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Strengthen Marketing Efforts by Leveraging PR and Advertising Together

Successful brands increasingly pull together the advantages of public relations and advertising in the same marketing campaigns. PR does the job of building credibility by helping brands gain media coverage. Advertising provides the brands with control by generating precise placements and direct promotional firepower. Combining the two can’t be beat in creating brand loyalty and exposure. Read on for details.

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PR-DRIVEN EARNED MEDIA REINFORCES BRAND ADVERTISING

When customers ask questions, AI tools increasingly cite third-party coverage. This phenomenon has breathed new life into earned media. Studies show earned media being five times more powerful in generating brand trust than paid media, buttressing the importance of public relations as the crucial driver of earned media coverage. After all, it’s one thing to tout your own brand, but quite another for a third party to do so. Objectively earned validation from independent media, industry experts and influencers nicely complements the promotional claims conveyed by the brand’s advertising.

We discuss the effectiveness of brand marketers layering PR and advertising together to grab benefits ranging from increased brand visibility to richer returns on investment.

When brands integrate PR and advertising, marketing campaigns profit from cost-effectiveness gains, unified data and higher cognitive retention among targets.

Read Pro-Course For Integrated Marketing Communications: Harmonizing Your Message Across Advertising, PR and Digital Channels, by Aziza Abdelghafar.

Place PR outreach high in the marketing funnel to advance brand awareness. Position ads at bottom of the funnel to retarget those prospects who engaged with PR content.

Email or call us at 708-246-4211 to advance your knowledge about integrating public relations and advertising to secure synergistic results.

ADVERTISING’S MEGAPHONE AMPLIFIES MESSAGE TO LARGER AUDIENCE

While media relations’ essential role in garnering earned media has assumed a renewed prominence, paid ads remain a key complement to PR. Paid advertising is the amplifier that puts your media message before a larger -- or more precisely targeted – group of customers or prospects. Sustain coverage with social platform sponsored posts. Leverage native advertising, smoothly mixing brand advertising messages into editorial material. Overcome audience fatigue by communicating with targets via paid channels as well as earned media, to ensure the content feels fresh and hits its mark.

We have rounded up some of the many reasons PR and advertising deliver stronger results together. Read on for additional points of emphasis.

• Consistency counts. Incorporating both PR and advertising channels builds brand recognition by conveying a united narrative. Customers are provided a consistent message, whether from an organic news article or focused social media advertisement.
• ROI scales. Your brand’s marketing efforts are nourished by the influence and organic buzz media relations can spark. Paying for advertisements to heighten awareness of your message represents a way to dramatically boost the total return on your marketing expenditures.
• Timing matters. PR and ad integration benefits brands now and later. PR depends on genuine rapport and earned media cultivated over time. Paid advertising placements instantly present your brand before customers searching for such products/services.