Cision

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

When it comes to producing viral videos for big brands, Stephen Voltz is about as experienced as they come. With his viral videos for big brands being viewed over 150 million times, Voltz took the stage at Inbound 2015 to share what he believes to be the four key elements found in almost every viral video.

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Flack's Revenge

AUGUST 9, 2016

Those featured, however, didn’t go into detail on the role of advertising to boost reach. Their efforts have propelled merely popular stories into through-the-roof viral successes. Project Fortune Teller: Data Predict Viral Success. The resulting quick action turned popular articles into viral successes.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 30, 2024

But with endless ads and marketing noise, it’s hard to get your story heard, especially if you’re using the same marketing tactics and jargon as your competitors. The reason influencer marketing is so effective is because influencers have already built a loyal following of people who trust their opinions.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2025

This, to me, is the definition of viral. So, in this conversation, Chris outlined the step-by-step process for getting this data-driven digital PR content to go viral. For instance, Chriss team compared newly launched value meals after their fast food inflation study went viral. Dont fear failure Not every campaign will hit.

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Marketwired

APRIL 21, 2016

When you think of content marketing today, the traditional way you see it in the marketplace is as a blog post, white paper, video, or some other piece of easily sharable digital content that can help you make your purchasing decisions. These brands are winning with markets that are hard to target by traditional means.

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Onclusive

JULY 18, 2017

Most marketers are obsessed with attribution—and with good reason: not only are they being held accountable for campaign performance, but they’re also on a mission to continually optimize that performance. PR is playing an increasingly integral role in the marketing mix. Those marketers are going to want to know it’s money well spent.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2024

Sometimes statistics shared on social media take on a life of their own – that’s a problem if we don’t understand the source and methodology; here’s the source on the “95:5 rule” Only 5% of B2B prospects that vendors are trying to reach are in the market for a product. By contrast, 95% are not in the market currently.

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Agility PR Solutions

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Social media marketing has the potential to be the most cost-effective form of advertising any business puts together. It builds connections with potential brand advocates, maintains a feeling of meaningful partnership, and holds the possibility of viral spread for your most important messaging.

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NewsWhip

MARCH 31, 2021

What happens when influence outshines advertising? As the CIO Bryan Pedersen leads MSL’s digital and innovation center of excellence that includes developing new offerings and tools, as well bolstering core capabilities like storytelling and influencer marketing. MARCH 26, 2021. Watch webinar. Read transcript. Bryan: Yeah.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Prankvertising is a marketing strategy and growing trend in recent years that involves pranking, if not outright scaring, an unsuspecting individual or audience. When a journalist later called Gordon out on the stunt, which he believed to be fake, Gordon exacted his viral revenge. Marketing Analyst. Advertising'

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Chief marketing officers are in love with the idea of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® event record and having their brands bask in the seemingly viral eruption of TV, radio, print and online buzz that comes from that honor. Nissan (largest indoor illuminated advertising billboard). million worth of media coverage.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Everywhere we look, it seems that a brand is just waiting to entice us with flashy marketing or advertising. The idea of being in the right place, at the right time, with the right message is one that pervades the digital marketing industry and presents an ongoing challenge to marketers. Does this make sense?

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Mindful Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing We’ve all said things we later regretted. It’s easy to scoff at these ads and think, “How could those companies be so rash to release such obviously offensive advertising?”

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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. PR PR Tech China tech PR'

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This immediacy brought on by the rise of social media and all things digital has led to real-time marketing (RTM) becoming one of the biggest industry trends in recent years. Having a plan may seem counterintuitive when it comes to marketing in real time, but doing your research in advance is a must. Marketing Analyst.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Market research, social engineering and a little bit of luck seemed to produce a spate of so-called “boy bands” in the late 1990s. Marketers Mindlessly Chasing Cool. In the liberty of an abstract context, I’d re-introduce Ello and the new social network’s noble concept that there’s a better model than advertising.

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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Kathy Walsh, director of marketing at Fallston Group, recommends thinking about your goals and letting them guide your strategy. In this interview, Kathy discusses the importance of knowing what is being said about your brand, how to properly prepare for potential crises and why basic marketing principles are still relevant today.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked a whole bunch of smart people for their marketing predictions or PR predictions for the next year. And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In 5) Marketers will slow down.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The party room is pure marketing – of the genius variety – both because it ignites word-of-mouth and because it pays for itself. Self-Propelled Marketing. Marketing as a Profit Center. Rainbow Play Systems isn’t the only type of business to make money from its marketing, thought it does take a special breed of business.

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Cision

JUNE 29, 2017

The marketing department can be split into three types of media — paid, owned and earned. Paid media will make that data easily available otherwise you will take your advertising dollars elsewhere. Too often, marketers present metrics that look good instead of metrics that matter. . “Data is an imperative in our industry.

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

Fractl, a digital marketing firm, carried out a surveyed of 400 people asking them to record their emotional responses to 100 of the top images from Reddit’s r/pics community. Unveiling surprising facts or data can also make your online PR content go viral. He specializes in SEO and Content Marketing activities.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

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.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2023

” Okay, so maybe people aren’t shouting about tools and software for advertisers. They might be limiting the glitz for customer events, but their presence reaffirms the prominence of technology brands in today’s advertising landscape. Yet as a PR agency with deep roots in adtech, we’ve been tracking Cannes Lions for years.

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Konnect Agency

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As social media platforms continue to emerge and evolve, each innovation drives industry trends, and advertisers must quickly adapt to create and maintain relevancy with consumers in order to keep their brands top of mind. Influencer Marketing Agency Breakdown of Video Content Evolution.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In his nearly 19 years at Amazon, Herdener has seen Amazon’s PR function move from a retail-consumer focus to a multifaceted approach that includes employee communications, social media, executive communications and reputational marketing. That is traditionally the advertising and marketing function.

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Cision

MAY 12, 2017

The best way to go about it is to find ad placements by listing the websites where you want to advertise or search for placements that are in-sync with your client’s themes or topics. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. Connect with him on Twitter @connect2taral.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 25, 2017

The story went viral as news organizations picked up the story. To my astonishment, the audio recording on USA Today was preceded by an advertising spot by NBC for a premier golf championship. In my mind, this is an example of just how dark, twisted and distant advertising has become with automation. Still, I clicked through.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2018

Still, a prime impediment to PR teams’ showing out-of-the-box creative chops is clients’ aversion to risk– something not so prevalent in the advertising field. To urge people to give their eyes periodic breaks from screens, it filmed a series of snappy, fun viral videos called 20 Second Daydreams.

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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2022

Here we share five top tips when it comes to social media advertising for small businesses to help promote the brand, product or service through advertising: Start with a plan for you social media advertising . Plan your advertising strategy thoroughly – consider all the methods of maximising engagement.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But “Dunkin” has been used in DD marketing for years, and it’s already a nickname among regular customers. And as smart marketers know, an affectionate nickname is branding gold. A brand nickname is like a viral video. Coca-Cola has not been shy about using “Coke” in its marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Major organizations can be shaken by a careless tweet or a viral customer complaint. The overlapping roles of corporate communications and marketing and dissolution of silos in some organizations have not always been smooth. Yet they are aware that the cost of a mistake, or a simple overreaction can be high.

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5W PR

JANUARY 23, 2023

Benefits Companies understand how difficult it’s become to reach their target audiences by only relying on advertising campaigns. However, a lot of companies have a difficult time doing that, which is why they’ve started to invest in advertising campaigns on the platform, as well as influencer marketing campaigns.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. You have two options: Promote through paid media (pay-per-click advertisements & sponsored posts). Let’s start with my favorite.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Instagram carousels lack the quick, “get to the point” advertising that so many want to see. HubSpot’s recent survey on 2022 marketing trends found that short-form video has the highest return on investment. followers, it’s in the same viral sphere as Duolingo. Long-winded promotional copy and “swipe to learn more!”

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Polaris

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The video quickly went viral, racking up over 1 million views the first day alone. He also addressed the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Content Marketing' In April 2012, Mullick released Caines’s Arcade, an 11-minute video telling the story of Caine, his cardboard arcade and the flash mob.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 28, 2017

Advertising Equivalent Value (AVE) has mutated into a new form of measurement for the digital and social age called Earned Media Value (EMV). AVE metrics are determined by calculating the equivalent advertising cost for earned content. An arbitrary multiplier is applied on the basis that editorial is more valuable than advertising.

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Agility PR Solutions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing and PR professionals marveled at how Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen turned an online duel with rival Chick-fil-A into $65 million in “free” advertising this past August when its sassy Fried Chicken Sandwich battle went viral on Twitter—and led to a complete sell-out of the sandwich in all 2,400 Popeyes stores across the U.S.

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