Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

According to the Muck Rack’s State of Journalism 2024 report , almost three-quarters of all stories are produced for the digital medium. Because of this, most brands are adopting the digital PR playbook to help boost their online presence, rankings, and overall brand awareness. What is Digital PR?

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Rock the Status Quo

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When you think of the biggest changes in the move from traditional #PR to #DigitalPR, what comes to mind? After decades of media relations and pitching, everything is suddenly changing. It’s also coming from those without a lick of public relations experience who are suddenly writing content and pitching bloggers.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 4, 2024

She’s been quoted in several of our articles and created a fantastic case study of her digital PR success with KURU Footwear. With that in mind, we took to the podcast to discuss the challenges of ideating, designing, and pitching digital PR campaigns from an in-house. I started digital PR back in 2018.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It is rightly said that PR and journalism are interdependent. With the economic slowdown, we are starting to see traditional PR activities becoming slightly tougher as the rate at which newspapers/magazines are shutting down increases, their numbers of pages are reduced, and broadcast channels cut back on original programming.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Ross and Emily Campbell-Snidal , their VP of Content Marketing, recently released a podcast explaining their new “product-led digital PR” approach. You can check out their original conversation about product-led digital PR on their blog. It’s truly good content, digital PR.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Digital PR there are different types of tactics and formats used for creating content, each designed to achieve links and brand mentions. These different digital PR tactics range from surveys, commentary and quick pieces of data analysis through to large scale interactive campaigns.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 6, 2024

PRs and link builders of any size. When it comes to pitching, founderPeter has this advice for pitching: The people who do the following when using SOS almost always have successful pitches. Having a pitch written for the perfect match is definitely better than writing on the fly. Who is it best for?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What I hadn’t considered is that something similar is happening to software code, according to this podcast interview between Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field and The Wall Street Journal. version of PR platform Software startup Propel announced version 2.0 Just like AI can be trained to write copy, AI can be trained to write code.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. But they are so bombarded with irrelevant stories and weak pitches that they don’t put their email addresses front and center. Others rely on bloggers. So we can add him to the list.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Can AI write a subject line – a good one at that – and follow with a solid pitch? . To determine the quality of writing produced by AI, BuzzStream and Fractl asked 500 public relations specialists, journalists, and other media professionals to rate a series of subject lines and pitches generated using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generator.

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Buzzstream

JULY 29, 2020

At the least—some journalists who excel with engagement and reach receive far more pitches from PR pros than that. . That, combined with an overall sense in the industry that PR is getting harder , and you have a dilemma. If these leaders show us anything, it’s that you can succeed in a competitive space like digital pr.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the advantages of using social media networks for creating new business opportunities is the ability to share great information without having to rely solely on the traditional sales pitch approach.

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The Proactive Report

JUNE 20, 2015

In fact, according to the 2015 Cision Social Journalism Study only 6% of PR pros still do that. Pitching Via Twitter. Don’t pitch them right away. When you have a relevant story angle to pitch 140 characters will probably not do the story justice. Now write a killer pitch in less than 100 characters.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

APRIL 30, 2014

One of the advantages of using social media networks for creating new business opportunities is the ability to share great information without having to rely solely on the traditional sales pitch approach.

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Finding great digital PR examples , campaigns and resources takes a lot of work and time. Our State of Digital PR survey reported content ideation as the most challenging part of digital PR. Since Iona and Annie—both PR experts—curate this list, I feel confident they are assembling the best campaigns.

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Buzzstream

AUGUST 16, 2024

Even though journalists are still getting laid off at a high rate, pitching your story directly to a journalist is still the best way to get media coverage. But the days of mass, bulk pitching are far behind us. Have they already covered the same topic you are pitching them? Do they still cover the same industry/beat?

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Their content marketing and brand journalism has not yet evolved to a place where they are comfortable letting employees take the spotlight, allowing independent voices to ring out with options, truth and expertise. Plus, it’s a great launch point into digital PR tactics, if online visibility is something new to you.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s a challenge for those in the journalism industry and the public relations industry alike. Clickbait and advertising excess Media outlets such as The Daily Mail, The Sun, and The Mirror flourish in digital and print. The rise in subscription models will influence the way that practitioners pitch media.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 1, 2022

Cision adds sponsored content feature to PR Newswire – pitches it as “guaranteed editorial”; Meltwater Beats Earnings; TrueScope Raises $6.2 Or the Longview Journal in the case of this particular announcement. Sure, a PR firm can sell advertising, but that’s not the issue. Million and Eyes the U.S.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Source: Journal of Communication 1 Botan, C., & Taylor, M. Journal of Communication, 54, 645–661. Source: Journal of Accounting and Economics 5 Brown, L., Journal of Accounting and Economics. Source: International Journal of Business Communication 9 Mishra, K., Journal of Marketing, 80, 122 – 145.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

Our moderator was Jerry Swerling, Professor and Director of Public Relations Studies, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Earned Media: This is where our traditional PR skills come into play. Pitching reporters is not the same as it was 10 or even 5 years ago. So quite a line up. Follow me on Twitter.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These allow PR to “showcase earned media coverage in customizable, branded digital PR measurement reports.”. It also added “activity scores” to see “how often they are writing from all your most viewed lists and pitches.”. Another new PR tech player. Automated coverage book. Journalist activity scores. Media pulse.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

Today, the company is perhaps the largest of its kind, and I think understanding how it got to the place it is now, offers an interesting window into the world of PR and the evolution of technology for the digital PR community. Terms were not disclosed but the Wall Street Journal reported a price tag of about $240 million.

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Buzzstream

MAY 16, 2024

And yet, according to uSERP’s State of Backlinks for SEO report , guest posting is the third most popular link-building method behind content marketing and digital PR. Some simply buy links on large guest posting directories, and others pitch quality content to get published on an external site. The approach will not work.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

AUGUST 12, 2015

If you are a serial dater of the media and sending broad, mass pitches to every and any journalist you are not ready for the media! Read their editorial calendar like the Bible, follow their social media, and pitch them as someone who is able to in the future provide value to their readers. How are you unique? via presswho.com.

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Lauri Pehar Borsh

AUGUST 12, 2015

If you are a serial dater of the media and sending broad, mass pitches to every and any journalist you are not ready for the media! Read their editorial calendar like the Bible, follow their social media, and pitch them as someone who is able to in the future provide value to their readers. How are you unique? via presswho.com.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 25, 2024

Search Engine Journal has a great breakdown of this topic.) For instance, social media marketing is still digital marketing, a space we play in. If I saw more link building or digital PR terms, this would be even better. Craft Your Pitch First, click on the Sequences tab in the top navigation bar.

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ZudePR

JUNE 6, 2016

The idea for this post came after I was experiencing a growing sense of frustration late last year due to the distractions inherent in my job as a digital PR (distractions I would wager the majority of people reading this post will be familiar with). On distraction-fighting habits) Writing my goals in my journal daily.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In public relations, we call this: Digital PR ( blog posts ) For some organisations, it matters what the general public thinks about certain issues. While marketing will use paid campaigns to push products or services, public relations will pitch those products or services to journalists (and influencers with journalistic ambitions).

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Sword and the Script

JULY 2, 2019

Interestingly, PRWeek pointed to some of the competitive pressures in the industry as a result of acquisitive environment: “Business Wire once partnered with TrendKite, the digital PR platform that was acquired by Cision this year. Onclusive released a report called the 2019 Global Journalism Report , which it says “analyzed 2.1

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

However, it also comes with the unique challenge of delivering results in digital PR on a lean budget. Tips for Doing Digital PR on a Low Budget Based on our chat, here are some great tips for doing digital PR on a small budget. So, I thought it was the perfect opportunity for a podcast!

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I didn’t know Darren Kingman before chatting with him , but I loved the work he produced at Root Digital , his UK-based digital PR, SEO, and content marketing agency. If you’re transparent in your methodology, Then you’re kind of appealing to the investigative journalism side of what a journalist does.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 5, 2024

The term digital PR means different things depending on who you ask. We even had an entire podcast episode devoted to the differences between digital PR strategies US and UK with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson. Some people refer to digital PR as content-led link building. But there is a lot more to digital PR.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 21, 2024

If you aren’t reaching the correct person, a media pitch , no matter how good, will not matter. According to Muck Rack’s 2024 State of Journalism Report , the top reason for rejecting a pitch (73%) is the lack of relevance to their coverage area. Learning what type of content to pitch is essential to getting your pitch covered.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to our State of Digital PR report, 92.5% of digital PRs respond to expert commentary requests as part of their marketing mix. Should US PRs even consider this strategy? For one thing, Digital PR expert Mark Rofe pointed out that Scottish journalist Sarah Ewing started the hashtag #journorequest in 2008.

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ZudePR

MAY 31, 2015

Enlightened Self-Interest: The Pitch Email. Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author (Everybody Writes), keynote speaker, and the world’s first chief content officer (MarketingProfs). The free articles are the start of working relationships and mean I’ve never had to pitch for work, so are worth my time.

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Buzzstream

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Bekki Ramsay, Digital PR Manager at UK agency RVU , posted about how she re-angled a piece of existing content. It’s a very detailed post with really great tips for digital PRs. She was full of unique insights and tips for re-pitching your content and digital PR in general. Bekki: Yeah.

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