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Executives have long struggled to appreciate the full value that communications professionals provide. Overly broad and inexact metrics like Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) and publication-level reach diminish executives’ trust in the efficacy of public relations and our ability to measure…

This is a continuation of our April blog series focused on helping communications teams get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. We believe that the current economic…

Especially during trying economic times such as what we’re experiencing now with the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, communications teams must be able to demonstrate their impact in terms that matter to their businesses versus continuing to rely on outdated proxy metrics…

If you read our last post on Media Mix Modeling (MMM), you have a basic understanding of what the methodology is, and why agencies and private companies alike are implementing this approach. This is our second post on the topic,…

Traditional models of PR measurement no longer work (i.e. AVEs). Digital has become intrinsic to the PR and communications landscape, and diversification is forcing measurement to become more innovative than ever. Both PR agencies and in-house communications professionals are struggling…

I think we have almost certainly just witnessed the fastest ever global adoption of a new word. And, maybe, the fastest diffusion of two words in the history of humanity. Perhaps the only thing to spread faster than the “coronavirus”…

In early 2019, Livongo began preparing to go public. At the time, the company was already a leader in consumer digital health, with clients including 20% of Fortune 500 companies, major health plans, and the two largest pharmacy benefit managers…

Last week, it was announced that the Avast subsidiary, Jumpshot, had ceased operations. The Jumpshot closure will be problematic for many marketing and PR tech vendors, which purchased consumer browsing data from Jumpshot and used the data as panels to…

In this blog series, we shared information from the first ever analysis of nearly 17,000 releases conducted by Business Wire and Onclusive. In the first blog, we discussed key benchmarks for news releases and in the subsequent post we shared…