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Welcome back to our blog series about data-drivenPR campaign planning! Your messaging and your story are the heart of your PR campaign. Onclusive’s research tool, Research Trends , helps communications professionals understand what is trending in the media and on social platforms. Measure success.
Making Data-Driven Decisions Raw data becomes valuable when it informs strategy. Leading PR teams establish clear KPIs tied to business goals, then use analytics to optimize toward those metrics. These technologies will continue evolving, but the core principle remains: data-drivenPR delivers better results.
And while in the past there have always been clearer metrics around paid and owned media than earned media, that’s changed with the industry shift from print to digital formats, which has resulted in a wealth of digital data. Overall, 78% of PR pros measure their communications effectiveness.*
This is a continuation of our April blog series focused on helping communications teams get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-drivenPR and communications. One of these principles explicitly states that “AVEs are not the value of communications.” .
Although PR and communications have always been and will always be about telling company and brand stories and managing reputation, the ways of creating, controlling, and amplifying those stories, in addition to how and when success is best measured, have shifted. Download this playbook to read about: The 4 Pillars of Growth PR.
Unfortunately, 82 percent of practitioners say they have no way to evaluate the return they receive on PR. PR coverage has typically been measured by media outlet audience size. Fortunately, we now have two major tools at our fingertips: data and insights. Enter the era of data-drivenPR through artificial intelligence.
Whatever the case, B2B and technology-based businesses are in an excellent position to use data-driven storytelling as part of a PR strategy. Here are some compelling reasons why tech PRs should embrace the trend. 5 reasons to embrace data-drivenPR. Data-driven pitches win points with journalists.
In a recently published survey of Chief Communications Officers (CCOs) by Nasdaq, the majority of CCOs reported that they are now held accountable for marketing KPI such as website traffic, sales and lead conversions and content marketing. Digital communications attracts and engages customers: What is the New PR? Think again.
Although PR and communications have always been and will always be about telling company and brand stories and managing reputation, the ways of creating, controlling, and amplifying those stories, in addition to how and when success is best measured, has shifted. The post The Growth PR Playbook appeared first on Onclusive.
In part one of this blog series, Sunita discussed the first cultural roadblock for PR/Communications’ Data-Driven Journeys – Lack of trust in a data management process and data analytics solution for PR/Communications earned media data domain. Why this roadblock shows up?
This is a continuation of our April blog series focused on helping communications teams get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-drivenPR and communications. One of these principles explicitly states that “AVEs are not the value of communications.”.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
As communications becomes more digital, more quantified, and more data-driven, the pressure is on for pros to be as comfortable with data collection, metrics and measurement as they are at writing and creativity. To explore why this is important, let’s look at an example of how data helps PR get press for clients.
We’ve used the expression data-drivenPR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-drivenPR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.
If you’re working with a data-drivenPR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.
One of the greatest challenges to public relations as an industry since the advent of digital marketing and communications is how to measure the effectiveness of PR. How do you measure in reasonably objective numbers the impact of the PR you’ve received? This is a core challenge of data-drivenPR.
In this example below, how are we doing? The odds of someone moving down funnel that’s in my target audience are about 50% – after all, in the above example, 50% of my social media audience wasn’t relevant. Analytics Data-DrivenPR Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy Tools' Christopher S.
In this series, we’ll examine a few data-driven trends that could mean success or failure for your PR efforts in 2016. We marketers and communicators have killed the infographic. Click to view the live infographic and work with the data. Trend #1: Interactive Infographics. Christopher S.
At this year’s Social Media Success Summit, I had the opportunity to teach an advanced marketing and communications analytics session. One of the ideas I shared was looking beyond just the data that comes out of the box from tools like Google Analytics, Facebook insights, etc. Vice President, Marketing Technology.
Today, PR strategy is often informed by data insights. PR teams use data tools and platforms to glean patterns and insight from media coverage, measure audience engagement, and quantify campaign performance. The post What PR Teams Love Right Now: Valentine’s Day Edition appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.
When you’re looking at the data for 2014 in order to formulate ideas for 2015, start by looking for outliers. Look for unusual events that are worth noting, spikes in your data that clearly stand out. Here’s an example from web analytics: Look at those four standout events that are above and beyond normal traffic.
In the last post, we reviewed the necessary ingredients to make successful predictions: good data. We defined good data as clean, compatible, and chosen well. Let’s next look at a predictive analytics example every PR practitioner will benefit from. Example: Matching Search Intent to PR.
It’s one of the most engaging ways to communicate with an audience, and digital platforms are doubling down on video. However, one area where video-minded PR professionals fall short is how to measure the success of video communications. Let’s look at the video communications funnel today. The Old Way. Action Metrics.
Having said that, the tie doesn’t need to be literal; for example, Halloween might be an excellent time for a cybersecurity pitch, or even a “scary” near-death business story about an entrepreneur. Do release some relevant data. Do consider the meaning of holidays.
You can use the data provided in Facebook’s Audience Insights to better inform paid advertising targeting and drive content decisions by creating more of the kinds of content your audience likes. Take @SHIFTcomm followers’ Top Interests, for example. It can inform, guide and drive your strategy if you know where to look. Tori Sabourin.
While most of us communication pros are ringing in the new year with hefty planning, how seriously are we taking our research? For example, if we are trying to build out our earned media strategy and developing public relations pitches, using trending topics in a relevant way gives you an opportunity to be noticed by reporters.
This week we celebrate the 12 th anniversary of the founding of SHIFT Communications. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’re already starting to grow familiar with the term “Data-DrivenPR.” We intend to lead by example. Agency Life Data-DrivenPR News agency news anniversay'
PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. CMOs and CEOs are starting to ask: Why can’t PR be measured and attributed the way that marketing efforts can? The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.
AIs capacity to process large volumes of data. For example, Prowly has incorporated AI features that help draft press releases by having you answer custom questions based on what journalists would ask, ensuring all information is included and nothing is overlooked. The key benefit?
Contrary to popular belief, PR is measurable given the vast amounts of data that are now available to us. Companies such as Iris PR and Vidyard are giving PR professionals and communications experts data sets and analytics tools that help them understand which messages are resonating with customers and prospects.
One way Google Correlate can help PR teams is by providing past trend data that can be used as supporting evidence for predictions they make on behalf of clients and include within their pitches. This makes it easier to identify what information these consumers still need, and therefore, should be included in the pitch. Casey Egan.
Below you can find some examples of tools that may come in handy. Calculate SOV as: (YourBrandMentions)/(TotalIndustryMentions)100 We wrote a whole article about Share of Voice and similar metrics that work like a charm in data-drivenPR. Monitor answers to surveys, emails, and other communication. How to do it?
But as companies start to integrate more involved social media marketing strategies, the number of digital touch points increases, complicating the once simple customer journey and creating more data to analyze and understand. For example, multi-touch attribution also helps: Make campaign changes in real time.
Our client Uberall is a good example. This is why the best ongoing research programs for B2B PR rely on a combination of client data and third-party paid research. For leading data management platform Lotame , for example, their data and third-party surveys are both important, and they often work together.
Now more than ever, brands are understanding the importance of building trust and being transparent with their audiences, not to mention the value of clear communication. This year, we’ve seen brands and agencies alike trying – and struggling – to find and hire strong PR pros. Data-drivenPR.
SHIFT Communications, the premiere data-drivenPR agency , announced today the release of the Heuristic And Recurrent Ontological Lexicon Deep-learner, or HAROLD, the world’s first artificially intelligent (AI), cloud-based PR employee. The Shakespeare example above is real, generated by our AI.
We see this happening in the communications and PR industry. Every industry will need data scientists; every company will need access to data scientists or data science tools in order to remain competitive. As a simple example, predictive analytics tell businesses what they need, when, and where.
Untrusted PR professionals who don’t do the hard work of building relationships often focus only the client’s interests. Many of the communications systems of the digital age DO scale, such as email, instant messaging, text messages, and social media. What you see above are three examples of attempting to take value first.
The solution is simple: opinion out, data in. To make data-drivenPR work, we must rely on data, not opinion or instinct, to make decisions and come up with ideas that lead us to success. To quote Sherlock Holmes from A Scandal in Bohemia, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-drivenPR aspect. Instead, we use data to identify how, where and why that piece of coverage ought to be promoted (using media buying dollars), in those avenues where the clients’ most-likely prospects are hanging out. Todd Defren.
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