Interesting piece in the current issue of PR Week about concerns we could be seeing the ‘Slow death of the embargo’ . The Wall Street Journal is believed to have introduced a new policy stipulating that they will only honour embargos on exclusive stories. It’s a change of direction that’s obviously brought...
Very much in the style of a Librarian, we launched Social Media Library quietly and discreetly in October last year. Since then, Social Media Library has quickly grown a base of clients that includes some of the heaviest hitting PR & marketing agencies and brands in the UK. We’re now preparing for...
There was a time, before the rise of social media and user generated content when organisations could get away with scurrilous acts of consumer extortion safe in the knowledge that the muted customer had few ways to hit back other than writing to Watch Dog. Then came user generated content, forums, websites...
As little as six years ago the majority of press releases still came by post. On DM Week, we used to have huge piles of them typed up so we could edit them on our trendy orange macs. How archaic that now seems. These days they arrive in unprecedented numbers by email and I’ve often wondered, as an agent...
It's good to hear I'm not the only one who thinks Labour's spin doctors are letting the PR side down. No less than Colin Byrne, Weber Shandwick’s chief and former Labour party chief press adviser says in PR Week today, “there’s no way these mistakes would have happened when Alistair Campbell...
