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Barcelona Principles 4.0: Understanding latest best practice in communications measurement and evaluation
As a CIPR Chartered PR professional, I always look to understand and follow industry best practice. When it comes to the measurement and evaluation of communications, there is no better reference point than AMEC’S ‘Barcelona Principles’. I’ve followed the principles since they were first published in 2010, so, when the latest iteration - the Barcelona Principles V4.0 - arrived, I was eager to see what has changed.
Evaluation should never be a bolt on service - here's why
This week I was amazed to learn that half of PR practitioners admit to presenting a metric that they don’t fully understand to their clients. I don’t know why I was surprised. It’s not that long ago that a PRCA Census revealed that one in four PR practitioners don’t do any measurement or evaluation and that our industry’s most popular metric is impressions.