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Stop calling them ‘PR packages’: The misconception that’s diluting PR

TPRA's Reem Masswadeh says PR campaigns are about strategy, storytelling, and earned credibility. Product hampers are marketing gifts sent for review or exposure. Both have their place but they are not interchangeable.

Reem Masswadeh, Head Of Communications, TPRAReem Masswadeh, Head Of Communications, TPRA

I was recently watching a video on TikTok where a podcaster casually asked his friend if the shirt he was wearing came from a ‘PR package’. As a public relations practitioner, that simple question instantly caught my attention and, to be honest, it provoked me. It wasn’t because of the shirt, but because of how casually the term “PR package” was used to describe something that has nothing to do with public relations.

In recent years, social media has blurred the lines between marketing disciplines particularly public relations, influencer marketing, and product seeding. One of the most persistent misconceptions to emerge from this is the term “PR package.”

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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.