Agility webinar recap It’s a familiar scenario: your boss or client comes up to you and says that the company has a big announcement and they want lots of coverage in top tier media. But you, a seasoned PR pro, know that while this announcement is noteworthy it’s not...
Share of voice (SOV) measures the total amount of brand-generated coverage (could be advertising, marketing, or earned media mentions) versus the total amount of competitor-generated coverage. This measurement can be used to determine the effectiveness of your PR and...
Sentiment (or tone) measures how a person, group, organization, or issue is portrayed in the media. It is normally categorized as positive, negative, or neutral with varying degrees of positive and negative. Media monitoring and social listening tools will often...
“When coming up with a title, I thought ‘cracking broadcast’, because that's what it feels like,” says Julie Loffredi, award-winning journalist and Head of Content at Broadry in the opening of her webinar for Agility. “Once you crack it, the opportunities keep coming,...
Anika Jackson started out in marketing long before she got into public relations. “I don’t think I made the connection between the two because I worked with them in silos,” says Anika, in her intro to the August webinar for Agility, “A Successful Union: Integrated...
PR needs a seat at the table—but it won’t happen so long as the C-suite views PR as a luxury and not a necessity. This idea has been a prominent theme over the past thirteen months of PR Profiles, and it came up once again in Episode 14 with guest Lindsey Groepper,...
Did you know that an average media reporter receives five pitches per day, but crafts only up to five publications per week? Only 25% of the stories written by journalists come from pitches. That’s why you need to work out some winning approaches to slip your content...
Getting pick-up in the outlets that matter is generally not as easy as sending out a news release to a media list. Even if you have a thousand contacts picked out, you still might not land a single placement. Why? Because most journalists don’t like receiving a mass...
“The most important thing about distributing content is to make sure the content itself is good,” says Gregg Castano, founder and CEO of NewsDirect in his PR Profiles interview. Gregg has been in the newswire business since the 80s when he started as a newsroom...
Too much choice can be debilitating. Yet, every day we are provided with even more options for what to watch, listen to, play, and read. How do you decide where to spend your time? Our Media Insights Team at Agility did some of the heavy lifting for you. Using Agility...
We’ve had the pleasure of working with Celena Fine, Senior Vice President at TierOne Partners, on multiple occasions. Her webinar, How to Pitch Broadcast Media: Secrets from a Former TV Journalist, remains one of our most popular. If you don’t have an hour to spare to...
If you’re anything like us, you’re always hunting for a new PR podcast to add to your library. We like a mix of business and pleasure, and when that happens in the same show, all the better! We put together a list of 10 PR and comms podcasts from the US, UK, and...