Sword and the Script

MARCH 6, 2018

The 2018 survey was based on responses of 1,053 communications professionals and here’s how the numbers stack up. Don’t miss these related posts: 20 Golden PR and Content Marketing Ideas that will Outlive 2017. The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. 1) Median PR salaries remain flat.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 3, 2018

Have you given much thought to how you’ll improve your work life in 2018? Why do many PR majors graduate with a degree in Journalism? To get better at what we do, we need to understand how areas like content marketing and social media fit into PR. But what about professional resolutions? Cheers to a successful year!

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Cision

JANUARY 2, 2018

It’s 2018: Do you know where your marketing campaigns are focused? Facebook has gained a reputation for being a marketing shortcut of sorts; its ads have an average click-through rate of.9 This type of approach is reminiscent of marketing days gone by, but it isn’t representative of what works best in 2018.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. . Growth of independent journalism. “We We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. 2020: 30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020. Happy New Year! Image credit: Pixabay.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I study organizational persuasion for a living and I knew this was not bona fide journalism. Some clever guy with a political bent bought a domain and polished up a site to look like journalism. There is something wrong with perpetuating erroneous information and dressing it up to look like journalism.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 27, 2021

The multi-year trendline on this question suggests it’s not getting any easier (here are the survey results to this question in 2020 , 2019 and 2018 ). Third-party validation is still more credible than all the content marketing and brand journalism in the world. Use content marketing with media relations in mind.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 3, 2017

B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2020

Answered: unsure , brands should take a stand) Interestingly, the results mirror a 2018 survey that asked consumers if they wanted brands to take a stand on politics. >>> That’s up from 68% in 2019 and 51% in 2018. That is, yes. Media relations only gets harder. 75% of PR pros say media relations is getting harder.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

They took some time to catch up to other lines of business, but marketing departments are now making data and analytics a huge part of what they do. A 2018 survey by Dun & Bradstreet, for instance, found that data quality was extremely important to 63 percent of B2B companies. And 2019 figures to be more of the same. Eric Lebowitz.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. Those companies that can take data, do a deep dive, and understand what the data tells them will see more success in achieving their goals from content than those who look at simple analytics.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 9, 2020

That’s an increase from 68% in 2019 and 51% in 2018. If media relations is hard, so too is journalism and reporting. That’s what content marketing is all about. Too many confuse content marketing with marketing content. It’s not a game of numbers because the total number of players is finite.

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Critical Mention

JUNE 10, 2020

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NewsWhip

OCTOBER 30, 2019

While there have been about 230k articles covering the pharma industry each year since 2017, in 2017 and 2018 engagements reached the millions while the most engaged articles for 2019 so far have barely broken 250k engagements. Katherine is a Content Strategist working at the confluence of journalism + marketing.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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Critical Mention

APRIL 13, 2020

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Critical Mention

JULY 16, 2019

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

While the PR community has heard inklings of in-housing anecdotally – Richard Edelman recently cited it as a cause following disappointing earnings for the year ending 2018 – to the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we’ve seen this trend surface in a survey of the communications industry. content marketing (64%).

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Critical Mention

MAY 28, 2019

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 23, 2018

1) What effect do you think the rise of content marketing has had on marketing overall? Well, on one hand, it’s provided marketers with yet another catchphrase to hang their collective hats on. I joke that marketers can’t get out of bed without a new catch phrase or acronym to ‘play with.’

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Read more: 3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]. 2) The average content marketing budget is $185,000. The most successful content marketers invested more, with an average of $272,000, while the least successful content marketers spent less at $109,000.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Measuring genuine ROI and a marketing campaign’s long-term contribution to revenue takes time, and marketers need to slow down to do it.”. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. 6) Relationships with people who have the ear of your target market. “It’s How can they do that?

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Media and journalism. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. If you’re a marketer, surely you thought ‘yes, please’ to at least two of those categories. Digital Sales & Marketing World.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 14, 2018

The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. For example, citing the Edelman Trust Barometer, Digiday reported , “trust in traditional media has increased from 48 percent last year to 61 percent in 2018.”. 4) Emphasis on professional journalism. A majority (78%) of U.S.-based

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

5) Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report. 6) 4 Big Media Trends that have Upended PR and Marketing. 2) 3 Studies that Challenge Marketing Assumptions [UML]. 3) Basic, Advanced and Bridge Building: Boldness in Content Marketing [UML]. Content marketing is similar.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 12, 2022

“So, I sold my agency and went all in with Propel to invent the public relations management (PRM) category – which has significantly gained steam in the industry since we launched the first PRM in 2018.”. Meltwater offers 50 suggested metrics to measure your content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2019

Digital marketing spend tallied up at around $629 billion in the US in 2018. This year it’s on track to outpace the investment in analog marketing channels for the first time. So, given the results which one is better – PR or content marketing ? Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

For example, there have been numerous surveys and a pile of anecdotal evidence that CMOs are bringing more marketing work in-house. 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.” (By VC investment grew to $7.2

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

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How To 60

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 30, 2019

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 28, 2018

One big change is that, effective September 13, 2018, we will no longer be accepting contributions from vendors for the ICN.” [ emphasis added ]. See these related articles: The PR Opportunity for Brands as Publishers Tinker with Journalism. Even the Google search snippet has gotten that message, as the screenshot nearby suggests.

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PR 20/20

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And if you want to absorb marketing news and insight from industry leaders during your commute with a new podcast, we’ve got you covered with 12 of our team’s favorites. This Old Marketing. and Epic Content Marketing. Overview: First started in 2013, This Old Marketing is THE podcast for content marketers.

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Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 7, 2019

We hope that 2018 was a good year for you, both personally and professionally. Panera, Ticketfly, Facebook, we could go on listing the companies who faced data breaches in 2018. Content Marketing. Consumers are increasingly become savvy to – and wary of – being sold to, making content marketing all that more valuable.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million. Sources: Crunchbase , Wall Street Journal , PRWeek , GlobeNewsWire ). 12) July 30, 2018: ShareIQ. Cision acquires ShareIQ which “discovers, analyzes and indexes original pieces of visual content.” 4) October 22, 2014: Gorkana.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 3, 2020

c) Instagram Video Posts Receive Twice the Engagement of Other Post Types via Matt Southern , Search Engine Journal , HubSpot and Mention. “A And what are we actually talking about when we use the word ‘storytelling?’”. e) The Best Time & Day to Send a Press Release [Updated for 2020] via Prowly and Rafal Salak. “We

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