Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? And it’s killing your ability to be creative with your campaigns. This type of approach is reminiscent of marketing days gone by, but it isn’t representative of what works best in 2018. Staying Creative With Content. About Dan Curran.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

The content you should be creating 2018 plans are underway and creatives are about to be brought to life. The 3 Behaviors Driving the Most Creative Content Marketers Using a lovely ice cream analogy Jay Acunzo, founder of Unthinkable explains the behaviours that are helping the best in content marketing succeed. The results?

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

There is no better place too study a mix of key issues facing marketing such as creativity , budgets and ROI. 1) Statistics on the Super Bowl audience and advertising. minutes of total airtime, which is roughly 2 minutes less than in 2018. minutes of total airtime, which is roughly 2 minutes less than in 2018.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s good news for contextual advertising companies, who have already started reaping the benefits of marketing’s ‘identity crisis.’ It will boost tactics like contextual advertising, email marketing, and social commerce and could even usher in a new era of creative marketing and PR strategies. Fast-vertising.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 29, 2021

This is likely to be most applicable to agencies in the creative and professional services sector. According to HM Revenue & Customers £5.3bn of R&D tax relief support was claimed for the financial year 2018-19. This category includes public relations and communications firms, advertising, and media agencies.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2018

measurePR March 2018. measurePR April 2018. In April, Kami Huyse joined as the guest host to discuss measuring the success of paid advertising for nonprofits with Jasmine Cordew of Whole Whale. Here’s some of what was talked about: On whether paid advertising for nonprofits is a good use of funds: A2: Yes!

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

The 2018 JOTW Communications Survey from Frank Strong. The survey was conducted in February 2018 and 155 respondents completed the questionnaire. The full report – the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey – was announced in today’s issue of the JOTW and is freely available on SlideShare (also embedded nearby). Click To Tweet.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

That changed in 2018. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. It’s worth putting a little paid spend to boost links to announcements, invitations and blog posts with targeted social media advertisements. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics.

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Still, according to an article in Business Insider , 34 percent of marketing executives felt unprepared for this change in 2018. In today’s digital landscape, rife with an oversaturation of advertisements, customers have high standards when it comes to personalized experiences. Creative skills (26%). None (27%).

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PRSay

OCTOBER 7, 2018

It’s really hard to be a decent human-being in the workplace all the time,” said Mildenhall, during the opening General Session at the PRSA 2018 International Conference in Austin, Texas before more than 2,000 professional communicators and students. “I I don’t succeed all the time.”. How much did the brand grow?

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. A Creative Press Release for B2B Tech. Or do so, knowing you might overlook a good creative idea. The Denny’s stunt was the brainchild of an advertiser and not a PR pro. and execute on them ? Talk to Us !

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Communications Conversations

JULY 2, 2019

But, it continues to be a topic of discussion–mostly because not every brand has the budget of Walmart and can continue to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars each year into social media advertising. Now, to be fair, that 51% number is a drop from 62% in 2018. Today, quality rules (as does advertising). They bought in.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Almost six million people listen to a podcast each week in the UK according to Ofcom’s Communications Market Report 2018. million in 2018. Podcasts have traditionally been hard to monetise through advertising because the audience is fragmented and data imperfect. As a result, podcasting is underserved by advertising.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2019

The sky’s the limit when it comes to creativity in the travel and tourism industry! Back in August 2018, we had three incredible industry guests, who shared how they uniquely measure PR and marketing. SuiteBreak.com (@SuiteBreak) August 16, 2018. SuiteBreak.com (@SuiteBreak) August 16, 2018. Guest Post by Danielle Heiny.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 1, 2019

This blog published about 60 new posts in 2018. And so here’s the annual look at the most read, least read, and posts I recommend reading, that were published on Sword and the Script in 2018. The 7 Most Read Posts in 2018. Here are the posts readers read the most in 2018 – as measured by readers clicks.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 2, 2018

So, in Mark Zuckerberg’s ongoing quest for greater transparency (at least, on the PR front) following the US Elections, he’s just announced plans to throw open the previously hidden world of Facebook advertising. For political advertisers, we’re working on a tool that will let you search an archive of ads they’ve run in the past.

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5W PR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

But one of the problems for businesses – and their PR people, Instagram continues to limit access to paid advertising on their site. Finally, don’t forget this is still a social media platform, that means it’s not just about advertising your product or service, it’s also about building an interactive group.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To shift this direction, MSHDA teamed up with local companies Airfoil Group (a creative marketing and PR firm) and Perich Advertising + Design to build an integrated marketing communications campaign centered on demystifying the home-buying process for potential first-time homebuyers — specifically Michigan millennials.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We can measure the initial impacts of marketing and advertising efforts almost immediately, but that doesn’t mean we should. But it’s not advertising, and it’s not ‘influencer marketing’ in the Kardashian style. Podcast advertising revenue will exceed $1 billion in 2020. 5) Marketers will slow down.

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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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PRSay

MAY 9, 2023

We used to calculate the value of earned media placements according to advertising value equivalency (AVE), based on the cost of a print media ad and the publication in which it appeared. It’s unlikely that any amount of paid advertising would have built the same value for the brand. Photo credit: parradee ]

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Marketing turns to creative to stand out from the clutter . The pendulum has swung too far and at the expense of creativity in marketing. That’s all going to change in next year because creative work is the essence of differentiation and a key driver of revenue and profit. A reset on advertising spend.

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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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 28, 2017

While labeling this person a “data scientist” may be overblown, McKinsey estimates that by 2018 the number of data science jobs in the US will be over 490,000, yet the eligible, qualified candidates to fill these jobs will be fewer than 200,000. Take, for example, just how hot Domino’s Pizza is today. Match tactics to goals.

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Barokas

JULY 10, 2019

Maybe it’s a logo, a product or even an advertisement. But in 2018, the company sent out a single tweet that was provocative enough to turn heads; coming out in opposition against President Trump’s decision to reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah: Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. .

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Advertising is a distant third. Read more: Separating Creativity from Technology in Thinking about Marketing Innovation [UML]. Coverage stemming from the 2018 CMO Survey by Gartner how tech and innovation get lumped together in the same category. 30) Companies build in-house creative agencies. 4% said to drive loyalty.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

According to a 2018 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) survey, 75% of marketers are using influencers as a marketing tool and 43% plan to increase spending on it in the next 12 months. And in a 2017 TINT article, only 4% of consumers declared trust in marketing in advertising in general. They create fresh content.

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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.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

That was the opening to the August 2018 Monthly Scripts email newsletter and a fitting opening when one steps back and looks over the 10 articles out of a couple hundred that made the cut. It used to be we had three choices: Rent a medium with advertising; Earn coverage in a medium by being useful; or. creative ideas and execute them?

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Wildfire

AUGUST 6, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, the Wildfire team went along to the latest meet-up from creative marketing magazine Contagious. Speaking at the event, Contagious’s team of creative experts presented their list of the top trends that “ nobody cares about in 2018 ”, and guess what made the list? And we’re not alone.

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Mindful Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2021

The intensely competitive alcohol industry has led many beer manufacturers to become very creative marketers: from elaborate point of purchase displays in retail stores to highly produced commercials during Super Bowls. on advertising. Is it serious social responsibility or is it a straightforward advertising-spend?

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Interestingly, the top three “skills” marketing leaders look for in new hires are: a) creativity – 25%; b) natural leadership ability – 21%; and. The full report in PDF format is available without registration: The CMO Survey Highlights and Insights August 2018. c) marketing technology ( martech ) platform experience – 18%.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

A new study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is warning the industry of an approaching “ talent crisis ,” according to reporting by Erik Oster for Adweek. For example, two of the most prominent trade publications in the industry include the words “ad” or “advertising” in their titles. Give our services a try.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. Advertising Week. Tech industry.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

It mirrors a trend that’s already underway in PR’s sibling departments in marketing and advertising. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” In 2018, the most recent edition, there were nearly 7,000.

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The collision of these two cultural behemoths is going to create six weeks of extreme congestion across TV schedules, news agendas, advertising buys and of course, consumer attention. We wanted to see if we could find a way for communications and PR specialists to steal a march through some data-informed insight.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The award-winning , Canadian-based agency, a Critical Mention client, provides agile and responsive public relations, content creation, digital advertising and SEO solutions to those in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley area. With the changing media landscape, the ability to earn coverage requires that much more creativity!

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