Shift Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Our top posts from the second quarter of 2015 focused on same-day content promotion, Game of Thrones, and expanding your skill set. Will a blog post go viral? cta] The post SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q2 2015 appeared first on SHIFT Communications PR Agency - Boston | New York | San Francisco | Austin. Angie Goldman.

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Cision

JULY 10, 2017

And we’re at an all-time high with those complaints: in the UK, complaints about businesses on social media went up 800% between January 2014 and May 2015. Sugru, a useful putty-like material that hardens, has gone viral as fans of the product share their own tips for how to use it on sites like Pinterest. It’s only getting worse.

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Cision

MAY 20, 2016

When the media reported that Apple’s iPhone 6 was prone to bending, the news went viral on Twitter with the #Bendgate hashtag. TheSalvationArmySA (@SalvationArmySA) March 6, 2015. Smartphone competitors rushed to point out the superiority of their products, while brands like Ford and Delta Lights discussed the positive side of bends.

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Cision

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Below are a few ways you can amp up your storytelling, stemming from insights, ideas and case studies explored at the 2015 xPotomac Conference. We all want as many social media shares as we can get, but in order for us to increase our content’s chances of going viral, we must first look at the demand side. Measure Your Niche’s Density.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

After he sent a takedown notice, the website took down the photo and updated its post, however, the photographer alleges the photo had already spread virally to other websites without proper attribution. This ongoing case has the public contemplating the way viral content hubs choose and use images in their listicles and articles.

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Cision

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Influencer marketing has been around for a while, but it’s become a truly epic wave in 2015. To go widespread (breadth) often means handing out a pretty penny or two or entrusting a campaign to the viral gods. Fifty-two percent of surveyed communication professionals already employ the tactic. But how to get in on it?

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Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

Ripley wrote her insight in 2015. The perpetuation of a “viral” story on digital channels can be hours. 8 (August 2015): 15. Writing in Public Relations Quarterly , Wayne Pines writes that the first order of business for PR crisis communication is to “set a broad strategy in advance.” React fast.

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Polaris

DECEMBER 8, 2014

A video of the comic’s performance went viral, the media piled on. Following his NPR interview, Cosby wisely cancelled appearances on Late Show with David Letterman , the Queen Latifah Show , an interview with the Associated Press, a concert in Las Vegas and other shows in 2014 and 2015.

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Cision

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These messages were collected between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, tracking the peak conversations from the media and blogs as well as the most viral topics on social channels. They then reviewed more than 132,000 social media comments about independent workers. Media Focuses on Employers and Workers on Getting Paid.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 31, 2019

Everyone remembers their viral, bro-y YouTube ad in 2011 , for example. Gillette, a P&G brand, even sued them in 2015, citing patent infringements. Dollar Shave Club didn’t build a billion-dollar business and sell to Unilever in 2016 without throwing a few bombs.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Black Friday 2015 has come and gone, and one trend dominated all others: more and more people are purchasing online rather than shopping at brink-and-mortar retailers. There is not an all-encompassing “social media” Black Friday 2015 was the most social Black Friday on record. Practical Value.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Brands love to talk about going viral; Dubin actually did it. The brand’s success was about more than just going viral or getting lucky. The beginning of the story is about solving a problem for guys,” he told Fortune magazine in 2015. Better yet, that awareness led to revenue. Just ask Michael Dubin.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nielsen’s 2015 Trust in Advertising report shows that people trust earned media (as in editorial articles and posts) and owned content more than any other formats. But the sheer amount of stuff available has made credibility more important than ever…and maybe more elusive.

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

SHOW NOTES – FEBRUARY 19, 2015. How Lies Spread Faster Than Truth: A Study of Viral Content”. We also tackle a really interesting PBS story about the evolving nature of media, and Justine Sacco, who was back in the news this past week. “The Unbearable Lightness of Tweeting” [link]. link] t-like-brand-b t.html.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 25, 2017

During her presentation, Haworth shared case studies pertaining to everything from prescription drug abuse to HIV awareness during the 2015 outbreak in Indiana’s Scott County. Dunkin’ decided to use “ Dancing Pumpkin Man ” in a commercial rolling out their fall products, turning a viral moment into a piece of paid media. “In

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Cision

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In his book, Contagious, Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger describes what makes online videos go viral. Berger shares an acronym STEPPS which describes the ways that people are aroused to share viral content: Social Currency. ” – Psychology Today, August 2015. Practical Value. .”

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 17, 2018

If you’ve got some viral posts, then you’re ready for that “ebook.”. Designing an infographic is an excellent way of making your viral written content more popular and lifting up your posts that performed poorly. million users in 2014 – 2015 were women, and this trend is still prevalent today.

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ISEBOX

MARCH 3, 2016

These days, we need to be considering how we’re going to take our content and power it up to viral status. C&C Content Factory: At the PRSA 2015 International Conference, Heidi Sullivan, Managing Director of Cision Canada, presented her take on why PR professionals need to think in terms of C&C. What a novel idea!”

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5W PR

APRIL 8, 2021

Finally, another great benefit of press releases these days is their ability to potentially go viral, especially since they’re easily accessible via any device that can connect to the internet, which means they’re able to generate a lot of buzz. How to Write the Best Press Release? Newsworthy. To be newsworthy, it should, of course, be “new”.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a post from the Firefly archives – timeless advice, as relevant today as it was in 2015! . Seen a funny picture in a forum that would make a viral-worthy news piece? PRs and journalists are not immune to this – we use and re-use a vast amount on content on a daily basis. For example. Make sure it is credible.

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NewsWhip

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Best Activation on a Viral Moment. While the partnership has existed since 2015, they released the evolved ALPHAEDGE 4D this year on June 8, World Oceans day. Finally one of my personal favorite categories this year, activations on viral social media moments. Best Brand on Instagram. Best Brand on Twitter. Best Legacy Brand.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 30, 2015

6 Buzz Phrases Marketers Should Take Seriously in 2015. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral. Most viral April Fools videos of 2014. Around the Web Business Building Marketing buzz marketing viral marketing' , dust it off along with the rest of your spring cleaning. Why: Because The Day is coming up!

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Top 10 Influential Social Media Campaigns of 2015. Why: “While it’s still true that you can’t force a post to go viral, there are plenty of creative methods you can explore to make your social posts much more persuasive and far more influential,” says Eunice David as she talks about great campaigns from 2015.

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PR in High Definition

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a post from the Firefly archives – timeless advice, as relevant today as it was in 2015! . Seen a funny picture in a forum that would make a viral-worthy news piece? PRs and journalists are not immune to this – we use and re-use a vast amount on content on a daily basis. For example. Make sure it is credible.

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Beyond PR

JULY 10, 2017

And we’re at an all-time high with those complaints: in the UK, complaints about businesses on social media went up 800% between January 2014 and May 2015. Sugru, a useful putty-like material that hardens, has gone viral as fans of the product share their own tips for how to use it on sites like Pinterest. It’s only getting worse.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In 2015, the Associated Press announced that a number of its original news articles were written by AI. Uber came under fire after an employee blog went viral, detailing a culture of sexism. Algorithms can take behavioural data from thousands of consumers and determine what they are buying, at what time, when and how.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 27, 2015

People dislike this inevitability and generally will bounce from a landing page; another reason why gated content doesn’t go viral. Forty-eight hours later I received a second phone call and by extension another voicemail and this time, also an email.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 22, 2016

There’s reliable data indicating the median PR salary in an agency rose to $84,500 in 2015. Marketers think in terms of findability, sharability and virality. His company has previously conducted PR firm billable hour survey research for the larger agencies. We know he’s right about compensation – PR salaries have gone up.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 26, 2025

Then 2013 to 2015, I was, my tactics were still very sketchy, but they got a little bit cleaner. And then 2015 I actually got nailed because of my link building behaviors. So I started doing full-time in 2013, but from like 2011 to 2013, I was doing like a lot of gray hat, a lot of, much riskier tactics. And so one back then.

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David PR Group

JANUARY 12, 2015

Perhaps I’m over-reacting, but changing the go-to Girl Scout cookie might be the first big reputational crisis of 2015. Who knows, maybe the Thin Mint taste test goes viral and becomes this year’s version of the Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Buzzstream

JULY 10, 2024

I If we look at where this industry started to take a shift, we will probably start doing some version of what we now call digital PR in 2015. Now, if we look at what was working in 2015, and if we look at the landscape, pretty much any link we were earning from an authoritative top tier news publication was moving the needle in my opinion.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Like back in 2015, 2016, we heard a lot about like site silos and like hub and spoke. And if we could tie together that theme of inflation and homeowners insurance and create an interesting report or narrative in that topic space, like that would be a piece of content that would go pretty viral and do well, like in the media.

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Flatiron Communications

MAY 29, 2015

Caro (@socarolinesays) May 26, 2015. ” After a month of boffo media attention, the online virality of this unsanctioned illustration thrust Lilly Pulitzer, the company, under a harsh media spotlght prompting this apology: “These illustrations were the work of one individual and were posted in her personal work area.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Taylor Swift is a PR mastermind of the highest order,” confirms writer Chris Ostendorf, in his Daily Dot commentary titled, The PR Genius of Taylor Swift’s Viral Media Empire. January 31, 2015. Swift has carefully, methodically and brilliantly crafted a public persona designed to make you love her (or else).

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 27, 2018

The Chartered Practitioner accreditation scheme was revised in 2015 removing the requirement for a paper. But devising an idea that is meme-friendly that inspires an audience to develop and share so that it goes viral is as tough as it gets. Excellence Theory is a much debated model of public relations practice.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

With Yellowberry, when our founder launched the business and it went viral via the Kickstarter community, we embraced fans and used them as part of the story. . “It’s important to be authentic and emotional in your storytelling, but also embrace crowd cultures. ” – Lindsay Rider, Yellowberry.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

With Yellowberry, when our founder launched the business and it went viral via the Kickstarter community, we embraced fans and used them as part of the story. . “It’s important to be authentic and emotional in your storytelling, but also embrace crowd cultures. ” – Lindsay Rider, Yellowberry.

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