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At some point, every PR professional has struggled to find interesting angles and create newsworthy stories. The post PR Storytelling: How to Create Data-Driven PR Stories and Secure Coverage appeared first on Prowly Magazine. Let’s face it: nobody cares if your company is the “largest homegrown retailer in the region” or the “best employer in the world”. On the other hand, when one comes across a headline that reads, ‘550,000 travelers used Airbnb […]. MORE
According to Chip, PR professionals are often told to follow marketing’s lead on measurement, but marketers still often use inaccurate vanity metrics to gauge the effectiveness of their work. Watch the clip to hear Chip expand on this point and to learn how PR and marketing should work together to produce stronger measurement metrics. Data-Driven PR Marketing Measurement Public Relations Feature MORE
Introducing Dashboards and enhanced reporting tools to usher in a new era of data-driven PR MORE
One of the greatest challenges to public relations as an industry since the advent of digital marketing and communications is how to measure the effectiveness of PR. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR. Our platform of choice to help our clients make PR impactful is Google Analytics™. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Data Data-Driven PR Public Relations MORE
The chefs are faced with only the data the ingredients provide and their own intuition. First, we observe and take data and insights we find from our “ingredients,” and then we make something cohesive out of seemingly unrelated odds and ends – our finished meal, so to speak. The chefs grab their beets and lamb; we collect our data. As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. So what comes next after the data collections? MORE
Businesses now generate and store mountains of data about their work and customers. With more available data than ever before, professionals have the opportunity to analyze and learn from it. Communicators in particular can review data to tell compelling stories and improve how they share information. Many professionals, however, lack experience with and knowledge of data, both big and small, and struggle to process and leverage these sets of information. MORE
Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign. Measuring the performance of your key soundbytes should be an essential part of your ongoing PR evaluation efforts. MORE
Journalists have embraced data journalism. The fondness for stories backed by thorough research offers PR teams juicy opportunities. Communicators can land media placements by crafting stories based on data and by producing evidence-based copy that journalists crave. With public trust at record-low levels, data-fueled PR is an effective strategy for gaining media mentions and promoting an organization’s message. Data for the post-truth era. MORE
A Guest Post By Kelly Byrd, PR Engineer, AirPR. With the growth of PRTech options for Big Data tracking and measurement, a knowledge of and comfort with that science has become imperative for leading PR professionals. Being an employee of AirPR , I strongly believe that thoughtful use of data is essential to success. All this Big Data may seem like it’d be a big pain if you’re not a well-versed analytics user, but that doesn’t have to be the case. MORE
In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. The 2018 PR Mega-Trends. Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. PR Professionals Blindsided by Rich Media. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully. MORE
Given these potential complications, how might we leverage our public relations capabilities to align with or reach influencers on more traditional PR budgets and messaging? This is a modern twist on an age-old PR strategy: by creating awareness in publications that our target audiences read, we help our companies and clients grow. The best PR professionals will never deliver impact if they land great hits in the wrong publications. MORE
An impactful PR campaign can attract positive media attention and influence brand awareness, reputation and sales for your brand for years to come. However, to generate that level of clout, PR campaigns require more than just a press release, media outreach or fundraising event. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Isn’t data the basis of data-driven PR? MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. Many PR practitioners rely on intuition, experience, or informal qualitative practices to make decisions. What It Means to Be Data-Driven. MORE
So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR? PR and marketing convergence. What smart marketers learned using MarTech and Marketing automation was that their online videos, ads, and email marketing campaigns perform better when integrated with a strong, holistic PR and content marketing strategy. Digital communications attracts and engages customers: What is the New PR? Social media is a game changer, and it starts with PR and communications. MORE
Today more than ever before, communication professionals have the ability to understand their audiences and the channels and messaging that will engage them…and it’s all thanks to data. Data provides brands insights that inform their campaigns and strategies and show what’s working and what isn’t. But this shift to data-driven insights has not been entirely smooth. “PR PR has a strong disregard for data,” says MindShare UK social media head Mat Morrison. “It MORE
As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. To explore why this is important, let’s look at an example of how data helps PR get press for clients. Her team receives the data and then releases a study or white paper detailing any notable trends in her client’s industry. MORE
Media love data. As most PR people know, data offers a powerful news hook in a way that even a product launch or partnership often doesn’t. It can easily feed a story to make it stronger, and data-driven stories can easily be made visual, which adds to their appeal. For B2B companies, this presents a massive PR opportunity. Data-driven coverage can establish a brand as a category expert or leader. Your data only goes so far. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Crafting the Data-Driven Pitch. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Identifiable variables and data sources. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. How to Pitch a Data-Driven Pitch with… Data! MORE
You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-driven PR at SHIFT. It’s not just a topic on our blog, it’s a concept we are encouraged to prioritize in every facet of our PR strategies. We’ve discussed on this blog before how to use a data-driven approach to drafting a pitch , but when that pitch turns into a great piece of coverage for your client, there are data-driven strategies you can take to measure the success of the hit. MORE
The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. Well, first it’s a free media monitoring tool and while other tools may give more analytical data about coverage, they also can eat into a budget. While Twitter isn’t the center of attention when it comes to social media platforms these days, it is the most transparent with its data. along with post content data. MORE
In a recent post , I suggested leveraging Nielsen’s research in order to create data-driven marketing and communications plans. That’s the front-end work every successful campaign entails, but the data cycle doesn’t end there. Equally as important is analyzing campaign data after it has run its course so that those findings can inform future work i.e., once you’ve garnered media hits, it’s then time to uncover the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the work. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Data Data-Driven PR Public Relations MORE
The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect. We are not only the first and only PR agency to stake a claim as a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are doing stuff with data behind the scenes that is wowing us, and our clients, with everything from influencer identification to advanced ROI calculations. We’re also well on our way to embedding at least one data jockey on every Agency team. MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Defining Data. Data Sources. MORE
In the same vein as the citizen journalist democratized media, the citizen analyst is empowered to do independent analysis of publicly available data. Instead of relying on third party analysis in the news, a citizen analyst can pick up the source data and find an answer for themselves, then work with a citizen journalist to shed light on the truth. Our profession is becoming more data-driven by the day; our world is becoming more data-driven. MORE
This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? PR Isn’t Sales. The Impact of PR. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. There’s nothing wrong with quantitative data, especially if you want to answer the question, “ what happened? ”. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact. MORE
The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR. First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Disclosure: The press release sampled data comes from the Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire domains and was collected for the period 1/1/15 to 9/30/15. Data-Driven PR Press Release press release MORE
We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. What if we looked at our data more granularly? MORE
In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. Click to view the live infographic and work with the data. Audiences can slice and dice data to find the information they care about most. What does it take for PR teams and organizations to create interactive infographics such as these? They typically require a data analyst to gather, clean, and prepare the data for visualization. MORE
Last month, AirPR Chief Strategy Officer Rebekah Iliff moderated a webinar panel for CommPRO on empowering data-driven PR professionals. She led a discussion about the traits of the successful PR leader of tomorrow with panelists Jennefer Witter of The Boreland Group, Julia Monti of Mastercard, and KayAnn Schoeneman of Ketchum. Industry Insights & Trends data-driven PR future of PR future of public relations PR leadership public relations leadership MORE
Data and metrics have become an important part of the work of public relations professionals. Whereas previously success was measured by the thud of the clip book on the table in the executive conference room—the bigger the “thud” the higher the success rate—now, PR pros are asked to identify, measure, and manage programs based on a wide range of data. And, for the most part, PR is better for it. Data tsunamis. MORE
We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. One of the most impressive demonstrations of managing unstructured data was IBM Watson’s ability to read and interpret legal and financial regulations, then compare a company’s compliance with those regulations. The Data Science Shortage. Data science faces an enormous labor shortage. Public relations will be impacted by data science in several ways. MORE
Data-driven PR may sound like a foreign language, but it’s not as complicated as we often make it out to be. As a result, more data needs to be sifted and analyzed to pinpoint which efforts are succeeding and why. Don’t let the volume of data overwhelm you. Instead, make data your friend. Multi-touch attribution models provide PR professionals with insights by evaluating all touch points. MORE
For the last five to ten years, the phrase “data-driven journalism” has been popping up more and more frequently. There are many reasons for this, from mainstream media sources trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors, to more readily available data sets. What is data-driven journalism—and why should PR pros care? What data-driven journalism is. Using data as the focus of a news story is of course not new. MORE
“Big Data” seems to be one of those terms that many people use but in practice has yet to be truly adopted by a wide range of businesses. Thus far, it has been the big businesses that have the money to acquire the data and use it to effectively reach customers. It has yet to really filter down to advertising agencies, and it is even less likely to be used by PR firms. Big Data has been used for sales for years. Big Data is now integrating with IoT. MORE
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Welcome back to our blog series about data-driven PR campaign planning! Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign. Measuring the performance of your key soundbytes should be an essential part of your ongoing PR evaluation efforts.
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Last month, AirPR Chief Strategy Officer Rebekah Iliff moderated a webinar panel for CommPRO on empowering data-driven PR professionals. She led a discussion about the traits of the successful PR leader of tomorrow with panelists Jennefer Witter of The Boreland Group, Julia Monti of Mastercard, and KayAnn Schoeneman of Ketchum. Industry Insights & Trends data-driven PR future of PR future of public relations PR leadership public relations leadership
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We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Identifiable variables and data sources.
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We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Defining Data. Data Sources.
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We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. Isn’t data the basis of data-driven PR?
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At some point, every PR professional has struggled to find interesting angles and create newsworthy stories. The post PR Storytelling: How to Create Data-Driven PR Stories and Secure Coverage appeared first on Prowly Magazine. Let’s face it: nobody cares if your company is the “largest homegrown retailer in the region” or the “best employer in the world”. On the other hand, when one comes across a headline that reads, ‘550,000 travelers used Airbnb […].
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We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost. In this series, we’ll examine how to become a more data-driven PR professional. What if we looked at our data more granularly?
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As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. To explore why this is important, let’s look at an example of how data helps PR get press for clients. Her team receives the data and then releases a study or white paper detailing any notable trends in her client’s industry.
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One of the greatest challenges to public relations as an industry since the advent of digital marketing and communications is how to measure the effectiveness of PR. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR. Our platform of choice to help our clients make PR impactful is Google Analytics™.
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In a recent post , I suggested leveraging Nielsen’s research in order to create data-driven marketing and communications plans. That’s the front-end work every successful campaign entails, but the data cycle doesn’t end there. Equally as important is analyzing campaign data after it has run its course so that those findings can inform future work i.e., once you’ve garnered media hits, it’s then time to uncover the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the work.
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In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. Click to view the live infographic and work with the data. Audiences can slice and dice data to find the information they care about most. What does it take for PR teams and organizations to create interactive infographics such as these? They typically require a data analyst to gather, clean, and prepare the data for visualization.
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The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect. We are not only the first and only PR agency to stake a claim as a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we are doing stuff with data behind the scenes that is wowing us, and our clients, with everything from influencer identification to advanced ROI calculations. We’re also well on our way to embedding at least one data jockey on every Agency team.
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The chefs are faced with only the data the ingredients provide and their own intuition. First, we observe and take data and insights we find from our “ingredients,” and then we make something cohesive out of seemingly unrelated odds and ends – our finished meal, so to speak. The chefs grab their beets and lamb; we collect our data. As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. So what comes next after the data collections?
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The ability to tap into this knowledge can help inform owned, earned, and paid media of your organization’s PR and marketing efforts. Well, first it’s a free media monitoring tool and while other tools may give more analytical data about coverage, they also can eat into a budget. While Twitter isn’t the center of attention when it comes to social media platforms these days, it is the most transparent with its data. along with post content data.
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In this series, we’ll examine some of the major trends we see ahead and how PR practitioners of all stripes should prepare. The 2018 PR Mega-Trends. Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. PR Professionals Blindsided by Rich Media. Advanced PR Practitioners Embrace AI Fully.
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For the last five to ten years, the phrase “data-driven journalism” has been popping up more and more frequently. There are many reasons for this, from mainstream media sources trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors, to more readily available data sets. What is data-driven journalism—and why should PR pros care? What data-driven journalism is. Using data as the focus of a news story is of course not new.
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We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. One of the most impressive demonstrations of managing unstructured data was IBM Watson’s ability to read and interpret legal and financial regulations, then compare a company’s compliance with those regulations. The Data Science Shortage. Data science faces an enormous labor shortage. Public relations will be impacted by data science in several ways.
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According to Chip, PR professionals are often told to follow marketing’s lead on measurement, but marketers still often use inaccurate vanity metrics to gauge the effectiveness of their work. Watch the clip to hear Chip expand on this point and to learn how PR and marketing should work together to produce stronger measurement metrics. Data-Driven PR Marketing Measurement Public Relations Feature
Media Bullseye
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Data and metrics have become an important part of the work of public relations professionals. Whereas previously success was measured by the thud of the clip book on the table in the executive conference room—the bigger the “thud” the higher the success rate—now, PR pros are asked to identify, measure, and manage programs based on a wide range of data. And, for the most part, PR is better for it. Data tsunamis.
Shift Communications
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You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-driven PR at SHIFT. It’s not just a topic on our blog, it’s a concept we are encouraged to prioritize in every facet of our PR strategies. We’ve discussed on this blog before how to use a data-driven approach to drafting a pitch , but when that pitch turns into a great piece of coverage for your client, there are data-driven strategies you can take to measure the success of the hit.
Shift Communications
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Given these potential complications, how might we leverage our public relations capabilities to align with or reach influencers on more traditional PR budgets and messaging? This is a modern twist on an age-old PR strategy: by creating awareness in publications that our target audiences read, we help our companies and clients grow. The best PR professionals will never deliver impact if they land great hits in the wrong publications.
Shift Communications
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This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? PR Isn’t Sales. The Impact of PR. We use digital marketing tools in public relations to assess the quantitative impact of PR activity. There’s nothing wrong with quantitative data, especially if you want to answer the question, “ what happened? ”. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.
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“Big Data” seems to be one of those terms that many people use but in practice has yet to be truly adopted by a wide range of businesses. Thus far, it has been the big businesses that have the money to acquire the data and use it to effectively reach customers. It has yet to really filter down to advertising agencies, and it is even less likely to be used by PR firms. Big Data has been used for sales for years. Big Data is now integrating with IoT.
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The topic of press releases and when or when not to put one out over the wire is one that is all too popular in PR. First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Disclosure: The press release sampled data comes from the Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire domains and was collected for the period 1/1/15 to 9/30/15. Data-Driven PR Press Release press release
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In the same vein as the citizen journalist democratized media, the citizen analyst is empowered to do independent analysis of publicly available data. Instead of relying on third party analysis in the news, a citizen analyst can pick up the source data and find an answer for themselves, then work with a citizen journalist to shed light on the truth. Our profession is becoming more data-driven by the day; our world is becoming more data-driven.
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