Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Content marketing as a discipline is still relatively new, and it’s evolving into whatever we professional communicators and marketers say it is. How do you most effectively package your company’s unique value propositions and expertise, and deliver it to the market? Focus on the content. Play to their ego.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As PR pros, we must continually adapt to emerging technologies that impact consumer behavior. As voice-enabled devices and virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant become common, voice search is also transforming how consumers interact with brands and information. According to Demand Sage, there are 4.2

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Cision

APRIL 23, 2015

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Public relations and content marketing are powerful when they work together, particularly for B2B PR programs designed to educate prospective customers and push them down the funnel to a point of purchase. But when they work in concert, PR and content marketing are a 1+1+3 situation. Never discount earned media.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

In fact, if you’re already producing high-quality content , it could mean your team is about to get a chance to shine. Here’s everything you need to know about third-party cookies and what their phase-out means for content marketers in 2024.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 7, 2020

When you’re working in a larger organization that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of employees, you can develop a brilliant content marketing strategy that will absolutely delight your customers. But, if you fail to make an internal case for your content, your plan will never get the buy-in or budget it needs to succeed.

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Cision

JANUARY 10, 2018

Data-driven recruitment tools like Harver work to eliminate the tedious task of manually sorting through hundreds of applicants to find the perfect additions to your business. This means that a solid content marketing strategy will do wonders for your brand messaging. Conclusion.

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Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This post, however, is aimed to put visual content on the pedestal. As you look through an interrogative lens — analyzing brands, consumers and the media’s relationship with multimedia, it’s easy to see that visual content is the engine that steers the narrative. Visual Content Impacts Your Performance.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A well-crafted press release can do just that — increasing consumer awareness, connecting you with influencers and helping to generate new business. A century later, companies have to do a lot more to get the attention of not only newspapers but also a newly expanded audience of blogs, influencers and consumers. Example: ‘I Quit!

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Cision

MAY 29, 2017

The internet has changed the way we discover and consume information. The focus was more on quality of content. Almost every brand is creating content to offer value for their audiences, which means it’s even more difficult for people to find the information they are looking for. Offer Users Quality Content.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 11, 2022

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. How content marketing leads to meaningful ROI. Audit your content.

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Flack's Revenge

AUGUST 9, 2016

At last week’s NY Data Science Meetup (at Metis NYC ) we learned how the Huffington Post , the largest social publisher, is using data science to better understand which articles can benefit from a promotional push. The meetup was about Data Science in the Newsroom. Data across the Content Life Cycle.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2017

First, I think data provides a wide canvas of the happenings in the industry. It’s good to know where and how other marketers are finding success. Those categories are: Content marketing statistics. Social media marketing statistics. Marketing measurement statistics. Content Marketing Statistics.

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We will begin seeing more jobs and spending from both businesses and consumers. Fusion of PR and content marketing Content marketing is a proven way to break through the noise, as long as the content is highly visible. That’s why content marketing needs PR.

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NewsWhip

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way marketers collect, understand, and even improve customer interactions, particularly when it comes to content marketing strategy. AI-enabled predictive analytics presents another significant opportunity for marketers to leverage.

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Onclusive

JUNE 17, 2020

Consumers are growing tired of paid media. Their statistics show that branded websites and other forms of owned media are the second-most trusted form of marketing, with 70% of global respondents saying they completely or somewhat trust these sources. Savvy brands are focusing on owned media and content marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 22, 2019

Believe it or not, the caution with which consumers approach money actually makes finance content into fertile ground for creativity. After all, the actual content of bank marketing stays largely the same from institution to institution—there are finite ways to approach writing about, say, a checking account or a credit card.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

That may be changing in the near future, particularly as content marketing has reached a saturation point.The Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi predicts a resurgence of print content led by brands and points to Airbnb, which recently launched a print magazine with Hearst. PR and SEO are joined.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2014

In June, at the State of the Internet Webinar, comScore presented data indicating mobile users would surpass desktop users in 2014. In October 2014, comScore provided data to Internet Retailer that showed that 52% of the time consumers spent online occurred within smartphone and tablet apps. And they were right. Mobile Web.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In today’s hi-tech, fast-moving, cluttered digital world, content marketing is one of the most practical, effective and useful marketing strategies to date. It’s an essential aspect of today’s digital marketing landscape. So what does content marketing mean? Is content marketing important?

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Cision

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over the last few years, particularly with the onset of social media, emotional reactions from consumers have changed the face of public relations. Emotional intelligence drives consumer culture which influences your business strategy. So, why not capitalize on this approach to forge a lifelong relationship with your consumers?

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

More data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race. For marketers, this makes brand awareness a huge challenge: How do we stand out above the noise? The answers resoundingly revolved around a single strategy: creating unique, differentiated content.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For anyone who works in public relations, content still reigns supreme. An effective content marketing calendar will complement a PR campaign to help differentiate a brand and generate business growth. Each partner teamed to create this graphically gorgeous explanation of the relationship between data and football.

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2017

GitLab, a startup with $25 million in funding, got into a major PR embarrassment when one of its employees accidentally deleted client data from the primary database server. To make matters worse, all attempts to restore the complete data failed. We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. Reports + Data Are the Biggest Differentiators.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

These are the same guys that advertisers and content marketing rely upon to track their results with so much detail. With this data net in place, PR pros can determine who engages with content and with coverage. Then, those audience members are tagged and monitored all the way through to the lead or sale.

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Cision

MAY 25, 2017

One of the best cases for owned media, in a world where every brand is creating more content, came from Managing Director of Consumer Marketing at Edelman, Stephanie Smirnov. His advice to content marketers was to focus on authenticity above all else. Paid Media Will See Big Changes.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 9, 2024

Every content marketer loves the feeling when a content piece climbs the rankings for views, engagement, and, ultimately, conversion. But nowadays, marketers have more reliable ways to choose content topics that are likely to engage customers. That’s where data comes in. There are caveats, though.

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Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

That’s where your content marketing efforts come into to play. On top of crafting compelling content, the most prominent challenge is driving engagement from targeted audiences. According to HubSpot’s 2017 State of Inbound, the top challenge marketing faces is generating more traffic and leads. million words.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 8, 2019

As Contently’s co-founder and CTO, I’m always thinking about new ways software can help people. Technology has played a huge role in the growth of content marketing by simplifying communication, automating tasks, and collecting data. Customers don’t want to be bombarded by annoying sales tactics.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

If there’s one thing every content marketer loves, it’s the grind. I was high on the grind myself recently, fresh out of Uberflip’s stellar Conex conference and sitting in Cleveland for Content Marketing World , typing so fast my laptop was (almost) billowing smoke. Marketers don’t slow down.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Data-driven PR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must. And that requires good data – not only to find the right people and outlets but also to measure the reach and impact of these efforts. Eventually, and thankfully, DEI will be expected and not a marketing point.

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Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 15, 2024

High-quality individual pieces of content marketing don’t just happen in a vacuum – you need goals, a content calendar, competitor, audience and SEO research, and more! In other words, you need a content strategy. Read on for the essential elements of how to create a successful content marketing strategy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

consumers say they are suspicious of news content. Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business. Here’s why. Credibility. PR generates influence.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 7, 2020

It’s also a great platform for relationship-building for anyone in public relations or content marketing. Steve contributes to Forbes as a senior retail leader focusing on emerging trends and the evolution of consumer markets. . Twitter is an invaluable resource for both PR pros as well as top media and influencers.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020. Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies or other sources of data. Content marketing statistics from 2020.

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