First a mea culpa: I believe I have been guilty of this, because it was what the client wanted and it was too much work to talk them out of it. Press release after press release has giddy quotes from VPs and CEOs saying they are pleased, excited, delighted – everything short of “we wet [...]

This isn’t terrible, it could just be better. So I’m not too concerned about using the name of the company that sent me a release today. There’s good information in it – if the readers are patient enough to read on and find it. Magenta Research is proud to announce a state-of the-art installation equipping [...]

No, but it’s certainly evolving, and if you push out releases, you need to make sure you are evolving with the medium. Some keys: 1 – In this sector, press releases are not enticements to get editors to write stories. They are the stories. The formulaic corporate style of traditional press releases just annoy trade [...]

There are countless blogs now on the digital signage and DOOH sector, but still just a handful of Web-based portals and news sites that cover the industry on a daily basis. The people who runs those commercial services make the calls daily on what either goes from their email Inboxes to their digital pages, or [...]

This post was also recently posted on the Website of the Digital Signage Association … How digital signage and digital out of home companies craft their communications on their Websites, handouts and in press releases is critical to their success. So why is so much of it so bad? The industry executives I speak with [...]