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5 Ways Trend Tracking Helps PR & Marketing Pros

Onclusive

In the dynamic landscape of PR and marketing, the ability to shape and capitalise on trends is vital for successful campaigns. In fact, shaping and capitalising on both industry trends and consumer trends (rather than just responding), has numerous benefits. Stronger campaign performance, a competitive edge, and increased brand health to name a few.

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Navigating PR in the era of deep fakes: Challenges, preparation, and crisis management

Agility PR Solutions

PR professionals are pivotal in shaping public perception. They manage reputation and foster trust between organizations and their stakeholders. However, it gets extremely challenging to maintain brand integrity and credibility in a world where facts and reality can be easily manipulated, especially now that deep fake technology has stepped out of the shadows and keeps […] The post Navigating PR in the era of deep fakes: Challenges, preparation, and crisis management appeared first on Agil

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Arts Council England risk guidance draws criticism over perceived threat to creative expression

Wadds Inc.

The criticism levelled at Arts Council England this week highlights the sensitivity that organisations face in making statements on political and social issues. The non-departmental public body published a new relationship framework, including risk monitoring guidance to the organisations that it funds. It covers investment, governance and management, financial viability and reputational risk.

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The state of short-form video in 2024: New research reveals insights for marketing strategies, the top video platforms for businesses

Agility PR Solutions

Any communicator worth her salt knows that video is the best medium for marketing to today’s consumers, but some video styles and platforms are better than others, depending on your audience. After analyzing millions of video hours from over 500K content professionals worldwide, new research from social media automation platform Munch provides key insights into […] The post The state of short-form video in 2024: New research reveals insights for marketing strategies, the top video platform

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The Upside of Leaked Internal Communications: 2024 Mini Benchmark Report

Leaked internal communications can be strategically valuable assets rather than just risks to manage. When used proactively, these leaks can highlight leadership and innovation—qualities that resonate in today’s media. By approaching internal comms with a dual-purpose approach, companies shift from mere risk avoidance to leveraging these moments as credible public messages around strategy.

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What is Brand Positioning Strategy in PR?

HMA Public Relations

Maintaining and building relationships with consumers starts with brand positioning. Discover the brand positioning strategy in PR and its approaches in this blog post from Mikayla Koppy. Take a look!

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7 SF Publicists on Tips for Crafting Pitches

OnePitch

When crafting a pitch for media, where do you start? What’s your first thought? Maybe it’s, ‘Who will I target?’ or ‘What lead can I use to draw the reporter in?’ Or perhaps you prefer to write the story first, get the words down, and edit afterward.

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Performance Reviews Will Bite This Year. Be Ready.

Culpwrit

Q. I haven’t had an in-person performance review in more than three years, so I became immediately suspicious when I got an Outlook calendar invitation for one next month. I became even more uneasy after seeing this week’s Wall Street Journal headline, “Performance Reviews Will Bite This Year. Be Ready.” I don’t have a… Continue reading Performance Reviews Will Bite This Year.

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These Emerging Technologies Are Shaping Defense Tech PR

5W PR

In the rapidly evolving landscape of defense technology, public relations plays a crucial role in shaping perceptions, fostering collaboration, and navigating the complex narratives surrounding emerging technologies. The advancements in AI, hypersonic missiles, directed energy weapons (DEWs), networks, drones, biotechnology, and materials science present both unprecedented opportunities and ethical challenges.

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Comms lessons from Blake Lively’s Super Bowl masterclass in PR

Agility PR Solutions

The Super Bowl is perhaps the world’s greatest stage, with 100+ million tuning in from across the globe for the game, the commercials of course, and that halftime musical performance. Recently, Blake Lively, the multi-talented actress, director, mother, business owner, and philanthropist, demonstrated a masterclass in leveraging her moment at the Super Bowl for strategic […] The post Comms lessons from Blake Lively’s Super Bowl masterclass in PR appeared first on Agility PR Solutions

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The Importance of Personalizing Your Press Release for Journalists

Journalists receive an overwhelming number of press releases daily, making it hard for your news to stand out. While some news is valuable, most is not.

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How to go from reactive to proactive comms with NewsWhip

NewsWhip

When 25% of your brand’s value is tied to its reputation with the public, how can you make sure you’re being proactive when it comes to your brand and media monitoring efforts? The old way of measuring makes this impossible, with metrics often a day or more old by the time they make their way onto your dashboards and reports. Whether you’re managing live issues, monitoring the media landscape for context, or trying to keep stakeholders informed, that’s simply not good enough in 2024.

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Leveraging Data Analytics for Informed Investor Relations

Presspage

Why Data Analytics is Important in Investor Relations Data analytics is particularly impactful in anticipating market trends in the IR space, allowing IROs to identify patterns and forecast shifts in investor sentiment & market dynamics. This predictive capability ensures that IROs are ahead of major changes and can capitalize on opportunities as they emerge.

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What Are Quality Links and How to Build Them

Buzzstream

Quality vs quantity. The age-old question. Most SEOs want to scale their processes, but it’s virtually impossible to scale link building while ensuring quality. As brands constantly ask how many links they need to build , the question should be, how many quality links do I need to build? Quality may differ depending on the site’s goal, but backlinks should always drive value.

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How the Pandemic Changes Have Affected Business.

Maxim Behar

Home from the Office. Or off to Starbucks Within just a few days, the changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic have been numerous. I need to have the pretense of being an actual historian to safely allege that the world has never changed so drastically in such a short period after reading so many books and reports. Yes, that is correct, within just a few days.

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Do's and Don'ts: How to Pitch Your Press Release to Journalists

Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!

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Up Speak Is Killing Your Credibility

Public Speaking Advantage

Habits are hard to change, especially if you don’t notice the habit as you’re doing it. This is very often the case with a bad speech habit called Up Speak. Public Speaking Trainers hear it almost everyday. It is pattern of speech where most of your sentences end on a pitch that goes up. Speakers with this habit sound like they’re either asking a question and asking for the listeners validation.

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Traditional Media: From Endangered To Extinct

Maxim Behar

The perception of PR agencies as editorial teams in the years of the social media revolution is all the more relevant given that traditional media are no longer just an endangered species but are going extinct. In 1999, in an interview with Bulgarian online media expert Justin Toms, I declared that print newspapers would be gone by 2025. What followed was a tsunami of anger on behalf of many press professionals.

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Communications Synonyms (With Explanations)

Doctor Spin

Here are communications synonyms (with explanations). Have you ever wondered why public relations professionals often talk about communications (with an ‑s) instead of communication (without an ‑s)? And what are some communications synonyms? Here we go: Communications Synonyms Communications synonyms (and explanations). Spin Academy | Online PR Courses Communications Synonyms Contrary to popular belief, “communication” and “communications” aren’t interchangeable.

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A broken telephone.

Maxim Behar

It has become modern for politicians to communicate through the media, primarily through social media. This trend highlights how antisocial politicians have become. One beautiful word undoubtedly holds positive connotations in all languages – "negotiation." However, it seems that modern people have started to fear it, and the freedom of social media, along with the dependencies on traditional media, has given them the imagined freedom to express their opinions one-sidedly without engaging in neg

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Peter H. Paulsen’s Inspiring Tale Continues to Resonate in 2024

Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen’s book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘catastrophic’ management has left ‘brand Sussex’ in chaos… so what IS the plan?

Mark My Words

Newsbreak PR insiders have now also waded in on the Sussexes’ “contradictory” image overhaul, telling The Sun it flies in the face of their blistering attacks against the Firm in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, scathing books including Harry’s memoir, Spare, and their Netflix documentary series. PR expert Mark Borkowski tells us: “Everything that they have done has always been a bit of a knee jerk.

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Rather "broken" line.

Maxim Behar

It has become modern for politicians to communicate through the media, primarily through social media. This trend highlights how antisocial politicians have become. One beautiful word undoubtedly holds positive connotations in all languages – "negotiation." However, it seems that modern people have started to fear it, and the freedom of social media, along with the dependencies on traditional media, has given them the imagined freedom to express their opinions one-sidedly without engaging in neg

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Meghan Markle et Harry irresponsables?? Ils sont accusés de semer le chaos

Mark My Words

Gala Selon Mark Borkowski, “depuis Oprah jusqu’à l’apparition d’Harry chez James Corden, le livre, l’histoire, c’est tout simplement un désastre catastrophique”. “Si vous voulez comprendre comment construire une fondation ou une marque, il y a une bonne façon de le faire, ou vous pouvez le faire à la manière de Harry et Meghan, ce qui n’est pas la façon la plus sensée d’aller de l’avant ou de s’établir comme des leaders d’opinion qui po