Shift Communications

MARCH 19, 2015

Increased trust in your brand. Increased desire to purchase or at least consideration of your brand. These qualitative benefits of PR are as old as the marketing funnel itself. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-driven PR.

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Data-Driven PR Analytics Google Data 60

Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Using the vast data available to public relations teams can unearth lessons for strategic development and help to create a cyclical process of analysis. Without adding the science to the art of PR we miss important opportunities to tell compelling stories, impact audiences more effectively, and ultimately prove the value of PR.

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Data How To Big Data Engineering 146

Deirdre Breakenridge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is the challenge my friends at AirPR are solving, one data dashboard at a time. Those guys preach “data-driven PR” so that PR professionals and brand marketers get smarter about how and what they measure when a campaign comes to a close. Did it drive traffic, engagement, or sales?

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Data-Driven PR Strategy Data Measurement 150

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Of course no PR person would create such a media pitch, but it’s a good reminder that for many people, serious holidays have deep and emotional meaning. Do release some relevant data. Solid data-driven PR story pitches are always welcomed by reporters, but especially so during calendar milestones or big breaking stories.

Media Relations 157

Media Relations Media Pitching Data-Driven PR 157

Onclusive

AUGUST 15, 2017

If they’re not, the data showing what’s not working arms you with intel that can help you make better decisions moving forward. All data, whether it “makes you look good” initially or not, is valuable! Critical thinking paired with iterative analysis of PR data can help build trust between you and your executives or clients.

Data 170

Data Data-Driven PR Analytics Measurement 170

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. To put it another way, predictions are equal parts analysis and aspiration. PR grows more in demand. Data-driven PR. Bill Byrne , Managing Director, Remedy PR .

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The Hoyt Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As businesses become more digitized, paying attention to current trends, like the ever-growing importance of social media and data analytics, helps to promote and protect brand image. Also, it allows professionals to employ the right PR strategies when it matters most. Today, companies expect more from their PR departments.

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Shift Communications

JULY 6, 2015

One of the most difficult challenges reporting and analytics face in public relations measurement is sentiment analysis. Machines attempt textual analysis of sentiment all the time; more often than not, it goes horribly wrong. What a terrible mixup, to classify something as negative towards your brand when it’s a positive.

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Analysis How To Data Analytics 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

For B2B companies, this presents a massive PR opportunity. To meet media demand, B2B tech brands in particular can build out their own research assets. An asset that can earn branded media coverage is valuable — and that’s not all. Data-driven coverage can establish a brand as a category expert or leader.

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B2B Data Retail Survey 147

Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

As our VP of Marketing Tech previously summarized : In a crisis management situation, something has gone wrong and your brand is on fire. to help ensure his vegan donut business and brand reputation doesn’t suffer during or after Shark Week. Sentiment/tone analysis. is suffering a crisis. Media training.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve talked a lot in the past year about Facebook, from the evolution of its advertising offering to the almost complete destruction of organic reach for brand pages. As a brand manager, the best thing you can do is accept this fact and adjust strategies. Data-Driven PR Milestone: SHIFT Becomes Google Analytics Certified Partner.

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Data-Driven PR Facebook Analytics Google 60

Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

My plea not just to tech companies, but to PR companies, ad agencies, and marketers across the board: Rather than talk about what everyone’s already talking about—let’s be the ones to get them talking. Data-driven PR does not equate with programmatic thinking. It’s a brand identity and a value prop. Photo Credit.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

Do we help build confidence in a brand to nurture or ease the selling process? There’s nothing wrong with quantitative data, especially if you want to answer the question, “ what happened? ”. What’s wrong with this approach is that we try to force quantitative analysis to answer qualitative questions.

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Measurement Data Study Advertising 147

Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

It’s difficult to boil everything down to one number; the nature of attribution analysis is that there are often many variables which influence someone’s decision to buy something. The biggest problem brands face – for the most part – isn’t negative press. What is branded non-negative search?

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Measurement SEO Policies Reputation 107

Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Brands can enhance their social media presence by creating engaging content, actively interacting with their audience, leveraging SEO, utilizing analytics for strategy refinement and staying updated with new platforms and trends. Data-driven PR Trends PR pros are using data-driven analytics to guide PR strategies.

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Trends YouTube Video Social Media 105

Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

Data-driven PR Data-driven PR uses analytics to guide PR strategies. It focuses on media coverage, audience data and social trends to improve campaign effectiveness. Most decision-making in this approach is based on data and this drives greater campaign successes.

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Trends Data-Driven PR Analytics Survey 52

Shift Communications

APRIL 30, 2015

It’s no secret that large agencies have the luxury of launching programs as brand exercises, throwing money at a problem or trend — be it through M&A, new offices or “cutting edge” practices. At SHIFT, we’ve taken our approach to data-driven PR and directly applied it to being a data-driven business.

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Agency How To Data-Driven PR Data 60

Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

Whether a brand has experience with controversial news or has yet to meet a crisis challenge, having a communications plan in place in advance of a potential incident is a must. Brands that are too quick to pull the trigger – usually via social media – often get caught in a riptide of negative backlash. Another data source G.W.’s

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Case Study Crisis Management Crisis Study 94

Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Strategy Branding Brand Technology 62

Shift Communications

JANUARY 5, 2015

As businesses and brands, this is one of the key challenges facing us. While some well known, loved brands will likely see their demise in the year ahead, new challenger brands will take their places. For brands with some advertising budget, the paid media world offers more choices and power than ever before.

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Marketing SEO Advertising Advertising 60

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In the hierarchy of analytics, data is the stuff, the raw materials. Data is what’s stored in your database, crammed into your spreadsheets, cluttering up your hard drive. Analysis comes from the Greek word analein , to loosen up. Here’s a simple example of the differences among data, analysis, and insight.

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Hotels Analytics Analysis Data 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. You crave subtlety and nuance, a desire to see the big picture as well as the data itself. Citizen analysts don’t accept blanket statements at face value, especially when presented with little or no methodology.

Data 60

Data Viral Analytics Analysis 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. You crave subtlety and nuance, a desire to see the big picture as well as the data itself. Citizen analysts don’t accept blanket statements at face value, especially when presented with little or no methodology.

Data 60

Data Viral Analytics Analysis 60

Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model. A simple example may be an analysis of engagement for a brand’s 2015 social content, revealing what types of posts earned the most attention. A model is simply a substitute for reality that we can use to better understand the real thing.

Content Marketing 60

Content Marketing System Google Data 60

Shift Communications

OCTOBER 2, 2017

To execute predictive analytics efficiently and effectively, we need three classes of people in our organizations: Developers, to access the data and APIs that provide our data. Data scientists, to build predictive models from our data. Very few organizations have the resources and capabilities to hire all three classes.

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Analytics Data-Driven PR Software Enterprise 112