Polaris

DECEMBER 18, 2014

‘Tis the season when brands release heart-warming Christmas videos and marketing bloggers write about the best holiday gift ideas , new year’s resolutions and marketing trends for 2015. In addition, many are predicting the marketing developments we witnessed in 2014 will continue: 1. Wishful thinking?

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Cision

DECEMBER 29, 2015

With more and more businesses across verticals and industries creating content, people have become desensitized towards brand content. People now look for and essentially demand content that gets them involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience. Want to deliver valuable content in 2016?

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Cision

MAY 25, 2015

If you’re a PR professional in the year 2015, you are probably well aware of a little tactic known as content marketing. for a while now in the communication world, but the PR industry is finally starting to realize that creating and owning content to tell a story is a great complement to more traditional methods.

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Cision

MAY 19, 2015

This post was inspired by our free “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR ” white paper. Not long ago, we had a blog post that described five outside-the-box content marketing ideas. Many brands with successful apps focus on either fun or, as Jay Baer calls it, “ youtility.” Mobile Apps.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Traditional media holds several advantages over online media: greater credibility, ability to decide what information is presented, geographic specificity, built-in content promotion and reliable, predictable distribution. ” Consequently, publishers of online media struggle to control the promotion of specific content over others.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Side note: I don’t think “Agility” existed as it does today until 2015. In any case, both of these were “audience buys” and proved to be savvy PR, content marketing and SEO moves. Semrush is focusing on building up their marketing education,” wrote Backlinko founder Brian Dean in a LinkedIn post. PR tech mentions.

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Cision

APRIL 20, 2015

If you’re developing digital content in any capacity, you’ve probably run across some of the following advice: Develop a content strategy. Write “good” content. You could develop content to entertain and never sell, but what if people really want to buy from you? Entertain, don’t sell.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It was one of the first beauty brands to undertake research on a global scale and use key findings to create a meaningful ad campaign. Dove’s research on “The Real Truth About Beauty” (first commissioned in 2004 and then revisited in 2010 and 2015) highlighted a universal problem related to beauty and body image.

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Polaris

JANUARY 2, 2015

Hopefully we learn a few content marketing lessons by reviewing the past year, then use that information to develop even more effective editorial calendars in 2015. Content Marketing Lesson #1: Make it useful and timely. Content Marketing Lesson #2: Showcase stellar examples.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This post, however, is aimed to put visual content on the pedestal. As you look through an interrogative lens — analyzing brands, consumers and the media’s relationship with multimedia, it’s easy to see that visual content is the engine that steers the narrative. Create more visual content. Better understand efficacy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

As communicators, we will be increasingly asked not only to create relationships and generate coverage for brands and organizations, but to build the kind of relationships that actually influence behavior, and do so in a transparent way. According to a 2015 Chief Communications Officer survey by Korn Ferry , CCOs in the U.S.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 21, 2014

Content marketing is on my mind quite a bit this week, for a variety of reasons, so we’ll use that as our topic. A second client tasked me with building a list of recommended next steps to move their content marketing forward, AND I’ve been working on my own 2015 content marketing strategy for Rock The Status Quo.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If there’s one thing every content marketer loves, it’s the grind. I was high on the grind myself recently, fresh out of Uberflip’s stellar Conex conference and sitting in Cleveland for Content Marketing World , typing so fast my laptop was (almost) billowing smoke. You know the feeling.

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Cision

APRIL 22, 2015

Last week, Cision’s journalism facing brand Help a Reporter Out (HARO) attended New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We received tons of great info on content creation , storytelling and writing, so below we highlighted some of the best takeaways: 1. See Donna’s other reasons why we should stop calling it content here.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JANUARY 7, 2016

Content marketing will be more than just a trend to watch in 2016. Creating and distributing consistent and relevant content is considered a proven strategic marketing approach that attracts and retains an audience and drives customers to action. Here is my Q&A with Lisa Davis, Director, Marketing, at Marketwired.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

By 2017, he’d built a billion-dollar brand. How Dubin pulled it off is the stuff of marketing legend. It established Dollar Shave Club as a funny, irreverent, bold, and most importantly, helpful brand. Brands love to talk about going viral; Dubin actually did it. In 2010, Michael Dubin used to work at Time Inc.,

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Back in 2015, Seth Godin, known by some as the godfather of modern marketing, made a bold statement: “Content marketing is the only marketing left.” The post The first steps toward building your content marketing strategy: Discover & Assess appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Cision

MAY 15, 2015

Realizing that the PR, social media and content marketing spaces are always evolving and innovating, we wanted to ask you how you think industry professionals need to #InnovateNow for success in a hashtag contest – and you didn’t disappoint us. . Lorenzo Gee (@bareknucklepr) May 8, 2015. InnovateNow. InnovateNow.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Now more than ever, brands are understanding the importance of building trust and being transparent with their audiences, not to mention the value of clear communication. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. . ~ Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media .

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 23, 2017

And it’s better to build an engaged community over time than it is to serve up a lot of content in the beginning and then drop off the face of the planet. In 2015, I did the unthinkable and let the domain www.mariscallahan.com expire. It may be smarter to create one concise brand. Pick a Fresh, Relevant Domain Name.

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Cision

APRIL 7, 2015

Content marketing is a crucial piece of content strategies. As technology becomes ever-present, content strategies should include video, podcasts, games, comics, events and more. Social media, e-newsletters, articles on owned websites and blogs make up the four most used content marketing tactics.

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Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

. — David Armano (@armano) August 14, 2015. How to Balance Ethics and Reality in #Influencer #Marketing [link] pic.twitter.com/BWn4QG8m0s. — Jay Baer (@jaybaer) August 19, 2015. Jeff Barrett (@BarrettAll) August 12, 2015. Branding, Social Media, Marketing, PR & Professional Coach. Andre F Bourque ?

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Marketwired

DECEMBER 21, 2015

How to Leverage Medium for Your Brand. Medium , a blogging platform with built-in social features that let you to interact with other publishers and share your work, is a great option for brands that want to demonstrate thought-leadership with longer form content. We’ve got some advice to help.

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Communications Conversations

JUNE 18, 2020

But, it’s also changed how social media marketing is working–in quite a big way. However, even with these big changes in the first half of 2020, many social media marketers seem to still be working from the 2015 social media playbook. People were truly talking with brands (and other people). What do I mean?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 29, 2015

My 5 Most Popular Posts of 2015 via @profkrg. Top Three Spin Sucks PR Blog Posts of 2015 via @spinsucks. 12 Content Marketing Lessons Learned in 12 Years of Blogging via @toprank. Top 5 Posts of 2015. Appetite remains for snackable content. Content marketing is PR. Worst 5 Posts of 2015.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 10, 2016

billion in ad spend waste in 2015, according to a new report.”. billion in ad spend waste in 2015, according to a new report.”. As a result, the refrain “content marketing is better than advertising” is bounced around the marketing echo chamber. The post Is Content Marketing Better than Advertising?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sure enough, in 2015, Apple’s revenue was just short of $234 billion. By contrast, Chevon finished up 2015 with about $130 billion in sales. Using the reverse image search feature on Google, I traced the image back to this post published by a cloud vendor Broadview Largest Companies by Revenue in Each State 2015: MAP.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 19, 2016

Marketers are reporting better results stemming from content marketing. That’s according to a recent survey published by Ascend2 titled 2016 State of Content Marketing Survey Summary Report. Click Here to Subscribe to Sword and the Script by Email.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 26, 2016

Long before product placements and sponsored content, one iconic American brand placed a big bet in creating its own television program – another example of an early content marketing initiative – at the urging of its public relations department. Actor, Spokesperson, Content Marketer.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

As businesses and brands, this is one of the key challenges facing us. The new SEO is earning links from credible sources, powered by great content and high engagement with your niche’s influencers. The old way of “build it and they will link” is in rapid decline as content continues to flood the Internet at record-breaking paces.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To enhance empathy and connection with their teams and clients, organizations will foster employee brand ambassadors, highlight origin stories, show behind-the-scenes videos, and encourage user-generated content. Expanded brand collaboration “Partnership Paradise: 2024 will be the year of brand partnerships.

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The Proactive Report

MARCH 13, 2015

As the digital world continues its headlong rush into the future, with new tools and toys popping up all the time, managing a brand’s social media program has become a very time-intensive activity. Luckily for us there are some smart technology solutions that can cut the time dramatically and help you create content that gets results.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As an integrated PR consultancy based in Leeds, we advise big brands on how to use public relations, social media, and content marketing effectively helping them to increase online engagement, raise their profiles and in turn improve their overall business performance. For a full list of our awards visit here.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

When it comes to producing viral videos for big brands, Stephen Voltz is about as experienced as they come. With his viral videos for big brands being viewed over 150 million times, Voltz took the stage at Inbound 2015 to share what he believes to be the four key elements found in almost every viral video.

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Beyond PR

JULY 10, 2017

Feedback is huge when it comes to developing a successful content marketing strategy. Here, we identify five sources that can prove invaluable to you in crafting your content. Who better to listen to in order to develop more targeted content than the people that you are developing content for? Your Prospects.

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