Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. Stories about products or services in low-interest categories will need to borrow interest in the form of new information, like survey results, new research, or big names attached.

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PRSay

JANUARY 3, 2025

They dont want to hear PR spin, corporate-speak, or false promises. According to one customer survey , 86% of customers say authenticity helps them determine which brands to support. . #1 Help clients embrace brand authenticity and transparency People are tired of brands positing that they are perfect.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 6, 2018

The same applies to a corporation looking to add PR help in-house, or alternatively, doing a cost-benefit analysis of bringing on outside help from an agency. As such, the annual PRWeek salary survey provides good benchmarks. Median salaries across corporate, agency and non-profit positions break down as flows: Corporate: $132,000.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Many of the posts published here are heavily weighted with surveys and reports. Paid media and advertising statistics. 9) Even advertisers want to invest in PR. 11) Corporate reputation suffers with bad experiences. “82% Genuine Corporate Apology ). PR Salary Survey ). PR and media relations statistics.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2024

If you read my posts, they are all about surveys and studies and I checked the sources (i.e. He wrote it up in a paper published online titled, Advertising effectiveness and the 95-5 rule: most B2B buyers are not in the market right now. This is a deceptively simple fact, but it has a profound implication for advertising.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Moreover, three recent surveys of CMOs suggests it has practical applications as budgets, which on the whole have grown over the last few years, will continue to grow. Here are the cliff notes to each of those three surveys. This is down slightly, but macro trends across the economy suggest corporate revenues are up.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 12, 2016

Ownership is a strong word in the high-stakes game of corporate social media turf wars – yet consensus increasingly points to PR as primary proponents. A recent survey by the employment agency, The Creative Group , says corporate executives are increasingly inclined to pin the communications shop with such responsibility.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Nearly 80% of the 1,279 bloggers in the 7 th annual Orbit Media blogger survey say blogging drives some marketing results – and 25% say it draws “strong marketing results.” According to the survey, the average blog post is 1,269 words. Multiple surveys and data studies support this conclusion.

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Business Wire

MAY 3, 2017

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or AICPA, released the results of a new survey revealing the startling impact that fake financial news is having on Americans' ability to make retirement, investment and healthcare decisions. Learn more about the AICPA survey from the release issued on Business Wire.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Most PR professionals say media relations is getting harder or much harder, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey. Over the last few months, there have been three separate surveys that polled hundreds of editors, reporter sand journalists. This is up 17% from last year where 51% said media relations was getting harder.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 13, 2023

A survey of 3,000+ finds 75% of journalists say the top action any PR person can take is to understand a reporter’s target audience and what they find relevant; journalism statistics show reporters worry about accuracy, credibility and keeping pace amid more work and fewer resources Most PR professionals say media relations is getting harder.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 9, 2016

For years, the PR industry’s response to the problem was to measure outcomes by treating earned media stories as paid advertising, with a dollar value calculated from standard ad rates. The ad equivalent formula was popular with marketers because it translated PR output into something familiar – advertising!

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As much as video content has grown in advertising, marketing, and PR , data shows that it continues to expand. As noted in our post on long-form content , a CEO can help influence a corporate image as well as build a personal brand through regular video communications. An expression of corporate values. A public-facing CEO.

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Reputation Us

OCTOBER 16, 2023

According to Performance Marketing World, 84% of millennials don’t trust conventional advertising. Find Your “ Consumer Reports ” Even if your business is not a major corporation with products or services that garner the attention of prominent evaluators, it is crucial to gather unbiased opinions — to identify your “ Consumer Reports.”

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2020

According to the Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020, the top PR challenges are: 1. You’re not alone; that’s the sentiment that came through in the “challenges” section of the 2020 JOTW Communications Survey. Here’s a look at the top challenges facing PR according to the survey – and some ideas for what you can do about it.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 5, 2016

Confusion over social and mobile reigns among the ranks of marketers according to the latest edition of The CMO survey by the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Much like last year’s survey , CMOs said they plan to invest in social, mobile and digital. The survey also found that just 11.5 by Frank Strong. Or near-zero.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 16, 2017

If there’s one theme that plagued digital advertising throughout 2017, it was controversy. 1) Advertisers looking to invest in PR. In May 2017, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) surveyed 100 of its members and found most plan to increase their investment in PR. 2) B2B prioritizing budgets for earned media.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

of studies and surveys – some of which I had a hand in producing – dissecting the results and connecting dots where it looks appropriate. Each statistic links to the blog post that covered that particular study or survey and links to the underlying source. Read more: 5 Datapoints from the CMO Survey for B2B Marketers.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2023

That’s according to a survey of 20,000 consumers by the market research firm GWI. 50% of B2B marketers say social media contributes most to the top of the funnel A survey of 358 B2B marketers by Wpromote and Ascend2 in early 2023 found that “half of US B2B marketers say that social media contributes most to achieving top-of-funnel goals.”

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A survey by Spiceworks Ziff Davis found B2B tech marketing prospects say they consume 11 or more piece of vendor content Pieces of content. According to a survey by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, about half (47%) of B2B technology decision-makers say they consumed 11 or more piece of vendor content over one year. Consumption. It works too.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Of that segment of respondents, 72% use paid social media channels; 66% use sponsorships; 61% use pay-per-click advertising. Year after year this survey shows that successful content marketing programs are resourced appropriately, have a documented content strategy, put their audience needs first, and measure real results with analytics.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

For example, the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey posed this question to 223 PR and communications pros…and we received a wide variety of answers from respondents. The survey received 177 answers in total to this question. 115) “Advertising.”. Some of this variety stems from the organizational chart. 111) “Spreading the word.”.

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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. Transforming a slick brochure into a PDF to host on the corporate website is not content marketing. Takeaway: This is the problem that has nagged advertising for ages. by Frank Strong. Lacks relevance.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

Nearly half of respondents (47%) in a recent survey of public relations pros found many are observing more PR work being taken in-house. In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. Who do you see advertising on those pages?

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Even surveys don’t really cut it. The company works with adtech networks to do for media coverage what adtech is doing for advertising. Adtech networks already have tracking on major media sites to deliver performance information for advertising hosted there, and Cision works with these companies to do the same thing for coverage.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 25, 2017

According to a recent Pew Internet survey , 43 percent of Americans report often getting news online, a share just 7 percentage points lower than the 50% who often get news on television. It means thinking about how you use your corporate blog (or, starting a corporate blog). Jake Paul is the new Ted Danson! Radically.

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Business Wire

JANUARY 19, 2017

Business Wire has spent over 50 years building symbiotic relationships with media, investors and consumers by regularly delivering factually reliable and timely corporate news content. Twitter, Facebook and other services modify the visibility of all content to maximize their own advertising revenues.

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Reputation Us

MAY 1, 2019

But recently, the importance of corporations working with nonprofits has been proven to successfully enhance a company’s reputation. Nonprofits that work to leverage this information can help support their own organization—and strengthen the reputation of their corporate partners, thus creating a win-win partnership.

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 20, 2016

The GIFT report – produced by Brand Finance, CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) – is an annual study assessing the intangible assets of more than 57,000 companies in more than 160 jurisdictions around the world. trillion to the UK economy.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 25, 2022

90% of comms pros surveyed say their work has changed some, and of those, 50% say communications work has changed significantly. That’s according to The 5th Annual JOTW Strategic Communications Survey for 2022 , which polled 483 communications professionals – mostly in the US. in an open-ended follow-up question. Additional duties.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

One thing that separates PR, and specifically media relations, from marketing and advertising is third-party validation: there’s nothing you can say about yourself that’s as powerful as someone else saying it about you. Old fashioned press releases and advertising can lead to bona fide editorial coverage. Million and Eyes the U.S.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike advertising, which relies on paid media channels, PR campaigns focus on earning media coverage, building relationships with media professionals and target audiences, and influencing public perception through engagement and storytelling. Measure against your KPIs to assess effectiveness.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

That’s according to Oliver McAteer , writing for Campaign Live about a survey by buy-side vendor Sizmek. The company surveyed 500 marketers in Europe and the US and found many admit to struggling to marry “digital advertising and powerful creative work.”. Meanwhile, 84 percent say A.I.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Corporate communications, marketing communications and HR leaders use employee communications applications (ECAs) to inform the workforce about business activities, cultural topics, operational needs and job-related priorities.” Just 12% of survey respondents say they were “very knowledgeable” about AI and its capacity to support PR.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2019

The survey found 30% of B2B respondents cited news coverage as the way they “people learn about new products online that they can use for their day jobs.” Blogs, including independent and corporate blogs, can be credible. Advertising is a distant third. For B2B companies, earned media and branded content ranked the highest.

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