Advancing Public Relations Campaign Evaluation: Bridging Research Trends and Practice

In today’s dynamic and result-driven business environment, organizations expect accountability from public relations (PR) professionals to ensure their contributions align with organizational goals and objectives. Subsequently, PR practitioners must evaluate their PR activities to demonstrate PR effectiveness. This study aimed to explore current trends in PR evaluation research between 2010 and 2024 through bibliometric analysis, which revealed several challenges within the domain. Many themes and sub-themes were populated with the assistance of the VOSviewer software. Further, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 83 working PR executives. The interviewees discussed numerous evaluation techniques they used and their impacts and effects, such as awareness, attitude, opinion and behaviour. The finding offers credible inputs along with a conceptual model and insights for ensuing meaningful direction for future studies in the domain of PR.