Contently - Strategy

AUGUST 30, 2024

According to a study from Oracle and Brent Leary, “ 80% of consumers have purchased products in direct response to social media content. When it comes down to it, consumers are skeptical of businesses, so it’s no surprise they trust social media influencers, peers, and celebrities to give them advice on new products.

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Storytelling Marketing Travel Case Study 85

Cision

JUNE 29, 2017

Advances in technology will revolutionize your business, but what if your job is more than just a business to you? While technology continues changing every industry I can think of, many communications and public relations professionals hold tight to the more poetic side of storytelling. Is the sentiment positive?

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Storytelling Data Communications Technology 0

Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Part 1: Debunking the Unpredictability of Social Media and the Digital Landscape. Social media’s impact on crisis doesn’t just exist for organizational crises or emergencies such as natural disasters. World leaders are currently fighting in a war of ideas where social media plays a threatening role.

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Social Media Viral Crisis Management How To 113

Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

There’s nothing like a grueling weekend spent unsuccessfully following up on pitches for coverage of a client’s innovative, disruptive, and ground-breaking new technology release to make you start daydreaming of starting your own firm. Each year brings new technology and new table stakes skills for communications professionals.

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Travel Technology Conference LinkedIn 281

Flack's Revenge

JULY 12, 2017

Who’s your biggest foe on social media? Does company A have a bigger social footprint? These days more of us are spending more time heads down, looking at our phones and surfing social channels. News and other info come to us, through newsfeeds and social sharing. Tap other Social Sharing Levers.

Social Media 120

Social Media How To Media Viral 120

Cision

AUGUST 26, 2015

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter. ” https://t.co/XuswAAsGAo.

Social Media 120

Social Media Twitter Media Nonprofit 120

Prohibition

JANUARY 17, 2022

Social media is an increasingly important element in a successful crisis management approach. With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. What is Crisis Management?

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Crisis Management Social Media Crisis Media 118

5W PR

APRIL 8, 2025

A standout business model, strong D2C presence, and successful partnerships (like Urban Decays prowess on social media ) are all major pluses. On one hand, a viral TikTok moment can trigger an immediate surge in Amazon sales. And when it comes to metrics, not every post has to go viral right away.

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Retail Viral Community YouTube 78

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There’s a new social media app taking the world by storm. Media interest peaked over the weekend with reports that a deal involving TikTok, Oracle and Wal-Mart would avert a ban of the app in the U.S. TikTok is currently the sixth largest social network in the world. . It’s called TikTok. Ever heard of it? .

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B2B Video Creativity Social Media 310

NewsWhip

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Yara Silva, group head of social media for Reach, supports these publications with social media posts, but also tracks the success of Reach’s stories. Her team of 25 editors is so dialed into social media that a key part of their job is to suggest story ideas based on topics they see trending online.

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Reddit Viral Analytics Social Media 158

Prowly

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Start conducting thorough brand research today using Prowly's media monitoring and social media listening. By utilizing Prowly's media monitoring and social media listening capabilities, you can collect data, analyze your company's performance, audience sentiment, your competitors, and identify powerful links and viral content.

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Examples Branding Brand How To 104

Cision

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Every day, your audience is asking questions, sharing their opinions and offering insight on what you can do to improve your social media marketing strategies. At their recent “ Practice Listening: From Competitors to Customers ” webinar, Jay and his peers were posed tons of questions about social media marketing.

Viral 120

Viral Nonprofit Software Social Media 120

Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As technology, social media and the online world continue to evolve, unfortunately, so do the risks that leave your organization vulnerable. Risk 2: Technology and the internet leave us all vulnerable to being hacked. When it comes to technology, we can never be too safe.

Crisis 203

Crisis How To Exercises Crisis Communications 203

Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Knowing what is being said is the first step, and that can be as simple as setting up Google alerts, social media notifications—and yes, daily forwards from Cision !–to Having a social media initiative go viral is not a good goal – what is the intended net result?

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Nonprofit Crisis Viral Groups 227

PRSay

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 2016, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies, which supports organizations that advocate for trustworthy journalism, voter protection, women in technology, and military veterans and their families. 1, a Newmark-funded report was released, called “False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.”

Ethics 174

Ethics Communications Nonprofit Journalism 174

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In his research on viral advertising videos , he found that a very small percentage of advertising videos (0.1%) actually go “viral.” His findings are pretty illuminating. Why we share.

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The Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Technology has transformed the practice of Public Relations and marketing. These technology advances continue to escalate and create new challenges. The growth of new technologies and platforms in the communications landscape deliver as much uncertainty as they do opportunity. Why is communication so important? Fake content.

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Communications Social Media Employee Crisis 130

PRSay

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

where she studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe. Because, all around the world, in a lot of different sectors, there are communicators who don’t necessarily share those standards, including politicians and certain media networks. No, not necessarily.

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Communications Government Viral Radio 177

Cision

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

With the media landscape evolving at the speed of technology, communicators need to be able to listen dynamically to their audiences across multiple media channels. It’s no longer just the mainstream media that needs to be taken into account. Understand the Present – Where is your brand now?

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How To Social Media B2C Television 149

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 12, 2024

A robust social media and PR strategy can supercharge your early efforts and help you build a reputation quickly. A social media-driven PR strategy can be cost-effective and may build your brand presence quicker than traditional methods. Leveraging Social Media Social media is a real boon for tech startups.

Social Media 79

Social Media Strategy Media SEO 79

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

But with the power and reach of social media, snatching up prospects halfway around the world seems like a piece of cake…that is, if a brand is listening carefully to what their competitors are saying to their audiences. Competition is fierce in this always-connected, digital world. Change is a constant in today’s digital world.

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Content Marketing Marketing Viral Social Media 120

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2017

Small businesses today are empowered through digital technology. Technology is a great equalizer for a business. According to Steve Tobak of Inc., “starting with a niche is one of the most powerful ways to go viral and ultimately take down even the biggest giants.”

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Small Business SMB Local Viral 168

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 5, 2018

When Stewart retired as host, Arby’s even tweeted him a job application and made a hilarious farewell viral video. While not a direct attack on Tide’s products, the viral video trend of teenagers filming themselves eating Tide Pods in 2017-2018 led to many emergency room reports – and the risk of injury or worse.

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Branding Brand Viral Crisis Management 160

Flack's Revenge

MARCH 8, 2018

Their Spike and Analytics solutions provide a wealth of data that can shed light on social media buzz and content performance. But after seeing demos, and even playing around the software, it was unclear exactly how to put Newswhip to work to support media relations. After all, many get our news through the networks these days.

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Data Media Software Viral 159

Cision

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Here’s a crazy statistic: nearly one-third of people, worldwide, access social media frequently. In the United States, 81 percent of Americans are on social media. One cannot dispute the impressionistic reach of social media. The influx of technology and the data it yields makes everyone a researcher.

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Infographics Case Study Content Marketing Video 235

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Good CX combines people, process and technology to understand, anticipate and consistently deliver a high-quality experience across all of a product or service brand’s touch points, from website to customer service. Earned media, paid media, and owned content can be enhanced and amplified through social tools and techniques.

B2B 120

B2B Customer Service Software Technology 120

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 30, 2014

The term seems to be applied as an umbrella for a range of Internet skills and tools, from social media engagement, to measuring site traffic, to content site partnerships. The great promise of social media has been to give consumers more power through connection to their favorite organizations.

Viral 104

Viral Community Nonprofit Social Media 104

Sword and the Script

APRIL 30, 2024

Sometimes statistics shared on social media take on a life of their own – that’s a problem if we don’t understand the source and methodology; here’s the source on the “95:5 rule” Only 5% of B2B prospects that vendors are trying to reach are in the market for a product. That makes sense. I couldn’t agree more. >>>

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B2B Marketing Advertising Advertising 159

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Everyone recalls the PR fiasco United Airlines experienced in April when footage of a dazed and bloodied passenger being dragged from his seat went viral. That, too, was captured on other passengers’ cell phones and enjoyed a brief viral moment on social media. Southwest Airlines’ soft landing.

Crisis Management 149

Crisis Management Crisis Airlines Viral 149

PRSay

MAY 10, 2021

On June 9, Eric Koefoot, president and CEO of media analysis firm PublicRelay , is hosting a Case in Point for PRSA titled “Catching the AI Wave in Communications.” AI is also pretty good at predicting patterns, like analyzing the social sharing of coverage to predict if a story will be going viral in social media.

Communications 107

Communications Viral Case Study Exercises 107

Engage PR

JANUARY 6, 2018

And with social media spend within marketing budgets expected to increase 128% to 21.4% in the next five years (1* Chief Marketing Officers Survey, 2014 ) social activity is becoming more integral to brand perception and business performance. Cue social backlash across the internet.

Social Media 60

Social Media Strategy Media Survey 60

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As a result, businesses continue to desperately find new ways to reach their fans and build their online reputation on this leading social media platform. When their followers share your post again, it’s considered viral content. SEOmoz recently did a great study on the theory and proof of why content goes viral.

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B2B Facebook Community How To 100

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 26, 2016

Paying for content won’t make it go viral or inspire the public — only the spark of imagination and creativity will be able to do that. The lines between social media and traditional media will have completely blurred. But as communication technology improves, the workflow will become even more seamless.

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Viral Creativity Advertising Advertising 136

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

If a life immersed in technology seems to be getting faster, it’s not just that technology enables us to be faster, but the process of creating faster technology is getting faster. Today a kid in a garage can start a company, that goes viral and can touch a billion people,” as one technologist put it eloquently recently.

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Viral Technology Google Pitching 123

PRSay

APRIL 6, 2018

Viral videos. It became clear during the year that technology is often driving the severity and speed of the threat. Everyone’s now on social media. Social media platforms as effective two-way communication channels (with the appropriate expertise and resources). Cyber thefts. Sexual misconduct.

Crisis Management 125

Crisis Management Crisis Airlines Viral 125

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2014

The Harlem Shake dance video craze largely took off based on the whims of students, employees and other everyday folk interested in making a funny viral video. Rise of the social photobooth and video jukebox. So which one garnered more interest according to Google trends? It’s a landslide: Community creates results. Gamification.

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Mobile Community System Social Media 105