Dealmaking Sizzles Again Among PR Software Providers and Here Comes Another Side Dish of Generative AI for Comms [PR Tech Sum]
Private “special acquisition vehicle” makes $500m+ bid for Meltwater; Truescope acquires Universal Information Service and Cision acquires Factama to “track narratives online” What a difference a couple of weeks can make. My last PR tech sum went up in early...Read More
The Basic Benefits and Drawbacks of Owned, Shared, Earned, and Paid Media
Understanding the unique characteristics of owned, shared, earned and paid media helps marketing and communications professionals consider how to weave these together to best execute an overall strategy A couple years ago, a startup founder and CEO approached me about...Read More
A Fairly Comprehensive List of PR and Comms Technology Vendors for 2023
If you are striving to build your short list of PR and communications technology vendors, this long but neatly organized list of companies and resources might prove helpful My last PR tech sum went up in November of last year...Read More
An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?
We interviewed ChatGPT about public relations and while it does well with high-level questions, it becomes repetitive when those questions were more nuanced; the system says it is “unlikely” that it “or any other AI system will fully replace public...Read More
The Battle for Trust: 18 Comms, PR and B2B Marketing Stats Summarizing 2022
Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on...Read More
Hopes, Dreams and Sage Advice: 40+ Marketing and PR predictions for 2023
Marketing and PR predictions aren’t merely forecasts, but often a reflection of our aspirations and perhaps advice – mistakes we’ve made we’d like to help others avoid “Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply...Read More
The 13 Most Popular Blog posts on Sword and the Script in 2022
This is the 13th year of publication for Sword and the Script – hence the top 13 posts for 2022. Here’s how the numbers on this blog have added up in 2022: Total blog posts: 46 – down from 51...Read More
Survey Says Successful Bloggers Do these 5 Things Differently
Successful bloggers invest more time in writing, write longer posts (1,000+ words), publish new blog posts more frequently, cite third parties, and use images and visuals “When I pulled up our data, I had one big takeaway: we put too...Read More
It’s the Subscribed Audience! B2B Marketers are Missing the Point of Content Marketing
3 statistics from the newest B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report shows the “subscribed audience” is missing from most content marketing efforts I had a chance to be a judge for the annual content marketing awards hosted by...Read More
PR measurement. PR measurement. PR measurement. The 10 Most Common Ways Comms Pros are Measuring PR
About half of comms pros say they track web traffic, impression and placements for PR measurement, but such metrics point out the direction of success rather than conclusive Commetric came out this week with its “PR Measurement Twitter Influencer Index.”...Read More
