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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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In exchange, all we ask is you provide us with a list of partners we can contact to see if they’re interested in purchasing advertising in the issue. Thanks to the popularity of native advertising and the shrinking of editorial departments, this pay-for-play approach is becoming more prevalent, and sadly, more accepted.

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. The traditional buckets of marketing, advertising, and public relations seem so quaint now. Weber Shandwick created MediaCo , a new unit focused on content marketing, native advertising, and digital media buying.

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The Future of Branding is About Making Friends, Not Ads

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Seemed especially fitting for me as I've railed against traditional advertising ("look at me!! It has really changed the way I think about business, branding, public relations, and advertising. " Unfortunately, to many, this is still revolutionary thinking in the advertising, marketing, and even PR industries.

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PR Pros: Start Thinking Bigger Before It’s Too Late

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As publishers get better and better at integrating native advertising both effectively and ethically, the PR pro’s old standby – “earned coverage has a lot more credibility paid media” – starts to erode. Public Relations brunner future marketing native advertising pr public relations'

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How a New Communications Graduate Can Stand Out

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You’ve just graduated with a degree in communications, advertising, PR, or marketing, and have joined the thousands of other grads in competition for hundreds of entry level jobs and internships. or similar site, but very few have a point of view on something related to marketing, advertising, or PR. Most have a LinkedIn profile.

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Public Relations Isn’t the Cherry on Top

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PR isn't: Some transactional activity that's thought about only after the advertising campaign is created. Yet, businesses continue to try to take the easy way out clumsily advertising, optimizing, and marketing to these people like they're switches that can be turned on and off if we hit the right levers.

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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It became another place for brands to push out advertising. Social media” became less social. Other things happened: Conversations gave way to content. Social media got integrated into IT, with complex usage permissions. Thriving unofficial fan sites were shut down in favor of sanitized (read: boring) official sites.