Too Many Priorities: The 10 Top Communications Challenges Facing PR in 2021
Top communications challenges are 1) too many priorities 2) cutting through the noise and 3) working with “leaders that don’t understand comms” (36%) – educating execs is “superpower” When businesses face a problem they don’t know how to solve, it...Read More
Wake of the Pandemic: Businesses Value the Role of PR and Communications More than Ever [Survey]
Following a tumultuous year, 80% of PR and comms professionals say organizations place a greater value on comms, according to the 2021 JOTW Strategic Communications Survey Organizations value communications more than ever. That’s according to the 2021 JOTW Strategic Communications...Read More
Changing Relations with Business and Media: Summaries to 3 Studies for Communicators
One study shows communicators are faced with growing workloads, but their relationship with business has strengthened; two studies offer a look at media relations insights There’s a lot of talk lately about getting back to normal and while things are...Read More
Do You Have 6.5 Minutes? Please Take this PR and Comms Survey
This year the JOTW survey has seven contributors; results will provide PR and comms benchmarks; plus there’s a chance to win gift cards We know a lot has changed over the last year, but what specifically has changed and how...Read More
45 Marketing and PR Statistics that Recap the Year We Had in 2020
Here’s a look at statistics across PR, marketing, and social media that were surfaced in the various reports and studies covered on this blog throughout 2020 Many of the blog posts published here are based on survey research, analytical studies...Read More
Are Embargoes and Exclusives Still Useful in Media Relations?
52% of PR pros say embargoes are still useful but one in five disagrees; 64% of comms pros still find value in offering reporters exclusives. Three-quarters (75%) of public relations professionals say media relations is getting harder, according to the...Read More
Get a Big Picture of the PR Landscape with these Notes from 10 Industry Surveys
Surveys show earned media is still the most credible; exec appreciation and collaboration with PR improved during the Coronavirus Regular readers know these pages are filled with surveys and statistics. Some of the studies are surveys I’ve helped field, like...Read More
Media Relations Shrinks as a Public Relations Service; Cliff Notes to 3 Industry Reports
Studies find media relations isn’t the top PR service anymore; PR weakness on technical skills; execs are key to shaping corporate social positions Several interesting reports on the PR industry were published earlier in 2020 but got lost in the...Read More
Code of PR Ethics? The Gray Area of Communicating a Point of View
Do PR professionals present accurate and truthful information? A survey of 300 PR pros found 95% say “often” or “sometimes.” “We’re excited to announce that SlideShare is joining Scribd.” That’s how LinkedIn, which owns SlideShare for the moment, set it...Read More
Quantum Entanglement? A PR View of Media Bias [Survey Data]
Twenty-some years ago, I was a communications student in a college class on media criticism. One of the debates in that classroom centered on whether or not the media was bias in its reporting. As I recall, while those debates...Read More
