Archive for October 27th, 2009

Catch Us Live…(again)

Yup, seems we do this quite a bit, but PRBC will be chatting live on Twitter this Thursday, October 29th at 8:30p (Eastern).  This time we’re hosted by the lovely Valerie Simon from Examiner.com’s PR Examiner. Read the rest of this entry

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Madison Avenue Goes Back to the Future

Laney Cohen HeadshotThe Wall Street Journal recently reported on NBC’s allowing marketers to tack products on their programs promoting a cause, health or social issue, citing Campbell Soup as an upcoming sponsor for Today Show health segments in November and February.

This got me thinking – is advertising blurring the space between product placement and advertising? A throwback to days of yore? Read the rest of this entry

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Six businessmen and businesswomen looking at laptop on boardroom tableDuring another one of my random midday reads of interesting social media news and tidbits, I came across this fantastic BusinessWeek poll of CMOs. The big takeaway for me was that most CMOs think social media agencies are completely full of s***. Most agreed that those agencies have a pretty good understanding of what can be done with social media, the CMOs that were polled also noted that many of the social media agencies they have dealt with have no clue about business, the nuances of their client’s industry, who their clients’ competitors are or how social media can help a business get ahead of its competitors. Read the rest of this entry

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