Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. Data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

JULY 6, 2015

One of the most difficult challenges reporting and analytics face in public relations measurement is sentiment analysis. Machines attempt textual analysis of sentiment all the time; more often than not, it goes horribly wrong. Imagine you were ABC Car Company, and your arch competitor was XYZ Motors. How does it go wrong?

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Today, companies expect more from their PR departments. As the PR industry’s worth grows, so do analytics and PR reporting technology. This has made measuring actionable KPIs such as web traffic easy, providing valuable data for PR strategies. In Q4 and beyond, data-driven PR will become commonplace.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

However, all of this data processing may not necessarily lead to any insights or any strategic changes; in many cases, we’ll be publishing massive quantities of shelfware that will go unseen. How do you make all of that analysis effort and time worthwhile? How do you avoid this problem? Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It can easily feed a story to make it stronger, and data-driven stories can easily be made visual, which adds to their appeal. For B2B companies, this presents a massive PR opportunity. To be successful, here are three best practices that B2B tech companies and startups need to keep in mind. This is natural.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

If you’ve been working in the PR business long enough, the PR planning process can become rather formulaic, especially if you’ve worked with the client over a long period of time. Company goals can often remain the same and a radical change in topics and trends is not typical. Where is the white space (i.e. Amanda Munroe.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Modern companies and organizations have the capability to leverage data to produce insights and data-driven business decisions. As such, the future of business is in large data sets and the observations derived from the analysis. How Does Predictive Analytics Apply to PR? What is Predictive Analytics?

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you’re a truly data-driven PR professional, you want to showcase your analytics chops in every new business/sales presentation. Most PR professionals run into a serious problem every time we go to use Google Analytics in a sales presentation: We’re showing someone else’s data. For training videos and webinars.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

Automated marketing technologies rely heavily on the mimicry of the masses in social spheres to measure efficacy and the resonance of company messages in the market. Data-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. But simply seizing upon the trending data at hand without human analysis is dangerous.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 26, 2017

SHIFT Communications and NATIONAL Public Relations sent a team of three to the Boston CDO Strategy Summit to learn and share data-driven experiences. What’s on the minds of Chief Data Officers as we talked for two days about key issues in data? The CDO knows where all the data is and how it’s being used.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

I was asked recently what the most important metric, the most important thing to measure in PR is. It’s difficult to boil everything down to one number; the nature of attribution analysis is that there are often many variables which influence someone’s decision to buy something. Our company isn’t in the game.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? When public relations works well, people know our company, our products, our services, and positively associate with them. PR Isn’t Sales. Why did our friend recommend a company to us?

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Onclusive

MARCH 2, 2021

This is an industry-wide phenomenon and not simply limited to PR/Communications. In this blog, let’s explore the two biggest and heaviest cultural roadblocks (and the most common) on the path of data-driven journeys, specifically for PR/Communications, i.e., the earned media space.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Whether its coverage attained, backlinks acquired, the share of voice increasing, message resonance, or conversion rates, or a combination of all that your client or company has chosen to focus on, there are plenty of tools to analyze performance. Take note of these tools, metrics, and analysis tactics to measure your PR success for 2018.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

Whether a brand has experience with controversial news or has yet to meet a crisis challenge, having a communications plan in place in advance of a potential incident is a must. needs time to debrief his team, sharing anything and everything, from company history and team background to any prior media relationships or conflicts.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the spring of 2015, SHIFT launched its cutting-edge Marketing Technology Immersion (MTI) program to help the agency develop a better understanding of SHIFT’s data-driven approach to communications and client services. Social media analysis has become a common request for clients on both B2B and B2C teams here at SHIFT.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. You crave subtlety and nuance, a desire to see the big picture as well as the data itself. For example, an incurious marketer or communicator will simply ask the question, “when is the best time to tweet?”

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. You crave subtlety and nuance, a desire to see the big picture as well as the data itself. For example, an incurious marketer or communicator will simply ask the question, “when is the best time to tweet?”

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

McKinsey & Company, 2023 By all accounts, PR pros are increasingly using generative AI in their roles and this is expected to steadily increase over the next year. 74% of PR pros report an increase in work quality when using AI. Data-driven PR Data-driven PR uses analytics to guide PR strategies.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

McKinsey & Company, 2023 By all accounts, PR pros are increasingly using generative AI in their roles and this is expected to steadily increase over the next year. 74% of PR pros report an increase in work quality when using AI. Data-driven PR Trends PR pros are using data-driven analytics to guide PR strategies.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 21, 2018

What we call a “data bureau” – the ongoing release of fresh and relevant information as part of a B2B PR program – can generate strong media interest in the absence of hard news. Here are some compelling reasons why tech PRs should embrace the trend. 5 reasons to embrace data-driven PR.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the sense that it’s new, special, and different than how we communicate normally, he’s absolutely right. Social media is now part and parcel of ordinary communications. 2015 will be the year when companies either fully embrace data-driven PR and marketing or fall far behind. Behind the Scenes.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Our top posts from the first quarter of 2016 focused on the different ways data and analytics have transformed the efforts of public relations professionals and how they affect client expectations. TOP DATA-DRIVEN PR TRENDS OF 2016: INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHICS. This includes the evolution of the traditional infographic.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Because AI and cognitive computing are the future of PR. Every public relations company that wants to have a long, fruitful, sustainable business should have had at least one person attending IBM World of Watson. PR isn’t just press releases and bylines. Tell Better Data Stories. Every single one.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Let’s next look at a predictive analytics example every PR practitioner will benefit from. We help connect our companies with audiences who matter most to the company, from investors to activists to customers. What Would PR Do? I personally don’t have a PR agency for my blog, but if I did, I would provide them this data.

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