Tue, 2018-07-17 06:54
Sam
Why Reporters Would Cover a Survey -- and Why They Wouldn't
Tech vendors pour countless hours and dollars into surveys and ask the comms people to publicize the findings. How do you coax busy, skeptical reporters to cover these things? As we did in 2015, we asked reporters to give one reason they'd cover vendor surveys and one reason they wouldn't. Here's what they said this time.
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You may not yet have clients in the augmented reality space but that's bound to chasnge and soon. Here's a list of go-to reporters, with contact info. As you know, AR reporters often cover VR as well, so your AR news needs to be that much more special. 
Yesterday we saw a comms pro Tweet this: "Seriously, super annoyed with how many of my regular news sites now require a paid subscription to read content. I understand the decision, I do. But I also can't afford to spend $200 per year on 10 different sites. Will prob have a negative effect on my online reading habits…"
In PR, what works is often what’s shared. That’s why this week we analyzed 200 beauty articles across Refinery29, Bustle, PureWow and Self to see what was shared, and how often, across Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. We pulled the data using Shareable Metrics.
