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What I learned about “going viral” on LinkedIn last week

Communications Conversations

Last week I had my first experience with a post of mine “going viral” on LinkedIn. Something I wrote “hot” and just reacted to as I saw the news in my feed that Sara Blakely had just given ALL her employees two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000. Here’s the full post.

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Walmart’s suspension of advertising on X became last month’s biggest brand story

NewsWhip

That was Elon Musk’s somewhat predictable response to the announcement that Walmart was the latest brand to suspend advertising on X, following other major companies who left the platform back in November when the issue first began. Here are some other brands that captured attention in the news and on social media.

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6 Trends That Will Affect PR In 2022

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

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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Barbie dominates August brand coverage

NewsWhip

Coincidentally, it was also a top story in a different sense, as it came out on top of our brands coverage analysis in August. Barbie’s marketing was the talk of the town on social media , with several partnerships becoming part of the discourse in their own right, but the coverage of the movie never really slowed down either.

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Are Social Reels Relevant for Brands?

Contently - Strategy

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. How, you ask?

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Thanksgiving and Black Friday bring Target the most brand coverage in November

NewsWhip

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. So, this becomes a lesson that earned media encompasses much more than just what is written about by publishers online.

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Feel-good stories won brand coverage in December 2022 with Walmart, UPS, and Amazon

NewsWhip

Our monthly analysis of the top brand coverage usually reveals hundreds of stories with several varying narratives, and only every so often do we uncover a theme that’s responsible for multiple brands making headlines in a big way. This story has continued into early January following the TikTok that went viral on Dec 17th.

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