Friday, July 4, 2014

Measuring PR-results: The truth is right near the task

PR-measure is always out of the project field

After 15 years of journalism and public relations I don’t get any more into a debate about what is PR, whether it should sell, whether it is advertising for free, and whether it is right. Two of three pitching briefs are aimed to find an agency which will place the greatest number of publications for the lowest price. Sometimes they add "in the most high-circulation media" or the most visited Internet resources. Of course, the number of publications can be a measure, it’s a good, simple and easy-to-count way to look at PR-results. In practice, nobody has any guarantee that anybody read those publications and loved the brand after reading.