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

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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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Seven Essential Digital Marketing Tips for 2021 (And Beyond)

Webbiquity

Choose your core content format: The typical anatomy of viral content often features a common trait, a content framework that 80% of the target audience love. If they’re on Instagram, create visual content, while if Youtube, produce videos (obviously). Engage with prospective customers on social media.

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Embrace Mistakes to Become a Better Social Media Pro

Convince & Convert

In April, we chatted with the manager of a huge social media team at KLM , an author on thought leadership , Pet360’s PR and social media expert, and the two-man social media team of Canadian yo-yo company CLYW. Their responsibilities span from leading a social media team of over 150 to designing yo-yos.

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Corporate Responsibility in the Age of Content and Social Media

Contently

Instead of the big splashy commercial like Pepsi’s featuring really good looking people using hot-button topics as a way to sell soda, brands that thread their message into what they do very delicately, using social media as a needle, tend to do best. “We ” It was a huge deal to admit that in those pre-social media days.

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The Complete Social Media Marketing Guide

Brandwatch Marketing

Marketing always has to adapt to new technology and although we can hardly call social media new anymore, a lot of businesses still haven’t caught up or got to grips with it. What is social media marketing? Social media marketing is any marketing that takes place on social media platforms. How do I get started?