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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

Think customer reviews, social media posts, and photos or videos shared by loyal customers. To achieve this, Always launched a social media campaign that encouraged girls and women to share their stories and experiences using the hashtag #LikeAGirl. The song quickly went viral and received over 17 million views in the first year.

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PR Insights: Is HBO’s hit show Succession actually a love letter to the PR industry?

Champion Communications

Public relations has long been an intriguing field that has captivated the masses – and now, with the advent of digital media, the industry has undergone a significant transformation, becoming an essential aspect of business operations. But did you know that PR has inspired some of the most popular TV shows over the last decade?

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How can PR and influencer marketing work together in a crisis?

Sprout Social

It’s little wonder, then, that influencer marketing has become an indispensable part of the PR and crisis management approach for most brands. Here are five ways to make PR and influencer marketing work for your brand during a crisis. Influencer marketing has grown from a $1.7 billion industry in 2016 to a projected $16.4

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Weekend Reading: “The New Rules of Marketing and PR” by David Meerman Scott

Marketing Insider Group

For the 136th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly. The 6th edition has just released, 10 years after the book’s debut.

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Branded Content Smarts: How to Turn Your Insights into PR

DivvyHQ

With so much to be gleaned from your content analytics, it's smart to put your PR hat on to determine how those insights (and your owned assets) might be transformed or repackaged into earned media opportunities. Let's dive into how to make this approach a regular part of your content mix.

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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Contently

The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike. What is social media plagiarism? For example, Kylie Cosmetics went viral for all the wrong reasons for plagiarizing smaller cosmetic companies.

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How to Make News Content Viral Using People-Based Marketing

Webbiquity

There are a lot of resources online that can help you move from newsjacking – “stealing” potentially viral news items before they become viral – to creating potentially viral news yourself. Essentially, PPC harnesses the power that email and social media marketers have had in their arsenal for a while now.