Onclusive

APRIL 15, 2020

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-driven PR and communications. Simply put, attribution shows how PR efforts are helping a company achieve its business objectives.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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.

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Onclusive

APRIL 15, 2020

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-driven PR and communications. Simply put, attribution shows how PR efforts are helping a company achieve its business objectives.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 19, 2015

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. 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?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 9, 2014

In this example below, how are we doing? There are any number of tools that can allow you to download the biographical data of your Twitter following, such as tools from Moz, Sysomos, Simply Measured, and even Twitter’s own API. Analytics Data-Driven PR Marketing Marketing Technology Metrics Strategy Tools'

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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. This method of measurement does not tie back to business objectives and these softer metrics often do not resonate with the C-Suite.

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Onclusive

MARCH 17, 2021

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.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

However, one area where video-minded PR professionals fall short is how to measure the success of video communications. The old way of measuring video success was simple, if ineffective: how many views did our video receive? The Video Communications Measurement Funnel. Video Impact Can Be Measured! The Old Way.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR 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.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, ChatGPT will soon understand, interact and communicate using many different methods like text, images, video, audio and more. Examples of AI Prompts for PR Research Rank the top five best practices for crisis communication in the context of a healthcare industry scandal? Human-Centered or Authentic Approach 4.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

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.

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Cision

JULY 2, 2015

Data measurement is the only way to ensure your business succeeds now and in the future. 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. Data is money.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

For example, ChatGPT will soon understand, interact and communicate using many different methods like text, images, video, audio and more. Examples of AI Prompts for PR Research Rank the top five best practices for crisis communication in the context of a healthcare industry scandal?

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Onclusive

MAY 10, 2017

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.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A metric of any kind is a snapshot in time of where a piece of data is. For example, you can get a snapshot of how many people have viewed a bylined article, or get a snapshot of how many followers you have on Twitter. If you track how much your position changes over time, you are starting to measure velocity.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

You may have noticed already that we talk a lot about data-driven PR at SHIFT. It’s not just a topic on our blog, it’s a concept we are encouraged to prioritize in every facet of our PR strategies. For example, it’s a rare sight to see The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal provide a link to a company website.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 12, 2018

I was asked recently what the most important metric, the most important thing to measure in PR is. So, what measurable trait helps us determine the effectiveness of PR? The Most Important Metric in PR Today is Branded Non-Negative Search. Measure What Matters. Our brand name is in the search.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It’s a brochure, a cultural touchpoint and an ideal place for not only aggregating content in one spot but also for measuring how effective your efforts have been in wooing prospects to check out your offerings. The important thing for us, beyond the upgraded look and feel, was to hammer on the data-driven PR aspect.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

Rather than just wing it or have a purely canned talk that may not be relevant to the audience and the event, we can look to data. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-driven PR program. Measurement. What’s the goal?

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Shift Communications

MARCH 17, 2015

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). Automated marketing technologies rely heavily on the mimicry of the masses in social spheres to measure efficacy and the resonance of company messages in the market.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They are most concerned with data that falls into their marketing domain (email, web traffic, social, earned media measurement) and feeding sales as much as possible. Just a few examples: If you’re a SaaS provider, understand how different departments within your enterprise client interact (e.g.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This means PR pros will need to figure out how to have their clients mentioned in these outlets and learn how to measure their success.”. PR grows more in demand. Data-driven PR. One of the big headlines for 2022 is that a data-driven approach to PR will be a must.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s the age-old question…or the ‘PR-age’ old question that is. How to measure the impact of our work? With many agencies still stuck offering client reports relying on impressions or number of social shares, you’ve likely seen many posts on the SHIFT blog about how to move past these antiquated forms of measurement.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Our top posts, the best of Q4 content of 2018, focused on earned media, Google Analytics metrics, and measuring PR success. 3 CATEGORIES OF PR AND EARNED MEDIA. HOW TO BEST MEASURE YOUR PR SUCCESS. Take note of these tools, metrics, and analysis tactics to measure your PR success for 2018. Here’s how.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 25, 2017

For example, analyzing top-performing posts within an industry will uncover apparent trends. How can all of this be measured and analyzed? SCALE is a cloud based software designed to close the data gap when analyzing how well content performs. SHIFT has the solution: SCALE.

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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. Example words which flag as positive sentiment include like, love, enjoy, etc. Example words which flag as positive sentiment include like, love, enjoy, etc. Here’s another example.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

For example, when a company creates a piece of content for publication, it’s then up to the public relations department to share this piece of content with the right journalists and outlets. For example, a fintech journalist isn’t going to talk about topics in the health tech industry.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Politicians are renowned for obfuscating data, willfully ignoring large contradictory data sets or cherry-picking only data that fits their agenda. In other cases, we may be working with data that’s incomplete or conflated. To defeat obfuscation , we search for additional data.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

One of the most common PR measurement questions we receive is, “What is the value of an impression?” Why do we measure impressions? For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on my commute to work. Here’s a simple way to do so: measure how often people search for you by name.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 19, 2015

One of the most common PR measurement questions we receive is, “What is the value of an impression?” Why do we measure impressions? For example, I drive past billboards and advertisements every morning on the commute to work. Here’s a simple way to do so: measure how often people search for you by name.

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