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PRWeek Dashboard is an integrated content brand focusing on the essential products and tools used by communications leaders and their teams. Powered by actual user insights and experience, PRWeek Dashboard will present stories of how tools are being deployed on brands and in corporate teams, in agencies, and across all areas of communications. PRWeek Dashboard includes weekly product articles published online and in print, as well as sponsor-driven Webcasts.
Submissions are open to all providers of products and tools designed for the PR and communications industries. To submit a proposed Dashboard product or suggest being interviewed as a product user, send your pitch to dashboard@prweek.com.
SocialChorus launches Innovation Lab
The new program will help users to more effectively engage employees.
Signal Media raises $16m in Series B funding
GMG Ventures, the venture capital arm of Guardian Media Group, led the funding round.
Cision launches Social Influencer Discovery tool
The new feature is part of the Cision Communications Cloud.
Cision sees 2% organic revenue growth in Q1
The company also indicated it would begin targeting CMOs.
Nasdaq sells PR, web hosting, and GlobeNewswire to West Corporation
The deal had a $335 million price tag.
Global Strategy Group launches social listening and analysis offering
Global Strategy Group Viewfinder merges social media with its public polling expertise to analyze social data.
Muck Rack hires Mike Schneider as marketing head
Schneider most recently led marketing for Nestio, a startup for real estate marketing and leasing.
Ruder Finn launches its first analytics tool: Beacon
The agency bills the tool as a way for users to "integrate real-time social listening with real-world data."
Shutterstock's Flashstock business launches as Shutterstock Custom
Shutterstock Custom is a custom content creation platform.
Meltwater acquires app that is equivalent of "AI-powered Wikipedia"
The deal also brings onboard significant Silicon Valley brainpower, including Matt Michelsen, whose venture with Lady Gaga burned out last year.
Cision's latest acquisition: Paris-based L'Argus de la Presse
Cision said Tuesday it plans to acquire the France-based media monitoring company.
Boden takes Escucha social listening platform to Latin America
The firm launched the service in the U.S. two years ago.
Relationship Science rolls out product to unseat Google Alerts
The company launched the free service to get more clients into the funnel.
Weber Shandwick partners with Storyful to launch Cognitive Context
Storyful CEO Rahul Chopra also serves on the Innovation Council that supports Weber's content offering.
Cision launches unified platform for earned media
Newly-minted CEO Kevin Akeroyd says the Cision Communication Cloud will allow the CCO to "play catch up" through its unified platform.
Sysomos appoints Peter Heffring CEO
Heffring is the former CEO of Expion.
Publicis restructure continues as it merges Middle East PR brand into MSLGroup
LeoComm PR, the six-office Middle East agency owned by Publicis and formerly aligned with Leo Burnett, is to become part of MSLGroup, the global network's main PR operation.
From Vocus to PR Newswire, how Cision built its empire
In the past three years, the newswire market has changed dramatically, driven by acquisition after acquisition by Cision. A quick look at how the company gobbled up many of its competitors.
Understand your social audience with Demographics Pro
The platform provides detailed demographic and psychographic analysis of Twitter audiences, conversations, and groups of users.
After acquisitions, Cision releases products with Vocus, Viralheat services
The product launches are the first in a series of new releases following Cision's acquisition spree.
