By Todd Murphy | October 24th, 2019
You may not have heard of us, but your competition knows us well. This idea is often the case when a new prospect comes to Universal Information Services for help. Most companies and organizations using a media monitoring or PR measurement service know of the SaaS platforms like Meltwater and Cision. Many firms and agencies […]
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By admin | August 30th, 2018
How Do Google Search Results Work? This week, President Donald Trump claimed the famous search engine Google was aggregating more negative coverage of his presidency than positive coverage. Google has addressed this matter over the last two years, since a very rocky 2016 election cycle, it seems the President is still not happy with the […]
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By Todd Murphy | June 27th, 2018
You may have heard of the value proposition, which means “an innovation, service, or feature intended to make a company or product attractive to customers”. That proposition usually comes in the form of a hook designed to close a deal based on something specific like features or cost. In the world of news monitoring, and […]
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By admin | March 14th, 2018
Part 2 of 3 This post is the second in a three-part series illustrating the importance of knowing your strengths. As my colleague Ben Caldwell put so well last week, “Since 1908, Universal Information Services has been creating great media monitoring solutions for their clients. That is what we’ve done for 110 years because, to be […]
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By Todd Murphy | January 16th, 2018
PR Measurement: what matters The “Measure What Matters” quote from Peter Drucker has found its way into many articles and posts about public relations measurement. Although originally a quote regarding business metrics, many PR pros and bloggers have used this quote to direct focus on measuring only the outputs and outcomes of a PR campaign […]
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By admin | December 6th, 2017
Yesterday I thought to myself that now is such an exciting time at Universal Information Services. It hasn’t gone unnoticed that much of our recent growth is due to the accuracy and insight our PR measurement services provide. Our recently enhanced media measurement methodologies, combined with advanced visualization of data, has proven to be great […]
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By admin | July 13th, 2017
What is the PR Evaluation Framework? Out of all the free resources available to public relations professionals across the internet, one of the best is AMEC’s Integrated Evaluation Framework. Prepared by the world’s greatest evaluation minds, The Framework might not be a reporting platform full of analytics and flashy charts, and that’s because it’s designed to be […]
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By admin | June 28th, 2017
No, but it has changed. I’ve recently been asked what seems to be a recurring question in my professional career: “Austin, are press releases dead?” The answer isn’t as clear cut as some might think. PR professionals, particularly from the B2B side of PR, have written about this topic extensively, but there is no consensus if […]
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By admin | June 14th, 2017
AVE: An Inappropriate Metric The controversy within the media measurement over AVE usage (advertising equivalency value) has been swirling for years. In a recent article, CBSsports.com cited Gonzaga University as receiving $406 million in “value” from their recent run at the NCAA Basketball championship. This article, and how Gonzaga monitors and measures their media exposure […]
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By Todd Murphy | May 18th, 2017
While many of our friends and media measurement peers attend the 2017 AMEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, much of our team remains behind to work on our latest public relations measurement research. Universal Information Services is committed to delivering the tools that public relations practitioners need in order to do their job better. To that […]
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