Doctor Spin

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The Halo Effect is intriguing—and ethically challenging in PR. The effect extends beyond individual assessments and significantly impacts marketing strategies where singular characteristics often shape consumer perceptions of advertisements and brands. Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals.

Journalism 52

Journalism Ethics Analysis eBook 52

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Paid media is advertising. Other owned media platforms include microsites, resource pages, and blogs for example. Typically, these are built on platforms like WordPress that make updating – a daily or weekly blog post – very easy. In 2009, your firm’s Facebook page might have gotten a lot of likes.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing Marketing Ethics Advertising 60

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

Blogging 73

Blogging Twitter Facebook Measurement 73

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Trust and the Unlikely Reinvention of Advertising [UML]. You can be an ethical and persuasive PR pro or marketer without selling your soul. I saw this clearly in 2009 when a story I was pitching by email didn’t get traction until I turned it into a corporate blog post. 4 Ways for Business to Build Trust.

Content Marketing 70

Content Marketing Marketing Journalism Financial 70

PR Conversations

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Example: Do you recall the brand of beer advertised during the Super Bowl? Back in 2009 on this PR Conversations blog, Dr. David Michaelson proposed 10 best practices in public relations research (see, What are best practices in public relations research, really? ); a foundation that the Institute for Public Relations has since advanced.

Publicity 108

Publicity Survey Analytics Pharmaceuticals 108

Mindful Marketing

JULY 26, 2019

Virtually influencers also can be precisely controlled to do and say exactly what advertisers desire, ‘on- and off-camera.’ ’ Contrast that certainty with the risk inherent with real human endorsers, such as Tiger Woods, whose 2009 sex scandal caused two of his biggest sponsors, Gatorade and AT&T, to bail.

Ethics 70

Ethics Consumer Reputation Corporate 70

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 5, 2018

There shouldn’t be a barrier between the press office and the digital team - media relations people should be running blogs and engaging with journalists via social forms of media such as Twitter,” said Alex Singleton, author of The PR Masterclass. Advertising, production, and distribution have all fundamentally changed.

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Media Relations Media Print Newspapers 115