In college, I had a journalism professor ask our class how many of us had signed up for Google Alerts as a media monitoring tool to support our coverage areas. Aging myself a bit, Google Alerts was a relatively new idea then. All the same, when no one in the class...
5 ways your competitors are using media monitoring
We’ve been in the media monitoring game for a long time, and over the years we've seen many creative and effective ways organizations and PR agencies leverage media monitoring. Here are some of the most tried and true ways that organizations, including your...
More than just PR: A holistic approach to media monitoring
Though media monitoring and analysis has traditionally been used for public relations purposes, there are many ways that other departments can leverage the system. This multidisciplinary approach to the practice allows businesses to receive a higher ROI from their...
Staying agile within the shifting media landscape
MediaMiser has reached another significant milestone that will both benefit our existing clients and entice new prospects — we’ve finalized our acquisition of the Agility business from PRNewswire. With the acquisition, MediaMiser, part of the Innodata family of...
Business development: Want to “move like Jagger”? Create constraints
I was listening to a CBC Radio show called Under the Influence, with Terry O’Reilly. The show is a regular series about the changing world of marketing. The particular episode I was listening to had a segment about from where Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones got his...
Using media monitoring and analysis for decision making
How do you make important decisions? Do you trust your gut? Poll your colleagues? Do you frantically search Google to find results from expert sources? Or maybe you’re a firm believer in shaking a Magic 8-Ball and letting fate decide. Regardless of your approach,...
DIY: Media monitoring by region
Have you ever looked at your monitoring results and thought: Why is this publication here? It doesn’t even cater to my target audience. You’re not alone. Many times when we onboard a client, they find that they get too much “noise”, or unwanted coverage, from outside...
Summertime marketing: 7 ways to combat the lull
As a marketer, you can feel the effects of summer approaching—out-of-office replies become plentiful, and engagement begins to wane on pieces that once saw a blooming number of form submissions and call-to-action clicks. Before you know it, you’re in the middle of it:...
Media monitoring and higher education
1964 was an interesting year for education administration. In a time when the men and women of Harvard College and Radcliffe College were only allowed to interact under certain pretenses, at certain hours, Harvard Dean John U. Monro claimed that parietal rules were...
DIY: A guide to keyword monitoring
Monitoring traditional and social media can be an intimidating task, especially if you have no idea how to go about it. Monitoring for mentions of your company is usually a great place to start, but what about that spokesperson who seems to get a lot of press, or that...
DIY: A media monitoring audit
When it comes to the tools your business uses to expand and grow, it’s important to routinely perform an audit to ensure they’re still meeting both your current, and future, needs. Media monitoring and analysis software is no different. Agility PR Solutions wants to...
5 tips for tidying up your media monitoring process
We’d all love to “set it and forget it” as they say on that cheesy infomercial… But the truth is things change. All the time. In front of our eyes. Since spring is the time for renewal, now is an ideal time to re-examine your media monitoring program. Fortunately you...