How did brands fail to reach Millennials? The debate as to when Generation Z starts and ends is ongoing, just as with the Millennials, but there is no doubt that the two cohorts are colossally different. We are all familiar with the millennial crowd, also known as Generation Y, born between the early 1980s and […]
International Women’s Day 2018 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensMarch #TimesUp #MeToo #FutureisFemale March 8th is International Women’s Day, an annual tradition established by the United Nations (UN) in 1975 to celebrate and recognize women for their achievements. “International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage […]
Today, Friday, December 1, Relaxnews inaugurated the first “Brand Journalism Summit” conference. Relaxnews had the pleasure of sharing expertise from a wide variety of experts from brands (Paris Aéroports, Compte Nickel, Villa Numeris), agencies (Publicis Groupe), start-ups (Flint, Syllabs), and the media (AFP, Les Echos, and the former president of The Financial Times). Speakers took […]
Dear Andrew Essex, Your book, The End of Advertising , was on our summer reading list and we’ve been talking about it since. The title was perfectly provocative and the book rational. Yet, while Heroin and Aspirin make for a good story on artifice versus authenticity, as our friends at Publicis Media highlighted in their recent […]
Relaxnews has made news its business for roughly the past 20 years. Our experience as a media source and news agency has transformed over time, and our services are increasingly employed by brands, either for content marketing or brand journalism. This past year, we’ve noted a few different trends: “fake news,” “company-gate,” otherwise known as […]
Some sources say that content marketing and brand journalism are interchangeable terms, synonymous with other terms like “brand storytelling” or “inbound marketing,” but that’s not quite true. In the same way that the lead journalists of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier, who recently broke the Paradise Papers, are not brothers despite similar last […]
Funny story, our new client Sylvia Powell, Managing Director of Kempstone Media in London, recently shared that she had learned about Relaxnews from an article written by NewsCred. After talking with Powell, we saw the real-life benefits of our freemium subscription model; for an affordable price, our client chose to get premium content at the source […]
Here’s why potential customers can’t hear you Brand journalism, by definition, is the application of journalism to a brand communication strategy. It demands consistent production and publication of content of journalistic quality that is related to the brand story. Content should be relevant, fact-checked, well-written, edited, and consistently updated. Brand journalism has become vital to […]
