Cision

AUGUST 10, 2015

Around 200 people gathered for PRNews’ Big 4 Conference in San Francisco to learn about rising marketing and PR trends, strategies and tactics for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter. What we often see in mid-to-large-sized companies are policies that discourage employees from using sites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 26, 2022

When it comes to social media marketing, our priorities seem to be messed up. Where do we focus the bulk of our time and energy in social media marketing? If you’re like most brands, it’s probably spend in content creation and ads. I mean, it’s a full-time job on a lot of social media teams.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. To help you create your social media marketing strategy, we have 15 of the top social media trends you need to follow in 2019!

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Social Media Trends Media Instagram 156

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Just a few short years ago, brands were pondering whether to give this social media thing a try or not. There was this popular belief that social media wouldn’t last, so why put yourself or your company out there? Plus, people would use this opportunity to backslash brands, right? It was for the kids.

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As always, we’ve been keeping our eye out for some exciting and stand-out social media and PR campaigns. The Parisian fashion brand used a sprayable, liquid fibre, developed by Fabrican, to cover Hadid’s body which was then fashioned into a beautiful white dress by a Coperni employee who shortened the length and added a slit.

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Social Media Fashion Media Travel 118

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Brand purpose has real purpose. Research shows that consumers want the brands and companies they do business with to be fair employers, good corporate citizens, and responsible stewards of the environment. Look for brand values to be a core message for most organizations. Employees are in charge. Branded content is king.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The social media content world is an interesting place in 2022. If your feed is like most people’s you’ll notice a ton of: Branded graphics – Some brands’ entire feeds are made of up these graphics. Yet, brands continue to use it regularly in their social content. What do you see?

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Prohibition

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The world of social media is ever evolving, so it’s crucial to keep up to date with the ongoing updates and developments. The question remains for brands and content creators around how to make the most of these new AI features to embrace more creativity into comms. Get in contact today to find out how we could help you.

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Prohibition

APRIL 7, 2022

With the social media landscape ever-changing, there are always different updates and trends emerging that social media managers need to be mindful of. Here, we’ve put together a round up of the most recent trends to be aware of across various social channels. Instagram launches 3D avatars and story likes.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We associate social media platforms with splashy consumer campaigns, but social is increasingly important in B2B public relations. According to an IDC study , 75% of B2B buyers and 84% of C-level/vice president executives use social media to make purchasing decisions. Journalists use social media, too.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 2, 2023

Brands realize this, and as a result, nine out of 10 marketers who leveraged short-form video in 2022 plan to continue doing it in 2023. TikTok is probably the best-known platform for brand videos. But there’s another short-form video format taking social media by storm: Social Reels.

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NewsWhip

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Regular readers will know that we frequently cover the top content mentioning Fortune 100 brands, but this month and going forward we’re going to expand the scope of this analysis a little. But in September it was Shaq’s relationship with big retailers that brought the headlines, both in earned and social media.

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This year, Target CEO Brian Cornell released a statement reflecting on the decision to keep stores closed every Thanksgiving Day, naming employees and their families as the key reason. Disney and Apple are the two top brands being mentioned in articles about the issue. But ultimately, that’s not what captured the most attention.

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Axia PR

MARCH 22, 2021

Instagram is one of the most effective social media platforms that are growing continuously in terms of popularity. It’s a photo-sharing and mobile-only social media platform, where many companies and brands are utilizing the importance of SEO to push the messaging of their brand.

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Cision

AUGUST 3, 2015

Instagram isn’t just for “the kids” anymore. Your audience is there, which means you need to embrace this fast-growing social platform. So what do you need to do to take advantage of Instagram’s full potential? Want more strategies for using Instagram? Humanize your brand with your content. Share exclusive content.

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Cision

AUGUST 13, 2015

With an engagement rate 15 times that of Facebook , Instagram is a necessity in social media marketing strategies. Determining how to present your brand and who you will target can quickly help brands decide what advice, tips or trends are worthy of pursuing. Instagram is fun. Think About Your Audience.

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Instagram How To Trends Storytelling 120

Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

TLDR: Brands and customers can’t really be “friends” on social media. That can make the people on the receiving end of social-media marketing feel snared in corporate traps.” That can make the people on the receiving end of social-media marketing feel snared in corporate traps.”

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NewsWhip

APRIL 6, 2023

Two days later the story was covered by Today and has since amassed over 64k engagements, making it March’s top brand story. Coming together to create a limited-edition ranch flavored ice cream , the two brands revealed the pints would be coming to Walmart stores later this spring.

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Shift Communications

MAY 10, 2022

Brands today are built on social, but social media marketing has never been more cut-throat. In our new blog series, we talk what’s working (and not) across key social channels. In our new blog series, we talk what’s working (and not) across key social channels. By Lisa Zanchi, Director, Digital Marketing.

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5W PR

AUGUST 22, 2017

By: Kelsea, Social Media Director. Social media has grown from a simple place to connect friends and family to a marketplace for brands of all sizes. These partnerships are used to promote brands and their products across all markets and industries. These regulations come with requirements from brands.

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Social Media Guidelines Media Handbook 92

Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When was the last time your company conducted a social media audit? Most brands, I would argue, rarely or never perform these types of audits. However, a good, in-depth social media audit is worth it’s weight in gold. An audit gives you the perfect “pause” to re-shape your social media strategy.

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Landis PR

MARCH 14, 2022

Five Key Steps to Introducing Your Consumer Brand to a New Social Media Platform. In a digital world, use of social media is no longer optional. Having a social media strategy can boost your brand and expand your market, but that doesn’t all happen overnight.

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Cision

JUNE 22, 2015

In this piece, I want to make the case that Instagram is the “Rihanna” of social networks, relative to Facebook as social networking’s U2. Where Facebook is a behemoth social network with consistent utility, Instagram is a smaller network engineered for high-engagement. 07 percent).

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 5, 2015

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about why so many Employer Brands continue to struggle with social media. As I researched these Employer Brands, I noticed a number of brands (big brands, mind you) making some fairly common missteps when it came to how they used social media.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. To help you create your social media marketing strategy, we have 15 of the top social media trends you need to follow in 2019!

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Social Media Trends Media Instagram 61

Communications Conversations

MAY 23, 2022

Historically, social listening has been one of those things only the big companies with big budgets and social media monitoring tools do. However, according to a new survey by Social Media Today and Meltwater, a full 61% of companies now have social listening processes in place. And TikTok is just one miss.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A company with two plane crashes in the last year asks people to post their bucket list destinations on social media. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. Everyone is using social media for marketing today. 2) Social media training for users in the organization.

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Cision

JUNE 9, 2015

When you’re trying to determine the ROI of your social media efforts , you’ve got to know where to look. Let’s look at the data you should be paying attention to in order to understand if what you’re doing on social media is working. When you post an update to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, et al, what happens?

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PR professionals should create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. Studies show that brand loyalty plays a huge role in why people spend their money the way they do.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, I shared my news that I’ll be teaching social media at the University of St. Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. So, I asked a few key local leaders for up-and-coming social media or communications superstars they admire. And, they have been for a while now.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thank you to everyone who sent me feedback on my essay on the future of PR via email or social media. There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Brand shaming has become commonplace.

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As businesses become more digitized, paying attention to current trends, like the ever-growing importance of social media and data analytics, helps to promote and protect brand image. Most brands would publish press releases and other online content and rely on hunches to measure the results.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

PR professionals are expected to create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. Owned Media & Content Strategy. Media Monitoring & Analysis.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

“We don’t want brands talking at us as if we are dollar signs,” warns Kevan Lee, director of marketing for the social media publishing company Buffer. Our agency has seen that voice styles for branded social media accounts generally fall into two categories, which we refer to as “informational” and “conversational.”.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

and Pepsi’s “ Black Lives Matter’’ TV ad bungle with Kendall Jenner – it would be easy to miss one of the smaller yet most portentous PR crisis of this year: The CrossFit Gym Member-Shaming Instagram Fail. CRISIS LESSON #2: ESTABLISH CLEAR SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES AT EVERY LEVEL OF YOUR COMPANY. Facebook page ) and.

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Prohibition

MARCH 5, 2020

With social media now a well established tool for businesses, and a huge part of day-to-day life for most people, it is more important than ever to ensure your business or brand maintains a presence, keeps up to date with all current trends and utilises them to your advantage. Employee Brand Engagement.

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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. Never fear!

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