PRSay

MARCH 26, 2024

Recent news about bipartisan legislation that would compel TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the social media app or see it banned in the United States is generating buzz among communicators. The platform’s user base increased during the pandemic years and continues to help shape viral trends and social causes today.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The YouTube Shooting Crisis: How Mountain View Police Department quickly regained control of the narrative that was going viral against their agency. Follow and connect with MVPD on social: Facebook. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , and Stitcher. About this episode.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Stay a step ahead of your competitors in the new year by using lightning-fast media monitoring to go viral. . Boost your Brand Awareness. Instant notifications provide the opportunity for you to always be on top of who’s talking about your brand. Receiving instant alerts is key to boosting your brand’s name.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 23, 2023

Video content is a fantastic way to engage audiences, informing and capturing your brand’s message to your target audience in ways which still imagery simply cannot. Before posting video on your brands socials, its of vital importance to consider what kind of content works best for each channel.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2024

Sometimes statistics shared on social media take on a life of their own – that’s a problem if we don’t understand the source and methodology; here’s the source on the “95:5 rule” Only 5% of B2B prospects that vendors are trying to reach are in the market for a product. How can this be? I couldn’t agree more. >>>

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” For example, there’s an assumption that the internet or social media are not the best tools for reaching low-income Americans. 3 Ways to Maintain Control of Your Corporate Social Media. The speed and accessibility of social media means that brands are always teetering on the edge of a crisis.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 8, 2021

From TikTok, LinkedIn and Twitter to Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook – if you’re in marketing, you’re eager to predict how your brand can more effectively use social media in 2021. You’re seeing brands forced to use more user-generated content.” Listen To and Welcome Employees on Social. What about Twitch?

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 1, 2016

Your corporate culture directly impacts your organization’s crisis management. Successful crisis management has a lot to do with an organization’s corporate culture and the mindset it instils in its team members. Embedding the right corporate culture for successful crisis management. Simple next steps to take.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 26, 2019

Public relations teams and their agencies typically want to advise a CEO directly, and we routinely urge leaders to build a public profile through social media and high-level content. It’s good news that corporate leaders are starting to appreciate the power of social media, but progress has been slow.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Every two years, the New York-based Corporate Communication International ( CCI ), conducts an in-depth survey of senior PR and communications officers at Fortune 500 companies about the latest global PR trends. Major organizations can be shaken by a careless tweet or a viral customer complaint. The Age Of Uncertainty.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In the new era of corporate responsibility, large organizations increasingly turn on a dime when faced with criticism on social media. As social media has empowered popular movements, large corporations have learned to react with increasing agility in their communications — and in their internal decision-making.

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5W PR

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the dynamic world of media and marketing, creating a PR stunt that captures attention and aligns with your brand’s values and marketing goals is a high-wire act of creativity and strategy. When executed successfully, it can skyrocket brand awareness, generate buzz on social media, and even make headlines.

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Mark My Words

APRIL 18, 2018

Whether or not this adage is entirely true, the pub chain has created a brand of cheap-and-cheerfulness that has have left its competition in the gutter. The move is clearly a stunt designed to fly in the face of conventional wisdom that leveraging social is a crucial element of a brand’s customer engagement.

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Engage PR

JANUARY 6, 2018

And with social media spend within marketing budgets expected to increase 128% to 21.4% in the next five years (1* Chief Marketing Officers Survey, 2014 ) social activity is becoming more integral to brand perception and business performance. Cue social backlash across the internet.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Apparently, he also had to dispose of the platform’s most valued, and valuable asset, its brand name. Corporations have paid untold millions to branding and marketing gurus to achieve a fraction of this success. Not to mention, it blew up on social media with the hashtag #HeidiHalloween2023!

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Focus everything for the news media on one shot, one image, one moment.”

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Those feelings of nostalgia and a shared past bring our history to life, which allow us to collectively reminisce on social media about the way things were (or the way we’d like to remember them!). Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fried Chicken Sandwich battle went viral on Twitter — and led to a complete sell-out of the sandwich in all 2,400 Popeyes stores across the U.S. Not since Wendy’s lambasted rivals McDonald’s and Burger King with its “Where’s the Beef” TV spots has brand vs. brand combat so entranced consumers.

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Cision

JUNE 13, 2017

We see it every day: fast food chains challenge devotees to gather retweets for “ nuggs ,” personal care products advocate for women’s equality and airlines get called out — for both successes and major fails — in viral videos. Social media works to display your news to existing fans, and potentially their followers too.

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NewsWhip

MAY 12, 2021

How PepsiCo’s Creators League transforms trends into brand activations. Lauren Powell, Analytics & Social Listening Lead, Creators League Studio at PepsiCo. Turning insights into brand content | 8:18-9:58. Monitoring for corporate social responsibility | 13:13-14:58. What are people saying about our brands?”

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PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

“Whether you are an impassioned employee or a socially conscious consumer, internal and external audiences are making their voices heard as never before.” ” For the10company, this influence is directly tied to today’s heightened scrutiny of corporations and C-suite politics.

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Before diving into the report’s content, Quigley and Nicholson introduced a poll to quickly test the audience’s ability to identify a viral story, offering four headlines to choose from, one of which had over 3 million engagements in 2021. “65% Q3 Athletes and corporate sponsors. Q4 Worker rights.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

Media fires that communicators could have doused before the 6 o’clock news, even a decade ago, can now erupt into global conflagrations, thanks to smartphones and social media. In response to a hypothetical breakdown in a company’s supply chain, a red team could simulate a scathing social media post that is meant to go viral.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It was also an illustration of what is – perhaps overdramatically – being called “dark social.”. Dark Social: Antimatter to Viral Fixation. This phenomenon is what VentureBeat , citing a study by RadiumOne, is calling “dark social.”. Social Media social media marketing social sharing viral marketing'

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over the last few years, particularly with the onset of social media, emotional reactions from consumers have changed the face of public relations. In fact, consumers think of brands and products as something, or someone, that could address their emotional needs. Humanize Your Brand. Measure the Sentiment That Matters.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 19, 2021

We live in a world in which social interaction and social media networks are integral. It is not uncommon for reputation issues to lurk on the internet indefinitely, to explode virally to an audience of millions, or to carry someone from public support to public criticism within the span of a few hours.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In today’s volatile media and social environment, brand reputation is fragile. According to the World Economic Forum , more than twenty-five percent of a company’s market value is directly attributable to its brand reputation. Even the hijacking of a brand’s social media account can be damaging.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For public relations and reputation experts, it’s easy to point out the brands and personalities who mishandled bad news or missed opportunities after public mistakes. They knew the press would want fresh faces for interviews, so they organized a deep bench of media-savvy spokespersons and messages for journalists and news crews.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Here’s a question for PR and marketing pros: Which was the most significant corporate communications cri sis recently ? USA Today and TV stations ravaged the CrossFit brand (a typical headline in a UK newspaper: “Booty Shame: CrossFit trainer blasted for sharing snaps of female clients bent over in the gym”). Facebook page ) and.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Not every platform or tactic will be right for your brand. In this interview, Kathy discusses the importance of knowing what is being said about your brand, how to properly prepare for potential crises and why basic marketing principles are still relevant today. What are the biggest marketing mistakes brands make?

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking earned media is essential for PR pros, communications experts and marketers because it can help them to amplify brand awareness and build strategies for the future. In today’s digital age, earned media can take many different forms. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Since its release in March, 22.4

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Mindful Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2022

.” Unfortunately, that’s the image that many people now associate with the luxury brand Balenciaga. ” Severe backlash against the brand has included stinging social media posts and celebrity condemnations. .” Balenciaga, however, is no stranger to controversy.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. I treat every story as a valuable source of information for readers—and a valuable gateway to a brand.” Whether I’m penning a reported piece, ghostwriting, or composing a blog post for a brand, there are a few fact-checking measures I always take.

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Content Marketing Marketing Viral Study 144

Mindful Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In a social-media-driven world, marketers increasingly face a dilemma: Should they keep communication control or slide into the passenger seat and allow someone with no professional experience and little company commitment drive their promotional strategy? I wasn’t in control of the car, they were.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2017

In fact, happy news is a main driver for social media sharing. Emotions layered with happiness make up the majority of top drivers of viral content. We admire brands that leverage good opportunities into great ones. Let’s see how some companies enhanced and amplified recent positive news.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

First statements say a lot about what a brand stands for, and they reflect on the quality of its leadership. When a passenger’s video of water flooding a Carnival cruise ship hallway went viral on May 3, it spawned thousands of references to Titanic and some sensational news headlines. Five crisis PR first responses.

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