Tag Archives: Business Wire Polls

Business Wire Journalist Survey to Monitor Trends in Media Research Tools

For nearly 50 years Business Wire has long served two constituencies: those companies and organizations that distribute their press releases over our network; and information recipients, foremost among them members of the media.  Today we are conducting a short survey to look at the news gathering process of today’s journalists. The term “journalist” has expanded over the years [...]

PR Peeps Poll: Generating Clips Still Most Important in Measuring Press Release Success

Generating clips and earned media still number one measure of press release success, says PR Peeps Poll

PR Peeps Poll: Twitter the Favored Social Media Tool, Facebook Not Far Behind

PR Peeps Poll finds that public relations practitioners prefer Twitter over other social media tools. Facebook comes in second.

PR Peeps Poll: 43 Percent Cite Driving Traffic as Primary Objective in Optimizing Press Releases

More than 40 percent of PR Peeps polled say they optimize their press releases for search engines in order to drive traffic back their websites. Second reason was to influence search engine results.

Tech PR Peeps Poll: 80.4% Say Twitter Overrated As Tool for Pitching Authors

This is a guest post from Travis Van.  Travis is the founder of Business Wire partner ITDatabase, a research platform for tech industry PR. Social media fever runs so high these days that it’s tough for tech PR pros to distinguish real opportunities from the useless fluff regularly offered up by pundits. Particularly unclear is [...]

PR Peeps Poll: Almost 70% Tweet the Links to Press Releases

Almost 70% tweet the links to their press releases, Business Wire’s August PR Peeps Poll finds

Tuesday Mornings the Best Time to Send a Press Release According to PR Peeps Poll

PR Peeps Polled said Tuesday Mornings are the best day to send a press release

PR Peeps Poll: What’s Your Biggest Digital Pet Peeve? Almost 40% said “All of the Above”

PR Peeps Poll: What’s your top digital pet peeve? Almost 40% of Professional Communicators said “all of the above.” Are we really ruder than decades ago? Apparently so.

PR Peeps Poll: 85% say they put hyperlinks in press releases

PR Peeps Poll suggests 85% use hyperlinks in press releases but our internal audit suggests otherwise.

PR Peeps Poll: 18% haven’t downloaded any apps to their SmartPhone

The periodic PR Peeps Poll results are in and suggest  that of those PR folks  who own SmartPhones, 18% have yet to download any apps. What does that mean?   Perhaps the ultimate app, the web browser, already comes pre-installed on every phone and covers most people’s basic browsing needs. Of the 82% of SmartPhone owners who HAVE downloaded apps [...]