No PR campaign is an island. Each and every one needs media intelligence to exist, and good media intelligence to succeed. For example, it’s nice to know which influencers can amplify your client’s message, but it’s better to be able to follow that message throughout...
No PR campaign is an island. Each and every one needs media intelligence to exist, and good media intelligence to succeed. For example, it’s nice to know which influencers can amplify your client’s message, but it’s better to be able to follow that message throughout...
I just finished judging a dozen entries for a prestigious industry award program. Entrants were required to state a “business outcome” that the campaign was supposed to deliver. Most of them did write down a business objective. Sadly, only one reported results based...
I just finished judging a dozen entries for a prestigious industry award program. Entrants were required to state a “business outcome” that the campaign was supposed to deliver. Most of them did write down a business objective. Sadly, only one reported results based...
When it comes to designing a social media strategy – which, let’s face it, your business absolutely needs – there are two fundamental details you must have: 1. A clear focus on objectives 2. A set of metrics directly related to the set objectives Any strategy worth...
For years now, AVEs (advertising value equivalencies) have been a mainstay of measuring PR value. And why not? They lend a quantitative aura to public relations, a field that has always been difficult to measure as it espouses attributes like relationships, message...
Given the ongoing protests against new North American pipeline construction, we at Agility PR Solutions thought now would be a perfect time to look back at the energy year that was. We found that, between the Standing Rock protests, the election of Donald Trump, and...
Most PR professionals think about media monitoring and analytics only after launching a new campaign. You carefully monitor coverage of your story and sentiment. You measure how many stories are published, determine share of voice, and provide reports to your...
As a field, as a science, media monitoring and measurement has never been more sophisticated than it is now. The benefits of listening, and then learning from the results, have been clearly established. Yet, as an article from PR Week explains, many corporate...
Over the last few months, Google AdWords has announced a series of platform updates aimed at helping marketers successfully traverse an ever-more-complex digital marketing landscape. The updates give advertisers more control by allowing them to better track, analyze...
There was always a portion of agency work that came down to the gut. Marketers, public relations teams and advertisers just knew sometimes, or at least they thought they did. They developed pitches and eventual campaigns using a combination of their intuition and data...
Data analytics firm Alteryx this week released a survey from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services on how companies are leveraging data blending to uncover business insights, even as Big Data sources continue to grow at an unprecedented rate. The survey, which...