PRSay

MARCH 7, 2024

Fashion and retail media included stories about brand partnerships such as Ruggable, Zara and Crocs. This was accomplished with intentional and intangible shareable content — like taglines and movie posters — that went viral and became popular memes: The tagline, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 14, 2016

billion in 2016, according to the National Retail Federation. Last year’s hashtag, #jokesfromdad, launched by home goods retailer hhgregg, had us in stitches watching the video of children retelling irresistible “dad jokes.” Marketing and public relations professionals would be wise to take heed.

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Prohibition

JULY 21, 2023

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 Boohoo aren’t the only retailer to jump on the Barbie-core trend, however, the research that went into it was very clever.

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The Resolution Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2015

There are 118 links back to the John Lewis website too – really helping boost the site’s visibility in Google ahead of the key retail period of the year. Internally we have been discussing the STEPPS model recently (a model taken fromJonah Berger’s book, Contagious, which looks at why things go viral).

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2018

To urge people to give their eyes periodic breaks from screens, it filmed a series of snappy, fun viral videos called 20 Second Daydreams. The Canadian Ontario Association of Optometrists unveiled an eye-opening approach to getting a simple public service message to the public.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2017

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.” That story has unfolded in many ways, for an enormous variety of clients and brands, from lean startups to retail chains. Goliath myth.

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NewsWhip

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Nicholson explains that in 2016 “outright false stories were going viral” and now it has become harder to identify. One such recent incident involved Walmart and a fake press release claiming the retail chain would accept cryptocurrency from Litecoin as a payment method. Rising audience-side misinformation.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging a viral social media moment has to start with listening,” says Arik. Ocean Spray CEO skateboarding to “Dreams” Prepare Your CEO – before the Viral Moment. “If If brands can take advantage of a viral moment, it’s like capturing lightning in a bottle – and there’s a few things you should do. It’s the CEO!,”

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2019

Additionally, lack of brand awareness during a time of increasing “fake news” presented issues as there were some viral rumors questioning our nonprofit status, and operating and managing functions. Recently, we had an Earth Day influencer post content about a major, for-profit retail competitor on the same day as our post.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 3, 2019

E-Commerce is still gaining on brick and mortar retailers, but the growth is slowing. Online streaming (Spotify) and subscription-based retailers like Stitch Fix are among many using a “Freemium” business model, while also providing data-driven and personalized recommendations, to create growth. There are currently 3.8

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Cision

JULY 20, 2015

” Similar to Birchbox, Triberr also is heavily invested in increasing their utility acquiring Scoutle , an analytics company that can help bloggers to predict the virality of their articles. Every product can’t go viral or generate a lot of word-of-mouth buzz. Conclusions.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

And in retail, this has also had an impact; the Amazon Dash buttons have given us a taste of one-touch automated shopping, but this is only the beginning. The retail industry could soon be fully automated with all of the searching, purchasing, deals and delivery conducted by AI-programmed personal assistants.

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Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

And a viral hit. 99-Cent Flat Screens The retail brand 99-Cent Only Stores asked: "How do we make bigger news out of our next store opening?" Unless you''re IKEA, or another retail brand that creates demand through scarcity of locations, this is a definite challenge. The flat screen retails at $230.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

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. Berger describes six attributes that most “viral” word-of-mouth brands and products share: Social Currency. Practical Value.

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Mindful Marketing

MARCH 21, 2020

” The retailers’ swift actions and accusation of price gouging left Colvin sitting on over 17,000 bottles of sanitizer he couldn’t sell, even as people around the world were desperate to get their hands on the products and the product on their hands.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

One defender of the gym owner protested: "it was never intended to be posted to Facebook or go ‘viral.’" No matter how eloquent your social media rulebook is, every multi-location retailer or franchisor should have tools in place so you can immediately learn of an errant local manager’s racist or sexist social posts.

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Prohibition

JULY 10, 2019

The clothing-retail company featured a young black boy wearing a hoodie which read “Coolest monkey in the jungle”. The commercial went viral, was featured in almost all national publications and generated more than four million views on YouTube in just two days. Let’s take a look at the top nine crises of 2019 so far.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

Fiji Water has not yet responded to Adweek’s request for comment about its viral water tray holder,” the trade magazine reported. 5 - From Red Carpet to Retail. We’re so glad everyone is talking about our water!,” The Wonderful Company (Fiji’s owner) couldn’t immediately be reached for comment,” reported USA Today. 2 - Surprise! “The

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2014

The Harlem Shake dance video craze largely took off based on the whims of students, employees and other everyday folk interested in making a funny viral video. Retail companies the world over are taking to holistic commerce and everything it brings to the table. So which one garnered more interest according to Google trends?

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MaccaPR

JULY 16, 2014

Remember those glorious days before Twitter and Facebook, when a marketing executive could be dismissive, casually cruel and outlandishly rude without becoming a viral pariah thanks to social media? Read on, and disregard at your own peril. Alas, times have changed.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 15, 2019

Fiji Water has not yet responded to Adweek’s request for comment about its viral water tray holder,” the trade magazine reported. 5 - From Red Carpet to Retail. We’re so glad everyone is talking about our water!,” The Wonderful Company (Fiji’s owner) couldn’t immediately be reached for comment,” reported USA Today. 2 - Surprise! “The

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Prohibition

MAY 4, 2017

Related Posts Case Studies 56 With our team based in Leeds, Prohibition PR is one of the UK’s finest integrated PR consultancies with expert knowledge of digital, consumer, B2B, Retail and Technology sectors. Our clients range from major international companies and well-known brands through to smaller specialist businesses.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 9, 2021

They can be very serious and with social media increasing in popularity and reach, a crisis can very easily go viral within a short space of time. It can be defined as a brand, organisation or individual receiving negative or damaging publicity.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

So, the things we’ll see in the market, you know, if it’s a retailer were seeing things like, “Well could you help us with driving some more traffic for shopping cart conversions?” Steve Barrett: We’ve all seen those go viral haven’t we? As an example.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In his nearly 19 years at Amazon, Herdener has seen Amazon’s PR function move from a retail-consumer focus to a multifaceted approach that includes employee communications, social media, executive communications and reputational marketing. One of my mentors told me a long time ago: ‘You can’t unring the bell.’

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Prohibition

MARCH 30, 2021

The viral tweet has now been liked over 130 thousand times and shared over 106 thousand times. Will this ruin any trust between the retail giant and consumers? Not only has Amazon had a Valentine’s Day disaster but it has now been found that sellers on the retail giant have been buying fake reviews. Matt Hancock Vs Pfizer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2019

Generally speaking, marketers tend to focus on high-quality images and videos, alongside posts that have the potential to go viral. Currently, Instagram has over 300 million daily users, which means that each Story has great potential to be seen by a handful of people, especially if they are viral. Bottom Line.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 19, 2017

After a video of a Comcast service rep falling asleep on a customer’s sofa while on hold with the home office went viral, It had nowhere to go but up. Although its customer service isn’t perfect, it’s nearly always innovative, and Amazon exerts an outsize influence by pushing others in retail to raise their own criteria.

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Flatiron Communications

MAY 29, 2015

It wasn’t too long ago that Target’s customer database was massively breached from what soon was revealed as a significant failure on the mass retailer’s part. But it actually contains the keys to successful expansion for other high-end brands and designer labels and to improved brand perceptions for other mass retailers.”

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The Stalwart Blog

APRIL 26, 2020

In addition to that, I’m helping some retailers who are having to lay off staff and convert a lot of their business online, even more so than they had before and communicating that to the public. Phone videos become viral, whether it’s legitimate or not. If you can show that empathy and action [crosstalk 00:16:47].

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 25, 2014

Social media is very susceptible to human error, things are said in the heat of the moment without enough forward planning, and a large follower base can mean something goes viral in minutes. With that in mind, here are my top five tips to help you avoid some common social media errors. Watch out for #fails.

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David PR Group

JULY 28, 2015

And this is true not just at a Panera Bread in Florida but nearly every restaurant and retail store in the United States. Beware “Viral Marketing” Lastly, we are in the middle of the “viral marketing” era. Any misstep could turn into an online reputation issue within moments. 200 Million Camera Phones.

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Mark My Words

MARCH 6, 2018

Despite the complaints and expressions of regret, the discount retailer racked up its most successful trading since 1990. What some marketers have realised is that with polarising products and campaigns, they can use the backlash – real or sincere – to hijack the media and get attention. But think of it this way.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

There was the LexisNexis Business of Law Blog , a company with a publication focused on developing content for a niche, vertical, B2B industry, right alongside Coca Cola , Dell and luxury retailer Barney’s New York. . Your content will not go viral and you shouldn’t try. If they don’t let you in the front door, go through the side.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

The news of these offensive cards has gone viral, and I expect the company will begin to see a dent in their sales figures from sellers shutting down shops and buyers boycotting the site. These cards, and the subsequent viral campaign against them, haven’t just hurt those offended by them. Especially an online retailer.

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Mindful Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However, it’s hard to imagine anyone predicting the viral rise of the ill-advised Tide Pod Challenge in which young people put pods in their mouths, sometimes ingesting them. Perhaps Proctor & Gamble, maker of Tide, could have anticipated the candy-like appeal its colorful, round detergent balls would have to consumers.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

For example, a fragrance retailer, Aroma Retail, created a Superbowl-scented candle to pitch around the Superbowl. This piece went viral, gaining major news coverage in the space due to the timeliness of the campaign and the creative way it came together. Backlinks: 265 Referring Domains (RD), according to Ahrefs.

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