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She’s everything, he’s just Ken – The best Barbie campaigns from the film’s promotion

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The home has also been updated to add a spice of Ken-ergy, complete with his closet and some tasteful cow-print rugs. The retailer published research that showed that searches for ‘Barbie-inspired outfit’ jumped right up by 614% ahead of the film’s launch, and the #barbieoutfits hashtag on TikTok received more than 56.5 million views.

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When A Small Business Has A Big (PR) Advantage

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In fact, there are many ways in which SMBs can benefit from strategic public relations, and they sometimes don’t realize it. According to Steve Tobak of Inc., “starting with a niche is one of the most powerful ways to go viral and ultimately take down even the biggest giants.” Here are some reasons why. Goliath myth.

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5 Common Misperceptions of Social Customers

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Black Friday 2015 has come and gone, and one trend dominated all others: more and more people are purchasing online rather than shopping at brink-and-mortar retailers. This is based upon comparative sales data between 49 annual print ads and three annual TV ads that run on Black Friday, Christmas and Father’s Day.

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Top nine PR crises so far for 2019

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Some of these came to light by members of the public calling brands out on social media for their slip-ups and others were campaigns by PR and marketing teams that simply did not turn out as planned. The clothing-retail company featured a young black boy wearing a hoodie which read “Coolest monkey in the jungle”.

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Controversy PR: how brands cash in on the offence economy

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Despite the complaints and expressions of regret, the discount retailer racked up its most successful trading since 1990. For anyone who works in the business of promotion – a vocation now given the respectably anodyne title of ‘Public Relations’– the tactical manipulation of controversy is the lifeblood of publicity.

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The art of controversial PR

Mark My Words

Eminent columnists – many of whom would not be seen dead with a Waterhouse print- wrote powerful condemnations. For the promotor -long before their vocation became consolidated into the respectably anodyne title of ‘Public Relations’- the manipulation of controversy is the lifeblood of publicity. In any case an outcry erupted.

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What Taylor Swift Can Teach You About Social Media Marketing

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Who better to instruct us in social media marketing than this 25-year-old, 7-time Grammy Award-winning “public relations genius” (in the words of the Washington Post)? Taylor Swift is a PR mastermind of the highest order,” confirms writer Chris Ostendorf, in his Daily Dot commentary titled, The PR Genius of Taylor Swift’s Viral Media Empire.