Throwback Friday: Is there anybody there? How Social Listening can boost B2B brand presence

Look at Tiktok – did any of us really know what the platform was before the pandemic hit? It now adds eight users every second. Using the power of social media to converse with a business audience is now essential…

Throwback Friday: AI is put under the stress test of the law

Ten months on since our first AI blog of the year and we have new legislation to abide by, courtesy of the EU Digital Services Act.

Throwback Friday: Words can inspire, words can destroy – choose yours carefully

From columnists and editors to special correspondents and hacks, all of us often go by the simple moniker ‘wordsmiths’. Words do more than provide scrabble fodder. They shape our perceptions – about life, about governments, about business.

Throwback Friday: To pay or not to pay, and is Forbes as good as it used to be?

A couple years back, we explored how when done right, the great trifecta – PR, SEO, and thought leadership – can reap huge rewards for B2B organizations. In that particular blog, we honed in on the power of backlinks, and…

Throwback Friday: There’s more to sustainable marketing than ‘greenwashing’

A throwback to two years ago, where PR and marketing greenwashing was just coming under the spotlight.

Throwback Friday: News is only news when it appears in “print”

This week, the IBA team attended a webinar by Roxhill Media on the dos and don’ts for pitching to broadcast TV. Former Head of BBC Somerset and TV news veteran, Clinton Rodgers, led the discussion and his talking points got…

ChatGPT is the wake-up call for many PR Agencies and Marketing Pros

The advent of ChatGPT has certainly got everyone with or without writer’s block talking. So, should PR Agencies and Marketing Pros in the B2B world be worried?

A B2B marketing makeover: Gaining a clearer picture of the new B2B customer in 2023

As we approach the end of the calendar year, we look at the key trends that will shape B2B marketing campaigns in 2023.

Beyond attention-grabbing statistics: How to find real value in research-led content marketing

Journalists have a saying that company research reports are often a last ditch, ‘Hail Mary’ attempt by companies to grab headlines when all other ideas have run dry – but is this always the case?

‘The Death of Third-party Cookies’

Google is one of the last but the largest search platforms to still rely on third-party cookies, so an end to this usage could spark major disruption for marketing strategies.