Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The 2018 PR Mega-Trends. Part 1: Earned Media. Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. Society and social media have created hyper-focused segmentation of the audience. Part 2: Owned Media. PR Professionals Blindsided by Rich Media. Part 3: Paid Media. Part 5: Social Media.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. Legacy publications find themselves more under the gun every day, with declining subscribers and decreasing advertising revenues. At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 3, 2015

Recently there was a debate going on in the media, between known provocateur/ex NBA star Charles Barkley and GM of the Houston Rockets/Sloan Conference favorite Daryl Morley, about the value of analytics. The post Are PR and Marketing Entering the Moneyball II Era? Photo Credit: IMDB.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

Marketers, PR Pros, and Advertisers are in a daily battle to remove opinion from decision making and tactical execution. Short for S hared C ontent A nd L ink E valuation, SCALE is an open source program designed to ingest URL-based marketing data from multiple, disparate data sources , and unify the findings.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. We look at impressions, unique monthly visitors, website traffic, social media engagements, website form submissions, organic search keywords – every form of quantitative data available to us. Christopher S.

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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 post State of Social Media Q3 2015: Facebook has 1.5

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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 post State of Social Media Q3 2015: Facebook has 1.5

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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 post State of Social Media Q3 2015: Facebook has 1.5

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

Rather than just wing it or have a purely canned talk that may not be relevant to the audience and the event, we can look to data. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-driven PR program. What’s the goal?

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

The most cutting-edge public relations and media relations professionals will be investigating the forefront of artificial intelligence and how it can be used to generate massive amount of relevant content. How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? Dark Social and Influence.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Marketing and advertising. Media and publications. This beta test was to determine whether users wanted the increased characters. After the beta, Twitter rolled out 280-character tweets to all users.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Media Lab and Deloitte launched the joint project Data USA. In one year, 25% of the junior staff has participated in our MT the program which gives them hands on experience with tools ranging from Google Analytics to Social Advertising, survey best practices and keyword/SEO research.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR? Social media is a game changer, and it starts with PR and communications. ” 4.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sissie Hsiao, Google AI-generated content AI-generated content is becoming increasingly popular in the PR industry as it generates content quickly and in large volumes. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. Data-driven PR Data-driven PR uses analytics to guide PR strategies.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

It certainly is convenient that nearly everyone carries a mobile device with built-in GPS, devices that are constantly communicating that location data to outside parties. Marketers and advertisers pay attention to this. For example, the MLB used Bluetooth Beacons in its ballparks to direct customers to their seats.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sissie Hsiao, Google AI-generated content AI-generated content is becoming increasingly popular in the PR industry as it generates content quickly and in large volumes. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. In particular, short form videos are booming in PR trends.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It’s why social media influence scores and top 100 social media lists seem to matter a great deal. The blue cluster above are general media and influencers. The post How to build communities of social media influence appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

Social media used to be a shiny object, a channel unto itself. Social media is now part and parcel of ordinary communications. Those who master social media in the year to come will unlock the power of large group movements rather than aiming for single megaphones. Journalism isn’t dead. Journalism just continues to evolve.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

I’m on the frontlines of seeing how marketing and PR can work together. Here is a mini-rundown of a few of the ways I’ve seen marketing tech support our PR efforts: It can help extend the life of media hits. The ability to show our PR efforts are working. Creating content that assists our earned media efforts.

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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 summary, it’s much of what you’d expect a B2B company to have in their DNA.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 6, 2016

You, the public relations professional, get a great hit, a great placement in a media outlet. The way is paid media: digital advertising. Public relations professionals often make mention of the concepts of earned, owned, and paid media. However, when they begin to talk about media, they quickly brushed past paid media.

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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. Determine The Value of an Earned Media Impression.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Shel Israel followed up in our discussion last week about the automation (or lack thereof) of persuasion technologies and public relations by asking: Since you are in the business of building trust for clients, why are so many PR people not trusted by the media? This is where data-driven PR has a chance to shine.

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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.

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