I’m really late getting around to posting this, but last month Ketchum’s Danny Whatmough presented the findings of the PRCA’s State of Digital PR report.
The report, which surveyed 136 agency and in-house teams, highlights a number of key themes which for those in and observing the UK’s PR industry should make interesting findings.
It’s a good report but at the moment I just want to pull out a couple of revealing results:
- Nearly half (46%) of PR practitioners surveys spend only 1-10% of their budget on digital
- The top activity that measly budget is spent on is web design and build
- Followed by social media monitoring
- … and then SEO
I find this interesting partly as while optimists might say that PR is adapting is also highlights the fact that the core digital services undertaken by PR agencies overlap with wider – perhaps more specialised – sectors.
Great that PR is competing on more levels, but does it have the specialist knowledge to compete and win? See my previous post about PR, social media and specialisation.