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Why Advertising Isn’t Dead

Cision

Taking advantage of both of these factors, companies like Procter & Gamble began to sponsor radio dramas and comedy shows — even threading the use of branded products directly into the storylines of some of the shows. In the 1970s, the soaps moved mainly from radio to television. million albums.

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AirPR Interview Series: Emmy Award Winning Journalist & PR Pro Mika Stambaugh

Onclusive

I believe each client begins at a different point on the PR spectrum … some need to start with blogs, online magazines and trades publications to perfect their narrative before moving to mainstream radio and television media outlets.

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PR Has Evolved Since First ‘Public Relations Handbook’ in 1967, but Some Values Are Timeless

PRSay

There were newspapers, magazines, wire services, trade publications, TV and radio. About 2,200 local print newspapers have closed since 2005, cutting the number of newspaper journalists by more than half between 2008 and 2020. Three major broadcast networks dominated TV. million in 1974 to 24.3

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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Toronto, Canada: Diversity is Our Strength

Bianchi Biz Blog

It has both radio and television in both French and English. Its parent company, Bell Media, also owns a specialty business channel BNN, which supplies all business coverage to CTV. Weekday: 824,000, weekend: 1,141,200) CBC : Canadas public broadcaster.

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2015 State of the News Media Report

The Proactive Report

The percentage of Americans who have listened to a podcast in the past month has almost doubled since 2008, from 9% to 17% by January of 2015. Radio stations report that audiences are increasingly accessing their shows via podcast and other independent podcasts are also reporting growth. Key trends. Things to consider.

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Take a page from political campaigns -- and set it on fire

Bad Pitch Blog

But this year, when more is being spent on political advertising than was spent in the 2008 presidential elections, I''ve also witnessed what not to do. And endless number of robocalls to my phone and to my mobile phone, attack ads saturating TV and radio as my mailbox overflows with a serious waste of paper.

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The 5 Commandments of How to Raise $1Million on Kickstarter

Waxing UnLyrical

By now, most people with an Internet connection have at least heard of Kickstarter , the crowd-sourced fundraising site that began in 2008 (and is now joined by a host of other competitor platforms). Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Flickr: Kick-Tipp) [ CC-BY-SA-2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons. That’s no longer the case.

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