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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. To determine the right creative angle, ask yourself—why would my audiences care about this topic? What do you want people to do differently as a result of your PR campaign?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many in the industry agree and acknowledge that PR/Communications as an organization is way behind in adopting data-driven ways compared to their colleagues in marketing, finance, customer service or human resources as an example. Why this roadblock shows up? If you follow the right path, the results will prove itself.
But if holiday PR opportunities are approached carelessly, they can be squandered. From Labor Day to New Year’s Eve, fall holidays probably offer the best occasions for media coverage, but the approach needs to be relevant, respectful, and creative. Do release some relevant data. Dos and don’ts for holiday media pitching.
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? Youre not alonebut thankfully, AI can help.
Multi-touch attribution provides PR professionals with the opportunity to measure each step in the lifecycle, including those “murky middle” touch points. By measuring multiple touch points in a singular model, multi-touch attribution brings many benefits to the PR measurement table. Image: Katie Brady ( Creative Commons ).
Data-drivenPR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must. Emerging channels like podcasts will continue to grow in influence, which means PR pros have to become more fluent in strategically pitching and forming relationships in these channels.
Something that weve been focussing on heavily at Tank is data-drivenPR, in particular, utilising internal data. Our clients are often sitting on a goldmine of data whether this is sales stats, user trends, or even a rise in sales for a specific product.
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. . — Christopher Penn (@cspenn) May 18, 2017. Christopher S.
There are plenty of other examples of automation gone wrong (take the recent hacking of Coca-Cola’s Twitter account by Gawker editors to prove the same case). Data-drivenPR does not equate with programmatic thinking. Data-driven is just that—information drives the direction, moves us forward. Photo Credit.
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.
For example, ChatGPT will soon understand, interact and communicate using many different methods like text, images, video, audio and more. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. However, remember that AI should not replace human-written content and creativity.
Alex Cassidy of UK digital PR agency Distinctly wrote a post about how they were trying to use ChatGPT to build creative campaigns. It’s really all about benefits for the team’s productivity and removing those admin tasks that might get in the way of creative thinking. That’s how it all started.
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.
For example, ChatGPT will soon understand, interact and communicate using many different methods like text, images, video, audio and more. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros. However, remember that AI should not replace human-written content and creativity.
“How good it would be if every task could be automated, saving the time of PR professionals for vital tasks such as creative work and decision-making activities? The first example is pragmatic AI. It represents the kind of value you can get when you pair good data with great technology.
One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned over the course of my 17 year professional career – and worked to impart on those I have mentored – is that thinking critically and creatively, showing genuine curiosity, and prioritizing relationship building are THE most important skills to develop as a PR professional.
For example, the MLB used Bluetooth Beacons in its ballparks to direct customers to their seats. Push notifications are a another example of brands using an entire mobile device as a canvas for its message. Here’s an example of an app that uses push notifications : Refresh, an app which creates digital dossiers to use during meetings.
With the evolution of technology, companies have generated a lot more data, which can inspire the creation of a lot more ideas, as well as increase the reach of those creative ideas. For example, a fintech journalist isn’t going to talk about topics in the health tech industry.
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