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A Case for Marketing Ethics

Mindful Marketing

Grant (not his real name) had been working for several months as an intern with a company that sold the products of various manufacturers in a particular business-to-business industry. A recent Wall Street Journal article revealed that phony product reviews, especially on Amazon, are more rampant than most of us ever would imagine.

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Media 102? A brief update to media 101

PR in High Definition

These are three traditional job titles in the journalism world which have been around for over a century. A story that is right for social media and has the potential to go viral may not immediately capture the imagination of a traditional journalist. Are we bidding farewell to investigative journalism? Columnists.

Media 54
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7 Lessons That Ryan Lochte’s Olympic Crisis Can Teach PR Pros

MaccaPR

The Wall Street Journal noted that Lochte’s fabrication might not have been revealed to the public at all, except that Lochte’s mother told a Fox Sports Australia reporter on a hotel shuttle that she was upset that her son had been robbed at gunpoint.

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

The consumer privacy battle will rage on, and marketers will be affected by new data privacy regulations. As consumers get savvier about how their data is being collected and used, their demand will grow deeper for transparency and protection. 16: Ted Seward. 11) Privacy regs bring back the basics. Bob Geller | Fusion PR.

Marketing 102
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#17: How PepsiCo’s Creators League transforms trends into brand activations

NewsWhip

PepsiCo’s nine human drivers for consumers | 5:28-7:33. So, Creators League Studio is an internal content studio for PepsiCo, and we work primarily with Pepsi beverages, so Pepsi, Mountain Dew, LIFEWTR, bubly, so working on fun beverage brands. We try to be very consumer-centric. We have a consumer centricity team.

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.

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Digital PR Strategy: Industry Insights and The Methods That Secure Coverage in 2021

Buzzstream

However, ‘brand’ usually comes first with clients’ internal PR and marketing teams. The key aim of Verve’s viral Profanity on Film campaign was to look at swearing within films by analysing scripts. For example, at Verve with a campaign that had gone stale, I drew inspiration from my journalism experience to revive it.