Why Content Remains King
Fri, Jan. 10, 2025
By Ken Kerrigan
A shrinking media landscape presents challenges for public relations professionals working to get their clients’ stories out there. Thankfully, the PR industry excels at creating and sharing ideas through engaging content.


A look at today's magazines, newspapers and the graphics on television and consumer products raises the question of whether or not designers know their intended audience.
PR and marketing departments are in the hot seat, as forecasts show that growth in advertising spend stalled in 2023 in the wake of cost-of-living increases and continued economic uncertainty.
WPP has forged what it calls a “first-of-a-kind global agency partnership” with China’s TikTok, a short-form mobile video platform.
Widespread disinformation may derail Biden/Harris agenda, according to a coalition of advocacy groups, who see the need for government-wide strategy to repair broken information ecosystem. 
There's a media appetite for positive stories right now, anything to counterbalance the steady stream of bad news from the deadly spread of COVID-19.
Content marketing programs should be guided by a holistic strategy to reinforce the company’s positioning and establish awareness in the marketplace.
Most marketing professionals expect content marketing programs to grow over the next two years, according to a new report.
Content will remain a central priority for PR pros next year, with information overload and communicators’ ability to cut through the noise emerging as major challenges within the industry, according to a recent PAN Communications survey.
According to a recent Stanford study, young Americans’ ability to critically evaluate information they encounter on the Internet can be summed up with one word: “bleak.”
David Hudson, who was associate director for content in the Obama administration, has joined the Motion Picture Assn. as senior director of digital content & social media in its Washington office.
The backlash has begun against the 700,000 podcasts in existence—that's up from 550,000 last year. 
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is the lead investor in Sister, an entertainment content shop with offices in London and Los Angeles.
Nearly 70 percent of marketers aren’t confident in their content measurement abilities, according to an annual study that analyzed the challenges and trends behind CMO’s content marketing efforts.
A survey that polled business owners on their video marketing plans for 2019 discovered that 21 percent more businesses will participate in video marketing this year compared to 2018.
The Pareto Principle, when coupled with a rigorous process around content creation, can foster optimal collaboration without the usual headaches.



















