60 Seconds with Manifest London’s Martin Farrar-Smith
Martin Farrar-Smith, branding and design director at Manifest London, believes agencies need to think less about media coverage and more about changing things, says all [...]
Personalised travel service CityUnscripted hires Rooster
Rooster has been handed a UK media relations brief by CityUnscripted, a new personalised travel service, which offers travellers planning and booking tools to help them get to [...]
Best Global Brands: what Mercedes, Toyota and Tesla are doing right
Interbrand’s Best Global Brands report has launched, identifying the 100 most valuable brands and automotive companies are leading the way. Media experts tell Gorkana why car [...]
Golley Slater PR partners with The Great British Exchange
The Great British Exchange, which supports British manufacturing and local suppliers, has named Golley Slater PR North as its PR agency and preferred PR supplier to its 500 [...]
Triumph Motorcycles hires Performance Communications
Motorcycle manufacturer Triumph Motorcycles has handed a UK PR and social brief to automotive and sports brand specialist Performance Communications, following a competitive [...]
Pitch PR rebrands as Pitch Marketing Group
Sports agency Pitch PR is changing its name to Pitch Marketing Group, as it launches a new division dedicated to branded content production. Pitch will now operate as a [...]
Up Communications rebrands as Goldbug
Up Communications, founded in 2014 by ex-EE comms veterans Lynne Arrowsmith and Stuart Jackson, has rebranded as Goldbug. Arrowsmith, the former director of internal brand and [...]
Grayling on why brands must ‘communicate their tech exploration’
Future tech challenges mean that brands must plan to communicate their digital aspirations more clearly, according to Grayling’s new paper: ‘Live Smart or Die’. Helen Ellis, [...]
CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal on why he wants more Snapchat pitches
For the last three months, CNBC’s international technology reporter, Arjun Kharpal, has requested pitches from PRs via Snapchat. Gorkana caught up with the journo to find out [...]
OVO bolsters marketing and comms teams
Energy provider OVO has appointed Dyson’s Adam Rostom as chief marketing officer and named the Guardian’s Katie Thompson as its new comms director, as the company looks [...]
Superdrug hires Well Hello for health PR activity
Superdrug has chosen Well Hello, an independent PR agency set up by WE Communications’ Nick Woods and Cow PR’s Lisa Taylor in February, to handle its health PR activity. Well [...]
Global gender pay gap survey reveals £12,600 PR salary divide
International networking group Global Women in PR (GWPR) has launched a survey that shows a £12,600 pay gap between the salaries of men and women. Conducted by OnePoll on [...]
Opinion: How to replace ‘hurry sickness’ with creative success
Chris Lewis’ new book, Too Fast To Think, which launches on Monday (October 3), looks into the industry’s busy, ‘disruptive’ work culture and how it hinders [...]
Hain Daniels hands six-figure PR brief to Aduro
Aduro has won a six-figure PR brief from food and drink manufacturer the Hain Daniels Group to deliver projects for Sun-Pat peanut butter, Hartley’s 10-Cal Jelly Pots and [...]
Two wins for Spider PR
Spider PR has won two new UK PR briefs from event and hospitality group Camm & Hooper and La Donaira eco-retreat. Spider PR has been appointed by Camm & Hooper to [...]
Mason Williams promotes Portugal’s Amieira Marina
Mason Williams Communications has been chosen to represent Amieira Marina on the Great Lake Alqueva in Portugal – Europe’s largest man-made stretch of water, situated between [...]
Kuflink hands consumer brief to Redleaf
Redleaf Communications has been appointed by Kuflink, a peer-to-peer lending platform and part of The Kuflink Group, to handle its consumer PR. The agency has been briefed to [...]
Piracy Corporation wins Coldpress brief
Cold-pressed drinks brand Coldpress has handed a consumer PR brief to Piracy Corporation. Coldpress was launched by its founder, Andrew Gibb, in Australia in 2006, and set up [...]