Content marketing is a constantly shifting landscape. Audience expectations change with the wind, with new trends rising and falling faster than PR and marketing agencies can keep up. Optimizing content marketing workflow is essential to creating relevant, timely, and...
Why data-driven hiring is the future of building strong communication
Hey there! Ever wondered why some teams just click while others can’t seem to get on the same page? Well, here's a secret: it might all come down to how they were hired. Yup, that's right. The traditional way of hiring—going with gut feelings and old-school...
Execs trust AI’s potential but challenges remain in strategy, execution, and reliability—4 in 10 don’t trust their data to generate accurate AI outputs
As the AI mission moves forward, a new survey of C-suite executives and AI leaders from cloud analytics and AI data platform provider Teradata shows while enterprise decision-makers trust the potential of AI, many lack confidence in their company’s strategy to...
Beyond likes and shares: Measuring social media’s brand impact
In an era where likes and shares dominate the social media landscape, it's easy for businesses to become fixated on these surface-level metrics. However, beneath the facade of popularity lies a more complex reality: The true impact of social media on brand success is...
Understanding marketing orchestration: 5 tips and strategies for using it
When you’re considering the buyer journey, you can’t expect all customers to follow the same path. This is especially true in 2024. There are more channels than ever through which customers interact with a brand. Take a second and think about all of the platforms that...
5 surefire social media lead generation tactics for 2024
With over five billion users worldwide, social media remains a powerhouse for lead generation. By using the right tactics at the right time, businesses can pinpoint and captivate potential leads on social media effectively. According to research, nearly 70 percent of...
Emerging trends for in-house marketing and creative teams: Applying data-driven strategies, resourcing challenges and AI adoption
While marketing agencies have a complex set of challenges, not the least of which is driving new business, those that in-house departments face are different but no less challenging. New research from creative, marketing and digital staffing solutions firm Cella by...
PR is in danger—again—of losing relevance: What’s missing this time?
Is the PR industry in danger of losing access to budgets and being pushed further to the edge of the marketing matrix? For the third time? Yes, but we can stop it. The answer is for public relations agencies and internal PR teams to own the affiliate networks critical...
5 ways AI is changing PR for businesses and communications teams
AI is here and it’s not showing any signs of going anywhere soon. So communicators need to look at AI as a tool that can support, speed up, and even improve the way you work, including how you manage your PR strategy. Crucially, AI is changing the way searches are...
AI-driven marketing initiatives are directly contributing to revenue, according to 9 in 10 executives—but trust and accuracy remain obstacles
We’ve seen a lengthy period of generative AI trial-and-error experimentation in marketing and communications over the last 18 months, and while automation and productivity boosts have been affirmed by many, there hasn’t been a lot of data about AI’s actual bottom-line...
Customer trust: What should brands provide to achieve it? Here are 4 best practices
When you hear the word “trust”, what—or, better, who—comes to mind? It’s likely you’ve pictured the people who make you feel safe, secure, and respected. The kind of people that you can rely on because you know they truly care about you. Those are also the kind of...
With brand trust on shaky ground, consumers are ready to spend more at local shops to strengthen Main Street
As e-commerce becomes riskier in an increasingly vulnerable world of e-predator sophistication, new research finds that Americans are turning more attention to small businesses in their communities and, in wanting to see their Main Streets thriving, many are willing...