When designer wallpaper brand Graham & Brown wanted to launch a National Wallpaper Week, Citypress set in motion a campaign to showcase wallpaper as art, which included a ‘Kinky Vintage’ edition to “get pulses racing in the bedroom” with the help of “sexpert” Tracey Cox and designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. The results? Nation-wide coverage, National Wallpaper […]
Tim McLoughlin, Head of Social Media at Saatchi & Saatchi, doesn’t think his job will exist in five years’ time. At a panel discussion hosted by Lansons as part of Social Media Week LDN, Tim joined Thane Ryland, Global Head of Social Media and Analytics at Microsoft, and Russ Graham, Head of Digital and Social […]
Tin Man has been chosen to launch Takumi, a free app which aims to “revolutionise the way brands engage with influencers on Instagram”, following a three-way pitch. Takumi will connect Instagram “influencers” (people with between 1,000 and 100,000 followers) with the brands that they, and their followers, love. Takumi’s influencers will be able to choose […]
Not a bad way to start the morning, eh? Gorkana held its first Measurement Roundtable yesterday morning at the Duck & Waffle, focused on best practice measurement in the agency world. Over the past decade, measurement has increasingly become an integral component of successful PR. We have felt this acutely, as our measurement programmes have […]
Michael Wilson, presenter of Jazz FM’s Business Breakfast, on being the “Robert Palmer of the business world”, imagining the “typical” listener is his mum and having guests who can hit key notes in a three minute interview slot. Some people might be surprised that Jazz FM broadcasts a programme like Business Breakfast; how did the […]
Preparing the proposal On my first day at Bottle as Content Lead, I was invited into a pitch meeting where we were planning a proposal for a prospective client. By the end of the meeting we had come up with some really promising ideas that would go on to form our proposal. On top of […]
Sophie Warburton, stylist and shopping editor at the Daily Telegraph, on relaunching the fashion website, the mix of high end and high street content and why PRs need to place the reader at the heart of their pitch. You’ve been stylist and shopping editor for the Daily Telegraph for nearly a year – tell us […]
Just a few weeks ago Washington DC was awash with rainbow colours and delighted celebrations as the Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. A sea-change for America. And a signal for the rest of us, too. Faster than ever before, attitudes are changing and what constitutes “mainstream” is diluting. We are embracing difference – seeing […]
John Lewis is on the hunt for a PR agency to develop and deliver a campaign for its new flagship shop in Leeds, which is due to open in late 2016. John Lewis will be the anchor tenant of the Victoria Gate development, in Leeds, which will complement the existing Victoria Quarter shopping arcade. The […]
All the inspiring work at Cannes Lions got me thinking about excellence in communications generally. And how although we all really love a big award-winning creative idea we know that clients want and need brilliant basics too. So here’s an imaginary set of communications awards we can aspire to win… in our own minds. Best rebuttal: […]