’s exceptional storytelling is honest, inspiring and downright sobering. The answer?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The onset of content marketing and emergence “owned media” has turned the storytelling torch into a shared thing that is jointly owned by traditional media and brands. Leta Soza , our director of PR engineering and operations, wrote A Journey Into the PRTech Unknown.

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Cision

JULY 20, 2015

From their Instagram contests, to their points program, to their beginnings promoting Birchbox from an email list , Birchbox is engineered to be buzzworthy. It’s a common understanding that storytelling is an effective way to share ideas. Everything about Birchbox has an element of word-of-mouth.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To enhance empathy and connection with their teams and clients, organizations will foster employee brand ambassadors, highlight origin stories, show behind-the-scenes videos, and encourage user-generated content. Expanded brand collaboration “Partnership Paradise: 2024 will be the year of brand partnerships.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Bernie Borges is executive producer of Social Business Engine , CEO of Find and Convert , an IBM Futurist , a Dell Social Influencer and frequent speaker at marketing conferences and private events. Native advertising is one of the most controversial and least understood concepts in contemporary marketing. What is native advertising?

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Your IG theme should be easily tied to your brand and what makes your business stand out from the rest. And the pictures on your IG account should tie easily to that theme.

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PR Job Coach

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In close to four decades in the communications business, Patti has held senior leadership positions in four different areas of the industry: PR, Advertising Corporate and Start-up. Craft a Narrative to Make People Feel Something As Patti and Scott both emphasized, we are all storytellers. Hitachi, Loral, ASARCO, Gould Inc.,

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PR 20/20

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The media scored as the least-trusted global institution, with social media and search engines following closely behind. Knowing that people are skeptical about what they see—especially what’s shared online— how did brands create content and campaigns this year that encouraged people to believe in them? Here’s How They Did It.

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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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Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

Advertising was extremely expensive. What’s changed is that communication, that storytelling used to be about one-third marketing and two-thirds sales; now those shares have flipped. It’s still essential to be able to communicate your value proposition and brand differentiation very succinctly.

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ReimaginePR

JULY 18, 2016

Between sharing funny videos on social media, looking up helpful how-to’s or learning about a brand on their website, it seems like we can’t go a day without watching at least one video online. Bonus: Before you start creating videos for your brand, keep these tips in mind. Remember, people buy from people, not from brands.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Around 57 percent of retail brands said they notice average order values increase when users watch just one video they’ve produced – and sales totals double when people have watched 10 or more videos ( LiveClicker ). The Crayon report also indicates a high percentage of brands go directly to YouTube for video hosting needs.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Even as AI continues to evolve, there will always be something uniquely human about the art of storytelling. These tools still don’t understand the nuances of true storytelling, and they’ve certainly never interacted with your customers on a face-to-face basis. Like a match to a flame, human writers breathe life into brand voices.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

AskPat is a brand new, DAILY podcast. Now, plug in those headphones because it’s time to learn together about online business, entrepreneurship, internet marketing, audience building, passive income, blogging, list building, virtual assistants, startups, search engine optimization, email marketing and so much more. 10) Amy Porterfield.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 1, 2019

Advertising execs will never know the thrill of getting a piece of coverage in a top-tier paper or TV show. Traditionally we’re told by the creative marketing agencies who have created the overall brand campaign what we need to do, and then it’s our job to creatively try and shoehorn a PR campaign around it. The saviour of marketing?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Convenience’ (more of it) and ‘friction’ (less of it) are going to be critical terms for brand messaging in 2018, whether through marketing or PR efforts. People want to buy from brands that they can trust and feel that share the same values. Ecommerce brands use their app to offer discounts, free shipping, etc.

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 26, 2019

In an age of artificial intelligence and deepfakes, it’s not surprising that some brands are promoting themselves using people who aren’t people. based start-up of ‘engineers, storytellers, and dreamers’ who claim to specialize in artificial intelligence and robotics.”

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Beyond PR

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You have two options: Promote through paid media (pay-per-click advertisements & sponsored posts). Brands who blog have more indexed web pages, which boosts SEO. An active blog authenticates your brand, revealing your personality, expertise, and values, which helps to build your subscriber base and sparks customer loyalty.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Much of the modern public relations business grew up out of media relations and publicity, rooted in storytelling and editorial engagement. News brands that uphold high editorial standards such as The Associated Press, Reuters, and publications such as The Economist , and The Financial Times , thrive. It was a communication revolution.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It promised to dislodge traditional media and enable any individual, organisation or brand to become a publisher. Steve Earl and I captured many of these shifts in organisational communication in Brand Anarchy and Brand Vandals. Search engines are the most trusted form of media (56%). Three decades on I’m less positive.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I believe there will be an acceleration towards humanizing brands, putting individuals in front of a corporate identity, in an effort to emotionally connect with customers.”. – BJ Schaknowski | Vertafore. 9) Brands across the aisle. “I What this does to the customer experience and brand loyalty is significant.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Brand-to-brand collaboration. Likely see more brand-to-brand and brand-to-influencer collaborations. 2021 will see an increase in podcasts, with more brands and institutions harnessing the power of this very intimate form of communication as some consumers attempt to ration their screen time.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Creative and content, the keys to good storytelling, are frequently overlooked elements of public relations. They lie at the heart of inspiring conversations and storytelling. Explore how other organisations in your market or sector use storytelling as a means of engagement. #7 Action: Read widely and consume a variety of media.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. Outdoor and transmit media typically tend to be advertising material (but not always). That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16).

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