NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's new media and marketing environments require communications pros to constantly evaluate their tactics.  The right tactical mix is fundamental to developing successful PR and marketing campaigns.  However, the digital and attention markets we operate in today also require communicators to rethink and refresh how they use tried-and-true tactics. 

Today, for example, organizations are issuing news releases to achieve a variety of objectives, including:

• Increasing traffic to a web site or landing page;
• Promoting direct audience actions, such as event registration, downloads of an app or white paper and product purchases;
• Seed the social web with key messaging;
• Positioning the organization or one of its experts as a thought leader or industry source; and
• Distributing or driving attention to marketing content, such as infographics, blog posts and videos, to acquire new qualified audiences.

To deliver these goals, the press release has undergone a transformation.  We discuss this evolution on the Beyond PR blog, in a post titled "Ditch the Press Release? Not so Fast," which you can read here: http://budurl.com/ditchpr .

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