Facebook reported its financial results for the quarter ending on December 31 2015 yesterday (January 27), highlighting its wide user base, with more than a billion monthly active users worldwide, its “strong quarter” and its plans for future projects. While this has given the wider media industry something to talk about, as the network reported a total $5.8 billion in […]
Festival Republic has called in W to handle all comms activity for V Festival 2016. The music festival celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. The agency’s entertainment division, which won the account following a competitive pitch, has been briefed to manage V Festival’s two-day event across both of its sites in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on the […]
CNBC International looks to run stories that move markets and affect people’s everyday lives. This was one of the messages from its editorial team, as Gorkana met up with CNBC International’s news editor, Katrina Bishop, social media editor, Cristy Garratt and managing editor of digital, Phillip Tutt yesterday (27 January). In front of a large […]
US PR firm The Brandman Agency has launched a new UK office by merging with its London-based sister agency Beth Cooper PR, and will be known as Brandman UK. The Brandman Agency and BCPR have operated as sister agencies for over a decade. Led by MD Elizabeth Morrison (pictured), Brandman UK will operate with the […]
Rhizome PR has rebranded to Rhizome Media as it expands beyond media relations to include social media campaigns and community management work for SME clients. Rhizome, which was founded by ex-journalists Dominic Hiatt and Jonny Stevens in 2008, provides a range of services to SMEs and “start-ups on tight budgets”. These include website creation, SEO and content marketing, […]
Kez Barnaby, a former account manager for Twitter, has joined e-tailer and shopping destination Just Beauty UK as marketing and brand manager. In her new role, Barnaby will oversee all brand and comms activity for the brand including social, PR, press, content and creative. She will report to Just Beauty’s CEO, Ben White. Speaking about […]
KPPR has been chosen to handle the publicity for TV and radio presenter Sarah Powell. Powell has her own show on heat radio, with past guests including Adele, Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran and RuPaul, as well as a presenting role on ITV’s This Morning, where she discusses entertainment features. She also writes for Heat magazine, […]
The AA’s financial services arm has hired Headland to handle its corporate and product communications, following a competitive pitch. Headland will relaunch AA’s financial services brand, build the the company’s reputation as a trusted financial partner and promote its suite of products. Last year, the AA signed a 10-year partnership with the Bank of Ireland in the UK […]
IFC Advisory, the investor and media relations agency set up by Graham Herring in February last year, has hired Newgate Threadneedle’s Alex White as a media specialist. White joins Herring, a former founder of Threadneedle Communications, and co-founder Tim Metcalfe to enhance the agency’s media offering. A former Fleet Street journalist, he will focus on supporting clients with their media […]
Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has launched a behavioural insights and strategies team, under the leadership of Matt Battersby, the co-head of its financial and professional services division. The new division will “apply analysis of human behaviour to communications”, using H+K’s new behavioural comms model SMARTER, which brings together seven methods “by which communications can influence behaviour.” H+K’s new unit, which […]