During a July 2024 survey among public relations (PR) professionals in the United States and Canada, approximately ** percent reported using social media to promote their press releases. Around ** percent said they used news distribution services such as PR Newswire and Business Wire, while ** percent stated they promoted press releases through the online newsrooms on their brands' websites. According to the same study, little more than one-quarter of PRs across the U.S. and Canada used GenAI.
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