Pew, the self-proclaimed non-partisan US research group, has just published an overview of the “State of News Media 2011“. While the report naturally describes the US market, there is plenty here to interest UK media ...

Earlier today we ran a webinar looking at media and communciations in the fashion industry, featuring an interview with Adam Scotland, manager of The Daily Street – number one in the top ten UK urban fashion ...

It’s a well-known phenomenon that packing the frow of a catwalk show with A-list celebrities is a surefire way to gain mainstream media coverage in a celebrity-obsessed world. Digging down into the social media coverage ...

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. – Marshall McLuhan As ...

Big night tonight: @CisionUK will be in the chair for a #CommsChat session entitled “Setting and Measuring ROI Metrics“. For those unfamiliar with #CommsChat, it’s a lively UK-based, weekly Twitter chat that looks at all ...

We’ve just published a new tip sheet featuring ten handy ways to search-engine optimise your press release.  There’s some profoundly sensible advice in here, ranging from not putting pen to paper till you’ve done your ...

According to MC Leon Tong, director at Drupal development house BrightLemon, last night’s “Social Web for Museums, Galleries and Education” session at Cass Business School was one of the most subscribed events of London Social ...

As part of our London Fashion Week celebrations, our researchers have worked up a series of social media rankings for fashionistas for a range of platforms: blogs, Facebook, forums, and, of course, Twitter. We wanted ...

Just published over at PRmoment, some thoughts on social media releases, Tod Defrens and Bon Jovi.  A snip: Looking at SMR formats today, Jon Bon Jovi’s immortal couplet comes to mind: “it’s all the same, ...

Yesterday, PaidContent pointed up new research from social bookmarking service ReadItLater (NB one of a number of services worth checking out ahead of the great Delicious exodus) that suggests that web-reading might be taking over ...

As the year-end approaches, it’s become as traditional a chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open-fire for list fever to sweep the social media world. Regular readers will know Cision UK publishes weekly Top 10s – so what could be more natural, ...

Established by Adam Vincenzini and Emily Cagle, #CommsChat is a weekly, UK-based Twitter conversation looking at all aspects of communications – and on Monday evening, we were thrilled to be involved for the first time ...

This morning Cision UK woke up to a headache. A number of journalists and bloggers had received irrelevant releases distributed through our systems – not just once, but on numerous occasions. Understandably, a number of ...

Another snip: Communicate has just published our latest On Trend column, which looks at how David Fincher’s The Social Network – a tale of “greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex”, lest we forget – might affect ...

Research agency Crowd DNA recently produced a piece of work for IPC Media on a project called “MAGs”, a study trying to understand that notoriously incomprehensible demographic, the mass market male (MMM). Crowd DNA surveyed ...

Straight from the things-you-didn’t-expect-to-see-in-2010 file: the launch of new national daily newspaper for the UK. And from The Independent to boot. The Independent‘s i launched yesterday to what was generally a cautiously positive reception from ...

The abiding theme of Communicate’s Social Media in a Corporate Context conference, held earlier this week in Manchester, was the need for clear business objectives to underpin any social media strategy – and it was ...

Every few months, something happens in search that prompts a whole bunch of people to proclaim the death of search engine optimisation (SEO). The chief “SEO killer” earlier this year was Facebook’s Open Graph. Manifest ...

Earlier this week, Robert Andrews at paidContent:UK declared that the “vinyl revival” had “skipped a beat” as he reported figures obtained from the BPI showing falling sales of 7″ and 12″ singles sales and flat ...

Until yesterday, Malcolm Gladwell was a hero to many social media utopians. Books such as The Tipping Point and Outliers seemed to reinforce a worldview in which online social networks represent a brighter future, a ...