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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)

Cision

Note that while there are a lot of very cool mobile apps for photo manipulation, the ability to process high-resolution images is the key criteria for these tools (though I do throw one in at the end for good measure). Canva is a web-based image creation platform that is intuitive and user-friendly. Open-source. Conclusion.

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6 PR Trends For Your Brand In Q4 And Beyond

The Hoyt Organization

Data And Analytics In the past, many businesses did not measure the impact of their PR strategies. Most brands would publish press releases and other online content and rely on hunches to measure the results. This has made measuring actionable KPIs such as web traffic easy, providing valuable data for PR strategies.

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Less publicized but more interesting takeaways from 3 reports on marketing and PR

Sword and the Script

The company’s measures are based on the pitches sent through their systems. The top metrics for marketing communications leaders: 46% lead generation; 45% web traffic; 45% social media engagement; 35% conversion rate; 33% sales; 30% brand share of voice; 24% followers/social media; 18% ad impressions/ reach; and 11% SEO rankings.

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3 Content Marketing Trends for 2019

The Proactive Report

Talk to your SEO and Web team. Your content team must include someone with an eye for good design who can use the slew of new tools available to make interesting graphics, social posts, videos, and Instagram Stories. More research is needed here. Find out what content is currently available. Then look at the content they find.

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Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

The phrase is intended to account for the additional ways a person or company could earn visibility on the web, including traditional news – but more importantly beyond it. Talkwalker characterized the product as “social measurement and audience insights software.” Think: bloggers, influencers, podcasters and so on.

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Benchmarks for Digital Performance

5W PR

The performance of marketing strategies is carefully measured across the web, mobile and social media, and then it’s compared to the industry competitors or any available challenger brands for the company. There are different benchmarks for every channel, as well as for advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), and email.