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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

As almost 200,000 folks get ready for their annual excursion to Las Vegas for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , those of us who toil in B2B tech public relations will be looking for 2017 trends to better take advantage of industry moves and stake out positions for clients. And there’s also the defensive side of real-time marketing.

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Why innovation in PR tech is so slow

Stephen Waddington

A market gets the tools that it deserves. The PR industry tool market emerged from Cision , Kantar Media formerly Precise, and Meltwater. Cision has spent more than $1bn on the acquisitions of Visible Technologies (2014), Vocus (2014), Gorkana (2016), PRNewswire (2015), Prime Research (2017), Falcon.io (2019) and Trendkite (2019).

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Voice assistants: what you need to know for marketing and public relations

Stephen Waddington

Voice assistants are a nascent form of technology made possible by advances in speech recognition, high speed internet connections, and raw computing power. Number crunchers at analyst house Canalsys predict sales of 56 million worldwide in 2018 , up from 33 million in 2017. Therein lies an advertising opportunity.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. The legal community, and more specifically the in-house effect on law firms bear insight.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary ( PR Tech Sum ), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision. 1) February 18, 2014: Enter GTCR . 2) April 7, 2014: Vocus. 2a) June 2, 2014: Vocus + Cision. 2b) September 8, 2014: Outmarket.

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Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? 42 marketing and communications predictions for 2024

Sword and the Script

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

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Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI? PR Tech Sum: Talkwalker, TVEyes, Meltwater, SocialChorus, Cision, Signal AI and Burrelles

Sword and the Script

Every month when I go to write this PR technology summary, I’m surprised at just how many new tools and features are being brought to market. And now, here’s this month’s PR technology summary…. That’s a form of advertising called retargeting and Cision is bringing this to PR.