Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Email newsletters are a particularly useful tool for financial services companies, especially if you’re writing about personal finance. Because of email’s inherent intimacy—it’s just you, your subscriber, and a secret list of every other BCC’d subscriber—financial services content marketing can really shine.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This week, the News Media Association (NMA) wrote to ministers to say that it is becoming “increasingly difficult” to fund quality journalism, and the diversion of advertising revenues is to blame. Marketing spend going to the likes of Facebook and Google doesn’t cease to increase whilst newspaper advertising revenue plummets.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In an era where consumers are increasingly sceptical of advertising and corporate speak, PR offers a more authentic and credible way to communicate with the public. Source: Journal of Communication 1 Botan, C., & Taylor, M. Journal of Communication, 54, 645–661. Source: Journal of Accounting and Economics 5 Brown, L.,

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Newsfile

MARCH 14, 2024

Subscriptions were cited as the most important digital revenue stream for publishers worldwide in every year from 2021 to 2023, ahead of advertising. Bloomberg Terminal: The Market Leader Bloomberg Terminal is subscription-based software that offers financial market data, analysis, content and trading capabilities to business professionals.

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ad spending – the historic lifeblood of mainstream media – has plummeted as people spend more time on social media platforms where advertisers can reach them directly. Every time one would think media outlets can’t cut more staff they find a new bottom: 2023 saw massive layoffs which have continued into 2024.

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Stephen Waddington

APRIL 14, 2020

A perfect storm of distribution and falling advertising revenue is a blow to the newsprint business after two decades of battling the shift from print to digital. Advertisers have pulled campaigns, either because businesses have themselves been impacted by the crisis, or they simply didn’t want their brand appearing alongside COVID-19 news.

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PR in High Definition

MAY 31, 2016

By and large, most publications are still struggling to find ways to maintain quality journalism and keep solvent. Even the Financial Times, with its subscriptions of up to £700 a year, was pretty quiet on profitability figures this year, although it reported ‘rising revenue’ and firm profits the previous year. Only time will tell.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This includes identifying customer needs, developing products that satisfy those needs, setting prices, determining distribution channels, and promoting the products through various forms of advertising and promotion. Shareholders, investors, financial institutions, etc. While advertising can support such endeavours, it’s all about PR.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 6, 2023

In it’s Q1 2023 Financial Report, the company said total annual recurring revenue (ARR) “was $459.2m, up 7% year-over-year (YoY). Top challenges facing journalism. Meltwater reported revenue grew 2% year-over-year (YoY) in the first quarter of 2023 to $111 million. Losses recorded to net profit were $12.5 million, down from $14.2

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Reputation Us

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From the November 28, 2022 issue of Financial Brand. Since taking over Twitter, Musk has put the world on notice that he’s in charge and more changes are coming,” Casey Boggs, president of the reputation and crisis management company ReputationUs, tells The Financial Brand. Then again, advertisers aren’t customers.

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Business Wire

MAY 18, 2017

Declining advertising dollars, low subscription numbers, and the emergence and disruption of digital have all contributed to the financial hardships affecting many Canadian news publications. So they’re doing audio, they’re doing video, print, and I just admire the skill that is required now to do credible journalism and to do it fast.”

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Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

When the same PR executives from USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism’s 2017 Global Communications Report were asked about the future of PR — 88 percent believe digital storytelling is the most salient trend. Brands vote with their dollars. Meanwhile, PR only reached $16.5 billion in market value.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

The study suggests announcements about financial transactions like funding or acquisitions didn’t convert. c) Financial transaction releases do not underperform. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness. It’s not a matter of PR being better than advertising, they each have their own benefits and drawbacks.

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Journalistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most PR practitioners quickly learn that the wall protecting editorial integrity from the influence of paid advertising can be, like the Pirate Code , “more of a guideline than an actual rule.” For better or worse, at a great number of well-known and respected media sources, advertisers are often given preference in coverage.

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

Recently, a CMO from a leading financial services firm was telling me how she’d doubled her brand’s digital ad budget — I asked her whether the company was utilizing the wealth of content it already produces. Journalism teaches writers to pivot and learn quickly when new technologies or angles change a story.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Getting your client coverage in The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal still has value. As Wu Tang Financial said, “Diversify your bonds.”. Conventional advertising is struggling. This is the time for PR to make its case, to take the advertising budget because it is better spent with us. 24 webinar today!

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The announcement said, “financial backers Kohlberg Ventures and Arrowroot Capital will continue as significant investors in the company, alongside the founders and management.” The data for their report comes from scouring published financial reports. SocialChorus last raised $12.5

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Cision

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In this interview, Ted Meyer, senior vice president of global public relations and communications of Natixis Global Asset Management, shares his thoughts on the importance of communication during a crisis, how the financial crisis of 2008 is still affecting brands and what PR used to look like before the Internet and social took over.

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Business Wire

JANUARY 19, 2017

Rather than simply promoting the content via owned channels or social advertising and platforms, which can limit visibility, utilizing a newswire can enhance visibility, coverage and engagement and drive the traffic needed to make the program achieve its objectives.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2018

Tech companies have made huge financial bets on all of these innovations. Artificial intelligence also has the potential to revolutionize journalism. Such conversations emphasize and express concern about AI (artificial intelligence), AR (augmented reality) and ephemeral content (e.g., the blink-and-you-miss-it nature of Snapchat).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Growth of independent journalism. “We It’s good news for contextual advertising companies, who have already started reaping the benefits of marketing’s ‘identity crisis.’ It will boost tactics like contextual advertising, email marketing, and social commerce and could even usher in a new era of creative marketing and PR strategies.

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Ishmael's Corner

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I don’t think Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review, is going to be happy. Drilling down to the White House-created content, the press backgrounder reads like journalism starting with the absence of superlatives in the headline, “Strengthening Community Policy.”. 5 and Dec.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 15, 2015

Drew McLellan has worked in advertising for 25+ years and started his own agency, McLellan Marketing Group, in 1995 after a five-year stint at Y&R. The agency specializes in B2B financial services industries. The Wall Street Journal calls him “one of 10 bloggers every entrepreneur should read.” By Seedepth.

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PR in High Definition

MARCH 24, 2020

At the same time, the Financial Times reported on the lack of female representation in senior roles in journalism, with less than 25% of media outlets having a female editor. In this Metro article, read about how AI is being used to create clothing and even models and influencers to advertise the clothing.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Some clever guy with a political bent bought a domain and polished up a site to look like journalism. There is something wrong with perpetuating erroneous information and dressing it up to look like journalism.

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Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

For example, bicultural Hispanics that may prefer English would likely choose Spanish-language when relating to certain topics such as financial services, depending of course on age and other variables. Also, working with Hispanic influencers mimics working with Hispanic media. When I was young I wanted to be ….

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Beyond PR

MAY 16, 2016

Keep reading for the latest industry insights, including a look at the new editor-in-chief at Prevention, the new publisher at Advertising Age, and an interview with a senior writer from The Deal. Advertising Age: Josh Golden ( @JoshuaJGolden ) has been named publisher of @adage. Want even more media moves?

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. has been exploring in her work on women in journalism. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. Influencer marketing is messy In 2018, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 352 complaints about influencers. billion in 2019.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

When the Global Financial Crisis occurred in 2008, traditional news media was hit hard. These tech giants allowed citizen journalism to proliferate, and for PR, this meant that companies could now become the source of their own news. As thousands of journalists lost their jobs, they left a big vacuum in the field of content publishing.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” Who do you see advertising on those pages?

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Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The revenue model for journalism is at best in flux, and at worst, in chaos. Subscriptions and advertising are down for most media, and there is no single model that can replace them across the sector. Serious journalism from unexpected sources. More data journalism. Check out the 2015 Global Social Journalism Study!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Due to tight marketing spends, even advertisers are shortening their commercials while maintaining or increasing the number of times they are aired, to ensure maximum spread for their ad spends. It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent. The Monday and Saturday papers will remain unaffected.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 31, 2018

Businesses rent audiences all the time with advertising. At its core, advertising is selling access to an audience another business built and owns. The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. 2) To buy a technology that’s hard to replicate or take too long. The Audience it’s Buying.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The attraction was instant, she says, and at that young age, it was a deciding moment in her determination to pursue a career in either PR or journalism. RW: Proving ROI is tough for PR professionals because we work with ‘potential’ figures – reach and advertising value equivalency (AVE) are just examples. Contact us here.

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PRSay

MAY 23, 2019

Everybody knows what they need to do to bring about change, whether it’s physically, mentally or financially. she holds a master’s degree in arts journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. This is what you need to do.”. But once you have that epiphany… now, you’ve got to put a strategy together. A native of Greenville, S.C.,

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Ishmael's Corner

MARCH 10, 2015

The media property produced a quality product in the form of journalism with fresh takes. Ever since Craigslist demolished the newspaper revenue from classified advertising, the publishing industry has been under siege. I’m sorry to see Gigaom go under. Anyone can provoke. Gigaom provoked with intelligence.

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Ishmael's Corner

AUGUST 27, 2017

Since Craigslist showed up on their doorstep and eviscerated classified advertising, media properties searching for new revenue streams seem to have a certain Ponce de León quality to them. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. Look, I recognize it’s been a rugged 20 years or so for the publishing industry.

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