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What is an influencer? The definition varies depending on who’s speaking. There’s no denying, though, how important they’ve become for some brands. As such, we’ve asked Shareablee to track influencers with the most consumer engagement. Our first sectors are automotive and beauty.

In our June 26 edition, we told you about the yearly Gould+Partners benchmarking study that showed PR firms struggling last year to reach 20% profitability. Now we break down the data a bit more, looking at which specialties charged the most and how PR pros are billing their hours.

Self-help gurus say you are who you are if you think you are. Same goes with pitching, where confidence is 90% of the game. Michael Smart tells the story of two pitches that were similar but one made a critical error and ended up on in the trash.

The term fake news, or #fakenews, has become ubiquitous. The question for PR pros is how to engage with fake news and defeat it. U of FL professor Kristina Libby provides a 3-part plan that will help you defend yourself and triumph over fake news.

Consumer engagement with Twitter jumped in Q4 2016, mostly on the back of video, according to Shareablee data provided exclusively to PR News. Also of note, you barely hear people talking about Twitter going under. Now it’s all about the president’s latest tweet.

In data provided exclusively by Shareablee to PR News, we see more evidence that Twitter has become far more than a platform for policy wonks and news junkies. In this week’s data nearly all the brands in the top 10 are in the video game space. The other trend seen in this data, which tracks consumer engagement with B2C brand posts on Twitter, is the growth in consumer engagement with video posts.

Our weekly roundup of news, trends and personnel moves in PR and communications. This week we feature stories about another Steve Harvey PR miscue, United Airlines’ new communications chief, an unintended event that marred what should have been a week of recovery for Uber and a very nice gesture via Instagram from Chef Jamie Oliver for those who lost their homes in London’s Grenfell Tower fire.

And you thought Twitter was the text-heavy, nerdy, wonky channel to exchange news and views. Perhaps. Yet Shareablee data, provided exclusively to PR News, shows video is making large inroads on the platform, even in the supposedly less-than-visual B2B space.

As PRSA celebrates its 70th anniversary, the group’s chair, Jane Dvorak, looks back at the group’s early days and where it is today. After examining several reports and polls, her surprising conclusion is that the more things change in PR, the more some things, or skills, remain constant.

Our regular data feature this week looks at the influencers in beauty and fashion whose April 2017 posts attained the most consumer engagement. Shareablee provided the data exclusively to PR News. In beauty, which is far larger a category for social than fashion, the Kardashian family dominates, with Kylie Jenner offering an Instagram post that received more than 3 million likes.