We Are Social names head of strategy
Global social media agency We Are Social has brought in Adjust Your Set’s Harvey Cossell as head of strategy. Cossell has spent the past three years as strategy director at [...]
Social Insights: Before you sign
You did it! You managed to wrangle a few quid from your Head of Comms to invest in Social Insights for 2017. Well done. (Not that you’re entirely sure what ‘social insights’ [...]
Sellotape briefs Mercieca
British brand Sellotape has handed a social media brief to Mercieca to raise the profile of its new ‘Don’t Come Unstuck’ campaign. Recently launched, the new ‘Don’t Come [...]
Mercieca appoints social media manager
Mercieca has brought in Sameer Ahmed from The Earned Agency to join its growing social media team. Previously, Ahmed was a social media manager at The Earned Agency, which is [...]
Three ways Instagram Stories will be useful in PR
Instagram’s latest platform update, ‘Stories’, which allows users to upload temporary photos and videos, has caused a burst of online debate this week. While users argue about [...]
Hatch Communications appoints social media lead
Leeds based PR, social, sponsorship and events agency Hatch Communications has appointed Umpf’s Matthew Balmforth as its head of social media. Joining the agency on the back [...]
What PRs think of Twitter’s ‘See What’s Happening?’ campaign
See what’s happening — politics on Twitter.https://t.co/xaJo3PmYn5 — Twitter (@twitter) July 25, 2016 Twitter is the social tool that allows PRs to tell brand stories [...]
White Paper: 9 key insights into journalism and social media in the UK
Gorkana’s latest White Paper: 9 Key Insights Into Journalism and Social Media in the UK, based on an annual survey, shows that social media, and the way that it is used [...]
Kindred uses Instagram for ‘creative’ recruitment
Kindred has launched an Instagram portfolio to give creative marketing professionals the chance to learn more about the agency and apply to join its team, as part of Kindred’s [...]
Digital Marketing World Forum: three PR takeaways
The Digital Marketing World Forum, which took place in London last week, hosted big players in the marketing and communications industry with speakers from brands including [...]
The 2016 AMEC Summit in social media stats
London hosted this year’s AMEC Summit which focused on Making Metrics Matter. The event saw hundreds of international delegates and organisations gather to discuss the [...]
Citypress names social media lead
PR, digital and creative comms agency Citypress has brought in Golin London’s Ruth Clifford as director of social media. Clifford joins Citypress’ Manchester HQ from Golin [...]
Virgin Atlantic names Weber Shandwick as its retained consumer agency
Weber Shandwick has been chosen by Virgin Atlantic as the airline’s new retained agency for UK consumer PR and social media, following a competitive pitch managed by [...]
Manifest to launch “social crowd” platform Crowdmix
New “social crowd” platform Crowdmix has chosen Manifest as its retained comms agency, with a brief to handle the platform’s UK launch this Summer. Crowdmix is a [...]
London Mayoral Elections 2016: Social Media Analysis
The elections for Mayor of London had the capital in a buzz. With the end of Boris Johnson’s reign, many took to social media to discuss who the next successor would be. [...]
Happy Birthday, Twitter!
If you are interested in the latest thinking on the media industry, upcoming campaigns, media analysis, social media and PR planning these are the must-read stories. Twitter [...]
Poundland briefs FleishmanHillard Fishburn
Retail chain Poundland has hired FleishmanHillard Fishburn to handle its consumer PR and social media following a competitive pitch. The new arrangement is put in place this [...]
Ketchum wins UK brief for social media tool TINT
TINT, which claims to be the world’s biggest social media ‘display’ tool, has hired Ketchum as its PR partner of choice in the UK. The social media business, which [...]