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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Those “influencers” you’re always trying to reach? They’re realizing their influence is in demand and that it’s not cheap. According to a recent IZEA survey , 61 percent of marketers have paid someone to mention their product, and that number is only going to rise in 2014. Paid sponsorships.

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

Social Media Strategery

According to a recent Forbes survey , 68% of CMOs and marketing executives put integrated marketing communications ahead of “effective advertising” (65%), when they were asked what the most important thing is that they want from an agency. And increasingly, the clients don’t care about these artificial lines of demarcation either.