Media alerting needs a deep rethink, providing more than just a clip notification. The problem I have with alerts isn’t that they aren’t useful, they are, it just isn’t enough. News alerts were created by media monitoring vendors to replace human alerting workflows. The idea was that automated boolean and NLP capture applied against a […]
It’s 5 AM, and while most of the world sleeps, someone on your PR team is frantically scrolling through hundreds of articles for your executive news brief. Sound familiar? You’re not alone. As someone who’s spent years optimizing media monitoring workflows and implementing AI solutions for crisis communication, I’ve witnessed how the landscape of executive […]
Credible predictive PR metrics are finally available, necessitating the need for hybrid media intelligence. The problem with PR measurement isn’t that there aren’t good metrics or that there isn’t enough science validating what those metrics can predict. Evaluating media at the depth required has been a challenge to automate. Consider this: in some cases, predictive […]
There’s a moment every morning—about fifteen seconds after my alarm blares and just before the first coffee hits—when I brace myself for the daily news firehose. If you’re a PR pro, you know what I’m talking about: the ritualistic doom-scroll, the desperate hunt for signals in the noise, the endless clicking, saving, flagging, and muttering, […]
AI is suddenly everywhere you look, including the realm of PR—so much so that “AI fatigue” has become a real thing. But if you’re feeling that slight twinge of AI fatigue, please bear with us, because AI in PR isn’t going anywhere. The key to its effective use is having the right skills, deploying it […]
