Konnect Agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amongst the predicted marketing trends for 2021 , few could have anticipated Apple’s announcement that it will implement privacy changes with its iOS 14 update which will impact every brand advertising via Facebook. What Does The Update Mean For Advertisers? What Does The Update Mean For Advertisers?

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2016

As a content marketer, you spend tremendous time and money to create content – be it brand awareness, thought leadership or lead generation pieces. B2B marketers, in particular, are missing a huge opportunity with social advertising to promote content. Facebook makes money by selling advertising. And then…no one sees it.

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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.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

Yet PR doesn’t always command the same respect as other disciplines, like advertising or direct-mail. As Greg Galant of MuckRack once observed , the advertising business is linked with iconic characters like Don Draper of “Mad Men,” while public relations is more likely to evoke Samantha Jones. PR is about reputation.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 6, 2017

“Some 30% of respondents say when they see a brand being advertised alongside offensive material, they believe the advertiser is somehow endorsing that material; 20% do not see it as an endorsement, 33% say the brand may or may not be endorsing the material, and 16% have no opinion.”. 3) Context in measurements.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The digital marketing leaders are constantly monitoring their companies’ digital performance over time, and have benchmarks in place to see if the strategies are working, and with those benchmarks, they’re also able to compare their strategies with the best industry brands. Advertising Benchmarks. Social Media Benchmarks.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

The white paper calls the pageview a “superficial impression of how people behave on the web.” For 20 years, the media and marketing world has been beholden to the pageview, a deeply flawed metric that only captures the most superficial impression of how people behave on the web. It’s easy to be shallow on the web).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. Now more than ever, brands are understanding the importance of building trust and being transparent with their audiences, not to mention the value of clear communication. The metaverse, Web 3.0,

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We’re now seeing investment in digital marketing overtaking investment in traditional marketing at a rapidly increasing rate, with Britain being the largest online advertising market in Europe, and predictions that almost two-thirds of UK ad spend will be online by 2020. Set your campaign goals and make them SMART.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

In turn, social media experts have rushed to proclaim brands should be using video to drive better engagement. Yet the cries for fostering more brand engagement persist and it’s rapidly becoming a no-win situation for marketing. In fact, engagement on social media has never mattered less for a brand.

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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. 1) Earned media is sales enablement. a) Results may vary.

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Beyond PR

JUNE 28, 2016

If the agency’s role is evolving, though, so must the approach to PR measurement. In public relations, Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) or “ad value” refers to the cost of buying the space taken up by a piece of media coverage, had that coverage been an advertisement. It’s time to look beyond ad value.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Syn: AVE, Advertising Value Equivalency, Earned Media Value, Impressions Like the mythical succubus, AVE (advertising value equivalency) and other bad metrics suck the strength out of your PR campaigns. They reduce your value to the “equivalent” of advertising by reducing your efforts to the “value” of a column inch.

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Flack's Revenge

OCTOBER 17, 2014

PR Week covered their CommsConnect event last week – what caught my attention was the headline: Fortune’s Lashinsky: Branded content is ‘propaganda’ I’ll say more about this in a moment. Much of this growth has been fueled by “native” advertising. A tangled Web indeed, the irony is thick.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. In PR, paid media is social media advertising, sponsored content, and email marketing.

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Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Brand strategy teams set mandates around key messages by creating a boilerplate, message card, branding guidelines and so forth. Marketing’s job is then to identify key audiences and directly market to them through the lens of the brand. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product. Magazine, and more.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Here’s a breakdown of the main differences: Objective Public Relations: The primary objective of PR is to build and maintain productive relationships for a company or brand. Marketing: Marketing primarily involves one-way communication from the brand to the consumer, influencing purchasing decisions.

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Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They provided me with a presentation outlining the product, a web demonstration, and answered my questions about it. PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. click any image for higher resolution).

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PR in High Definition

MAY 31, 2017

Copywriting, brand understanding and social media skills, as well as facilitation and project management, all make for vastly versatile comms professionals whose disciplines can be used and re-used across the team. What PR does is generate awareness in a market, so to measure success, we should aim to measure this awareness.

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Measurement Financial Comparison Advertising 48

Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Similarly, the same study showed that 70 percent of adults say their purchasing decision is affected by content they see shared on the web. Aligning a brand with a celebrity is the oldest type of influence marketing.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

So, what businesses need the most is marketing strategy and the fundamentals – audience identification, positioning, messaging, distribution and feedback or measurement – haven’t changed even as tactics have evolved. Too many brands still operate in output-only mode and then wonder why no one has noticed. What comes after social media?

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 18, 2021

In Ries and Trout’s book Positioning, the battle for your mind they said, “PR starts the fire, marketing and advertising fan the flames.” That means that the people you come in contact with – in person or online – will already know who you are and have an affinity for your brand. All these actions are PR functions.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Using new platforms and features such as Snapchat, Instagram Stories and Twitter Moments will be part of this, along with learning about and embracing (live) video content, virtual reality, brand journalism and other storytelling tactics.” – Mark Ragan, CEO, Ragan Communications (Ragan.com, PR Daily).

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Stern + Associates

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

are expected to spend more than $20 billion on social media advertising. Other goals might include building engagement, increasing web traffic or generating sales leads. Identify clear measures of success. During consideration, metrics including clicks, engagement and web traffic from social matter most.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

As the importance of earned media continues to grow, PR pros and marketers are seeking alternative ways to drive brand awareness without spending on advertising and then access all of their mentions across the web. Before you jump into completing an earned-media strategy, it’s best to identify your brand goals.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Because the more people that trust your brand, the more often they will choose you over competitors. So how can brands build trust? According to Nielsen’s Global Trust in Advertising study , consumers trust earned media and recommendations from friends and family more than any other source. Audience Data. Browser used.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 28, 2021

What strategy will work best for your brand? Know how to measure the success of your campaign. Web tracking – When URLs pass through tracking data to your website, you’re able to track what people do once they get to your website from an email. What data do you need to execute that strategy?

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Marketing Apparel Data Software 210

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

There’s an old saying in marketing that half of the advertising budget is wasted, we just don’t know which half. Despite the maturation of digital marketing and web analytics, this remains a challenge. Advertising spots for the big football game this year grew to $5,000,000 for a mere 30 seconds of airtime.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The imperative here is to focus on the audience needs, not what a business or brand wants to say. Whether a business has defined it’s positioning or not, every brand has one. The path to finding messages that resonate begins by answering these questions: a) what do people think about your business or brand today?

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. Brands bid against peers targeting the same behaviour, demographic or keywords. If a brand bids too much it will over pay for a campaign. Measure and benchmark the results of your campaign based on your goal.

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Media How To Advertising Advertising 103

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. It’s a theme that Topi?

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The Resolution Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

I’ve had experience with agencies where I’ve produced great work, but there was no real way to measure it. As the web has evolved and we’ve started to understand where things come from and how they affect a business’ growth, that has started to evolve. What are your thoughts on having a proxy measurement?

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Marketing Analytics Measurement Data 120

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is effectively native advertising, which Cision says is “proven to be more trustworthy.” I agree, but only because native advertising tricks readers into thinking its bona fide coverage. Muck Rack released an integration with Google Analytics (GA) that helps PR measure web traffic from media placements.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Recent patents granted for contextual advertising and social media tag recognition are good evidence of the deep thinking that goes on here, every day, about improving the strategic value and unique insights to be gained through use of our comprehensive broadcast media database and index. Earned media impression measurement and analysis.

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Television Sports Web Advertising 78

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 11, 2018

BrightEdge is a global leader in SEO and content performance marketing that blends search intent discovery, optimized content creation, and performance measurement into one integrated solution. Sitecore is a software development company providing web content and customer experience management solutions. Personalization.

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Tools Marketing Enterprise Software 71

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2023

The captivating nature of television programming attracts viewers, allowing PR pros to deliver impactful narratives and brand stories that resonate. By leveraging radio’s engaging audio format, PR can create memorable experiences through compelling interviews, entertaining segments, and carefully crafted brand messaging.

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