In marketing and communications, a fundamental distinction is made between “earned” and “paid” media.

The former concerns content created and shared by third parties about the subject (a person or thing); think of a Business Day article about a company. Paid media involves paying to place content in front of an audience — we’re all familiar with pesky internet adverts. ..

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