More on TikTok
February 13, 2024
12:38 pm
So much left over from the deep-dive… TikTok traffic to news interviews tends to be low, even with CEOs such as Andy Jassy… same with
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SWMS Deep-Dive, Part 1: TikTok Not Vital For Tech PR
February 13, 2024
4:12 am
Is TikTok worth the attention of tech PR pros? Based on fresh SWMS research, the answer is no, not really.
SWMS Deep-Dive, Part 2: TikTok Targets in Tier 1
February 13, 2024
4:09 am
What exactly is Tier 1 publishing on TikTok, and is it pitchable? So few PR pros know because when they do find themselves on TikTok, they are probably not visiting, say, The Economist.
SWMS Deep-Dive, Part 3: The Toxicity of Retention Editing
February 13, 2024
3:48 am
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Union for Mashable, PC Mag and Lifehacker Wins Protection Against Gen AI
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The full union membership needs to ratify it on July 24, but it looks like no editors can be laid off or suffer a salary cut if the publication goes big in its use of generative AI. More detail here from Neiman.
Gen AI: The Big Fizzle?
July 10, 2024
Goldman Sachs took 32 pages to say pretty much that. The media business may turn out to be an outlier, an industry perfectly suited to synthetic, multilingual words, sounds and images at scale. As for everyone else, well, the global consultancies will learn the truth first because they have rushed to monetize Gen AI — they aren’t yet succeeding.
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