AMA Recap: September 2021

Written by BAM Team | September 30, 2021 at 8:57 PM

Here's what we covered.

On September 30, Ben Bergman of Insider, Megan Leonhardt of Fortune, and Gené Teare of Crunchbase answer all of your PR and pitching questions about FinTech. These amazing writers covered raw data for surveys, trending topics, in-person photos and much more. Check out the full recording below by entering your name and email, or read the highlights through our tweets. Happy pitching everyone! Thank you to everyone who participated and submitted questions!

Let's go live.

Here are some of the top AMA tweets and words of advice from our panelists. If you want the full scoop, check out the recording of the webinar above.

Ben Bergman of Insider

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "I typically don’t cover startups unless it’s through the lens of the VC angle." - @TheBenBergman of @BusinessInsider
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "We are very about “people”. We have a rule that every photo we use has to be a person. People care when it’s a founder that has a great story to tell." - @TheBenBergman of @BusinessInsider
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "A bad way to pitch is something that’s generic. We don’t want it when it has been somewhere else. We generally don’t do funding news unless we’re first on it.” - @TheBenBergman of @BusinessInsider
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Megan Leonhardt of Fortune

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "Great pitches are usually … a little off-topic. Something that’s on EXACTLY what I just wrote is not that helpful." - @Megan_Leonhardt of @FortuneMagazine
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "I do live in the world of survey data. I’m a little bit stricter on most of it. Don’t send me a pitch that doesn’t include the methodology. We look to make sure things are statistically significant." - @Megan_Leonhardt of @FortuneMagazine
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "I really want the raw data, and I want it in a way that I can work with it." - @Megan_Leonhardt of @FortuneMagazine
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Gené Teare of Crunchbase

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "I spend a majority of my time speaking with VCs and reporting on trends globally." - @GeneTeare of @Crunchbase
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "We’ve moved away from individual funding stories unless it’s part of a bigger trend. We’re a little bit more trend focused. We’re a little bit more sector focused." - @GeneTeare of @Crunchbase
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

Live from our #askmediaanything webinar, "We use a lot of our own data. We see ourselves as a resource to the broader industry. We’ll help package the data based on what a journalist needs." - @GeneTeare of @crunchbase
— BAM (@BAMtheagency) September 30, 2021

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