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The Most Recommended PR Tech Vendors [PR Tech Sum No. 13]

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03 Jun 2020
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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...
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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 4,000+ Journalists [UML]

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16 May 2020
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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...
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PR Tech Vendors Pitch Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Integrations and Podcast Monitoring [PR Tech Sum No. 10]

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03 Mar 2020
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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...
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PR Software Vendors Wrestle with Cybersecurity

PR Software Vendors Wrestle with Cybersecurity [PR Tech Sum No. 9]

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04 Feb 2020
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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....
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The Most Interesting Announcements from PR Tech Vendors in 2019 [PR Tech Sum]

The Most Interesting PR Tech Announcements in 2019 [PR Tech Sum No. 8]

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03 Dec 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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...
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A Behind the Scenes Look at How Cision is Bringing Earned Media Attribution and Retargeting to Public Relations

How Cision Impact is Bringing Earned Media Attribution and Retargeting to Public Relations [PR Tech Briefing]

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26 Nov 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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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...
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Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI

Would you Run Your Internal Data Through this Media Monitoring AI? PR Tech Sum: Talkwalker, TVEyes, Meltwater, SocialChorus, Cision, Signal AI and Burrelles [PR Tech Sum No. 7]

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05 Nov 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Every month when I go to write this PR technology summary, I’m surprised at just how many new tools and features are being brought to market. This month was no exception, and perhaps because many of the launches were timed...
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New Tech Products and New Features for PR Pros; PR Tech Sum: Agility, Meltwater, Prezly, Business Wire, Onclusive, Intrado, Cision and TVEyes

New Tech Products and New Features for PR Pros; Agility, Meltwater, Prezly, Business Wire, Onclusive, Intrado, Cision and TVEyes [PR Tech Sum No. 6]

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01 Oct 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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The solution providers serving the PR and communications space have been busy. There were more product releases in September than in any other month, since I started tracking a list of 30 or so vendors about six months ago. You...
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A CRM with Real Analytics for Public Relations M&A Report Geoffrey Moore on PR Technology; PR Tech Sum Propel Burton-Taylor Cision Edelman and Onclusive

A CRM with Real Analytics for Public Relations, M&A Report, Geoffrey Moore on PR Technology; Propel, Burton-Taylor, Cision, Edelman and Onclusive [PR Tech Sum No. 5]:

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03 Sep 2019
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Frank Strong, MA, MBA
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Earlier this year I started tracking some of the PR tech vendors and summarizing news from the community here once a month. As I wrapped up the writing on this post, I figured I had done three of these so...
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The Making of Cision A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

The Making of Cision: A Brief History of ~20 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Tech Market into One Company

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13 Aug 2019
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Note: this post was last updated in November 2022. In the course of putting together the monthly PR technology summary (PR Tech Sum), I’ve realized that no news site has compiled a complete list of all the acquisitions around Cision....
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