article thumbnail

Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004 or early 2005…and then interest waned. Earned media is sexy.

article thumbnail

Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

1) Earned media is sales enablement. A tech PR firm recently published a study that showed promising effects media relations can have on the sales cycle for B2B marketing organizations. I have seen firsthand in my own analysis – across many B2B tech press releases – that readership has fallen precipitously.

Study 146
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Media pitching is harder than ever

Wadds Inc.

If you’ve worked in the public relations industry over the past decade or more you’ve had a front row view of the disruption of the media industry. The future of media relations is not what it seems. Many public relations practitioners start their career working with the media.

Pitching 124
article thumbnail

An analysis of the impact of AI on skills in PR

Stephen Waddington

These findings are from a new report called Humans still needed: An analysis of skills and tools in public relations , published today by the CIPR’s #AIinPR panel. It examines the impact of technology and specifically AI on public relations practice. In fact we’d welcome comments and challenges to the analysis.

article thumbnail

AI Use Cases in PR Software: Executives from Solutions Providers Describe How AI is being Used

Sword and the Script

ChatGPT is getting much of the headlines recently, but PR might be surprised to learn it has been using it – and other subsets of AI – for a while now ChatGPT ignited a fire in the PR community and there are opinions all over the map. Yet the PR software community has been taking this to new levels. Predictive traffic analysis. “We

Software 143
article thumbnail

The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

Earned Media & Media Relations In the old days, sending out press releases and then managing a Rolodex of media contacts could help PR pros to land earned media. Today, landing earned media in publications that resonate with target audiences is only one small part of the earned-media mix.

Training 195
article thumbnail

How community relations can outpace even your best media hit

Agility PR Solutions

In the earliest days of my career, I was a media placement machine. The post How community relations can outpace even your best media hit appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. Getting a client placed was as simple a proposition as dunking cookies into milk. Michael, I need a placement […].

Community 101