Cision

MAY 26, 2016

Consumers aren’t listening to your brand messages. Alexa Miller, senior account executive at Flackable, recommends reaching out to industry influencers to establish credibility and get your brand noticed. What are some of the biggest communication challenges facing financial brands today?

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Financial Infographics Pitching Consumer 168

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Muck Rack , one of the PR technology vendors I’m tracking, published a survey of 700 reporters for a report it calls State of Journalism 2019. The best pitches are short emails in the morning. 93% of reporters prefer 1:1 email pitches, although 19% said mass emails and newswires are okay. Exclusives matter. “76%

Survey 76

Survey Media Relations Report Media 76

Onclusive

MAY 10, 2018

These shifts include everything from the implications of brand journalism on the PR function to the dwindling number of journalists filling established newsrooms. It’s a great listening tool to ensure your pitches are targeted.” ” This is a PR boon. And the journalists can be grateful for this, too.

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Storytelling Technology Tools Infographics 230

Cision

MARCH 8, 2016

As journalism trends continue to evolve, communication professionals do not remain unaffected. But with so much constant change, how can your brand keep up? Brands should follow suit and start incorporating more multimedia content in their campaigns. Use Multimedia Content. Images via Pixabay: 1 , 2 , 3.

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Cision

JANUARY 22, 2016

With so many brands reaching out to journalists every day, only a select few will get a response, and even fewer will actually get coverage. So what can you do to set your brand apart from the masses? Quality content grabs the attention of reporters and influencers and gives your brand a solid reputation.

Media 120

Media Infographics Reputation Study 120

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

GlobeNewswire is owned by Notified, a recently re-branded division of Intrado. Next, they publish a fake release saying that the company was about to be acquired by a well-known brand. These allow PR to “showcase earned media coverage in customizable, branded digital PR measurement reports.”. Automated coverage book.

Software 93

Software Banking Technology Data 93

PR Fuel

JUNE 5, 2020

People often make the mistake of confusing a pitch or marketing copy for a press release. A pitch is written in order to persuade journalists and gives a tease or a taste of what’s to come in your press release. According to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report : In Brands We Trust? What Is a Press Release?

How To 98

How To Ethics SEO Guidelines 98

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. We’re used to seeing communications and interactions with brands that are personalized. Similar to the algorithms which drive many of our online purchases, brands will begin to communicate with their customers as if they have personal connections with them.

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prTini

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The Five Parts to Brand Storytelling Nearly Everyone Misses. Mashable’s Branded Content Editor Talks Pitching. Infographic: The Ideal Length of Everything Online, From Tweets to YouTube Videos. How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism. What You Should Learn From Rejected Pitches.

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Case Study Infographics YouTube Pitching 44

Beyond PR

MAY 17, 2018

A lot has changed over the last 12 years — Forsythe is now director of editorial video at McClatchy — with many newsrooms, including McClatchy’s, wanting their journalists to shoot video, find photographs, incorporate infographics and more into their work when they can. Send More Multimedia in PR Pitches.

Infographics 54

Infographics Print Video Real Estate 54

Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

PR pros work hard to secure media hits, and a stellar feature in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times deserves to have a longer life than the hot minute it gets post-publication. Creating content – whether it’s a white paper, an Infographic or original research – can help make news for us. It means it’s time to get creative.

Marketing 60

Marketing Data-Driven PR Analytics Training 60

Mindful Marketing

APRIL 18, 2016

They create content – everything from award and speaking submissions to infographics, videos, photos, bylines and white papers – as well as train executives on speaking and presentation skills, assist HR with creative ad copy, manage crisis situations and even manage social media channels for brands and executives.

Analytics 50

Analytics Training Meeting Measurement 50

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example the study found that the percent of companies where marketing leads core activities such as advertising, positioning and brand are down! There is no indication of which business functions are taking responsibility for the overall brand. The response rate was 10.9%.

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Mobile Study Marketing Survey 60

Journalistics

MARCH 2, 2013

Ideally, you majored in Journalism (or English) – or your PR or Communications program had a heavy concentration of writing-related courses. You should be able to show examples of stories you pitched and placed, or campaigns you worked on and generated results for. First, Writing Skills. Ideally, with agencies or larger organizations.

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Pinterest Writing Interviews Social Media 52

MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

How can marketers like you get your CEO or brand spokesperson interviewed on a podcast that’s heard by tens of thousands, or even millions, of listeners? Podcasts give clients the opportunity to express their personality in a way that infographics, e-books and print interviews seldom do. It’s a time waster.”. (

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

Brands are creating more content than ever before. Content marketing is still a fairly new practice, but brands don’t have to settle for limited resources. Those are standard brand awareness goals. We did a whole reboot on our brand voice,” said John Fox, executive director of content. That was an evolution for us.

Content Marketing 88

Content Marketing Infographics Insurance Insurance 88

Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. Do you have attractive, generic infographics to accompany your story that would work for the publishing environments the journalist is producing content for? And guess what?

Media Relations 40

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Journalistics

APRIL 5, 2016

If multimedia journalism is the biggest trend in the media environment, it’s safe to assume that multimedia publicists are also an emerging trend. Do you have attractive, generic infographics to accompany your story that would work for the publishing environments the journalist is producing content for? And guess what?

Media Relations 40

Media Relations Media Mobile Pitching 40

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Daniel Lemin, President, One Good Brand. Our moderator was Jerry Swerling, Professor and Director of Public Relations Studies, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Last year the amount of video from people and brands in Facebook’s News feed increased 3.6X So quite a line up. Good visuals work.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Groups Facebook Reputation 100

Sword and the Script

JUNE 11, 2016

Tools ranging from Live Journal, TypePad and Blogger — to WordPress, Tumblr and Medium. The brand is the gatekeeper. No longer does a new product launch require a pitch letter and an intern to reach out to a list of editorial contacts — spraying and praying for a response. The Blogging Gutenberg .

Blogging 60

Blogging Marketing SEO Content Marketing 60

MaccaPR

APRIL 14, 2015

Resumes, along with a candidate’s online presence (more on that in a bit…) give us a clear indication of how someone brands themselves and, therefore, their aptitude to represent our clients’ brands. Oftentimes a young applicant lists coursework they’ve taken in college that’s related to PR, journalism or social media.

Agency 48

Agency Real Estate Social Media Writing 48

Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2020

Propel says PR is sending more pitches; Muck Rack adds podcast contacts and broadcast monitoring; several PR tech vendors publish survey results “Welcome to May. PR is sending more pitches during COVID-19 The average PR pros appear to have sent more media pitches during the Coranavirus pandemic than before it’s occurrence.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

News brands that uphold high editorial standards such as The Associated Press, Reuters, and publications such as The Economist , and The Financial Times , thrive. Trust in journalists ranks at 89% indicating that we place a value in the individual source of news rather than the media brand. The number hasn’t moved in 12 months.

Media Relations 115

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 31, 2019

You can also use this dictionary as a lead tool, if you’re a marketing exec who wants to hire a team of Pulitzer Prize-winning writers for your brand’s blog. A data-driven strategy or program refers back to data gathered from different avenues on a brand’s target audience. Data-driven. Hub and spoke. ” Ideation.

Content Marketing 85

Content Marketing Marketing Media SEO 85

NewsWhip

MAY 27, 2021

Brand relevance versus brand reputation | Jump to text. Wellness brands during the pandemic | Jump to text. If it’s not, then the message is usually just self-serving, and for me and my team, when we’re trying to pitch that to reporters, that’s not something that’s going to stick.

Healthcare 78

Healthcare Storytelling Communications Local 78

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 26, 2015

We’ll never forget the panic in the PR world as tens of thousands of journalists (aka our PR pitch targets) at newspapers, TV stations and magazines were laid off. In other words, marketers will have to create a well-rounded media ecosystem for their brands.”.

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