7 Tips for a Successful Live Event Coverage
Live coverage is an important step to promote your brand. Here are 7 tips to keep in mind when covering live events:-
Target your audience
Plan the coverage of live events with a specific audience in mind. It must be an audience that would be highly interested in the event and not the “average reader”. An average reader is usually the target audience of newspapers but, specifically interested reader is one who looks for more analysis and details.
Send journalists
If you’re thinking of doing a live event coverage, consider having a journalist present to get the word out. When it’s a large event, we suggest assigning several journalists to cover it. The roles to be filled will vary according to the case and the number of journalists. Here are some examples:-
- Filming for the live broadcast.
- Take photos and videos to post on the blog.
- Interact with the audience.
- Make a linear account of the facts and comment on what happens.
- Select public tweets to add to the blog.
Create a live blog
The best way to do a live coverage is to create a live blog on your website. This is the right place to display your journalists’ tweets and live-tweet the event.
Interact with the audience
If the event’s pace allows it, try to interact with the public. Answer their questions and comments on twitter and in the live blog. Your customers can follow the event with a hashtag, and you can add this hashtag to your live blog if you also want to add public tweets.
It’s important to promote your blog. You should place a link to the live blog from your website, include the words “live” which should be in the headline of the notice. Make your coverage through Twitter from a journalist account but, promote the live blog on several social media accounts before and during the event. You can retweet some key tweets from the official account of the event. It’s a good idea to add a link to the live blog in each of these retweets. If it’s a controversial topic, you can do a little survey to increase interaction with your audience.
Make sure to give context
You must provide context in the beginning. Explain what the event is about and why it’s important to cover it. Make sure to include links with your previous articles on the subject and give details as to where you are at the time of coverage. This can help your audience gain a better understanding of what is happening.
Use your live blog as an input
Use your live blog as an input to make an article after the event but, always have a notebook (or an app you can take notes in) available. We recommend that you write down ideas for future articles, facts you may need to verify, and other ideas.
Try new things!
Experiment with new techniques to inform and interact with your audience. Learn something from each of your experiences.
So there you go! All the tips you need to make the best live event coverage. If you follow them and do your best, everything’s gonna turn out great!
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