Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Three PR software providers are getting a jump on the new year with AI-infused products for professional communicators; Bloomberg reports on more struggles for Cision The challenge with generative AI is probability. version of PR platform Software startup Propel announced version 2.0 Propel launches 2.0

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 20, 2025

This case study is from the people at Tank, a digital PR agency that helps clients to realise their digital ambition by marketing beyond the obvious. This is why internal data is so powerful in digital PR campaigns, as well as for establishing long-term trust in your brand from other websites and a broader audience.

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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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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Since I have amassed a bucket of tips, secrets, and tricks over my ~ seven years of agency work in digital PR and link building, I thought Id start sharing them in the newsletter. After getting some great feedback from readers, I recently started expanding it to include tips from other digital PRs and link builders in the game.

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PRSay

MAY 22, 2020

Among them, a clear picture emerges of when, where and how journalists prefer to be pitched. When is the best time to pitch a journalist? When it comes to getting your pitch to stand out in a journalist’s inbox, timing is everything. To that end, most journalists (64 percent) told us that they prefer to be pitched before noon.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 8, 2025

The big move is towards “digital PR.” So, I was able to chat with Clearlink’s Director of Digital PR, Sage Singleton to get a sense for why this is happening and how it’s impacted their agency. Broaden Your Digital PR Goals Beyond Backlinks Don’t be afraid to reevaluate your teams KPIs.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 15, 2025

I’ve been looking to speak with more in-house brands who have had success with digital PR. I looked to Chris Lewis , the Associate Digital PR at Launch Potato because he works on several brands under the Launch Potato umbrella. Through a lot of hard work and strategic pitching, the post really took off.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I was clueless about the world of Digital PR and what it entailed – until I landed in the industry myself. Unlike its traditional PR counterpart, Digital PR is also conducted with SEO in mind and one of the key aims of outreach is to gain linked coverage on online news publications.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

At one point during the summer Olympics, I saw a compelling LinkedIn post from a fellow digital PR, Victoria Schmid. Digital PRs suddenly see open rates, click-through rates, and responses drop precipitously and scramble to meet KPIs and link goals. This tip comes from Bri Goodwin, Digital PR Manager at Journey Further.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Once upon a time, emailing journalists meant buying a list of media email addresses and blasting out a generic pitch. Some got coverage, but the vast majority of pitches were irrelevant, which decreased journalist receptivity to pitches overall. Personalized email pitching is the key to success today.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 5, 2025

Alex Cassidy of UK digital PR agency Distinctly wrote a post about how they were trying to use ChatGPT to build creative campaigns. The digital PR team’s doing it, and other agencies are doing it. If you mention the Simpsons, you’ve got my attention. That’s how it all started. Yes, Vince: Matt.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 24, 2015

There’s a good post in Business 2 Community about the challenges of starting out in Digital PR. If you’ve been trained in traditional PR and technology is fairly new to you, it will seem overwhelming at first. Digital PR Strategy. The activity you see in Digital PR is like the tip of an iceberg.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 7, 2025

With interest in digital PR growing almost 30% in the past few years, we wanted to put together a snapshot of today’s industry, looking at tactics, challenges, tools, and much more. We interviewed over 150 digital PR professionals worldwide between November and December 2024 to give you the State of Digital PR Report for 2025.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

A newsroom allows you to house your PR content in one place and prepare complete story ideas for the media, making their job so much easier. You can gather all the elements – test, images and video – a reporter would need to cover the story right in your newsroom. Email lists of reporters and influencers.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

A recent report about a project conducted by the American Press Institute (API) reveals some interesting insights into what kind of content works, and why. PR lesson: If your client or brand is a major enterprise, look for newsworthy topics to pitch to the media. If not, pitch stories that have a major enterprise angle or hook.

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The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

A recent report about a project conducted by the American Press Institute (API) reveals some interesting insights into what kind of content works, and why. PR lesson: If your client or brand is a major enterprise, look for newsworthy topics to pitch to the media. If not, pitch stories that have a major enterprise angle or hook.

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Buzzstream

MAY 2, 2024

Email is the best way to contact reporters, though social media is a close second. In the digital PR world , journalists and reporters promote our content. Some journalists love to get pitched great stories. This post isn’t about writing a media pitch because we’ve already done that. We’ll show you how.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2017

“The fictions and fabrications that comprise fake news are but a subset of the larger bad news phenomenon, which also encompasses many forms of shoddy, unresearched, error-filled, and deliberately misleading reporting that do a disservice to everyone,” writes Snopes founder David Mikkelson. Get the Digital PR Tips newsletter.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 11, 2014

Creativity counts when it comes to a media pitch, the headline of your press release and share-worthy blog posts. A few additional resources of interest: This Inc 500 online newsrooms report 2013 from Sally Falkow is interesting, as are these three articles: Six Elements Your Online Newsroom Must Have by Arik Hanson, PR Daily.

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Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Digital PR is not link-building for SEO. The rapid evolution of the internet and social media has transformed the communications industry—and PR professionals must adapt. Some “digital PR” agencies have focused on practices like link-building, DA (domain authority) mapping, and webmaster outreach.

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Buzzstream

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of my favorite examples is when KFC ran out of chicken in 2018 and published this full-page ad apologizing for it: In digital PR, reactive PR campaigns typically pitch quotes, data, or new stories to journalists that tie into a trending topic or news event. So, thats where reactive PR as a strategy stands out.

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The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When you have this data at your fingertips and you have current information as it changes, you can use this to drive strategy: what stories to tell, what images to create, where to pitch those stories, and where to post your content.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 16, 2025

Embryo is an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Manchester, offering multi-channel services from Digital PR, Paid Social, PPC, SEO to Affiliates. Email tracking is a great way to monitor warm leads and report these back to the client. How Did We Set Ourselves Up for Success With BuzzStream?

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Buzzstream

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Finding great digital PR examples , campaigns and resources takes a lot of work and time. The feature I love that The Grapevine team does is their year-end report. Bonus points for the excellent design of the report as well. Between this and PR Insider, PRs should have no shortage of campaign inspiration.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

There are about five PR pros for every journalist, a ratio that can be discouraging for those struggling to earn a media placement for their client. Additionally, some journalists report that they reject up to 95 percent of the pitches they receive on a weekly basis. Here are 10 metrics every PR pro should measure: 1.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Look at these examples to understand the changes that the Indian media industry has been going through in the past few months: In May, NDTV Profit cut back on all non-market-hour programming, which meant the channel only needed a handful of anchors and reporters. What are your thoughts on the Indian PR digital evolution?

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

Enter digital PR. I’ve spent the last ten years helping companies grow their digital presence with digital PR, and I’ve seen first-hand the impact and value digital PR can drive for a brand’s growth. What is Digital PR? In the next section, we’ll explore the types of digital PR.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

And gaining attention, affinity, and trust is the goal of PR. A lot has been said and written about how technology has changed the practice of PR. For a while, we were making a distinction between traditional PR and digital PR. But, if you are doing PR right, there is no difference.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to the 2017 State of Inbound report, 63 percent of marketers feel that generating traffic and leads remains the biggest challenge in their work. You can also collaborate with other publishing partners such as journalists, editors and PR agencies instead of just pitching your content to them. Twitter: [link].

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Buzzstream

MARCH 4, 2025

Personalization makes or breaks your email pitch. The CHAMP method ensures your pitch is effective. For instance, when we published our State of Digital PR report, I did some link building outreach: In other cases, it is more of an opportunistic approach that requires the site target take some sort of action to include your link. (I

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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

Using the right tools will make or break your digital PR campaign, and our digital PR agency is using the powerful suite of tools provided by BuzzStream to revolutionize and constantly experiment with our approach to outreach, digital PR, and link building more generally.

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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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The Proactive Report

MAY 27, 2017

Despite the major changes in the media landscape, it’s still a core part of PR and there are still reporters, editors and producers we have to reach out to. That means there are fewer reporters to pitch your stories to. And according to the Department of Labor there are 240,700 PR Specialists employed in the US.

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Buzzstream

JUNE 14, 2024

Digital PR can help rankings, organic traffic and more. The term digital PR may differ slightly depending on who you ask. We recently discussed the differences between US and UK digital PR with Rise at Seven’s Will Hobson on our podcast. How Does Digital PR Help SEO? More on that later.)

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