Rebecca Rhodes, chief creative officer for Virgo Health and Golin Health, talks to Gorkana about healthcare and the health and wellness trend, creative thinking and the best piece of career advice she’s ever received. What media do you consume? ES magazine, Sunday Times Style, Observer Food Monthly, Red, Vogue, Elle Décor, Dazed & Confused and Blue Print. […]
PR and social media marketing agency 33Seconds has appointed Eulogy’s Mark Doonan to a newly-created associate director role. As well as overseeing a portfolio of the agency’s tech clients, which include SoundCloud, Web Summit, and Tapdaq, Doonan will work with 33Seconds’ co-founder, Alice Regester, to build and enhance a new business pipeline. At Eulogy, Doonan […]
Mobile workforce management business, BigChange has appointed Francis, the corporate division of Frank, to raise its profile among UK businesses. BigChange CEO, Martin Port, said: “We need to make noise that matches our results, and this is why we have chosen Frank’s corporate team to help drive the talkability we need and showcase our 3-in-1 […]
Push PR has promoted Daisy May Sitch to editorial content director, with a brief to drive the agency’s digital growth strategy. Sitch joined Push PR as digital and social media manager last June. Before that, she was a senior fashion, news and features writer at MyDaily.co.uk and Huffington Post UK Style. She also freelanced for Metro.co.uk. […]
Marketing, tech and healthcare M&A adviser, Results International has compiled research that shows sustained M&A activity in the PR industry for the first half of 2016. The analysis shows that there were 36 deals in total, six more than during the same period in 2015, and more than a quarter of the activity (28%) involved […]
Online dating platform eHarmony.co.uk has appointed LighterLife UK’s Rachael Lloyd as senior PR and comms manager. eHarmony, which first launched in the US in 2000, entered the UK market in 2008 with a vision to “create more lasting love in the world”. It claims to use a “scientific compatibility matching system” to match members on 29 […]
Richard Branson’s former comms director, Paul Charles, has launched a new travel PR agency, The PC Agency, and bought travel consultancy Angel Publicity, with its founder, Emma Cripwell, taking the helm as MD. Charles created The PC Agency after co-founding his previous agency, PCC, with Julia Perowne in 2011, having previously worked with her at […]
Rede Partners, an independent fundraising advisory business for the private equity industry, has appointed Instinctif Partners as its retained corporate PR adviser. Instintif Partners will support Rede Partners as it continues to raise its profile among the private equity and investment communities. The proposition will include media relations, thought leadership, digital communications and strategic marketing […]
Effie Kanyua, comms director for London Lifestyle at Bauer Media, on how she battled her way into the BBC to launch her media career, the best creative partnership she’s worked on, which featured Craig David, helping to lobby for fair rent and gender pay equality and why she thinks journalists can smell fear in a pitch. Before […]
Pharmaceutical company, Verseon Corporation, has appointed Buchanan as the group’s financial PR and investor relations adviser. The account will be led by Buchanan partner, Henry Harrison-Topham, and will be supported by Mark Court, also a partner, account director Sophie Cowles and account manager Stephanie Watson. Harrison-Topham, said: “The Buchanan team is really pleased to have […]