Pitching to the modern newsroom
Newsrooms across newer titles such as Quartz, are moving away from ‘traditional’ ways of working which are commonly focused on set ‘beats’ and key, formal and physical, [...]
A guide to influencer marketing
Takumi, a free app which aims to “revolutionise the way brands engage with influencers on Instagram, launched in October 2015. Three months on, and with clients including [...]
Gorkana’s Christmas Pitching guide: 8 top tips on how journalists want to be pitched to
With the final news alert for the year, Gorkana rounds up key learnings from our journalist interviews and media briefings over the last six months to help you get the [...]
Seven top tips for running a successful broadcast campaign
National TV coverage is sought after by many brands and businesses. Claire Palmer, head of UK broadcast at TVC Group, offers her top tips for gaining that piece of [...]
Is it time for PR agencies to go native?
By Dale Lovell, Chief Digital Officer at Adyoulike UK Native advertising, if you don’t already know, is the current big thing in digital advertising. Rather than the banners, [...]
How creating original video won us the pitch
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 [...]
A bold question – but what is PR?
It is a question that is not easily defined. Even PR professionals admit that it is hard to define exactly what PR is. A lot of PRs understand what PRs do but how to sum it up [...]
10 pitching tips for Christmas
Pitch your way to more and better coverage in 2015 with these tips from Gorkana briefings and interviews over the last six months. Go with the personal touch Cosmopolitan’s [...]