One of the main struggles for journalists, PRs and digital marketers is ensuring content is planned, viewed, outreached and has gained media coverage ahead of key dates, holidays and trends.
Lots of tools exist to help amplify content – like ResponseSource – which is a journalist enquiry service that receives hundreds of requests from over 30,000 journalists, bloggers and PRs each week. It’s beneficial for obtaining and offering up content, expertise, insights and placing products into gift guides and more.
This platform and the requests benefit both those writing the content and those wanting to be a part of the content. Trends in the media mimic consumer behaviour, so digital marketing teams can seek to benefit from engaging with what journalists are talking about. But what do these trends look like?
In this guide, we have delved into requests around traditional holidays to reveal the opportunities in industries ranging from retail & ecommerce to airlines, restaurants, supermarkets, event organisers, non-profit organisations and more.
With this in mind, we have analysed ResponseSource enquiry data to put together a white paper for the key dates in any PR calendar. By analysing numerous existing ‘content calendars’ and ResponseSource enquiry numbers, Impression has collated the most popular journalist holidays to create a textbook guide for quick wins. This white paper includes:
- How will a digital PR calendar help your content planning?
- Tips to help you plan your content
- Tips for creating content and outreaching to journalists.
Key dates & holidays:
- New Years Day
- Dry January
- Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year
- Valentine’s Day
- Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day
- World Book Day
- International Women’s Day
- St Patrick’s Day
- Mother’s Day
- Ramadan
- Easter
- Father’s Day
- Wimbledon
- Amazon Prime Day
- Summer holidays
- Back To School
- Halloween
- Bonfire Night
- Black Friday
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- Boxing Day
- New Years Eve
For the PR industry, this paper provides insight into future campaign ideations and outreach considerations. It has provided data on the types of publications submitting enquiries for each holiday and the dates of these submissions.
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