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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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PR In China: the Latest Hits (and Misses)

Flack's Revenge

Last night the Daily Show reported that the Chinese government is clamping down on a journalism scourge that confuses citizens and can poison their minds – namely wordplay, that’s right, puns. Needless to say, Jon Stewart had great fun with this, see the clip above. That slippery slope does not sound so foreign, does it?

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Does Data-Driven Storytelling Threaten the Role of the Communicator? #CisionWorldTour Toronto

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Paid media will make that data easily available otherwise you will take your advertising dollars elsewhere. But, if the Wall Street Journal mentions your brand, what is that worth? Owned media is easy to report on, you own the channels and that data should easily be available to you. Who saw it? What did they do after they read it?

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A brief guide to short-form video for brands

NewsWhip

Instagram carousels lack the quick, “get to the point” advertising that so many want to see. followers, it’s in the same viral sphere as Duolingo. Instagram Reels are short videos within the Instagram platform that offer brands the same quick advertising format that TikTok offers. Data backs it up.

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How Public Relations Can Fight Fake News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Like many in PR, advertising, and journalism, I was relieved when Google and Facebook announced they would ban “fake news” sites from using use their ad services. Post-factual “news” isn’t merely annoying or even just a threat to journalism – it’s a magnet for the mentally unstable.

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10 Research-Based Tips for Writing Better Content

Cision

In advertising and communication, oftentimes you need to introduce a new concept or product to your publics. In the Journal of Consumer Research , researchers examined people’s reaction to the pronouns “you” and “we” in brand communication. “you and brand X”). This is known as “satiation.”

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Letter from Grand Central Rail

Stephen Waddington

Podcasting is back in vogue, using LinkedIn effectively, Tortoise slow journalism project, Netflix Fyre documentary, unreasonable briefs, a new AI marketing book and dates for PRFest. Podcasts have traditionally been hard to monetise through advertising because the audience is fragmented and analytics are poor.

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