Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister is doing very well on Twitter. She has the highest number of followers for any British “well known” and has sent more than a thousand tweets. This perked the interest of the BBC News. Rob Brown, the MD of PR agency Staniforth, was lucky enough [...]
September 21, 2009
Ita Murphy pitches Mindshare for the Big Idea
PRWeek will be running four videos this week relating to The Big Idea project – a collaboration with the NPSCC. There are four agencies in this pitch and they’re going head-to-head in public with the results coming out on the 25th of September. This week we’ve the MD of Mindshare. Ita Murphy touches on her [...]
September 18, 2009
Win of the Week: Porter Novelli
Our prestigious Win of the Week goes out to Porter Novelli. How could we not? The huge PR firm has landed the role as agency of record for the 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas this year. As blogging fans we’re deeply jealous of anyone who gets to go near BlogWorld! Here’s [...]
September 17, 2009
Facebook's TechCrunch prank underlines the speed challenge PRs face
One of the biggest challenges facing PR professionals today – agencies and in-house teams too – is that of speed. When something happens on the internet it is very often the case that a delay of minutes can make the situation ten times worse. On the 10th of September blog powerhouse TechCrunch fell into a [...]
September 16, 2009
Oriella PR Network reveals surprising journalistic insights
The alliance of communication agencies known as the Oriella PR Network has published its European Digital Journalism Survey for 2009 to show that journalists are relying more on PR efforts. The full survey is available from Oriella’s dedicated European Digital Journalism Survey site. Headline stats include that over 50% of journalists said that the economic climate and [...]
September 14, 2009
Speed's Stephen Waddington (@wadds) covers NLA's engagement with PR agencies
We’ve written about the NLA and their money making plans before on this blog. As a result of that post NLA’s PR agency started to interact with us and answered some questions. Speed’s Managing Director, Stepehn Waddington, has done a far better job at keeping the industry connected to the ‘debate’ with the NLA. His [...]
September 9, 2009
Weber Shandwick take home the first PRWeek Global Agency Report Card win
PRWeek started their Global Agency Report Card to track global agency networks. 2009 has been a tough year for many and PRWeek illustrate this with a quote from Results International’s Keith Hunt who looks after agency M&A; “Global networks are hurriedly trying to rebalance their portfolios into higher growth areas.” He doesn’t say it but [...]
September 4, 2009
Win of the Week: Unity
Unity step up to the podium for the Win of the Week as the agency has successfully won CafeDirect large PR business. How large? Matt Cartmell suggests it may be a six figure sum. CafeDirect face a challenge from the supermarkets who are marketing their own push into fair-trade with their own products and from [...]
September 3, 2009
PR employees need social media skills
Over at Everything PR, Laura Spencer points out just how important social media is for all new PR employees. Spencer is allowed an “I told you so” on this one as she’s absolutely right. Here are just a few highlights from her post. Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and others, are here to [...]
September 2, 2009
Seventy Seven PR's "PR Agency of the Year" poll is neck and neck
Over at Spinning Around the blog from Seventy Seven a public poll of which PR agency will be the people’s pick for the year is getting close. Cake had surged into an impressive lead with over 50% of votes. Since then We Are Social has claimed back about equal stakes which pits the two at [...]
September 28, 2009
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