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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

The 2016 Edelman Trust Barometer states that out of all the people they surveyed, over 60% trust Google rather than news outlets. Google frequently changes its algorithms, and several minor updates are rolled out each year, which make their presence felt without any prior announcement. Google Fred Update. Image Source: [link].

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#14: What happens when influence outshines advertising?

NewsWhip

What happens when influence outshines advertising? We’ve been trained now over the last 10 years to Google everything extensively. We go on Yelp, we go on Google, we go on social media, we ask friends, we have that control now and we expect no less when it comes to making important decisions. MARCH 26, 2021. Watch webinar.

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A brief guide to short-form video for brands

NewsWhip

Instagram carousels lack the quick, “get to the point” advertising that so many want to see. duolingo every time you open Google Translate, I lose a feather. followers, it’s in the same viral sphere as Duolingo. Facebook Reels As one of the longest-running platforms, Facebook has also stepped into the short-form video game.

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5 HUGE Misconceptions About Facebook’s Value to Your Business

Cision

Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable.” Nowadays, advertising value equivalency (AVE) is recognized as a poor way to measure the effectiveness of a PR campaign. As much as the PR profession has distanced itself from AVE, many businesses measure the value of Facebook Likes in a similar context. according to npEngage.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

Facebook has been struggling since its IPO in May. Its stock has been almost cut in half, GM dropped a $10M ad deal, and Google is nipping at its heels with the purchase of Wildfire. Facebook was not initially built to monetize; it was built to go viral. Guest post by Kate Endress. Cutting through the crap. Networking.

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Facebook PR Exposed

Flatiron Communications

Facebook’s (Disbanded?) 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. Its verdict: FAIL. disregarded the core tenets of crisis PR.

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How Easily Can Businesses Reach a Social Audience?

Cision

“(During the Ferguson, Missouri riots) Millions of tweets were apparently sent during this day where people were concentrating on what’s going on, and I switched to Facebook in the middle of all of this. And on Facebook, this whole event that had consumed my Twitter feed didn’t exist.” billion monthly users ( 1.13

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