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Each week we highlight a slide from a PR News presentation of interest. This week’s slide comes from Chris White, managing editor, content marketing, and Sukhi Sahni, director, communications and marketing at Capital One. The two spoke about using the strategic use of data to drive content during PR News’ Video Boot Camp earlier this month.

We love it when data takes aim at sacred cows. We have two examples here. The first concerns influencers and whether or not #AD or #SPON harms engagement and mentions of posts. The second example looks at what consumers talked about on social during Thanksgiving re airlines. Bad service is what you’d think, right? Nope.

Each week we highlight a slide from a PR News presentation of interest to readers. This week’s slide comes from Katie Paine, the measurement guru and PR News columnist who heads Paine Publishing. Initially it was a shock: ranking journalists the way we’re used to seeing baseball hitters and pitchers ranked by their statistics. We persevered, though, and learned what was behind Paine’s slide.

Each week we highlight a slide from a PR News presentation of interest to readers. This week’s slide comes from Therese Van Ryne, who heads global PR the global customer reference & the global customer reference program at Zebra Technologies. She spoke at PR News’ Measurement Boot Camp earlier this month in NY. Her slide emphasizes that concentrating your measurement on impressions only can be misleading.

As we get ready for Giving Tuesday next week, we found the implications for brands of a Ketchum survey interesting. The survey found nearly half of all consumers are more likely to make holiday purchases from brands they know are donating to disaster relief.

Every communicator know the holy grail of media pitching is establishing a relationship with a journalist. But how is that done in the digital age? Michael Smart offers two examples of how his clients made a personal connection with a reporter that resulted in coverage for the client’s brand.

Each week we highlight a slide from a presentation of interest to readers. This week’s slide comes from Chris Albert, SVP, digital research and analytics, Ketchum, who spoke at PR News’ event in Miami last month. His slide highlights sophisticated research Ketchum conducted on behalf of a vacuum brand.

We’re not encouraging betting, but this might be a terrific bar bet question: Of all the U.S. B2B, B2C and nonprofit brands and organizations, which one had the most consumer engagement on Twitter in the third quarter of 2017? If any of your bar mates guessed a B2B brand, they are off. Way, way, way off.

A new study looks at salaries in PR and finds the largest gap between men and women occurs in the C-suite. The gap between the average salary for men and women in PR overall is far smaller than that of men and women in the boardroom.

A small study of influencers in the diabetes community provides lessons and tips about how brands should work with influencers to build lasting relationships.