Happy Friday! - Behold your Daily PR Brief! October 18, 2019

Hello! Read some of today's best PR and Comms industry news clips:
Are Agencies On the Out? (Everything PR - October 17, 2019)
How Investing In Agency Culture Can Pay Off (Forbes - October 18, 2019)
Brand-Produced Video Gets Good Press (O'Dwyer's - October 17, 2019)
4 quick comms lessons from the parenting front (Ragan - October 18, 2019)
Bringing artificial intelligence stories to life (Ep. 189) (The Echo Chamber podcast | Holmes Report - October 18, 2019) [PODCAST]
Here Comes Generation Alpha: What PR Pros Need to Know About the World’s Next Age Group (Public Relations Society of America - October 17, 2019)
Have You Ever Been Professionally Ghosted? (Spin Sucks - October 18, 2019)
It can be the best time of year - so here's how to avoid your Christmas PR nightmare (PRmoment (UK) - October 17, 2019)
In focus: Communicators’ power to drive business purpose (PR Daily - October 17, 2019)
PR and Social Media: How to Adapt Your PR Strategy (Marx Communications - October 17, 2019)
The Productivity Challenge: Are Convenience Apps Making Us Less Productive? (Behind the Lines - October 17, 2019)
How to handle audience questions during your presentation (Media First (UK) - October 18, 2019)
Summary Section:
Are Agencies On the Out?
By Jim Crickell
Everything PR - October 17, 2019
Are Agencies On the Out? It seems that more and more businesses are beginning to bring their marketing creative and public relations needs in-house.
How Investing In Agency Culture Can Pay Off
By Taylor Bennett, CEO and Chief Creative Director at MESH
Forbes - October 18, 2019
The result will likely be engaged employees who defy the turnover statistics and do whatever it takes to produce exceptional work.
Brand-Produced Video Gets Good Press
By Steve Barnes
O'Dwyer's - October 17, 2019
Brand-produced video has become a key component in garnering positive media coverage, according to a new study from D S Simon Media.
4 quick comms lessons from the parenting front
By Robby Brumberg
Ragan - October 18, 2019
Look at the sunny side of messes, embrace your lack of total control, and don’t be afraid to let your colleagues cry it out. Communicators don’t have it quite as tough as parents of small people, but there are similarities.
Bringing artificial intelligence stories to life (Ep. 189) [PODCAST]
The Echo Chamber podcast | Holmes Report - October 18, 2019
André Labadie, Brands2Life’s managing director of business and technology, has written a new white paper on the communications landscape around artificial intelligence.
Here Comes Generation Alpha: What PR Pros Need to Know About the World’s Next Age Group
By Stephen Dupont, APR
Public Relations Society of America - October 17, 2019
Do you know anyone under 9? They represent the world’s next age group: “Generation Alpha,” the demographic after Generation Z.
Have You Ever Been Professionally Ghosted?
By Whitney Danhauer
Spin Sucks - October 18, 2019
Have you ever been professionally ghosted? Were you the reason? That's what Whitney Danhauer asks in this week's #SpinSucksQuestion.
It can be the best time of year - so here's how to avoid your Christmas PR nightmare
PRmoment (UK) - October 17, 2019
Sorry to mention the C word, but Christmas is coming! It can be the best time of year - so here's how to avoid your Christmas PR nightmare.
In focus: Communicators’ power to drive business purpose
By Ted Kitterman
PR Daily - October 17, 2019
At the PR Decoded conference, pros take a new approach to enunciating an organization’s role in bettering stakeholders’ lives. For examples, look to Netflix, Mondelez and Levi Strauss.
PR and Social Media: How to Adapt Your PR Strategy
By Wendy Marx, President of Marx Communications
Marx Communications - October 17, 2019
Social media has truly changed the PR game. When used together, social media and PR make a powerful team that is sure to strengthen your PR strategy.
The Productivity Challenge: Are Convenience Apps Making Us Less Productive?
By Ronn Torossian
Behind the Lines - October 17, 2019
Today’s workplace culture is all about productivity and the practice of increasing it. Anywhere you look, countless new apps promising to slash
How to handle audience questions during your presentation
By Adam Fisher
Media First (UK) - October 18, 2019
Presentations can be scary. And one of the parts that frightens people the most is answering questions from the audience.
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