ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As almost 200,000 folks get ready for their annual excursion to Las Vegas for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , those of us who toil in B2B tech public relations will be looking for 2017 trends to better take advantage of industry moves and stake out positions for clients. B2B content will become more customized.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Improving brand awareness and profitability boils down to integrating PR, marketing and other sales strategies to optimize a brand’s overall message. This is both important for consumer engagement as well as client relations. PR professionals are adept in creating a variety of content suitable for a wide range of audiences.

Marketing 68

Marketing Analysis Content Marketing Social Media 68

Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Digital PR involves creating content campaigns around unique data pieces, interactive content onsite, newsjacking techniques, and other strategies to increase awareness and gain high-quality backlinks. Combining SEO and content marketing will increase your online presence, as the reach is much greater from higher rankings.

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Barokas

MAY 22, 2019

With so many brands vying for our attention through various channels – from social media, TV, radio, print, smartphones and the endless barrage of emails flooding our inboxes on a daily – sometimes hourly – basis, it’s easy for your message to get lost among all the noise. It’s a noisy world out there.

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Cision

JUNE 6, 2017

According to research by Boston Consulting Group, one ultraloyal customer who shares content can generate eight times his or her own consumption through their advocacy. The key idea here is that the economic value of content marketing does not come from content. It comes from the transmission of content.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Search engine optimization for content will become even more integral to media relations and PR and will emphasize metadata and schemas as much as the text and images. Want to make standout content? Click here for our free content marketing white paper! . Emerged/Emerging Trends: Larger and more diverse audiences.

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5W PR

JANUARY 17, 2020

However, media impressions are not limited to television or print media. At its broadest definition, a media impression can be nearly any interaction a reader or viewer has with a piece of content. How to Talk about your Measurement Data. PR measurement is the business communicator’s equivalent to Groundhog Day.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

She and her research team conducted a focus group with 46 participants and also using a panel to survey 1,500 consumers. Social and content marketing edge out media relations A survey by Talkwalker says media relations has been supplanted by other functions as the top services provided by public relations.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

Annoyed and overwhelmed, consumers are fed up with intrusive advertising and sales tactics. It’s no surprise, 70 percent of society wants to learn about products and services through content and not advertisements. Content Marketing is no Longer a Shiny New Object. But What Makes Content Marketers Successful?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 1, 2018

This is like price fixing, but with data. “If But today, consumers don’t think and move in packs any longer. There is no consumer mob these days. It’s downright scary that a majority of senior executives do not know whether there was any real-world behavior created by content marketing and earned media.

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Media Measurement Enterprise Television 73

PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Though still in beta, it enables users to ‘pocket’ articles they like throughout the day and then print off all the news and features at the end of the day to read at their leisure in their own home. Immediacy is losing its appeal and we don’t always want to be the ‘always-on’ consumer’, continually gobbling up but not processing content.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

3D printed cupcake anyone? It is clear that our smartphone assistants are becoming more like virtual companions and soon, millions of consumers will start having meaningful conversations, or even relationships with these virtual assistants, changing the way we interact with one another. Yes please.

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Trends How To Retail Google 59

Contently - Strategy

MAY 7, 2020

When you’re working in a larger organization that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, you can develop a brilliant content marketing strategy that will absolutely delight your customers. But, if you fail to make an internal case for your content, your plan will never get the buy-in or budget it needs to succeed.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“Communications professionals are now responsible for producing videos and podcasts, hosting live stream events, playing photographer, designing graphics, learning the back end of websites and more to keep up with changes in the ways people consume information.”. Lines between what constitutes PR and content marketing continue to blur.

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Communications Crisis Internal International 122

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The biannual survey queried 341 senior marketers about an array of topics including budget. Here’s the budget data gleaned from the report: Marketing budgets have grown 6.3% in the last 12 months; Senior marketers expect marketing budgets to grow 8.7% 6% of budget goes to training and development (T&D).

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Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Podcasts have been on a winning streak for some time now, as data from Edison Research suggests. 1) Marketing Audibles for Audio Search. The impact of audio is going to be dramatic.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

Or experts in direct marketing who could bring the combined experience of many campaigns and testing to bear. They may have more in common with some segments of consumers, but it doesn’t mean that the basics are really different. On the flip side, technology and the ability to analyze data on big scales has opened new possibilities.

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Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61

Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 22, 2019

Believe it or not, the caution with which consumers approach money actually makes finance content into fertile ground for creativity. After all, the actual content of bank marketing stays largely the same from institution to institution—there are finite ways to approach writing about, say, a checking account or a credit card.

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Banking Content Marketing Examples Industry 93

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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Survey Marketing B2B Study 176

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 13, 2016

Studies often tell us the more engagement consumers have with a company, the more they will buy. And then take the data and respond accordingly. Handle your company’s email marketing efforts? Blogging and content creation through social media are excellent avenues for content marketers to create and measure.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Well-crafted content not only keeps readers on your page but also encourages them to share it with others and increases the likelihood of earning backlinks, a crucial factor in SEO. Personalized content can lead to higher transaction rates. Regarding this topic, a senior content marketer has shared her perspective.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Brands like to pay lip service to the customer experience, but if marketers want their content to make a real impact, they have to commit. Content marketing isn’t just a constant stream of advertisements. Who are these consumers, and where do they typically find the articles they read?

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

It’s sponsored content, which is a form of advertising, which is unquestionably paid media. Cision – the Swedish company that grew up making printed directories of media contacts – ought to have the institutional knowledge to know better than to call it as such. Content picks from around PR tech land. Meltwater beats earnings.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. Reports + Data Are the Biggest Differentiators.

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Healthcare Content Marketing Industry Trends 93

Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. The same holds true for healthcare content.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Or a food journalist for print media. PRs can use this data to capitalize on trending topics and sometimes even newsjacking.

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Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I joined BuzzStream as Director of Content Marketing in November of 2023. But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Or a food journalist for print media. PRs can use this data to capitalize on trending topics and sometimes even newsjacking.

Digital PR 62

Digital PR Tools Google Pitching 62

Sword and the Script

MAY 21, 2016

In his latest book, Content, Inc., In his latest book, Content, Inc., In 2015, there are literally hundreds of channels where consumers access content.”. It’s this growth in channels that’s reshaped marketing strategy so dramatically, particularly in the digital space. In crunching “6.6

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Social Media Marketing Media Content Marketing 63

Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

As social media and search advertising have become integrated into our everyday lives, many believe that direct mail is an outdated way to reach consumers as smartphones allow millennials to access information, products and services instantly. Integrating both print and digital marketing into is critical to your modern PR campaigns.

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Advertising Advertising Privacy Analytics 84

Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a wide umbrella, spanning everything from consumer banking, investment banking, credit cards, fintech, insurance, and more. Companies in this space have a unique opportunity to build meaningful relationships with consumers. million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research.

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Financial Industry Report Insurance 83

MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Marketers know that social media is as revolutionary to our culture as the printing press was in Gutenberg’s day, turning mobile phones and PCs into access points for endless connectivity. But how do marketers connect the dots between social media and engaged consumers by providing real value? social + content marketing).

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Marketing Social Media Video Mobile 48

MaccaPR

MAY 3, 2019

Many podcasts combine the audio interview with text – so your audience can consume your messages in both print and audio form. Podcasts give clients the opportunity to express their personality in a way that infographics, e-books and print interviews seldom do. Understand How Podcasts are Consumed Differently Than Other Content.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

My prediction for 2018 is continued investment in both AI tools and competencies and, in parallel, the data needed to leverage them.”. – Convenience’ (more of it) and ‘friction’ (less of it) are going to be critical terms for brand messaging in 2018, whether through marketing or PR efforts. .’” Louis Gordon | Upstart Marketing.

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Marketing Content Marketing Crisis Management Data 102

Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

PR teams need to adapt to the changing consumer. All communication teams are striving for the attention of the fickle consumer. And you are not just competing against other PR teams for budgets, but also against advertising, digital, and marketing. Print it to motivate your team. Now is the time to improve your workflow.

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