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PR In China: the Latest Hits (and Misses)

Flack's Revenge

Despite the heavy (and humorless) hand, if you think the state of media there leaves no room for PR stunts, viral marketing, and click bait, guess again. Carmen Ren a PR rock star who just completed her internship here , shared this article. That slippery slope does not sound so foreign, does it?

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Only 5% of B2B buyers are in market today; but where did that statistic come from?

Sword and the Script

He’s obviously got street cred and I’ve been following him for a while on LinkedIn and Twitter because I can learn from him. I got fed up with the attention span of goldfish statistic a couple of years ago; it’s 100% fictitious and yet went viral). This is a deceptively simple fact, but it has a profound implication for advertising.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

Waxing UnLyrical

A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In his research on viral advertising videos , he found that a very small percentage of advertising videos (0.1%) actually go “viral.” His findings are pretty illuminating. Why we share.

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How Easily Can Businesses Reach a Social Audience?

Cision

So what I want to do in this post is take a look at how effectively businesses can currently reach an audience on the most popular social platforms for free, through search and through advertising. Paid content: One of Facebook’s greatest strengths is leveraging its audience to generate advertising revenue.

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5 Common Misperceptions of Social Customers

Cision

In their book, “Think Like a Freak,” Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe an group of marketers who assert that video advertising is four times as effective as their print advertising. LinkedIn demonstrated this last month when they revealed that only one of four LinkedIn users is an active user.

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Social media updates: Facebook Messenger encryption, TikTok’s ‘add to music app’ and LinkedIn axes lookalike audiences

Prohibition

LinkedIn axes lookalike audiences Looking toward B2B, on February 29th, 2024, LinkedIn will discontinue the lookalike audience functionality. LinkedIn axes lookalike audiences Looking toward B2B, on February 29th, 2024, LinkedIn will discontinue the lookalike audience functionality.

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The latest social media updates: LinkedIn changes it algorithm to tackle ‘engagement baiting’ and Instagram introduces a new story format

Prohibition

It is also rumoured that Musk hopes to reduce the reliance on funding through advertising, looking at a “pay to play” system instead – which is one to watch if you currently do advertising on Twitter. LinkedIn announces a clamp down on engagement baiting. TikTok content creators are able to be credited for their viral trends.