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How Brands Are Building Trust in the Age of AI
Brand influence is no longer shaped by one message, one channel or one audience. It is being built across social media, earned media, AI platforms, employees, consumers and public conversations that move quickly.
PRGN surveyed more than 1,800 business, marketing and communications professionals across 48 countries to understand what is really driving brand influence today. The findings show where organizations are adapting, where they are falling behind, and why trust, reputation and authenticity still matter most.
Insights
Can Project Lightning Save Twitter?
Faced with a dwindling user base, Twitter is set to launch a new product later this year which it hopes will engage more people with the use of large-scale photos and videos to highlight trending events. Dubbed “Project Lightning,” the microblogging site is adding a...
Critical Thinking and Why It’s A Must for PR Pros
Last week, I hosted a Webinar for public relations professionals throughout the world who are members of our Public Relations Global Network. The topic? Critical Thinking. Many of us, in any business, but perhaps especially in PR, fall into the day-to-day trap of...
Dynamic Tension
by Evelyn Holtzhausen President Elect, PRGN More years ago than I care to remember, when I was Cape Editor of the Sunday Times, I’d often receive a call from "head office" in Johannesburg requesting a "follow up" on a tip off or rumour that some celebrity or other had...
GPS for Digital Marketing Campaigns
Professional communicators usually have lots of stories to tell – I know I do. The trick is getting the right people to listen and getting them to act. One way to think of it is moving the audience from the story to the store. Often with digital marketing, the story...
Native Advertising, Product Placement, Content Marketing, Advertorials: What’s Going On!
One day when God became so angry with mankind after their vain attempts at building the tower of Babel, to be more in his likeness, he henceforth sent them the Babylonian language of confusion thereby ending their delusions at becoming gods. In actual fact, it was humans alone, the communications industry to be more precise, who orchestrated this tangle of languages: Native Advertising, Product Placement, Content Marketing, Advertorials and several more phrases buzzing around the market, seemingly perplexing although all having one thing in common: It all boils down to occupying editorial space.
In A Sea Of Contents, We Should Stand Out Like Colored Buoys
2015 has been the year of a leap forward in content marketing. During the last few years, digital marketing and communications have evolved intensely and interestingly towards techniques centered on the production of quality content. The core issue in this trend is...