The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Study by The Creative Group.). It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Study by The Creative Group.). It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 8, 2016

More than half (51%) of marketing and advertising execs polled in November 2015 said the PR team is best suited to handle social media activity. Study by The Creative Group.). It would appear that the corporate pendulum is swinging away from marketing as the place for social media to PR. This is up from 39% in 2013.

Corporate 100

Corporate Digital PR Social Media Study 100

Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

. — David Armano (@armano) August 14, 2015. Jay Baer (@jaybaer) August 19, 2015. Co-Founder of Status Creative, a leader in social media engagement. Jeff Barrett (@BarrettAll) August 12, 2015. Renee Blodgett (@MagicSauceMedia) June 26, 2015. SocialMktgFella) August 19, 2015. Jay Baer – @jaybaer.

Social Media 120

Social Media Twitter Media Nonprofit 120

Cision

MARCH 3, 2016

Motion PR turns 10 years old this month, capping off a whirlwind 2015 in which they moved into the penthouse suite of Chicago’s LaSalle-Wacker Building, grew the business significantly with high profile client wins, and hired PR industry vet Wheatley Marshall as senior vice president. Motion PR grew by 60 percent in 2015.

Newspapers 120

Newspapers Creativity Mobile Agency 120

Cision

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

With some creativity, it’s not hard to imagine this feature being far more useful for many businesses than it is right now. Facebook Events is a feature that has been around for a long time and that got a major overhaul at the end of 2015. Things have changed a lot since then. Facebook API / SDKs.

Facebook 48

Facebook Video Groups Creativity 48

Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The advertising strategies of the past no longer stack up to today’s audiences. It was a role where I could utilize my writing and creative skills, yet challenged myself to the never-ending ebb and flow of failed pitches and successful campaigns— or vice versa. We need to make advertising more like needs-addressing.

Pinterest 120

Pinterest Mobile Pitching Social Media 120

Cision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Subscriptions and advertising are down for most media, and there is no single model that can replace them across the sector. Cracked , a pop culture-focused humor site, started adding occasional serious topics, such as war refugees from Syria, home foreclosures and sexual assault to its coverage in 2014 and increased the number in 2015.

Journalism 120

Journalism Trends Print Local 120

Cision

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

But this changing environment has upset those who rely on advertising revenue from their YouTube videos. . According to a report from Ogilvy and Tubular Labs , 725 of the 1,000 most popular Facebook videos at the beginning of 2015 were re-uploaded from outside sources.

Examples 120

Examples Viral YouTube Infographics 120

Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Image: El Coleccionista de Instantes Fotografía & Video , Damian Gadal , Dale Nevin ( Creative Commons ). Consider a change maker to help effectively tell your brand story. Be open and responsive to the media, now and forever.

Crisis 120

Crisis Brand Branding Crisis Communications 120

Cision

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In preparing to wave goodbye to 2015, agencies are eager to begin working with new clients while cultivating winning collaborations with existing ones for a more fruitful 2016. . Once the catcher feels like a creative collaborator, the odds of acceptance are secured.” Communication as always, is key. Next Level Thinking.

How To 120

How To Agency Creativity Pitching 120

Cision

JUNE 29, 2015

According to Reuters’ Digital News Report 2015 , an on-line poll about the future of digital news in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Urban Brazil, Japan and Australia, there have been drastic shifts in the amount of news that is accessed through smartphones and other mobile devices.

Comparison 120

Comparison Television Print Social Media 120

Stuart Bruce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) has revealed the findings of its Digital PR Report 2015, with insights across the following key areas: In-house budgeting for blogger outreach continues to grow and PR agencies increasingly entrusted with this work. The total sample size in 2015 was 280 adults.

Digital PR 60

Digital PR Training Report Social Media 60

Cision

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

After a decade with Golin, I took over as managing director at the start of 2015. This means our creative ideas are rooted in powerful insights and set against robust KPIs and evaluation models – so clients know that what they are buying will deliver real, measurable results. Tell us about your role at Golin.

Hotels 120

Hotels Agency Radio Measurement 120

Contently - Strategy

APRIL 14, 2021

In early March 2021, Google announced plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, sending the targeted advertising industry into a tailspin. While the long-term impacts of the move remain to be seen, one likely change is that content will play an even more important role for brands and advertisers trying to reach customers online. “If

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Privacy Google Advertising Advertising 102

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In the ‘old days’ advertising and marketing a SuperBowl commercial was prized because it had the most eyeballs and the most engaged audience. The game has indeed changed – it takes smart, creative ideas, excellent execution and real-time interaction to win this race.

Digital PR 100

Digital PR Social Media Media YouTube 100

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

However, since the financial crash of 2008 and the coinciding rise of AWS, iPhones, and frictionless services, non-banks are finding creative ways to fill financial needs for both consumers and businesses across the country in a phenomenon known as shadow banking. Consider in-app advertising to fintech/finserv related sites.

Banking 79

Banking Financial Advertising Advertising 79

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Traditional journalists and publishers still chafe at such practices, but as the economics of publishing become ever more challenging, particularly for niche industry trade publications, editors will increasingly turn to this practice in order to attract advertisers and pay the bills.” ~ Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity LLC 12.

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Writing Communications Marketing B2B 211

The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

On Wednesday January 28, 2015 PRSA LA chapter met for their annual State of the State of PR review. Josh Rose, Chief Creative Officer, Weber Shandwick. However, the visuals have to be creative and well-designed and executed. Q1: How do you see the traditional lines between the disciplines – PR, advertising, etc.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Groups Facebook Reputation 100

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 10, 2014

based Internet marketing agency that caught our eye with its savvy pay-per-click advertising management, Web development and digital design services. Our agency’s been helping clients with search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) online advertising for seven years. Clint is co-founder of ThinkSEM , a Roseville, Minn.-based

SEO 98

SEO Interviews Blogging Engineering 98

Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Advertising Age Online. Influencers = popularity is so 2015.” – Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Marketing. Advertising Week. Creativity Unbound. But what we do know is that data – social media data in particular – can reveal almost everything about us. Search Engine Land. Social Media Examiner. DigitalMarketer.

Marketing 0

Marketing Mobile Nonprofit Engineering 0

Cision

JULY 27, 2015

“In an effort to cut through the noise that will come with Instagram’s new advertising push, brands need to adopt a more strategic approach to their investment in social media. It is easy to repurpose a 15 second bumper advertisement but a specific produced and edited piece will grab attention in one’s stream.

Instagram 120

Instagram Mobile Social Media Writing 120

Bad Pitch Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

I''m creative! It''s designed to help startups with marketing tasks like Search Advertising, Content Marketing and what it calls "PR and Media" read: media relations. So consider some small, medium and large ways you can improve yourself in 2015. If you''re anything like me, you''re thinking. "I''m I''m a strategic thinker!

Newspapers 77

Newspapers Customer Service Google Journalism 77

Sword and the Script

MARCH 11, 2017

3) Native advertising risking non-compliance. When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published guidelines for native advertising in 2015, 29% of publishers were in compliance. Consequently, study after study demonstrates the vast majority of readers can’t distinguish between editorial and advertising in this format.

Tools 74

Tools Marketing Advertising Advertising 74

Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Are there videos of people using your product in creative or offbeat ways that you can promote? Vine ‘s short format works particularly well for visual comedy, so it’s no surprise that all top ten Vine creators (as of August 2015) produce comic shorts. What messages do you see in the media about your target audience?

Video 120

Video Trends YouTube Television 120

MaccaPR

JULY 13, 2017

I recently sat down with Doug Spong, APR, Fellow PRSA, founder of the Minneapolis PR agency Carmichael Lynch Spong (now Carmichael Lynch Relate) and former president and managing partner of Carmichael Lynch Advertising. So what was your favorite campaign? and surprised when the client says that the campaign is off target.”.

Agency 97

Agency Interviews Film Advertising 97

Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That’s the cost of 30 seconds of commercial time in prime time in 2015. And the context is pretty simple–from an advertising/awareness POV, influencer marketing is in the ballpark cost-wise when stacked up against competing “ad products” (because really, that’s what influencer marketing is).

Writing 60

Writing Marketing YouTube Creativity 60

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The CMO Survey hasn’t reported growth of less than 5% since late 2015. Interestingly, the top three “skills” marketing leaders look for in new hires are: a) creativity – 25%; b) natural leadership ability – 21%; and. Marketing shops plan to expand marketing hiring by4% in the next year. the composition of that spend is changing.”.

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Survey Marketing Exercises Study 99

Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Let’s take a closer look at a few of the areas where “employer brands” are struggling with regard to social media: #1: Very few Employer Brands are using Facebook advertising to promote content or drive traffic–even though those same companies were using it en force on the “master brand” side.

Social Media 60

Social Media Brand Branding Media 60

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. The issue lies in the inability of PR to achieve its value.

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

MaccaPR

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Why should it matter to a chief marketing officer that her advertising and public relations agency teams are all white, blonde and marinated in the same suburban, upper middle class culture? But our advertising and PR community in the Twin Cities is a long way off from that goal: Only 6.3 Should we care that barely 4.5

Marketing 48

Marketing Advertising Advertising Agency 48

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Video is the most popular content marketing format for 2015, ahead of case studies, blogs and infographics ( 2015 State of Digital Marketing , a report featuring insights from over 600 marketers from Web Marketing 123). Time and again, we see and hear countless online video marketing statistics like these: Consumers spend 5.5

Video 40

Video YouTube Web Case Study 40

PR Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

It’s understood that the play’s the thing; however, it was the vibrant community found around each performance that proved an unexpected volunteer adventure at The Toronto Fringe festival 2015. Following are things observed or directly experienced during my volunteer stint at The Toronto Fringe 2015. Hello new #FringeTO Pals!

Community 40

Community Print Twitter Creativity 40

Communications Conversations

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I did not attend, but the event featured a number of women leaders talking about their career progressions and encouraging others to seek the curiosity, bravery and creativity needed to drive successful careers–and lives (my educated guess based on the posts I saw from the event). After all, this was an advertising panel.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Creativity International 60

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 25, 2015

In July 2015, the CMO Council released a report based on a content survey conducted with syndication platform Netline. This is completely fixable with an audit, analysis and creative application. Takeaway: This is the problem that has nagged advertising for ages. by Frank Strong. Lacks relevance. Not reaching the right person.

Survey 60

Survey Content Marketing Report Corporate 60

Mark My Words

MAY 3, 2022

Netflix vs TV An obvious selling point of Netflix over traditional broadcasters has always been its lack of advertisements, but even this is under threat, with the proposition of a cheaper ‘ad-supported’ subscription tier, despite CEO Reed Hastings announcing in 2015 that there was “no advertising coming on to Netflix.

Film 60

Film Advertising Advertising Consumer 60

MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I'm on assignment from Maccabee (yes, that's me in the photo below) to learn more about how some of HubSpot's 15,000 customers are using the discipline of inbound marketing to pull visitors (potential prospects, clients and customers) in, rather than having to push out with traditional tactics like advertising to gain prospects' attention.

Marketing 48

Marketing International Internal Mobile 48