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How Amazon Uses Brand Storytelling to Inspire Investment

Beyond PR

Instead, it is about storytelling, using a narrative to add value to existing perceptions that can either be backed up by your current product or supported by your prospective plans. That storytelling is one reason why Amazon has been able to survive market crashes and make risky bets. Benefits for storytellers.

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Hyundai “Message To Space” TV Spot – Marketing Masterpiece or Brilliant Illusion?

MaccaPR

You wonder if her Dad saw it, and that’s what keeps you watching - it’s just great storytelling.”. No matter whether parts of the four-minute Hyundai spot might have been staged, it’s a stone cold masterpiece of video storytelling – the crisp editing and use of Johann Strauss’ “Voices of Spring” waltz, in particular, is exquisite.

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International Conference Preview: Frank X. Shaw Talks Diversity, Disruption and 10 Years at Microsoft

PRSay

I worked for my school newspaper, and when I joined the Marines I was a public affairs officer. As a public affairs officer, you’re working to make sure that people understand the implications of the decisions that they’re making. I did think about whether I would be a journalist or an editor. We ran a base newspaper.