Stories by PRNEWS

A comscore study reveals that more mobile users check social media sites on their phones, and with greater frequency, signaling that leveraging social media can increasingly reach users on-the-go.

Financial journalists polled in the second annual BackBay-Marketwire Financial Services Reputation Survey said that the finance industry’s reputation has declined over the last year, and financial services firms need to overcome a credibility gap.

Steve Randazzo predicts experiential event-led efforts will continue to be in demand, but for such campaigns to succeed, he says, integration with PR and marketing functions are key. Here are Randazzo’s key steps to enabling such collaboration.

According to eMarketer and Hispanic ad agency Orci, only two in 10 marketers engage Hispanics on social media, though nearly four in five in the demo socialize online.

This survey asked PR executives and managers how they are thinking about executing social media measurement and what role it plays in the measurement mix.

PR Executives still have a ways to go when it comes to generating meaningful social media metrics, according to a new survey of nearly 800 communications professionals conducted by PR News and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.

Although choosing a celebrity spokesperson is partly a guessing game, there are research firms to help guide agencies and organizations.  Polling some 40,000 households, here are the overall Q Score ratings of likeable celebrities from Marketing Evaluations.

Working with celebrities as brand or cause spokespersons has never been more popular—or more dangerous. We present some guidelines to consider when matching up your organization’s brand or cause with the right spokesperson.

As the world grows more and more diverse, communications targeted at different cultures gets more complex–or do they? PR News speaks to executives at the forefront of multicultural PR to get their views and best practices.

According to a study by Brain Sells, Baby Boomers still seek growth, all the while acknowledging new limitations in resources. The findings show that as Baby Boomers age, their home range will become more important and getting settled in new spaces will require new interpersonal and wider social arrangements.