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3 Tips for Pulling Off a Viral Event, According to the Founder of the Fraud Street Run

Solo PR Pro

He created a quick map on MapMyRun and posted it on Twitter, tagging a few of his friends who are fairly prominent in the Philadelphia running community. Though Jeff does have a marketing background — he works in web development at a local university — this was by no means a planned marketing campaign. Move quickly and ask for help.

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How Reach uses NewsWhip to stay on top of the news cycle

NewsWhip

local-focused websites like the Manchester Evening News , Leicestershire Live and national outlets like the Daily Star , Daily Express and Daily Mirror – with the latter regularly being one of the top three publishers on Facebook in the world. It has probably the best Twitter insights that I’ve come across,” she says.

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Why Social Shares Are Key to Pitching Media

Cision

Have you noticed on your local or national news programs how often they now say, “Go over to our Facebook page and leave a comment” or “Tweet us what you think?” ” In magazines in the signature line and on television next to the anchor name, you’ll often find their Twitter handle.

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The Rise and Fall of the Pumpkin Spice Latte

Cision

In 2015, in an analysis of news media, web forums and 1% of Twitter conversations, we found 90,140 mentions. Before starting your next viral social campaign, head down to your local coffee shop and enjoy the autumnal bounty of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon — or don’t because you know it will be back next year.

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How To Get Ahead Of A Crisis When You’re Already Behind – Invincible Brand Podcast

Melissa Agnes

The YouTube Shooting Crisis: How Mountain View Police Department quickly regained control of the narrative that was going viral against their agency. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes , Spotify , and Stitcher. The first response statement published by MVPD before they could release the video footage of the incident.

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UPS, Unions, and Ukraine: What we learned from the top brand stories of 2022

NewsWhip

Twitter dominated attention. If there’s one takeaway from this year it’s that Elon Musk drives headlines, with his two most high-profile companies Twitter and Tesla comfortably at the top of the charts in terms of public interest — each having more than double the level of engagement of even the other most engaging brands.

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How analyzing your LinkedIn stats can help you produce more effective content

Communications Conversations

Notably: NPR leaving Twitter (my top post in terms of reach) and a wonderful Red Wing Shoes campaign with a local non-profit. You could say it ‘went viral’ However, that same post generated just 3,203 impressions–just over 10% of the number of impressions of my most successful post in 2023 in terms of reach.

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