Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

Are you prepared for a PR crisis? Whether it’s a product recall, staff injury becoming public news or something else entirely, a PR crisis can happen to any business. Businesses of all shapes and sizes can fall victim to a PR crisis at any time. What is a PR Crisis? What is a PR Crisis Plan?

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Sword and the Script

JULY 25, 2017

The story went viral as news organizations picked up the story. To my astonishment, the audio recording on USA Today was preceded by an advertising spot by NBC for a premier golf championship. In my mind, this is an example of just how dark, twisted and distant advertising has become with automation. Still, I clicked through.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

It grew eventually into a tech-based email list that was free for users with an advertising model. sent out a tweet that went viral so quickly – the CMO came to my desk to see if I was okay. “He This latest move may make financial sense, but it’s the second serious crisis communications distraction for the company in Europe.

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Prohibition

MAY 23, 2022

It is also rumoured that Musk hopes to reduce the reliance on funding through advertising, looking at a “pay to play” system instead – which is one to watch if you currently do advertising on Twitter. TikTok content creators are able to be credited for their viral trends. Twitter hints a move towards pay to play.

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NewsWhip

JULY 15, 2021

We live in a time of seemingly constant crisis, and Powell spoke to how NewsWhip is helping with PepsiCo’s corporate social responsibility. We want to make sure that we’re not posting funny memes and/or advertisements at a time that nobody wants to see that,” said Powell. “So, What does interest look like?

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Cision

MAY 12, 2017

The best way to go about it is to find ad placements by listing the websites where you want to advertise or search for placements that are in-sync with your client’s themes or topics. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. Google Fact Check.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Podcasts have traditionally been hard to monetise through advertising because the audience is fragmented and analytics are poor. Viral campaigns, Madonna and the next Facebook What’s the daftest brief that you’ve ever received? That’s great for listeners for not so good for creators or publishers.

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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.

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Mark My Words

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The BBC eagerly signed up as William’s partner for his Earthshot climate crisis challenge. The then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge indicated a push to boost their social media presence over the summer, when they advertised for a full-time “digital lead” based at Kensington Palace. The spontaneous moment was called “lovely” on Twitter.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The speed and accessibility of social media means that brands are always teetering on the edge of a crisis. Companies should have strong pre-crisis and crisis plans in place. A new era of crisis communication is upon us. What’s driven the convergence of PR + marketing + advertising? Social media.

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Prohibition

JULY 10, 2019

Neither the CEO nor the chairman’s names were associated with this crisis and no names of any higher-ups in the company were found in the apology post. The commercial went viral, was featured in almost all national publications and generated more than four million views on YouTube in just two days.

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PR for Anyone

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Is there a viral video on Tik Tok that you can be the expert saying why it’s something you should or shouldn’t do? Here’s a video I did on this: It doesn’t get any easier than this. See my story in the video about Steve and what he did. Check out social media and what people are talking about.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

This trend isn’t particularly surprising, but it gives the Friday after Thanksgiving a bit of an identity crisis. In their book, “Think Like a Freak,” Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe an group of marketers who assert that video advertising is four times as effective as their print advertising.

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 4, 2020

by Dr. Sonja Martin Poole , associate professor of marketing, University of San Francisco Our nation is clearly in crisis. 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.

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Beyond PR

MAY 12, 2017

The best way to go about it is to find ad placements by listing the websites where you want to advertise or search for placements that are in-sync with your client’s themes or topics. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. Google Fact Check.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

So, if you look at certain industries where marketing is such a beast from a paid media perspective, and in terms of the millions and millions that are getting pushed in monthly around advertising, in a lot of cases communications might be managed as somewhat of a discrete function because the discipline is very different.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 17, 2011

While the campaign took off in a huge way, could you describe some of the crisis communication responses and resources that were in place had things not gone so smoothly? While the viral nature of social media influenced the success of the Break Up, it was the campaign’s cross-channel approach that ensured it.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“That is traditionally the advertising and marketing function. A facts-first approach to crisis management. Thomas Brooks also asked how Herdener and Amazon’s communications team manages a crisis or potentially challenging news cycles. “As It has been empowering for the teams.”.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 12, 2024

Posting organically to social sites like Facebook and TikTok can quickly boost your brand recognition at a fraction of the price required for paid advertising. When crafting social content, lean on trends and publish content with a high virality rate. It is, however, important to note that social media isn’t necessarily “free.”

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

All too often we are convinced we need a website, or in this day and age, a social media strategy that will go “viral” – but this approach is often doomed from the start. Having a social media initiative go viral is not a good goal – what is the intended net result?

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Social media’s impact on crisis doesn’t just exist for organizational crises or emergencies such as natural disasters. These three things make for a great keynote presentation because they’re the heart of crisis communications in this 21st century. What makes something go viral?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Major organizations can be shaken by a careless tweet or a viral customer complaint. Any crisis communications team must be ready to respond at any hour to an escalating event, and that speed is vital. Yet they are aware that the cost of a mistake, or a simple overreaction can be high.

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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. Crisis communications pros know that no corporate misdeed goes unexposed in this social media climate. So, is that enough ROI for an experiential campaign to satisfy your CMO?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Marketers may have differing opinions on Nike’s brand advertising campaign around former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this year. The kids are all right – and I’m betting they’re not done yet. Nike scores with Kaepernick. ABC takes a stand .

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

Crisis Communications – how to prepare for or manage crisis communications via social media. Crisis Communications. 9. “Have fun with crisis communications planning. Content Storytelling – the best tips from each panelist on planning, producing and publishing stories for social media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 25, 2014

Social media is very susceptible to human error, things are said in the heat of the moment without enough forward planning, and a large follower base can mean something goes viral in minutes. Social is an important job, and not one that should be left to an intern – especially in a time of crisis. Watch out for #fails.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

Crisis Communications – how to prepare for or manage crisis communications via social media. Crisis Communications. 9. “Have fun with crisis communications planning. Content Storytelling – the best tips from each panelist on planning, producing and publishing stories for social media.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

I don''t yet think so, especially with podcasting becoming a huge green field opportunity and the continued importance of advertising for brand visibility on Facebook. #8. Have we already moved past the " 7 Social Media Trends in 2014 Live from Social Media Marketing World " chronicled by Christina Milanowski?

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NewsWhip

JUNE 23, 2021

I was thinking when we were first talking about brainstorming, what is now the crisis management feature on Spike. And I would say they don’t make the headlines maybe on a regular basis, but I think whatever infrastructure segment you are in, you have to have the expectation that you have the ability to go viral. Talking Points.

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Norton's Notes

JULY 26, 2017

I speak a lot to student and marketers alike about social media crisis management as I believe it can have a huge impact on a brand’s reputation and share price if you get it wrong. The video ended up going viral on the internet and making it to all of the main news channels. Well, Dove thinks women do apparently.

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Beyond PR

AUGUST 4, 2016

Pause automated publishing when your company is dealing with a crisis, or during times of tragedy to show respect. Instagram only allows links in a post when it’s a paid advertisement. Promote your high performing pins to help take them viral. You can also see conversions this way (hello, ROI!).

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nick Confessore, one of The New York Times’s better-known investigative reporters, appeared on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” within hours of The Times publishing its bombshell exposé on how Facebook dealt with the Russian crisis. The story was aptly titled “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis.”.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

Rallies against Kellogg’s after it pulled its advertising from Breitbart. Automobile companies (and the military) are the largest advertisers on television. Scale for scale’s sake creates undifferentiated viral clones, where you die by the algorithms. John Avlon: It’s delayed advertising but still an operational conversation.

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