Shift Communications

APRIL 29, 2015

Twitter grew quarter over quarter by approximately 5% to 308 million monthly active users. Here’s the big news and the reason Twitter’s stock took a beating on the after-hours market: The first quarter for all social networks is always a tough one compared to the way B2C advertisers spend like drunken sailors in Q4.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Keeping pace with the rate of change in marketing technology has become a full time job. Heck, just keeping up with the news is a challenge, never mind closing the gap on technological skill sets you need to execute effectively. Instagram started filtering content just like Twitter not that long before. Prioritize and Share….

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

Samsung has used fear in their advertisement to talk about the serious issue of increasing selfie deaths. Measure the Sentiment That Matters. So, how do you measure online sentiment? One of the easiest ways of measuring the emotional response from your consumers is sentiment analysis. Humanize Your Brand.

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Cision

JULY 26, 2017

The ability to target audiences on social is increasingly important considering that networks have grown in size (Facebook now has two billion monthly users ), and fake profiles have become increasingly prevalent (It is estimated that between 9 percent and 15 percent of monthly Twitter users are bots ). Social Targeting on Twitter.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

On September 26, 2017, Twitter surprised its users by announcing that certain users would have their tweet character limits doubled, from 140 characters to 280 characters. After the beta, Twitter rolled out 280-character tweets to all users. Vice President, Marketing Technology. B2B technology. Consumer technology.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Don’t forget that engagement can also be measured. Some constituencies may not be familiar with podcasting, so teach them how to use the technology. Be sure to advertise this before the event. Connect with her on Twitter @_christymaguire. Make it Easy to Connect. Be Creative. Podcasting is personal.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

These include native advertising, sponsored content, syndication; and paid influencers, search and social media. Measure and benchmark the results of your campaign based on your goal. Native advertising. Native advertising and sponsored content are a form of media that publishers have relied on as a revenue stream.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Marketing efforts often involve paid advertising, and the goal is to reach as many people as possible in order to increase sales. How is public relations measured? Public relations (PR) practitioners use a variety of methods to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The 10 Most Common Ways Comms Pros are Measuring PR.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 2, 2017

According to Nielsen’s Global Trust in Advertising study , consumers trust earned media and recommendations from friends and family more than any other source. However, paid media has historically had a significant advantage over earned when it comes to measuring success. Follow him on Twitter @nbell94102.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

We’ve kicked ideas and blog posts back and forth over Twitter, and I thought he would be a good person to ask. So, what businesses need the most is marketing strategy and the fundamentals – audience identification, positioning, messaging, distribution and feedback or measurement – haven’t changed even as tactics have evolved.

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Maxim Behar

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The institution of television has two elements - one is technological, the other is content. The technological cannot be stopped because you see what is happening globally. Advertisers prefer to advertise online because advertising there is cheaper and more targeted, and most importantly - measurable.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2016 focused on PR and marketing technology skills, Facebook branded content, and measuring influencer performance. Let’s take a look: PR and the Marketing Technology Skills Gap. All helpful in measuring the true influence and effectiveness of an influencer. Here’s how.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2015

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Odds are that you’ve heard someone say that PR can’t be quantified, or social media ROI can’t be measured, or that a media impression or social post generated an advertising value equivalent (AVE) of hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

It is almost a sport on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Twitter has recognised that brand trolling has become such an issue that it is rolling out moderation tools. Here Twitter’s moderation tool has an important application, but organisations and brands would be well advised to switch it off and listen to their publics.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 10, 2019

Measurement, PR management lessons from the 50s, inaugural Comms School session, AI is marketing lipstick, wisdom of middle age, and Insta woe. I shared a thread on Twitter this week about measurement that proved so engaging that I thought I’d use it to kick off this week’s letter. Effective measurement isn’t easy.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

PR measurement has long been an outcast in marketing dashboards. Over the years, companies have almost created coping mechanisms for accepting weak PR reporting – either not measuring PR at all or relying on basic awareness metrics, like percentage increase of coverage and sentiment. By Seedepth. We hope so!

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 20, 2015

Currently a Technology reporter for the Boston Business Journal covering startups, venture capital and the tech sector. You can find her on Twitter @BosBizSara. In her discussion with SHIFT VP of Marketing Technology, Christopher Penn, Sara offers these takeaways about the future of marketing: The future of the industry is technology.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Marketers will no longer be able to ignore new technologies and trends, even if they aren’t sure of the application or ROI. That is a tectonic shift for how marketing is planned, executed, and measured.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince & Convert. Advertising Week. Search Engine Land.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

New tools and technology are always accessible, but if you don’t have a plan for how you will use them, you won’t benefit from them. The tools and technology will come after. The most important lesson I’ve learned in PR to date is being able to explain and show how public relations can be measured in more than just press hits.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Snapchat’s revenue saw the traditional fourth quarter bounce that all established social networks see: Fourth quarter earnings almost always are strongly positive as advertisers pour money into social networks for the holidays. Given that Twitter in its Q3 earnings hit $1.53 Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As marketers, PR professionals, and advertisers begin to wind down the year (save for those in retail who are firing on all cylinders right now), one of the top things you’ll focus on in 2014 is reviewing the numbers. Here’s another example using Twitter analytics and statistics: Again, ask the same three questions: What happened?

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ReimaginePR

JUNE 15, 2020

While you could most certainly run an entire social media campaign for free, paying for social media advertising (or Paid Social, as it’s called in the biz) is the best way to leverage social media technologies to your advantage. Social Media Marketing: Defining Your Business Goals.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. I appreciate your comments by email, Facebook and Twitter. Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. PR is a social science. She always improves my work.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Ad agencies, SEO services, Facebook, Google, Twitter, know how to scale their promotional work through technology. Where are PR’s scalable technologies of persuasion? When you compare PR to advertising, SEO, Facebook, etc., Programmatic advertising is machine-to-machine communication. Humans do not scale.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2018

In honor of International Womens Day, all the guests were prominent women in the PR and technology fields including Serena Ehrlich , Aly Saxe , and Ai Addyson-Zhang. Pre-release #measurement research will give you an understanding of your position in the industry landscape, plus what matters most to your audiences. A6: Do the work!

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ISEBOX

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A pro will continually look at new technologies like MuckRack, ISEBOX or Outbrain to determine the best way to get the RIGHT people to read their story. 4) You don’t measure. A PR Pro knows how to leverage Twitter and LinkedIn to find the right reporter for their story. 5) You don’t network or pitch. 7) You shut it down at 5p.

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Beyond PR

JANUARY 4, 2018

Speculation runs rampant, but likely part of the cause of the budget crunch is the fact that it’s so difficult to measure results from content marketing. Know that there are tools that solve the content and earned media measurement challenge. Again, we have the issue of lack of appropriate measurement tools. About Nick Bell.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 29, 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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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2019

You only know that by measuring and analyzing performance, then iterating your approach. It has gotten easier due to the proliferation of marketing technology and the availability of data. With robust tracking, marketers can now measure what’s working and what’s not in order to iterate the approach.

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Critical Mention

AUGUST 29, 2019

NEW YORK — Critical Mention, the leading earned media measurement and monitoring platform, today announced 10 consecutive months of record new bookings. Beginning in Q4 of FY2018 and continuing into Q3 of FY2019 the company surpassed a number of significant bookings milestones and is poised for further growth. FY 2019 Achievements.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

However, the tactics used have definitely transformed, thanks mostly to new technology, the metamorphosis of the news industry and the rise of social media.”. I think non-PR folks sometimes think of it like advertising or marketing where you can “pay to play” and see relatively immediate, measurable results.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 14, 2019

Recently, I’ve begun looking more closely at PR technology , companies. This is an effort to illustrate some of the interesting innovations occurring within the PR vendor community – and provide an agnostic source of information on tools and technologies I believe PR professionals should have on their radar. Sentiment analysis.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 9, 2016

There’s a new gimmick in the effort to gain Twitter followers that goes like this: perform searches for keywords and hashtags on topics of interest and then go about “liking” as many of these posts as possible in the hopes that some people will follow you back. Like gaming follower counts on Twitter, it’s a bit of a gimmick, isn’t it?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2019

The technology has become the backbone of online interactions with prospects and customers, and it has the potential to be resource saving as a result. A/B testing, also called split-run testing, is where two variants are tested to measure the effect of a change on a specific metric. Feature #2: Email marketing. Feature #9: Forms.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

(Wait for it…) Relax, I’m not going to re-list what’s already been written all over the Interwebz about affordable technology available to non-profits. As smart WUL readers know, technology does not equal strategy, and it won’t solve all your organization’s problems. Image: Brad Stabler via Flickr, CC 2.0

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