According to the Harvard Business Review, there are four states of industry disruption that can be analyzed to predict which industries will encounter radical disruption. The categories include viability, vulnerability, volatility and durability. These categories give insight into an industry’s current position, its weaknesses, and even takes into account historical data. It is important to note that for some companies, disruption is a threat that leads to the need for change and growth to survive. For others, the disruptors, looking at such a matrix can help spot stagnant or legacy industries that are riddled with inefficiencies, thus creating an opportunity for disruption. The list in this article represents various companies at the cutting-edge of their respective industries and some of the interesting strategies they are using to create disruption.

Despite the number of companies conducting link building, PR, or brand awareness outreach campaigns, there's still a distinct lack of benchmark data and data-driven insights into what actually gets results. This data piece attempts to answer some of the most common questions about outreach by digging into over 12,000 campaigns across companies of all sizes and industries. Such as: What level of response rates should we expect? How much variation should we expect from campaign to campaign? Do we need to personalize our outreach in order to get results? If so, how do we do this and still conduct outreach at a scale that moves the needle for the business? What can we do to improve our response rates? Read on to learn more in this new data analysis from BuzzStream.