Shift Communications

JUNE 24, 2016

In this series, we’ll examine the tools, techniques, and strategies of paid advertising as they apply to public relations work. Advertising Strategies. The four advertising strategies to drive attention, awareness, trust, and behavior are syndication, brand building, direct response, and retargeting. Let’s explore each of these.

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Konnect Agency

JUNE 8, 2022

This list of tactics is endless, with search and social advertising, email and SMS marketing, organic social posting, search engine optimization. These metrics are easily measured by having Google Analytics installed on your website and proper UTM terms attached to your digital content. User Journeys.

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Analytics Google Measurement Advertising 52

Sword and the Script

JUNE 23, 2020

A study shows PR and communications can improve measurement with a little more effort; here’s a look at the metrics most commonly cited Measurement and proving value is the top challenge facing PR and communications , according to the 3 rd annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020. So, how are communicators leveling up?

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Prohibition

APRIL 18, 2023

Measuring the success of your PR activity can be difficult, as results are often more tricky to quantify than traditional advertising and marketing campaigns. So how do you measure the success of your PR efforts? We’ve compiled a list of key metrics that you can consider when it comes to evaluating your PR activity.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite economic headwinds, the global advertising industry has been robust and seems poised for more growth. Heading into 2023, here are some developments we should expect: CTV advertising pie getting bigger – will it overtake mobile? In fact, per this report , 98% of brand advertisers believe CTV will exceed mobile ad budgets.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although its harder to measure the efficacy of PR efforts than it is to measure the same statistics for say, advertising, there are many ways to measure the reach and success of a PR message. Measuring your Website Traffic –It’s important to take a look at your website traffic before, during, and after PR.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Celebrating 15 years of bringing together the who’s who of the advertising and media ecosystem from all over the globe, this year’s Advertising Week boasted 4 bustling floors of activity over 4 days at the AMC Loews Theatre in New York. How have you seen the advertising industry evolve over the past 5 years?

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Konnect Agency

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amongst the predicted marketing trends for 2021 , few could have anticipated Apple’s announcement that it will implement privacy changes with its iOS 14 update which will impact every brand advertising via Facebook. What Does The Update Mean For Advertisers? What Does The Update Mean For Advertisers?

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2016

According to the 2016 Content Marketing Benchmark Report by the Content Marketing Institute, the top three paid advertising methods used by B2B marketers to promote/distribute content are: Search Engine Marketing (66 percent); Print or Other Offline Promotion (57 percent); Traditional Online Banner Ads (55 percent). That is staggering.

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Axia PR

MAY 29, 2018

What’s Google Pixel Retargeting? Google Analytics is a free analytics service that helps you measure your company’s advertising ROI as well as track video and social networking sites and applications.

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The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Go to any publisher advertising rate card and you’ll find the unique user figure rarely changes so is this a true representation of who viewed our coverage? When we created coveragebook.com, our aim was to try and gain the most accurate impact measurement as possible for online PR coverage so we felt; Views. Google influence.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We talk a lot about measuring PR on this blog and as a reader, you know that not all PR tactics directly impact the bottom line. If you don’t already have measurement tools and dashboards in place, these questions commonly asked by clients and brand management alike can be a good indicator that it’s well past time to get started.

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Onclusive

JULY 7, 2021

That’s why it’s important to measure whether your messaging is resonating—internally and externally with stakeholders including employees, management, customers, partners and the media—and how your messaging is influencing actions. Measure how much. SOUNDBITE PERFORMANCE: Why message resonance is important. Your message matters.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Podcasts have traditionally been hard to monetise through advertising because the audience is fragmented and data imperfect. Unique downloads provide a measure of how many people downloaded a podcast but it’s not that useful if you want to know how many people have opened and actually listened to your podcast.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As public relations professionals, we know that PR measurement is essential to the success of our campaigns, budgets and client relationships. We attend webinars, dabble with Google Analytics and follow the latest blogs to learn how to move from traditional to relevant measurement. PR Measurement is Not One Size Fits All.

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Business Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Public relations reliance on impressions and Advertising Value Equivalents is both about the complexity of and lack of access to the data; PR is not on the front lines of data collection tools like Google Analytics which is often managed by web or marketing teams.

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Wildfire

AUGUST 1, 2018

So, forgive me in this blog post if I talk about the logical aspect of PR, rather than the creative, and use this as a chance to talk about measurement. PR has a reputation of being beastly to measure. We were lumped into the same boat as advertising, where measuring the effectiveness of a campaign was wholly unscientific.

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Business Wire

MARCH 6, 2017

Create extensions for blog posts, social updates, advertising and other marketing collateral to keep your program’s activities separated. If you manage the analytics yourself, here are the instructions for creating a Google Analytics URL builder. When should you use a URL builder?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, advertisers generated pre-Super Bowl excitement for their brands with teaser ads the week before the game that drove viewership and excitement. The Super Bowl stands as the high point of advertising, where companies vie for coveted spots to showcase their products to millions of viewers. and Jermaine Dupri.

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Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Syn: AVE, Advertising Value Equivalency, Earned Media Value, Impressions Like the mythical succubus, AVE (advertising value equivalency) and other bad metrics suck the strength out of your PR campaigns. They reduce your value to the “equivalent” of advertising by reducing your efforts to the “value” of a column inch.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The first measure came from a business with a marketing automation system implemented. The second measure was largely a manual effort: going back through the deals closed at the end of the year and identifying which ones had downloaded gated for content featured on the blog. Components to Effectively Measure a B2B Blog.

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PR Insiders

MAY 7, 2021

Sometimes the confusion lies around these same people’s very good understanding of the value of direct-response advertising, which is designed to get instant results by encouraging people to take some sort of action right now. The ROI of publicity isn’t as instant or as cut-and-dried as advertising. Measuring up, Marsha.

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Polaris

AUGUST 19, 2014

And thanks to PR measurement expert Katie Delahaye Paine , we have a tool called the Kick-Butt Index (KBI) that allows us to measure PR in a way that’s relevant for clients. The public relations measurement challenge. The state of public relations measurement today.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 20, 2020

Most have learned from early mistakes or half-measures and have designed campaigns that make a positive impact for employees, customers, and communities. Google reached into its deep pockets and rolled out an $800 million program of direct financial assistance , ad credits, and grants to businesses with active Google Adwords accounts.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In September, #measurePR celebrated Measurement Month with an all-star, all-female panel of #measurati. Here’s some of what we talked about: On changes to the PR measurement field: A2: Biggest changes in insights have been in big data, data visualisation and increased awareness of measurement #amecmm #measurepr.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. Many of these metrics are easily found via tools in the Moz suite, through the native social platform dashboard and through Google Analytics. If you don’t have Google Analytics access already, make the case for getting it setup now for 2016 benchmarking! Derek Lyons.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 25, 2023

These channels include websites, search engines, social media platforms, email marketing, and online advertising. Digital marketing also allows retailers to track and measure the success of their campaigns in real-time. Ready to make your retail brand a success?

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5W PR

JULY 18, 2023

Advertising Online advertising can significantly boost a brand’s visibility and drive targeted traffic. Consider running paid campaigns on platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, or Instagram Ads. Regularly create valuable and shareable content to attract backlinks and increase the website’s authority.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 7, 2023

Google Analytics 4 Certification It’s impossible to succeed in the field of marketing without a deep understanding of data, and how to apply meaning to that data for actionable takeaways. But, most marketers are not data scientists, which is where Google Analytics 4 Certification comes in. Classify AI applications.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The performance of marketing strategies is carefully measured across the web, mobile and social media, and then it’s compared to the industry competitors or any available challenger brands for the company. There are different benchmarks for every channel, as well as for advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), and email.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

The paper traces the use of pageveiws for measurement to online advertising, where CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, became standard for advertising fees. Contently says some “30% of clicks come from bots” which is easy to see in any of the top analytics platforms such as Google Analytics (GA). Engaged time.

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Content Marketing Measurement Marketing Analytics 60

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

PR measurement has long been the Achilles heel of the industry. Measuring behavior is harder. Sometimes you can use UTM tags to measure an incremental online action attributable to PR, but truly measuring behavior change (sales, votes, donations) is very difficult. The company calls this Cision Activation.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing. The result was an all-boats-rise in the advertising market.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

Yet PR doesn’t always command the same respect as other disciplines, like advertising or direct-mail. As Greg Galant of MuckRack once observed , the advertising business is linked with iconic characters like Don Draper of “Mad Men,” while public relations is more likely to evoke Samantha Jones. PR is about influence.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As marketers, anything that is measurable and quantifiable should get our attention, and the week’s sessions were filled with interesting numbers. For every $1 spent on Google Ads, businesses earn $8 in revenue.”. In 2017, Google had more than 7 million advertisers spend just over $10B on advertising on the platform.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When it comes to the transformation of the public relations industry, Google, Facebook, and Twitter always receive the revolutionizing praise. From online articles to advertisements to blogs to social media posts — numerous mediums are competing for your audience’s attention. How long did people spend reading it?

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How To Storytelling B2C Measurement 282

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The November edition of #measurePR focused on measuring engagement. Our trio of guests included: Ashley Brown , Head of Global Communications at Spredfast; Austin Gaule , Media Analysis Director at Universal Information Services; and Angie Jeffrey , Vice President Brand Management at ABX Advertising Benchmark Index. PESO measurement!

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