7 key takeaways from Muck Rack’s free fundamentals of media relations course [special guest post]
Muck Rack Academy’s Fundamentals of Media Relations is a course taught by Michael Smart, a respected public relations coach who helps PR professionals strengthen their media relations and communication results Successful media relations requires more than writing a strong pitch,...Read More
Signal AI acquires Memo for readership data [PR tech sum no. 64]
Muck Rack rolls out new AI features; Onclusive sews its acquisitions together; plus PR tech briefs and new vendor survey data April of this year will mark the seventh consecutive year I’ve provided steady summaries stemming from the world of...Read More
Will 2024 be a good year for internal comms? [PR Tech Sum 55]
Staffbase launches beta for new internal comms tool; Muck Rack team up with Shankman; Agility PR Solutions parent touts LLM deal with “big tech” In an unscientific observation, I’ve noticed a lot of companies are hiring internal communications. Traditionally, that...Read More
Vendors are starting to show new use cases for AI in PR [PR tech sum no. 49]
Propel releases AI-based “media war room”; Muck Rack has AI recommending reporters to PR; PRophet partners to bring influencer marketing and media alerts; Did you know Gartner has a Market Guide for Employee Communications? Generative AI may get all the...Read More
PR software vendors are starting to talk security in generative AI pitches [PR Tech Sum No. 46]
Summary of PR tech news from the last 60 days: Meltwater, PRophet and Muck Rack have new AI features; Notified updates IR platform; Meltwater acquisition by a private fund to proceed; PR tech mentions, new PR stats and content picks....Read More
5 point memo to PR about Twitter from a survey of 2,000 journalists (to get the best results from PR, you must put effort into Twitter)
A survey by Muck Rack found 78% of journalists say Twitter is the most valuable network; 7 in 10 journalists still use Twitter to find sources Too many organizations treat PR and social media as separate things. Yet year after...Read More
Muck Rack Lands a Whopping $180 million in Funding [PR Tech Sum No. 38]
Summary of PR tech news for this month: Muck Rack’s big raise, Meltwater reviews “strategic alternatives”; PR tech mentions include Onclusive and Semrush The PR technology space can be in some respects, divided into Davids and Goliaths. On one side,...Read More
Spending on PR Software Growing Again, Study Finds [PR Tech Sum]
Annual spending on PR software grew 14.7% to approximately $5.5 billion in 2021 Ask 10 people to define PR and you’ll get 10 different answers. Some of this is a matter of nurturing – where and how people “grow up”...Read More
Voice Interface for Public Relations? Meltwater Wants to Build its Own Siri [PR Tech Sum No. 30]
Years ago, when my daughter was small, I watched her walk up to my old plasma TV and try to use it as a touch interface. At the ripe old age of 3 or 4, her experience with technology up...Read More
Another Acquisition and More Podcast Monitoring Tools [PR Tech Sum No. 24]
Meltwater acquires Klear; Muck Rack enhances reporting; Talkwalker adds podcast monitoring; TVEyes partners for podcast audience data About this time last year, I was slowly coming to grips with the fact we were just at the very beginning of this...Read More
