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October 2, 2023
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Cheat Sheet: ‘Predictions 2024’
October 2, 2023
11:00 am
By popular demand, here’s a cheat sheet with 59 authors who posted predictions last year and can be expected to do so again. (Last year’s cheat sheet contained 52.)
Deep-Dive: AI Reporting Leaders In Tier 1, Jul.-Sept. 2023
September 28, 2023
3:54 pm
AI-minded PR pros want Tier 1 coverage. No trend is hotter, so why not? In this week’s SWMS deep-dive, we found 31 articles that could qualify as a product story or startup profile. Sounds like quite a bit of inventory.
Cheat Sheet: Project Management Targets
September 26, 2023
3:47 pm
As a product category, project management software has lasted 40 years or more. PM was never marginalized/subsumed by office suites, or forsaken by IT buyers.
Cheat Sheet: Quantum Security Targets
September 12, 2023
4:45 am
In this short and sweet cheat sheet, we’ve got eight targets focused at least in part on quantum security. This is still a nascent field, though the “quantum” term has been bandied about for a decade or two.
Cheat Sheet: ‘AI in Healthcare’ Targets
September 8, 2023
4:32 pm
It’s perhaps a bit surprising that our 13 “AI in healthcare” targets are more or less the usual suspects in healthcare edit. Most trades can’t afford to hire additional reporters just to cover the AI aspects of the healthcare beat.
Cheat Sheet: Banking/Fintech Targets Based in NY
September 6, 2023
7:24 am
Here’s a dozen New York-based targets covering banking or fintech. They’re the reporters you might want to wrangle when a client is “in town” and wants to get together with a reporter for a trend-spotting session.
Cheat Sheet: Personal Finance Reporters
September 5, 2023
10:21 am
Here’s a list of 13 targets focused on personal finance. Remember that Insider has an entire section dedicated to the topic. We present the go-to’s in the field. Please tell us whom we missed and we will add.
Cheat Sheet: Automotive Targets Focused on China
August 30, 2023
7:16 am
This cheat sheet is highly targeted: reporters who follow the Chinese auto market. We came up with six.
The SWMS-Semrush Top 15 Index: Here’s What Go-Getters Want
August 10, 2023
3:57 pm
Inc. these days has 13 million unique visitors a month, more than twice that of Fast Company, which has 5.9 million. Entrepreneur does pretty well at 8 million. LinkedIn, on the other hand, has 1.7 billion.
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Congress to Investigate the Omnicom-IPG Deal
December 20, 2024
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
SWMS Predictions for 2025
December 10, 2024
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
Talk About Confidentiality…
December 10, 2024
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’
November 22, 2024
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
Business Insider Reporters Starting to Go on Camera
November 19, 2024
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer
November 13, 2024
At this time last year, Eric Newcomer and his two podcast co-hosts — Max Child and James Wilsterman — each formed an “AI startup fantasy team” and picked five AI startups to seed their rosters. We’re now in year 2 and it’s time to draft again. The podcasters wonder… which startups do they dump? Which do they add? The player whose startups accumulate the most total value by Nov. 1, 2028 is the winner, so there’s plenty of time to make adjustments. Here’s a link to the AI fantasy team podcast — you may need a password. Not sure.