At the end of October the CIPR held their annual National Conference at the British library. It featured a diverse selection of speakers across a wide variety industries and roles within communications. The day started with a fascinating picture of big corporate communications problem solving with Matt Peacock from Vodafone. Wise-before-his -years, Matt painted a… [Read More]
Media Measurement Made Simple – Take 2
Eugene Bacot, CIPR Marcomms Members and long-time committee member, offers his take on this event: No more AVEs. Not since the creation of AMEC’s Barcelona Principles. Absolutely not… Yet they persist, often at the insistence of clients, and the CIPR is making a determined effort to clamp down on this misleading measure of PR effectiveness…. [Read More]
Media Measurement Made Simple (not)
Earlier this week the CIPR Marcomms Group hosted an evening discussion on measurement as part of AMEC’s Measurement Month. The event at the CIPR in London hosted 4 speakers, being: Richard Bagnall, AMEC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PRIME Research (UK) Giles Peddy, Group Managing Director, Lewis, Jerry Ward, Managing Director, Press Data Stuart Bruce… [Read More]
Why Google is making the PESO model more relevant to PR
The PESO model has been gathering interest in the PR world since Ginni Dietrich‘s (at Spin Sucks) seminal work in 2014. It covers the main channel forms open to PR. Its important because it segments them for the digital age. Let me explain…. Its mainly because it builds in a consideration for paid exposure within the PR… [Read More]
7 habits of highly effective media analysts
This guest post from AMEC colleague @stephbridgeman outlines the points she made at a Measurement Month event hosted by Smoking Gun PR in Manchester in September 2016. —————- I was delighted to agree to talk at Smoking Gun’s event on 8th September 2016 at Smoking Gun PR, especially as the agency’s MD Rick Guttridge was… [Read More]