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Best Practices for Harnessing Social Media Virality — Without Being Cringe

PRSay

For brands looking to connect with a modern audience, this increasingly means cultivating a compelling social media presence. More than three-quarters of businesses use social media to engage with customers and drive revenue. What’s more, consumers want to see their favorite brands on social media.

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Why Lies Beat The Truth On Social Media

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It seems lies are more viral than truth – at least on Twitter. Conducted by the MIT Media Lab, it was unprecedented in scope, analyzing 126,000 distinct “rumor cascades” that spread on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. It pollutes our media just as surely as toxic smoke poisons the atmosphere.

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6 Trends That Will Affect PR In 2022

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Research shows that consumers want the brands and companies they do business with to be fair employers, good corporate citizens, and responsible stewards of the environment. The voracious appetite for viral stories on social platforms will assure plenty of exaggerated, distorted, and downright fake stories that seek to stoke tribal divisions.

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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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Healthy Socialization: What Can Social Media Offer Healthcare Organizations?

Shift Communications

When it comes to social media, the landscape today is more cluttered than a hoarder’s bedroom. Thanks to social media, a little creativity can go a long way. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge went viral and helped raise both awareness and more than $100 million dollars for the rare disease. Offer Simple Asks.

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How Not To Get Cancelled: A PR View

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

That’s empowering to regular consumers. Yes, social media pushback can be constructive, yet it often spins out of control. But the joke infuriated many TikTok users, including our very own Chris Harihar, whose tweet went viral. To its credit, the social media manager for Duolingo posted a heartfelt apology.

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Huffington Goes Viral with Data Science – You can Too

Flack's Revenge

Their efforts have propelled merely popular stories into through-the-roof viral successes. Since then it is a new game, as more people are discovering and consuming news through social media. Project Fortune Teller: Data Predict Viral Success. The resulting quick action turned popular articles into viral successes.

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