Prohibition

JULY 21, 2023

Really, how could we not be with all of the weird and wonderful marketing campaigns that have come out of the film’s promotion? The retailer published research that showed that searches for ‘Barbie-inspired outfit’ jumped right up by 614% ahead of the film’s launch, and the #barbieoutfits hashtag on TikTok received more than 56.5

Wireless 62

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 14, 2016

billion in 2016, according to the National Retail Federation. Marketing and public relations professionals would be wise to take heed. Here are some tips, garnered from past brand campaigns, for winning positive PR for dad’s big day. Use real-life people in your campaigns. Get emotional. Don’t ignore gift guides.

Retail 120

Retail Viral Video Pitching 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2017

Some PR agencies fall into a trap of chasing only only large, brand-name clients. This is in part because like attracts like; large brands can bring more of the same, they reason. A PR firm may also think that doing media relations for well known brands can be easier than work for unknowns, because journalists are eager to cover them.

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Small Business SMB Local Viral 168

MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photobombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

Marketing 78

Marketing Viral Consumer Agency 78

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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Instagram Crisis Local Privacy 98

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2019

In 2017, my organization, Goodwill Industries International, then a 115-year-old social enterprise; one of the oldest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit brands; the leading workforce provider in North America; and the #1 brand doing the most good by enso and featured in Fast Company Magazine – faced a pretty significant challenge.

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Nonprofit Fashion Retail Enterprise 84

MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

From a branding and marketing perspective, the Fiji Water Girl Photo Bombing Stunt was a combination of product placement and social media brilliance,” concludes Stacey Hintermeister, Group Director at the Minneapolis agency CBX. As an agency that’s performed our share of branded publicity stunts (from carving then-Gov.

Marketing 48

Marketing Viral Consumer Agency 48

Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Black Friday 2015 has come and gone, and one trend dominated all others: more and more people are purchasing online rather than shopping at brink-and-mortar retailers. This success may obfuscate another key reason that people choose to interact with brands, particularly on social media: customer care.

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Social Media Facebook Print Advertising 120

PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As marketers, we use SEO tactics to ensure our client’s rank highly in the search results but soon, software programmes like the Google Spiders will be outdated and we’ll be planning our campaigns around more intelligent programmes, like virtual assistants. The users then get notified about price changes, sales or brand news.

Trends 59

Trends How To Retail Google 59

Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Each month we’ll hear from c-suite level communicators and marketers as they discuss challenges and opportunities facing companies in an ever-changing business climate. Previously, Chris ran product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Oracle’s Marketing Cloud business. Chris welcome to the Earned Media Rising podcast.

Media 202

Media Storytelling Technology Data 202

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2014

In the realm of marketing, learning is the name of the game no matter what your goal is. The Harlem Shake dance video craze largely took off based on the whims of students, employees and other everyday folk interested in making a funny viral video. (in West Bengal!) via Flickr, CC 2.0. Here they are: 1. Holistic media and commerce.

Mobile 101

Mobile Community System Social Media 101

Cision

JULY 20, 2015

According to one expert, word-of-mouth marketing isn’t a meritocracy (not entirely, anyhow). What I want to do in this piece is to use Berger’s word-of-mouth framework to highlight five businesses that have had success leveraging word-of-mouth marketing. Practical value. Want to build word-of-mouth?

Energy 120

Energy Viral Storytelling Community 120

Prohibition

JULY 10, 2019

Some of these came to light by members of the public calling brands out on social media for their slip-ups and others were campaigns by PR and marketing teams that simply did not turn out as planned. The clothing-retail company featured a young black boy wearing a hoodie which read “Coolest monkey in the jungle”.

Fashion 75

Fashion Telecommunications Crisis Training 75

Prohibition

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Brands and businesses know how important it is to protect their reputation. But other times share values falling sharply, lawsuits, contaminated or dangerous goods, investigations, or even a new, slightly controversial, marketing tactic you couldn’t wait to try may be enough to damage a brands reputation and enter a real crisis period.

Crisis 62

Crisis Crisis Management Reputation Crisis Communications 62

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2019

During the last couple of years, several trends have impacted the way businesses carry out social media marketing. Generally speaking, marketers tend to focus on high-quality images and videos, alongside posts that have the potential to go viral. Guest post by Alex Slichnyi. Why is Instagram Stories Feature Important?

Instagram 63

Instagram Marketing Viral Airlines 63

Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé. Big ships turn slowly.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Brand Branding Marketing 60

Mark My Words

MARCH 6, 2018

It shouldn’t surprise us that brands have attempted to make money from outrage. This week, Centre Parcs announced that it would be joining an increasing number of brands – Lego, Paperchase, the Southbank Centre – who have chosen to stop advertising in the newspaper. The opposite of virtue is not Vice. It’s the Daily Mail.

Brand 60

Brand Branding Film Print 60

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 25, 2014

For the most part, brands use it well. Social media is very susceptible to human error, things are said in the heat of the moment without enough forward planning, and a large follower base can mean something goes viral in minutes. It’s equally damaging to your brand to jump on completely irrelevant bandwagons for cheap clicks.

Social Media 83

Social Media Media Viral Tools 83

The Stalwart Blog

APRIL 26, 2020

I was the marketing director for a software company and hung up my own shingle about 13 years ago. In addition to that, I’m helping some retailers who are having to lay off staff and convert a lot of their business online, even more so than they had before and communicating that to the public. Dave Oates: Yeah, be well.

Crisis 78

Crisis Local Facebook Social Media 78

Mindful Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

by David Hagenbuch , founder of Mindful Marketing & author of Honorable Influence Remember when teenagers would rush from high school so they could light a cigarette? For those who find a way to purchase e-cigarettes, there are plenty of choices-- over 460 different brands are competing for consumers. Take Tide Pods.

Chemicals 50

Chemicals Viral Consumer Study 50

Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

This post will help you understand everything you need about digital PR to decide if it’s right for you and your brand. But the simplest explanation I’ve ever given is that digital PR is a marketing tactic used to earn high authority links from publications that drive rankings and site traffic. What is Digital PR? Product Creation.

Digital PR 71

Digital PR Construction Case Study SEO 71

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

The news of these offensive cards has gone viral, and I expect the company will begin to see a dent in their sales figures from sellers shutting down shops and buyers boycotting the site. For the sake of one card seller, they might have lost their market dominance. Especially an online retailer. Wonder if he read Shellys post.

Policies 86

Policies Twitter Facebook Writing 86

MaccaPR

JUNE 27, 2018

From Airbnb’s " We Accept " diversity drive to Patagonia’s " The President Stole Your Land " campaign against the Trump Administration’s order reducing the size of two national monuments, there’s no de nying t hat our political climate has galvanized marketers to speak up on the socio-political issues that engage consumers today.

Brand 70

Brand Branding Marketing Retail 70

Konnect Agency

JANUARY 17, 2020

The digital landscape changes almost daily, with new tools and utilities that add more ways to connect, track and maximize social media marketing performance. The overarching theme for brands heading into 2020: Rethinking what “success” looks like for social media marketing at large. Continued growth of influencer marketing.

Social Media 87

Social Media Trends Media Instagram 87

MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to your Taylor Swift Master Class in Social Media Marketing! Your teacher today will be America’s #1 Online Brand Strategist, Professor Taylor Swift (Cue: Insane, utterly-abandoned shrieking, evolving into wild explosive screaming and rhythmic chants of, ‘Taylor, We Love You!’) Source: Billboard ).

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Media YouTube 48

Mark My Words

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

A few critical tweets directed at a trailer to an upcoming Peter Rabbit film, which features an animated child with a blackberry allergy being pelted with them by a gang of bunnies, escalated into a viral campaign and led to a grovelling apology by the studio. Christopher Plummer is now on stand-by in bunny ears.

Print 60

Print Viral Film Construction 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 31, 2017

What’s the cost of a brand crisis? As video of United Airlines passenger Dr. David Dao being violently dragged from his seat went viral, the media – and a global audience of prospective customers – were horrified. United’s reputation storm came just days after brand Pepsi weathered a different kind of eruption.

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Crisis Airlines Brand Branding 180

Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

So far, we've seen the development of targeted advertising, big data collection, analytics, and other digital tracking methods for more efficient marketing and information dissemination (called Big Data), all of which have potentially sinister as well as positive uses. The Englishman was the first person to take the invention to England.

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Ethics Communications Print Television 52