CommsTech versus PR Tech in the Court of Public Opinion [PR Tech Sum]
New York, California, Texas and Florida don’t seem to agree on anything these days except they are more likely to use the term “PR Tech” as opposed to “CommTech” Recently I’ve noticed an article discussing “CommsTech” as opposed to PR...Read More
After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention
Scale to compete with incumbents; Prowly adds media monitoring; Cision releases internal DE&I report; World’s First-Ever NFT Press Release I took a business ethics course when I was studying for my MBA. One of the assignments was a peer-reviewed journal...Read More
PE Firm Buys 3 PR Tech Vendors and Combines Them into One [PR Tech Sum]
PE firm closes on deals for Kantar Reputation Intelligence, PRgloo and Onclusive; will merge all three companies under a single PR tech company I don’t get too excited about private equity money in PR technology. The industry track record in this...Read More
Competition Among All-in-One PR Software Tools Heats Up [PR Tech Sum]
Onclusive adds features, becomes all-in-one PR software tool; Agility PR Solutions adds AI; Q4 releases IR event hosting tool; an odd rebrand by SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal; Intrado rebrands as Notified; Meltwater Q2 earnings This is a humdinger of a...Read More
PR Tech Recommends Reporters You Should Pitch [PR Tech Sum]
OnePitch recommends reporters to pitch; ResponseSource shuts down #journorequests curation; Meltwater acquires Owler; Critical Mention adds “cast & crew” TV data This month’s roundup of PR technology news is a two-fer: there’s two months’ worth of news here. Why? I...Read More
8 Innovations in Public Relations Technology to Watch
Vendors are giving us reason to be optimistic about public relations technology – from AI that will predict your pitching success to more tangible PR measurement and attribution Years ago, I had the opportunity to be a PR director for...Read More
Earned Media vs. Media Relations [PR Tech Sum]
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
PR Tech Vendors Pitch Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Integrations and Podcast Monitoring [PR Tech Sum]
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]
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]
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