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Why aren’t more brands using Instagram Stories?

Communications Conversations

Because the stats lay out a pretty compelling case for consideration right now: The coveted millennial audience increasingly spends a lot of time on Instagram. Instagram trends younger–59% of those ages 18-29 use the platform and 33% of those 30-49 use it. Users are spending more time on Instagram Stories .

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How To Make Awesome Images (No Photoshop Required)

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To make a memorable image is part creative (creating or choosing a high-resolution image , manipulating it) and part operational ( choosing image size and reducing the file size with a tool like compressor.io For this post, I want to focus on the creative process of editing images. Drawbacks: Creative tools are limited.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

PR measurement can be a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy. On one hand, it gets dinged for a lack of measurement. On the other hand, measuring some PR activities, like earned media , is far more challenging than other forms of marketing and communications. 1) Earned media is sales enablement. a) Results may vary.

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Top 100 Sites for Marketers

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Using new platforms and features such as Snapchat, Instagram Stories and Twitter Moments will be part of this, along with learning about and embracing (live) video content, virtual reality, brand journalism and other storytelling tactics.” – Mark Ragan, CEO, Ragan Communications (Ragan.com, PR Daily). Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang.

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How COVID-19 will impact PR practice and skills

Stephen Waddington

Planning and measurement If you work in media relations, COVID-19 could be an extinction event. Those insights will lead to better briefs to inform creative and content. Engagement and traffic on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp is up. Sneeze guards top the list.

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9 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule The Roost In 2016

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Quite obviously, the competition on the web has become fierce, forcing businesses and content marketers to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors. Episodic and series-based content is one of the most powerful tools to engage and entertain audiences, in equal measures. . Social Media.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. It uses proxies as a measurement of success rather than key performance indicators that are aligned to the organisations that it serves. PR is a social science. Progress is slow.