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Marketing Agency Matchmaking: What Clients Crave in Agency Partnerships

Set Up

PR took quite a dip this year, decreasing from 50% to 27% of Clients saying they need PR assistance. Client Priority #3 | The PR Decline The dip in the demand for PR servicesfrom 50% in 2023 to 27% in 2024could partially be attributed to a shift in how businesses perceive the risks associated with public stances and "cancel culture."

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How to Get Verified on Instagram: 2 Ways To Get Your Blue Check in 2025

Buffer Marketing

A 2020 study  of 6.5 If you have the budget, you can also hire a publicist or PR agency to help as part of your marketing strategy. Verification assists with impersonation issues — Instagram won't verify more than one instance of a person or brand, so you can trust that the one that is verified is the real account.

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How to use Google Trends to analyze your competitors’ brand engagement

Search Engine Land

By analyzing these patterns, you can answer very strategic digital marketing , PR and SEO questions: What types of media placements drove these search patterns? Should we consistently invest in PR or SEO instead of short-term campaigns? Google Trends search for “ebike” grew substantially after the pandemic started in 2020.

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Social Media Crisis Management: Tips to Do It Like the Big Brands

SocialPilot

Having a crisis management plan before things spiral out of control can ensure that bad incidents like these fade away instead of turning into a PR disaster. In 2020, L’Oréal faced backlash when it posted a “Black Lives Matter” support message. Most importantly, remember to treat your audience like people, not just a PR issue.

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New Podcast Season: Breaking Down the Walls of Enterprise Content Marketing (Season Intro)

Animalz blog

According to Google AI overviews, as of 2020 Microsoft roughly employs 220,000 people globally. It’s all running through, well, marketing and content. I mean, that was at that small scale. So, yeah, it’s just incredible to me how how somebody can manage that. Ty [00:09:19]: Yeah. I mean, Microsoft has I just looked it up.

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Why Are Google Reviews Important for Local Businesses? Challenges & Solutions

SocialPilot

Did you know that the number of people researching for businesses using Google Reviews has gone up from 63% in 2020 to a whopping 81% in 2024? Take the example of United Airlines they faced a PR disaster after a viral incident wherein a passenger was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight.

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How to address the top reputation issues impacting brands today

Search Engine Land

Corporate executives, brand managers and PR professionals need to recognize that clever spammy SEO tactics can’t “push” negative stories from credible sources down the search engine results page (SERP). Nearly half (48%) of PR professionals believe that Gen Z will have the greatest influence on a company’s reputation in the next five years.