David PR Group

OCTOBER 9, 2014

One of the first things I learned in journalism school, and later honed in my PR career, was the concept of knowing one’s audience. And while writing an article in a journalism class, if you throw-in a bunch of heavy-duty words, you’ll get crucified by the professor.

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Cision

AUGUST 31, 2015

Between the launch of live video streaming apps Meerkat and Periscope in March and recent blow up around the Ashley Madison hack, 2015 has proven how fluid communication has become and how quickly the media can carry a message. We recommend a funny video or article because we want to make others laugh—it’s an act of kindness or generosity.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Storytelling, while central to PR strategies, is a delicate process. Learn how to build a brand journalism strategy with our free white paper! Smaller newsroom budgets have resulted in more website space being devoted to clickbait, and TV news broadcasts relying on syndicated stories and viral videos.

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Beyond PR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

These animated silent loops have dominated the world of online memes for some time now, going viral on blogs and social media more times than we can count. What’s clear here is that GIFs make for great short-form storytelling — especially in an attention economy where audiences crave imagery and other snackable bites of information.

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Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

We think about how to deliver information succinctly in a news feed, in an email, in a video and packaging it to fit on a mobile screen. Scale for scale’s sake creates undifferentiated viral clones, where you die by the algorithms. You’re seeing this at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and The Daily Beast.

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NewsWhip

MAY 12, 2021

If there’s something that mentions us and is going viral, viral being quite a bit of interaction, it’s shooting to the top of the interaction charts, we will work with our amazing community managers and copywriters to see is this an opportunity to engage, or respond, or retweet or all of those things?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

“Content marketing will revolve more around individuals and storytelling components. But I am curious if consumer trust has reached a point where more and more brands will look to intentionally create content that ‘goes viral’ due to its divisive or outrageous nature. You can find all posts that reference Muck Rack here.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Today, printed media includes not only newspapers but magazines, professional publications, academic journals, comic books, and graphic novels (photographic and illustrated communication is also printed media), even local newsletters put through doors about upcoming events is printed media. Social media is seen as a relative latecomer.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 23, 2019

Aggregation is an old practice in journalism, and digital transformation has only encouraged it. “It’s worth thinking about what we actually want the standard fare of our data journalism—or explanatory journalism, if you prefer that more marketable description—to become,” he wrote.

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