Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

After working and learning from Ross Hudgens , the founder of content marketing agency, Siege Media , for close to seven years, I am thrilled to have him on the podcast. Ross and Emily Campbell-Snidal , their VP of Content Marketing, recently released a podcast explaining their new “product-led digital PR” approach.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 1, 2025

The word reasoning is buzzy across generative AI circles pitched as the anecdote to hallucinations. Instead of searching and sorting through a database, you just tell Dazzles chatbot (Dazz) what your pitch is about, and it goes a search for relevant reporters and influencers based on what they have written.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2025

I’ve been looking to speak with more in-house brands who have had success with digital PR. I looked to Chris Lewis , the Associate Digital PR at Launch Potato because he works on several brands under the Launch Potato umbrella. Through a lot of hard work and strategic pitching, the post really took off.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 8, 2025

Therefore, there has been a shift in how brands and agencies are thinking about building links. The big move is towards “digital PR.” So, I was able to chat with Clearlink’s Director of Digital PR, Sage Singleton to get a sense for why this is happening and how it’s impacted their agency.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Since I have amassed a bucket of tips, secrets, and tricks over my ~ seven years of agency work in digital PR and link building, I thought Id start sharing them in the newsletter. After getting some great feedback from readers, I recently started expanding it to include tips from other digital PRs and link builders in the game.

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Remote PR Jobs

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether you were a PR Freelance professional or part of a larger agency, it was a go-to platform for helping reporters with expert insights. A starting point could be finding journalists' contact information so you can pitch them directly. PR is evolving, but the fundamentals remain the same. However, things have changed.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Ayelet Noff , who owns SlicedBrand and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dazzle, summarizes the catalyst for the business idea as taking the “growing grunt work” out of PR. The company is also thinking about reducing off-topic PR pitches, which is a good thing because many PR software companies do not mention this when launching new products.

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Remote PR Jobs

DECEMBER 31, 2024

PR is all about staying on top of your game, and in todays remote world, that means having the best tools and software for remote work at your fingertips. From remote team management tools to free collaboration tools for remote teams, professionals are more reliant than ever on the best PR tools to keep campaigns running smoothly.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 21, 2025

Recently, Ive heard a prominent digital PR team saying they send over 5K emails per campaign to get great results. Digital PR campaigns are rarely relevant to thousands of journalists, so this number gave me pause. Only 1 in 3 emails in digital PR gets opened the average open rate was 33.79%.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Alex Cassidy of UK digital PR agency Distinctly wrote a post about how they were trying to use ChatGPT to build creative campaigns. The digital PR team’s doing it, and other agencies are doing it. How has AI changed the way your agency thinks? That’s how it all started. That’s good.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

At one point during the summer Olympics, I saw a compelling LinkedIn post from a fellow digital PR, Victoria Schmid. Digital PRs suddenly see open rates, click-through rates, and responses drop precipitously and scramble to meet KPIs and link goals. This tip comes from Bri Goodwin, Digital PR Manager at Journey Further.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Once upon a time, emailing journalists meant buying a list of media email addresses and blasting out a generic pitch. Some got coverage, but the vast majority of pitches were irrelevant, which decreased journalist receptivity to pitches overall. Personalized email pitching is the key to success today.

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Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Digital PR is not link-building for SEO. The rapid evolution of the internet and social media has transformed the communications industry—and PR professionals must adapt. Some “digital PR” agencies have focused on practices like link-building, DA (domain authority) mapping, and webmaster outreach.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 19, 2025

As Doug is an expert in all things podcasting, I figured picking his brain about pitching yourself or your clients to get on podcasts would be an excellent opportunity. Ditch the Templates Generic mass-pitching doesnt work. Prioritize Relevance Over Volume Mass pitching might land you spots on low-quality podcasts.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of my favorite examples is when KFC ran out of chicken in 2018 and published this full-page ad apologizing for it: In digital PR, reactive PR campaigns typically pitch quotes, data, or new stories to journalists that tie into a trending topic or news event. So, thats where reactive PR as a strategy stands out.

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5W PR

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Digital PR is an online marketing approach that’s used to increase a brand’s awareness via internet-based strategies. While in many ways it’s similar to traditional PR, digital PR reaches a broader audience. That said: Why is digital PR important to your brand in 2021? Increase your Web Traffic.

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Buzzstream

JULY 10, 2024

I met Digitaloft’s founder, James Brockbank, at their Digital PR Summit in Manchester. With his deep SEO background, he can explain technical aspects like Google’s patents while still naturally integrating that into his agency’s digital PR and content strategy without it feeling forced.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 16, 2025

Embryo is an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Manchester, offering multi-channel services from Digital PR, Paid Social, PPC, SEO to Affiliates. And, with the pool of journalists getting slimmer, its important to get pitches relevant and valuable for each contact, in order to build a good relationship.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

However, I believe that the PR agencies should take this as an opportunity rather than a challenge. With such alterations in the media industry, PR agencies have a window to get more creative and embrace newer avenues, such as social media platforms, more aggressively than before. Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Amelia Selby works for SEO Travel , a unique digital marketing agency based in the UK with a great vision. SEO Travel is a non-profit agency that helps small—to medium-sized travel companies with smaller budgets. However, it also comes with the unique challenge of delivering results in digital PR on a lean budget.

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5W PR

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Next, it’s important to pitch to journalists. Tailor pitches to the specific interests and needs of each journalist. The post Integrating PR Strategies into Your Digital Marketing Plan for Maximum Impact appeared first on Public Relations Blog | 5W PR Agency | PR Firm.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Enter digital PR. I’ve spent the last ten years helping companies grow their digital presence with digital PR, and I’ve seen first-hand the impact and value digital PR can drive for a brand’s growth. What is Digital PR? In the next section, we’ll explore the types of digital PR.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Finding great digital PR examples , campaigns and resources takes a lot of work and time. Our State of Digital PR survey reported content ideation as the most challenging part of digital PR. Since Iona and Annie—both PR experts—curate this list, I feel confident they are assembling the best campaigns.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 5, 2024

The term digital PR means different things depending on who you ask. We even had an entire podcast episode devoted to the differences between digital PR strategies US and UK with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson. Some people refer to digital PR as content-led link building. But there is a lot more to digital PR.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2024

Using the right tools will make or break your digital PR campaign, and our digital PR agency is using the powerful suite of tools provided by BuzzStream to revolutionize and constantly experiment with our approach to outreach, digital PR, and link building more generally.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

You can also collaborate with other publishing partners such as journalists, editors and PR agencies instead of just pitching your content to them. Taral Patel is a PR Executive at PRmention , a Digital PR Agency helping businesses get more visibility through their targeted digital PR strategies.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 7, 2025

With interest in digital PR growing almost 30% in the past few years, we wanted to put together a snapshot of today’s industry, looking at tactics, challenges, tools, and much more. We interviewed over 150 digital PR professionals worldwide between November and December 2024 to give you the State of Digital PR Report for 2025.

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Landis PR

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Spin Sucks For those seeking to sharpen their digital PR skills, Spin Sucks delivers weekly episodes packed with actionable insights about modern communications strategies. Each episode provides inspiration for crafting more engaging press releases, pitches and content.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 14, 2024

Digital PR can help rankings, organic traffic and more. The term digital PR may differ slightly depending on who you ask. We recently discussed the differences between US and UK digital PR with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson on our podcast. How Does Digital PR Help SEO? More on that later.)

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Digital PR there are different types of tactics and formats used for creating content, each designed to achieve links and brand mentions. These different digital PR tactics range from surveys, commentary and quick pieces of data analysis through to large scale interactive campaigns.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. Others rely on bloggers. So we can add him to the list.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With seemingly new AI models dropping daily, agencies and site owners are all scrambling for answers on how and what to prioritize to appear in AI search results. At the same time, AI companies are also facing lawsuits from other media giants , leadingto rampant speculation about how to approach digital PR strategy.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If you missed it, Alice Walker-Gibbons , the Digital PR Lead at Embryo , an independent UK digital marketing agency, wrote a fantastic case study about how they used reactive PR to land some major links (using BuzzStream, of course ). I’d highly recommend checking it out if reactive PR is on your radar.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But before that, I worked for over ten years with three content marketing agencies and one in-house role. Over the years, I tested and used almost every digital PR, blogger outreach , and link building tool available. Below, we’ve collected our favorite digital PR tools that have been proven to help launch successful campaigns.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In this episode, I spoke with Hana Montgomery , the founder and managing director of the digital PR agency Shout Bravo. I met Hana at Brighton SEO , and she gave a great talk about running global digital PR campaigns and earning links internationally. Is it changing digital PR?

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

One successful PR campaign is Spotify's Wrapped , where they allow users to show their favorite artists and tracks of each year, leaning into users' needs for social sharing and individuality. #3 3 Craft a compelling narrative A successful PR campaign requires a story to back it up. Because people buy stories, not sales pitches.

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