Critical Mention

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Compelling storytelling is an incredibly powerful way to communicate with your target audience. Digital storytelling is at the top of the list of communication trends that PR executives believe will dominate in the next five years. Example: How Cotopaxi leveraged storytelling to sell its brand.

Storytelling 66

Storytelling B2B Trends Examples 66

Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Hunter PR is a wonderful strategic and creative communications partner that helps brands by creating strategic programming, content and relationships that foster consumer attention to brands. Golin provides effective solutions and reaches diverse global markets to best represent brands. BIGfish Communications. Finn Partners.

Public Affairs 172

Public Affairs Creativity Nonprofit Agency 172

Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. It’s not uncommon for specialized agencies to be hired on a project basis to help with specific repositioning or market research. Multimedia Development & Visual Storytelling.

Training 370

Training Media Training Reputation Crisis Communications 370

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

A recent study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the USC Center for Public Relations found that marketers plan to increase staffing and overall spending on public relations over the next five years. PR is an investment of not just a portion of the marketing budget but a proportionate time commitment as well.

Publicity 256

Publicity Brand Branding Storytelling 256

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the year’s end, I looked back over these marketing and PR statistics in an effort to surface those points that in some way, shape or form, help to summarize 2018 as a year. Statistics about content marketing. The C-Suite views the top marketer as a publicly facing agent of trust. of revenue in marketing.

Survey 103

Survey Marketing B2B Content Marketing 103

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

They polled 123 respondents including people in PR, investor relations, marketing – and also security analysts and investors. Internal communicators are striving to better inform employees – and improve engagement rates. Top internal comms goals: 74% said “keeping employees better informed with targeted/relevant content”; and.

Survey 81

Survey Corporate Communications Financial 81

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

One of the best ways is to stay on top of key PR industry blogs as well as more general sites that offer a fresh take on business, creativity, and content. No matter where your company is in its relationship with employees, service providers or clients, The Muse has relevant content. Pop Culture/Creativity Blogs. The Wrike Blog.

Blogging 170

Blogging Writing Creativity Storytelling 170

Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

When communications is too tied to marketing, it is more difficult to keep a pulse on the broader business,” wrote Tammy L. In the B2B technology world, which is the lenses through which I example things, I’ve found PR usually reports to marketing – but supports the whole business – when a company is small or young.

Employee 147

Employee Print Writing Survey 147

Cision

JANUARY 5, 2016

Brand journalism combines journalistic storytelling tactics with brand strategy to engage audiences and increase brand reputation. Through storytelling, you inform your audience about your brand. Look at what your employees or clients are doing. Images: Steven Lilley , Quinn Dombrowski ( Creative Commons ).

Journalism 120

Journalism Brand Branding Storytelling 120

Prohibition

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The Parisian fashion brand used a sprayable, liquid fibre, developed by Fabrican, to cover Hadid’s body which was then fashioned into a beautiful white dress by a Coperni employee who shortened the length and added a slit. What is content marketing and how can it help your business? The importance of storytelling in PR .

Social Media 118

Social Media Fashion Media Travel 118

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Great, model employee. Employee engagement? ” What community relations folks really want (from a marketing metrics perspective) is: More traffic to key volunteer pages on the corporate site asking employees to volunteer. Of course, you’d have to set up guidelines and parameters with the employees.

Corporate 60

Corporate Creativity Employee Instagram 60

Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

A blog about careers as told by eight marketing and PR practitioners in a workshop at Newcastle University. I’ve worked on communications, marketing and sales.” Her first job was working as a social media marketing executive on behalf of a group of hotels in the Lake District. They spoke about their first job and their career.

Marketing 60

Marketing Newspapers Public Affairs Airlines 60

PR 20/20

JUNE 25, 2019

Brands have the opportunity to do better marketing at scale, and in doing so, make the world a better place. The future of marketing is more intelligent and more human. Call it marketing, call it conscious capitalism—they make a difference and involve their customers. More Human Marketing Services.

Marketing 52

Marketing Storytelling Technology Community 52

Contently - Strategy

APRIL 19, 2021

Educational content also works, taking the form of basic advice for topics like writing resumes and learning about the stock market. However, this perceived bias toward rational selling could be holding back marketers—especially those interested in TikTok. Embrace emotional targeting. Teach us (quickly). They both utilize chunking.

B2B 111

B2B Brand Branding B2C 111

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 10, 2019

PR 20/20 launched Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute in November 2016 with the mission to make AI more approachable and actionable for modern marketers. We wanted to understand and apply AI ourselves, and figured other marketers might be curious too. And how do you get marketers to explore AI and take action?

Case Study 42

Case Study Storytelling Study Engineering 42

MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. After a century of producing delicious dairy products, Kemps sought to creatively brings its past into the future.

Corporate 48

Corporate Examples Storytelling Brand 48

Cision

AUGUST 13, 2015

With an engagement rate 15 times that of Facebook , Instagram is a necessity in social media marketing strategies. However, marketing and PR professionals can become easily overwhelmed by the number of best practice lists published on the Internet. Listen to conversations and watch interactions between employees in the break room.

Instagram 120

Instagram How To Trends Storytelling 120

Cision

MAY 31, 2017

The implication, of course, is that consumers are less likely to absorb the marketing messages we’re deploying. And as marketers and storytellers, it’s up to us to not only get our brands in front of consumers but to also pique their interest instantly so they don’t scroll right on past.

Consumer 243

Consumer Brand Branding How To 243

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 14, 2020

This includes running a team of seven PR, email, website, social media, multimedia and creative experts. In short, our main goal is to increase the profile and influence of the association through data-based storytelling and creative communications that inspire our audiences to learn more about what we do and become a part of it.

Marketing 79

Marketing Data Wireless Industry 79

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

Writing 190

Writing Communications Marketing B2B 190

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2019

There she leads a team of “storytellers of SHRM getting audiences to think, feel and behave differently across all channels via multimedia content.”. We are asking business executives, supervisors, and individual employees to all join in with HR to fix workplace cultures. When you have engaged employees, you have happy customers.

Employee 87

Employee Internal International Training 87

MaccaPR

MARCH 12, 2019

Name a prominent medical product or healthcare brand – from Medtronic, Hennepin Healthcare, Prime Therapeutics, Upsher-Smith Labs and Provation to Vigilanz, Philips, 3M, Hill-Rom and Teleflex – and the Minneapolis-based healthcare marketing agency StoneArch has probably been involved.

Agency 54

Agency Healthcare Interviews Insurance 54

Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

“Over time all marketing strategies have click through rates that drop.” Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” Want more content marketing insights from Ann Handley? The world isn’t changed by content that is sort of creative.”

Content Marketing 120

Content Marketing Marketing SEO Education 120

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

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2018

One of our clients, CEO Robert Glazer , published the first in-depth book on affiliate marketing. This type of creative, highly effective activity makes a splash. It’s a riveting story, and is part of a recently published book about Reddit – that itself being another tactic for differentiation. Write the book on it.

Brand 196

Brand Branding Reddit B2B 196

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid. “Be Pay to pay, content grows; influencer marketing cools. “I d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”.

Marketing 187

Marketing Content Marketing Data Social Media 187

PR 20/20

AUGUST 6, 2019

Editor’s Note: The Book Clubbin’ series recaps business and marketing related books read by the PR 20/20 team each quarter as part of the agency book club. Marketing is everywhere, whether you realize it or not. Although marketing has been around for ages, how have new consumer demands shifted the way we market?

Marketing 40

Marketing How To Customer Service Groups 40

Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What’s your reading on the health of the PR industry market? Is anyone outperforming the market? The independent middle of the market is the place to be right now. This is an agency model that covers a core group of employees supplemented by senior experts. Our estimated value of the total industry is $15.5

Interviews 115

Interviews Agency Industry Measurement 115

Communications Conversations

MAY 11, 2017

But, we haven’t seen too many good examples of companies using that “story” functionality creatively. These are the storytellers of 2017. They can get in front of a camera and convince employees/customers to talk and react to the camera (a key skill many in our industry DON’T have).

Social Media 68

Social Media Trends Radio Media 68

Cision

JULY 7, 2016

The creation and refinement of a brand needs to be a deliberate, organic process that significantly incorporates the ideas of employees and evolves naturally. Many of our marketing and sales colleagues love speaking in jargon, and they think everybody else does too. Another mistake? Brands that think they’re something they’re not.

Education 227

Education Writing Pitching Groups 227

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 9, 2024

Merging public relations with social media marketing into a single, powerful force is key to amplifying brand messages, sparking real-time engagement, and building lasting connections with your audience. That’s the magic of integrating PR strategies into social media marketing. Those days are long gone.

Social Media 92

Social Media Marketing Media Storytelling 92

MaccaPR

MAY 28, 2015

AdAge chose “Message to Space” for its Creativity Top 5 and awarded Hyundai the #1 spot on its Viral Video Chart. The piece quoted NASA spokeswoman Jennifer Knotts as insisting that no NASA employees (including any astronauts) actually appeared in the Hyundai video. AdWeek praised the spot as “a sweet and pretty otherworldly stunt.”

Film 48

Film Marketing YouTube Advertising 48

Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

The most popular trends recognized by the survey for the next 12 months included storytelling at 79%, content marketing (71%) and thought leadership (67%). Marketing efforts are being automated, increasing the volume of messages and content being pushed out. Creative Commons CC0. Image: Jason Rosewell via Unsplash.

Survey 74

Survey Industry Communications Corporate 74

PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Recently, the company announced that it plans to hire 10,000 employees in the EU to work on this so-called metaverse, and it got me thinking – will the metaverse force us into changing the way we communicate, or will it just be another tech plaything that doesn’t really go anywhere?

Communications 62

Communications Wikipedia Meeting Technology 62

Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 3, 2019

What’s your reading on the health of the PR industry market? Growth in the agency market in 2018 was five percent for the second consecutive year according to the data that we’ve collected at The Holmes Report. Is anyone outperforming the market? The independent middle of the market is the place to be right now.

Interviews 60

Interviews Agency Industry Measurement 60

PRSay

JUNE 13, 2019

He invests “in people, not business plans,” and looks at three primary areas: the entrepreneur’s vision and track record in business, especially in working for or starting other new companies; the market need the new company proposes to fulfill; and the size of the potential market it intends to enter.

Enterprise 110

Enterprise Pitching Company Employee 110

PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

She called us out for operating like efficient, fine-tuned machines losing the creative ability to think beyond. Permission to imagine, permission to explore and lean into our creative and our curiosity, and permission to act. As a marketer, it’s our job to live in the market and see where change is happening.

Enterprise 46

Enterprise Agency Creativity Print 46