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Cheat Sheet: Design Targets

In B2B, design often refers to silicon and semiconductors. But just as often, it means the art and science of building elegant, successful consumer-facing products and services. This makes it challenging to build a cheat sheet…

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Cheat Sheet: Design Podcasts

Here are seven podcasts produced by legit experts in the design field. The podcasts are updated frequently, so there appears to be a good amount of “inventory” for you to pitch to.

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Similarweb Audience Data: Axios, Fortune Just Keep Growing

Axios and Fortune continue to be star performers in the world of Tier 1 edit, according to the latest data from Similarweb.

From June 2023 through June 2024, Axios increased its readership by 47.5 percent, from 22.5M monthly visitors to 31.1M on a trailing 12-month basis. How does Axios do it? Smart management, smart verticals, smart brevity.

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Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Corporate Sponsorships

This cheat sheet was born from a valet request for reporters who are covering corporate sponsorships of the Olympics — which will come and go. Fact is, most if not all of these 11 journalists stand to cover sponsorships in general — if the deal was interesting enough.

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Cheat Sheet: ‘Back-to-School’ Reviewers

f you represent a tech product that fits in a “back to school” category, you had better get those pitches together — the coverage is already appearing. This cheat sheet contains 11 targets, many freelance and connected to a publication’s “list and best of” operations.

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Cheat Sheet: Forbes Contributors

At long last, here’s the SWMS cheat sheet on Forbes contributors. Listed are 66 contributors whose work appeared at least once between Apr. 26 and Jun. 5 in either the AI, the cloud and the enterprise tech section.

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Talk About Confidentiality…

According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.

Introducing ‘SWMS Sound Thinking’

Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam

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