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Tier 1 on YouTube, By the Numbers

As a companion piece to our Tier 1 on TikTok cheat sheet (Oct. 22), here’s a look at Tier 1’s presence on YouTube. You’ll see some outliers in the list as well. We organized the cheat sheet by YouTube followers, in descending order.

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Cheat Sheet: Entrepreneur Staff Editors

Entrepreneur Magazine doesn’t make it easy for PR pros. It publishes no masthead, or even an “About Us” page. Determine who’s on staff and who’s a contributor is quite the challenge. This cheat sheet is as close as one can come — featuring eight names.

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Cheat Sheet Lite: Cybersecurity Awards

Here’s a short list of cybersecurity awards, mostly US-based but we included a couple over in the UK. This is a cheat sheet “lite” because it lacks contact info. Still, the info provided will get you started.

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You Won’t Believe Which Titles Are Killing It On TikTok

On TikTok, clicks are the game, and we were surprised to see which Tier 1 titles have been playing it. Our table ranks 15 top edit brands in terms of how many followers they have on TikTok, a social channel banned in the federal offices of the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and in Montana.

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SWMS Predictions for 2025

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…

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

The ‘AI Fantasy Draft’ From Eric Newcomer

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.

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