Stories by Lucia Davis

Real-world examples of content marketing took center stage at PR News’ Content Marketing Boot Camp. An opening session of the conference, which is taking place at The Yale Club in New York City, featured a discussion about some of the most effective content marketing strategies.

Forty-three percent of emails are read on a mobile device, according to email analytics company, Litmus. If you haven’t already been writing with mobile in mind, it’s time to start because that percentage is only going to grow, and probably faster than we care to think.

To honor its 40th anniversary, boutique PR agency The Marcus Group (TMG) wanted to do something different. Instead of simply having a big party to celebrate the occasion, TMG decided to donate a full year of its services to a charity.

Despite being around for only five months, Vine is already beating Instagram on Twitter. According to Topsy Analytics, the 6-second stop motion video app’s 2.86 million shares on Twitter beat out the social photo sharing service’s 2.17 million.

Here’s the first peek at Myspace’s $20 million ad campaign aimed at breathing life into the social media site. Could this be the year of Myspace redemption?

It’s been a long time coming. Facebook has officially added hashtags.

The line between branded and non-branded content continues to blur, whether you’re viewing a TNT-sponsored BuzzFeed list or a glowing profile on Scientology via The Atlantic. For Andrew Hanelly, SVP of strategy at McMurry/TMG, it all comes down to quality.

When you see an email address that includes “AOL.com,” what do you think? Chances are, the terms that come to mind are “not a Web native,” or “not savvy,” or even, sadly, “old.”

Earlier this year, Instagram passed the 100 million monthly users mark. According to the photo-sharing giant, 40 million photos are uploaded per day and 8,500 “likes” and 1,000 comments occur every second.

We asked our readers what to do the instant a PR emergency hits. See what they had to say.