Integrated digital comms agency TopLine has won PR briefs to work with investor platform Trendrating, cloud banking business RedCloud and SME financier Nucleus. TopLine will support the companies with an integrated mix of comms work, including inbound marketing strategies, content production and search marketing and video creation. According to the agency, it won the briefs thanks […]
When the Institute of Advanced Motorists wanted to enhance the appeal of its advanced driving courses among younger people, Tin Man came up with “Pulling Power”, a campaign to prove that good driving increases sex appeal. Some 1,500 sign-ups later, the agency smashed its KPI 15 times over, delivered £62,500 in revenue for the charity and secured two industry […]
Independent financial PR agency Yellow Jersey has appointed Felicity Winkles, formerly of St Brides, as board director. Winkles has some ten years’ financial PR experience working predominantly across the leisure, natural resources, energy and support services industries and specialising in AIM-listed clients. She previously supported the launch of the St Pancras retail app StP. At Yellow Jersey she will advise […]
Exact Ventures, the market intelligence firm, has appointed digital marketing and communications agency Liberty Communications to raise brand awareness and revamp its website. As part of the brief, Liberty will run a campaign, including PR and social media, to promote the firm’s thought leadership and Exact Ventures’ profile. Exact Ventures is based in California and, […]
Communications and design agency Emperor has acquired Oxfordshire-based corporate agency Accrue Fulton, a specialist in corporate comms, branding and reporting. Accrue Fulton, which has more than 50 clients in different sectors, will retain its own brand and bring the number of UK offices in Emperor’s network up to four. Following the acquisition, Richard Guy and […]
Lifestyle PR agency EdenCancan has promoted Mischa Joslin to associate director. Having joined the agency in February 2015 as a senior account director, Joslin will help shape the agency as a brand, with a focus on driving new business growth, in her new role. She will continue to oversee EdenCancan’s brand roster, acting as a senior […]
Coloplast has appointed Stand Agency to deliver a campaign to “get the nation talking” about the subject of constipation. Coloplast specialises in providing services and products in “intimate healthcare”, including ostomy, urology and continence, and wound and skin care. The brand says there are an estimated two million adults affected by constipation in the UK. Last year, constipation […]
Lansons advised Metro Bank on its successful listing on the London Stock Exchange last week. Metro Bank raised £400m through a private placement to existing and new shareholders before listing its shares on the Main Market last Thursday. Lansons has advised Metro Bank on all external communications since before its 2010 launch when it became […]
Sam Lister, the Department of Health’s comms director, is moving to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) as group director of comms. Lister has spent the last four-and-a-half years at the Department of Health (DH), where he has led several government comms programmes including the domestic handling of Ebola, the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, […]
Ranj George, head of consumer at LEWIS UK, on why agencies need to get better at valuing their staff, the need to love, live and breathe PR to succeed, and how he dreams of running a pick’n’mix shop in Shoreditch. Before I reach the office in the morning, I’ve already… Watched BBC Breakfast and Good Morning Britain, skimmed through two […]