By Cokey Falkow SuperBowl XLIX was a game changer - and it had nothing to do with football. No longer do we have to wait for the SuperBowl to see the commercials while the game is on and then it's over. There are new ways of speaking to an audience, tapping in to their emotions and generating real-time engagment with your audience. In the 'old days' … [Read more...]
Visual Content Will Rule in 2015
As the year draws to a close we're all thinking about 2015. How much of your content plan is visual? Research shows conclusively that an image or photograph is the most engaging content on Facebook, garnering an 87% interaction rate from fans. Adding a photo to your to tweets can boost re-tweets by 35%. If your team is not yet conversant with the latest visual content … [Read more...]
How Social Media is Affecting the News
A new report from Pew shows that while the news industry has lost more than a third of its newsroom jobs in traditional media, there are now more than 5000 jobs in digital news. 3,000 of these positions are at 30 big digital-only news outlets. The report covers five aspects of the relationship between social and news: Social Media as a Pathway to … [Read more...]
Data’s Greatest Value for PR Lies in Planning
A recent study by Hotwire launched during AMEC’s measurement week shows that senior execs now rank planning as the prime use of data and analytics. More than half (51%) use data to inform future plans and strategies, providing PR campaigns with crucial insight up-front rather than at the end. Only 1 in 4 (28%) use data to gauge the success of past social media and PR … [Read more...]
PR Measurement – What to Measure
Yesterday I was the guest on the #measurepr Twitter chat. Here are the questions and answers, with some expanded content. Q1. What outputs, outtakes and outcomes must you measure, and how can you tie them to the bottom line? Answers: Let's first define what these terms mean: Output: The actions you take, the product you create and distribute. (releases, … [Read more...]
