David Wiles joins Good Relations as consumer director
Chime-owned Good Relations has brought in David Wiles from Shine @ The Academy as consumer director, with a brief to provide senior client advice and business development. [...]
Burson-Marsteller to promote Aarhus as culture capital
Burson-Marsteller’s brand and consumer practice has been chosen to promote Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus, in the run-up to its year as the European Capital of Culture [...]
All Star Lanes chooses Belt & Braces
Boutique bowling brand All Star Lanes has appointed Belt & Braces as its retained PR agency. Belt & Braces has been briefed to lead comms activity across All [...]
Best workplace ranking features four PR agencies
Firstlight (pictured above) and three other PR agencies have been featured in the 2016 edition of Great Place To Work’s employer rankings. Firstlight, a business-to-business [...]
Why PR should learn to embrace diversity
Warren Johnson, founder of W Communications, says the launch of digital agency fortysix last week at Ad Week Europe has reinvigorated the diversity debate and offered a [...]
How Twitter’s ‘live’ offering will provide value for PR
Twitter reported its financial results for the quarter ending on March 31 this week, highlighting its ‘live’ strategy for 2016, which will focus on creating more premium [...]
Threepipe hires Tracey Carey as MD
PR and digital marketing agency Threepipe has named FleishmanHillard Fishburn’s former board director, Tracey Carey, as its first MD. With responsibility for business [...]
LDR CREATIVE wins global brief for Puro Group
LDR CREATIVE has been appointed as the lead global agency for beach club and hotel brand Puro Group after handling its UK PR for the past three years. The agency, which won [...]
M&C Saatchi S&E launches Sport-Lifestyle division
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has launched a new Sport-Lifestyle division and promoted business director Laura Coller to lead the new offer as head of lifestyle. [...]
Case Study: Victoria Pendleton Switching Saddles
When Betfair looked to beat its competitors last year, Pitch came up with a year-long campaign which challenged Olympic cyclist champion Victoria Pendleton to abandon the bike [...]
Taylor Herring kicks off Kellogg’s Team GB sponsorship with #GreatStarts
Taylor Herring has been appointed by Kellogg’s to promote its role as official sponsor of Team GB and its #GreatStarts campaign 100 days ahead of the Rio Olympics. [...]
Way to Blue wins consumer PR brief for WaterWipes
Global comms agency Way to Blue has been handed a retained consumer PR brief for baby wipe brand WaterWipes, following a competitive pitch. Way to Blue has been briefed [...]
British Cycling hires Cogent Elliott
Cogent Elliott has been chosen by British Cycling, the governing body of cycle sport in the UK, to handle film and online digital activity for two of its national programmes, [...]
Joe Barnes joins W as head of digital
W has enhanced its digital division with the appointment of Deep Focus London’s Joe Barnes as head of digital. Barnes will work alongside W’s senior leadership team, which [...]
Behind the Headlines with Fever’s Jo Chappel
Jo Chappel, creative director at Fever, on finding those eureka ideas during the most menial of tasks, launching a “Culture Vulture” programme to enhance [...]
Cunard appoints Samsung’s Rachel Lloyd
Luxury travel brand Cunard has appointed Samsung’s Rachel Lloyd as head of PR. Lloyd will be responsible for driving the company’s PR and social media strategy globally. She [...]
News coverage drives charity campaigns, finds Gorkana survey
Gorkana’s first Charity Attitudes Benchmarking Survey shows how positive and negative media coverage can affect charity campaign success and, in particular, how positive media [...]
Sunfly Karaoke appoints Quite Great PR
Sunfly Karaoke, provider of karaoke hardware and music tracks, has appointed Quite Great to handle its communications. In addition to handling Sunfly’s PR, Quite Great [...]