{"id":2818,"date":"2013-11-15T01:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T06:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2013-11-15T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T06:23:46","slug":"some-recent-observations-pr-analysts-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/15\/some-recent-observations-pr-analysts-press","title":{"rendered":"Some recent observations &#8211; PR, analysts, press"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>If you hire a PR firm, you tend to find that they &#8220;influence&#8221; journalists to write pieces. Fluff pieces even.<\/li>\n<li>If you hire an analyst firm, they tend to be interested in you and start putting you on their subscribers radars. And in all their reports. And naturally press releases.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Tech press&#8221; are more interested in covering M&amp;A, money deals, etc. as opposed to real tech. This democratisation of media has caused the mainstream ones to follow suit too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These are global observations not limited to a region. Gatekeepers still exist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Some%20recent%20observations%20-%20PR%2C%20analysts%2C%20press&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F11%2F15%2Fsome-recent-observations-pr-analysts-press&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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