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An exciting time for media intelligence in the United States

Todd Murphy, newly appointed President of Truescope North America and former CEO of Universal Information Services, discusses the merging of the two companies to form the most complete and client-centric media intelligence service in the United States. I feel fortunate to be leading Truescope’s growth in the world’s largest media intelligence market, combining the best-in-class […]

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How Alpha Clips 2.5.0 Extends Help To Our Clients

Innovation and development have always been a primary driver for Universal Information Services. Delivering service enhancements helps our clients and ensures that our services continually add value to their work. Our Alpha Clips service, which uses artificial intelligence to summarize content and compress the time needed to digest your found news results, is our most […]

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3 Business Related Distractions for PR Pros

Yes, the world has changed since we began our dance with the novel coronavirus now called Covid-19. Government communications, corporate communications, emergency management communications, and health care public relations have all undergone a huge change at the hand of a fast-moving virus. For many corporate communicators, public relations pros, and information officers, Covid-19 has delivered […]

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Making News Monitoring Better- Alpha Clips 3.0

Making PR Tools Better Public relations professionals and corporate communicators often ask us, “How can I better engage with influencers and monitor our media efforts?” From the side of the industry that provides the tools for such work, we ask the same question, but in terms of “How can we make news monitoring better for […]

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The New: Mobile Based Trivia Game Apps

Whether it is social media, messaging, or mobile gaming, people are always on their phones. And with micro-transactions becoming more and more common throughout all gaming, we have seen a huge increase in the market for mobile games. Mobile-based gaming now accounts for 32% of the total gaming market at around $46 Billion. But in […]

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Why We Need a Break: A Defense of College Spring Break

We All Need Breaks! Around this time a year the spring break frenzy is coasting into the home stretch. I use frenzy to describe the buzz spring break gets this time of year because it truly become all consuming in terms of thought and resources.. I start to see things like sunglass’ croakies and beverage […]

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PR Measurement: What Are Your Strengths?

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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What Are Alpha Clips?

The Need To Monitor News For public relations, corporate communications, and public affairs professionals, monitoring what is said in the news and media is critical. Historically, professional communicators have monitored the news through tools that basically search, find, and deliver results. Universal Information Services recently launched Alpha Clips as a new way to better monitor […]

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How encrypted messaging can impact you.

Encryption and Cyber Security are words that are thrown into almost every movie that includes computers. Sometimes overly used and out of place, “hacking” can become a theme in movies like Oceans 11, 12 and even 13. Hollywood seems to think we either don’t know or don’t care enough about computers to ask any questions. […]

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The Unavoidable Problem with Snapchat

An Open Letter to Snapchat Dear Snapchat, Your advertisement platform is bad. Why? Because Snapchat is a mobile application that is is trying to monetize itself in a way that is like trying to fight Conor McGregor, UFC Lightweight Champion, with both hands tied behind your back and hopping on one foot. So unless you […]

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