Stephen Waddington

MAY 19, 2020

We’ve been able to observe the impact of the virus on consumer behaviour and media consumption thanks to data from Brandwatch, OFCOM, Reuters Institute and YouGov, among others. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint. Digital media is booming. Sneeze guards top the list.

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Crisis Government Energy Community 151

Stephen Waddington

JUNE 16, 2019

Two data points from the past week should concern you if you work in marketing, media or public relations. Here’s more on those, an event on data-led storytelling that we’re running at Metia next month and other stories that have caught my attention. ?? Newspaper brands continue to suffer as readers shift from print to digital.

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Print Storytelling Newspapers Advertising 60

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. The issue lies in the inability of PR to achieve its value.

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Government Education Print Ethics 103

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. Changes are made either automatically or manually to refine targeting or ad creative. Make your campaigns work hard by evaluating the results daily and optimising your targeting, creative and copy. Native advertising.

Media 103

Media How To Advertising Advertising 103

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Social Media Ecommerce Marketing Imagine this as a big umbrella that covers lots of stuff—building up your brand’s popularity, guiding customers to your website, advertising and selling products, and even the art of social selling and social commerce. They provide a treasure trove of data about users’ interests, behaviors, and preferences.

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Social Media Media Mobile SEO 87

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Digital PR involves creating content campaigns around unique data pieces, interactive content onsite, newsjacking techniques, and other strategies to increase awareness and gain high-quality backlinks. Here, we’re going to go back to basics and highlight what exactly digital PR is and how it can help your brand. What is digital PR?

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Digital PR Brand Branding SEO 62

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

I culled through the answers pulling out as many as possible that were fit for print and listed them below. 19) “I write stories for our magazine and newsletters, manage the print production and put them on our website.”. 19) “I write stories for our magazine and newsletters, manage the print production and put them on our website.”.

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Employee Print Writing Survey 150

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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Strategy How To B2C Content Marketing 67

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Podcasts have been on a winning streak for some time now, as data from Edison Research suggests. Is your PR agency bring creative ideas to the table? If not, give our services a try.

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Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

From there it reads: Digital Build and Production, Multimedia Content Creation, Insight and Planning, and Creativity – all before Media Relations, listed at 15.1%. Sure, budgets are smaller, print is moving to digital-only and some high profile journalist moves out of the industry have made headlines. Creativity is nice.

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Media Relations Measurement Report Media 50

Masters in Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Stories are emotional, experiential, and creative. When people encounter data, they become defensive. Over two-thirds of marketing professionals responded that branded content is better than press releases, direct mail, or print advertising. In short, they matter.

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Storytelling Chemicals Advertising Advertising 61

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here’s the budget data gleaned from the report: Marketing budgets have grown 6.3% over the next year; 40% of budget goes to paid media; 16% of budget goes to print media; 8% of budget goes to paid social media; 6% of budget goes to paid search; 4% of budget goes to display; and. 16% on marketing analytics. “As 66% said newspapers.

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Marketing Survey Study B2B 66

OnePitch

MAY 12, 2022

From tech startups to startups at heart, most of our clients are private companies on the road to a big exit, like going public or being acquired, and they span the entire tech sector: cloud, enterprise data, fintech, healthtech, cybersecurity, clean energy and social media, among others. Video is powerful.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 12, 2015

Years ago, I was a PR person working at a creative marketing communications agency. The company had three distinct divisions: PR / Communications (that was my area), Creative Marketing & Advertising and Web, Multimedia & Video. We shared ideas, concepts and I was able to watch how creative ideas came to life.

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Creativity Web Social Media Data 150

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

One part of an answer is bound to sound like a “get off my lawn” response, but I think there’s been a decline in the effort younger marketers put into learning the craft aspects of creative. Like the famous Rolls Royce advertisement: ‘At 60 miles per hour the loudest sound was the ticking of the electric clock.’ Far harder.

Journalism 62

Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 62

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2016

But after digging through old poems and short stories I wrote as a teenager, my creative juices started flowing. ” But creative passion can appear out of the blue! This is certainly a departure from the writing I’ve become accustomed to during my career. Within a few short weeks I had a manuscript staring back at me.

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Community Facebook Writing Local 40

NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

Kirsty O'Connor, Director of Content, Data + Digital for Middle East + Africa Hill+Knowlton Strategies. David Soutoul, Data + Analytics Manager for APAC Hill+Knowlton Strategies. Kirsty O’Connor leads the Innovation + Creative Hub in Dubai for H+K, supporting the Middle East, Turkey, India, and Africa region (METIA).

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Consumer Measurement Local Data 78

Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Subscriptions and advertising are down for most media, and there is no single model that can replace them across the sector. More data journalism. More and more major news producers have a data journalism specialist or team. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, declared “ data-driven journalism is the future.”

Journalism 120

Journalism Trends Local Print 120

Cision

MAY 27, 2015

Whether you’re looking to provide journalists with easily accessible information about your brand or attract potential advertisers, having a digital media kit is a smart idea. If you remember back in the day when PR folks would print their press kits, you already understand what a digital media kit is. Start With the Impressive Stuff.

Media 120

Media Trade Shows Print Advertising 120

Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

Advertising was extremely expensive. Early on, I worked at a printing technology company where we had a big poster on the wall that said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” Trying to tie print ads or direct mail directly to sales, for a high-value, long-sales-cycle B2B product, was a nightmare.

Marketing 62

Marketing B2B Print Technology 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Or a food journalist for print media. Content Ideation Tools Crafting successful digital PR strategies demands creative ideation, and the right tools can transform the seed of an idea into compelling campaigns that drive big coverage. PRs can use this data to capitalize on trending topics and sometimes even newsjacking.

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Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Or a food journalist for print media. Content Ideation Tools Crafting successful digital PR strategies demands creative ideation, and the right tools can transform the seed of an idea into compelling campaigns that drive big coverage. PRs can use this data to capitalize on trending topics and sometimes even newsjacking.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Ryan Foran

MAY 4, 2017

Billboard for Facebook Live If it’s good enough for one of the most data-driven digital companies in the world, it should be good enough for your organization. Be creative with your marketing, and understand that creative doesn’t always equal new school technology.

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Marketing Analytics Facebook Radio 34

MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Marketers know that social media is as revolutionary to our culture as the printing press was in Gutenberg’s day, turning mobile phones and PCs into access points for endless connectivity. The social organism evolves through memes and grows when you allow users to be creative with your content. And, guess what, it’s crazy accurate.

Marketing 48

Marketing Social Media Video Mobile 48

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 26, 2018

The Health Gap campaign included traditional print and outdoor advertising, earned media , organic and paid social media, influencer marketing and programmatic ads. Not the data, even though there was lots of it. Image: David Kennedy via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0. Source: FHR ). The story was being told.

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Nonprofit Storytelling Community Case Study 67

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Top tip: Using earned media as part of a Paid, Earned, Shared and Owned (PESO) or Search campaign Trust in earned media may be dented but it remains higher than other forms of media, notably paid such as advertising or promotional editorial. At the same time, the ability to print fast and cheaply bought about a concurrent revolution.

Media Relations 115

Media Relations Media Print Newspapers 115

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These companies have a stranglehold on advertising and have effectively become a tax on small and medium-sized business. 30 agencies submitted data to the project. Education and workplace practices are critical to change according to the Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre. Three decades on I’m less positive.

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Publicity Government Guidelines Facebook 128

Mark My Words

DECEMBER 29, 2015

As the 1,969 PR entries on display at this year’s Cannes Lions showed too many ‘creative interventions’ exist only to mark-up fees. It aroused the ire and delight of social media, ripped through the papers and received the inevitable warning from the Advertising Standards Authority, guaranteeing extra story mileage. Want publicity?

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Journalism Wikipedia Film Interviews 60

Bad Pitch Blog

MAY 20, 2010

We looked at Retrevo''s position of strength; our ability to synthesize volumes of gadget-related data, and decided to track trends in two areas; industry trends looking into how people were spending money and shopping for consumer electronics (Pulse Reports), and the psychology of human behavior, gadgets and tech, (Gadgetology Reports).

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Pitching Fashion Report Twitter 49

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2016

From native advertising to content marketing , the dynamic web is about the blurry and blurring lines in marketing. What I do is a creative PR idea – borrowed from Letterman and Oprah – taking a drawback and transforming it into an opportunity. Does your B2B agency stopped bringing creative content ideas?

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Web Google Mobile B2B 60

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. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

Ethics 52

Ethics Communications Print Television 52

Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

These are highly activated bases that get information from one data point and assume it’s true. Rallies against Kellogg’s after it pulled its advertising from Breitbart. Chris Lynch : While digging into the data, we discovered 51% of journalists feel influencers care more about opinions and feelings than hard core facts.

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