Sherrilynne Starkie

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What is Earned Media?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Companies and brands that had previously dropped PR to focus just on content marketing are once again waking up to the incredible power of positive media coverage. This means that getting media coverage for your brand, company, product or service is once again becoming an essential part of the marketing mix. It’s not advertising.

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

I first heard of Advertising Value Equivalency (AVE) very early in my agency career, way back in the 90s. More often than not, clients didn’t buy it. More often than not, clients didn’t buy it. Another 158,000 profiles, each with more than 15,000 followers, featured branded posts on an unpaid basis.

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The wine blogger kerfuffle

Sherrilynne Starkie

She admitted that she does ask wine producers to buy a monthly subscription to her website, but maintains that this does not guarantee that their wines will be reviewed or that any reviews will be positive. Related stories : Top tips for bloggers and brands. Trusting bloggers as journalists. Bloggers important in PR.

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Native advertising is here to stay

Sherrilynne Starkie

Advertorials have been almost since the dawn of the news business; the concept of native advertising is nothing new. The hope is that readers will click through to the advertisers own web property. Many high profile news sites and social networks have been offering native ads to brands for quite some time. Because it works.

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Facebook advertising facts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook is one of the largest media companies on the planet and has developed three sales channels to serve advertisers: Direct sales – Here they take a key account management approach to working with large global brands. Inside sales – This team serves clients who spend in the $100k to $1m range on Facebook advertising.

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Top Five: Do you visit Reddit or Facebook more?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Generation Z is the largest and most diverse generation in US history and Snapchat has published an infographic to explain why this matters for marketers and advertisers. Gen Z teens are young (age 13-17), but they have a lot of influence on societal norms and brand-consumer relationships.

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