Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We’ve often said that Facebook is the largest nation on the planet. Nowadays, Facebook is its own planet, for all intents and purposes. billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5% billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5%

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We’ve often said that Facebook is the largest nation on the planet. Nowadays, Facebook is its own planet, for all intents and purposes. billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5% billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5%

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We’ve often said that Facebook is the largest nation on the planet. Nowadays, Facebook is its own planet, for all intents and purposes. billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5% billion people use Facebook monthly, and Facebook growth has leveled to about 3.5%

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Measuring the the success of programs by the numbers is quickly becoming the standard in PR and marketing with access to so much data. The trouble with having lots of data is determining which to use and how to determine the metrics of success. Data-Driven PR Learning Marketing Metrics Review Think With Google'

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Data-driven PR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must. Emerging channels like podcasts will continue to grow in influence, which means PR pros have to become more fluent in strategically pitching and forming relationships in these channels.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 9, 2017

A Strong Point of View – while the PR team can help formulate an argument by using data (by analyzing what people are not currently saying), they’re not the experts. For example, analyzing data available on data.gov is a great starting point and helps you show the reporter that there is a need and the data backs it up.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here are the top three benefits of having a robust social media presence: A World of Glorious Market Data. Read a few of their tweets, roll through a few of their Facebook photo albums, and see what they’ve pinned. Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. ALMOST Free Exposure. Of course you do!

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here are the top three benefits of having a robust social media presence: A World of Glorious Market Data. Read a few of their tweets, roll through a few of their Facebook photo albums, and see what they’ve pinned. Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. ALMOST Free Exposure. Of course you do!

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Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here are the top three benefits of having a robust social media presence: A World of Glorious Market Data. Read a few of their tweets, roll through a few of their Facebook photo albums, and see what they’ve pinned. Useful – but not quite as powerful as the truths their data can untangle. ALMOST Free Exposure. Of course you do!

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Our top posts from the third quarter of 2015 focused on PR strategy, Facebook, and Twitter. Let’s jump in: How to Choose a PR Strategy: Part 1 of 6. The hot topic in PR is always strategy. SHIFT honed in on creating a way to choose a PR strategy based on visible, measurable criteria and a meta-strategic framework.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You must be curious of nature, and dedicated in heart; Speak humbly , but with insight ; Seek truth in your data, yet not hold it too high; Ask boldly. And to all this, you must bring persistence , for data whispers its secrets to few. See a meme on Facebook or a viral article? You question it, and want to see the data.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

See a meme on Facebook or a viral article? You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. You crave subtlety and nuance, a desire to see the big picture as well as the data itself. to agenda-driven data. You want the forest and its trees equally.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2015

That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year,” writes Derek Lyons for Business 2 Community. Facebook Ad Conversion Tracking for Smart Marketers. ” Yea baby! .” ” 5.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2016

Why: “It is unethical for PR professionals to attempt to present their results as ROI if that’s not actually what the numbers really represent,” writes Stuart Bruce as he explores why “it is better to focus on numbers that are robust and honest.” How to Measure the Return on Investment of PR Work.

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Shift Communications

JULY 6, 2015

Suppose you saw this on Facebook: “OMG my dad *ing HATES XYZ. Using the data analysis tool of your choice, understand the size of the data you’re dealing with, then calculate how many samples you’ll need to examine. How terribly wrong. Here’s another example. Worst service in the world. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

is great with phone interviews, he may not be as collected on TV, Facebook Live or other broadcast channels. bring in his PR team to practice recorded interviews. Another data source G.W.’s If you’re not prepared, you may wind up being steamrolled, or worse — saying something you’ll regret. Even if G.W. We recommend G.W.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 15, 2015

This is a question asked recently by Patrick Coffee of PR Newser at AdWeek. Rather than guess, let’s take a data-driven approach. On Facebook, we looked at Likes, Comments, and Shares of all posts since June 2014. Let’s begin with Facebook. Do hashtags matter? Before we dig in, a bit on our methodology.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Next, we determined how many times each release was shared across nine social media platforms, including the big three – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In terms of timing, 9 a.m. Tori Sabourin.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Next, we determined how many times each release was shared across nine social media platforms, including the big three – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In terms of timing, 9 a.m. Tori Sabourin.

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Data LinkedIn Blogging Facebook 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First, we analyzed the distribution patterns of over 100,000 press releases published via Marketwired, PRWeb and PR Newswire in 2015. Next, we determined how many times each release was shared across nine social media platforms, including the big three – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In terms of timing, 9 a.m. Tori Sabourin.

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Data LinkedIn Blogging Facebook 60

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Services like Facebook are already pay-to-play for the majority of brands, and these networks show no inclination to help brands who don’t pay. Branded Organic Social Media Becomes Meaningless. Continuing the ongoing trend, brands’ reach on major social networks will decline further until brands will be posting to no one.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

How can we use data, analytics, and algorithms to achieve awareness at scale? We cannot afford to advertise to everyone on the one network that reaches everyone – Facebook – and the reach of individual publications continues to decline. The solution to this quandary is the owned audience.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 22, 2015

Let’s first get our data. I’ll use data from my personal website so as to avoid revealing anything under NDA. The data cannot answer this question for us. We see that for this data set, LinkedIn matters the most (r of.71), 71), followed by Facebook (r of.65), Or do social media shares drive page views?

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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Shift Communications

MAY 3, 2016

Consider just the last month or so: Facebook dropping a bucket of APIs on the world. Media Lab and Deloitte launched the joint project Data USA. There was a great roundtable by McKinsey recently with leaders from Facebook and Google which included a key section on skill gaps. The need for this will only increase.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s becoming more fashionable to claim that your PR and marketing is “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean? This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model. Did Google or Facebook make an algorithm change that would render your current model obsolete?

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Shift Communications

JULY 26, 2017

Whether the situation calls for pinning a holding statement to the top of your Twitter account or boosting a Facebook post with a link to more information, social media gives your crisis message a visible and easily accessible platform to live on for the duration of the scenario. In order for G.W.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

It certainly is convenient that nearly everyone carries a mobile device with built-in GPS, devices that are constantly communicating that location data to outside parties. Ever wonder how Google Maps can tell you when there’s traffic on the road? Marketers and advertisers pay attention to this.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Platforms like Facebook and YouTube will continue to be effective since they have the top two numbers of social media users worldwide. In particular, short form videos are booming in PR trends. Data-driven PR Trends PR pros are using data-driven analytics to guide PR strategies.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

It’s hard to miss all the articles and blog posts about how the PR industry is changing, how it’s integrating with new skill sets. Today, I wanted to dive a little more into my personal experience on the subject – including why PR pros should honestly start thinking about expanding their skill sets (and where to start). Graphic design!

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Depending on the video service, these might be called subscribers (YouTube), followers (Snapchat/Instagram), or Likes (Facebook). Once we’ve got our data compiled in an orderly fashion, we need to understand what drives the actions we care about. How many unique human beings watched our video? Engagement Metrics. Reporting to Others.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 10, 2015

Within the Agency itself, I still fondly recall mandating that every SHIFTer “get on Facebook and Twitter,” and the groans that that elicited from a staff that had already grown fatigued by all the Social Media hype. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’re already starting to grow familiar with the term “Data-Driven PR.”

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Shift Communications

JULY 28, 2017

Facebook is his shop’s most productive channel, with thousands of followers and stellar engagement rates. Facebook is the only place customers can find that day’s highly-sought after flavors (the fans LOVE exclusivity!). We can use a data-driven strategy to identify our most highly-connected, and thus influential targets.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 6, 2015

We took published user base data for as many social networks as we could round up, loaded them into analytics software, and turned the data into treemaps. The current occupant of the Iron Throne, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, battles it out for supremacy against Reid Hoffman’s LinkedIn and the combined might of Google and YouTube.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

As channels like Facebook continue to push pay-to-play, strengthening the engagement and stickiness of your owned media channels will become a higher priority. 2015 will be the year when companies either fully embrace data-driven PR and marketing or fall far behind. Behind the Scenes.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 23, 2015

By understanding how to think about and interpret data, communicators need to be able to draw inferences and understand trends by providing insights based on what they observe.

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