How Do You Monitor for Mentions on Podcasts [PR Tech Sum No. 18]
PR technology summary: new podcast monitoring option from Critical Mention; Cision updates its media contact database More than 100 million Americans listen to podcasts monthly, according to The Infinite Dial 2020 by Edison Research. That’s up roughly 5% from the...Read More
SEO Software Company SEMrush Moves into PR with Prowly Acquisition [PR Tech Sum No. 17]
SEMrush acquires Prowly; PublicRelay announces predictive alerts; de-Cision: buy Meltwater and spinoff TrendKite? And suddenly we’re in Q4 of 2020. At least that’s what it says on paper. Let’s just hope 2020 ends on December 31st. As I’ve done for...Read More
Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum No. 15]
Summary of monthly PR tech news: Critical Mention adds a media database; Talkwalker acquires Nielson Social; Watch out for fine print in media monitoring contracts As a term, earned media made a big splash in search trends in late 2004...Read More
Is Public Relations Management a Technology? [PR Tech Sum No. 14]
Summary of monthly PR tech news: Muck Rack focuses on public relations management; Prowly enhances media database; new execs at Meltwater and Signal AI The term “public relations management” sounds like an advanced college class but it’s shaping up as...Read More
The Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors [PR Tech Sum No. 13]
Survey Identifies Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors, Meltwater Adds Signals, TVEyes Spots Logos in Broadcasts, Cision Shows Pageviews of Coverage, Burrelles Names First Women President For years, I have published a new post every Tuesday like clockwork. For the last...Read More
Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 4,000+ Journalists [UML]
Of all the media relations insights the best one is this: be relevant. These three studies polled 4,000 journalists and their answers all center on relevance. I’d do a considerable amount of blogging. Occasionally, I’ll use the service Help a...Read More
PR Tech Vendors Pitch Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Integrations and Podcast Monitoring [PR Tech Sum No. 10]
The top news in PR tech this month includes: Artificial Intelligence updates for PR, Microsoft integrations for internal comms; podcast monitoring grows This is your monthly summary of all the news out of the PR technology community. The PR Tech...Read More
PR Software Vendors Wrestle with Cybersecurity [PR Tech Sum No. 9]
Welcome to the first PR technology summary (PR tech sum) of 2020. For those new to it, the PR tech sum, it’s a monthly roundup of all the news coming from the vendor community that develops and sells PR technology....Read More
The Most Interesting PR Tech Announcements in 2019 [PR Tech Sum No. 8]
To date, I’ve written seven posts for the PR Tech Sum series – so a little more than half a year. In each one, I aim to explain in jargon-free language, what is new with the vendors making technology that...Read More
How Cision Impact is Bringing Earned Media Attribution and Retargeting to Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]
A short while back I wrote about the new retargeting capability Cision is delivering to PR based on who is reading your coverage. The retargeting builds on the company’s efforts to deliver attribution. Attribution is the ability to understand who...Read More