Want to deflect a little social media heat away from your brand? How about letting a smart, polite and socially-savvy teenager run your Twitter account for the day? That’s exactly what embattled train operator Southern ...

Carolyn McCall has been appointed ITV’s first female chief executive. She will succeed Adam Crozier early next year. McCall is joining ITV from easyJet where she has been chief executive for seven years. She was ...

With Brexit negotiations set to continue on Monday, Vuelio has launched a fortnightly Brexit Bulletin. We’ll cover policy developments, negotiation proceedings and the global media’s take on events – cutting through the noise with an unbiased ...

The Chairs of the House of Commons Select Committees were elected on Wednesday and these MPs will now guide their respective Committees over the coming parliament. But what do Select Committees do, and why are they ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Eddie wins the internet A 15-year-old schoolboy on work experience was given the opportunity to monitor Southern ...

The Independent recently made the headlines themselves for all the wrong reasons after a freelance journalist accused them of lifting his story from an online news source and refusing to pay for it. According to ...

It’s enough to send shudders down any newspaper, television or radio advertising sales professional’s spine. A £20 boost on Facebook helped the Welsh Assembly reach a staggering 90,000 people with a St David’s Day campaign ...

The Vuelio Blog rankings are widely regarded as the definitive guide to the UK and Ireland’s top bloggers. We’re very proud of this status and work hard to maintain it; after all, our clients depend ...

Sky and BT Sports should take note. Live TV coverage of football has been disrupted by a young, digital media company. Copa90, a fan-focused football channel originally launched on YouTube just five years ago, has ...

With the Repeal Bill scheduled to be published on Thursday and EU negotiations continuing on the following Monday, there’s going to be a lot of Brexit related noise in the media and online. That’s why ...

The BBC is set to cut a number of perks it currently offers its journalists in a bid to save the corporation £80 million. These perks include overtime, an ‘unpredictable hours’ allowance and free taxi ...

The Press Association (PA) has been awarded a €706,000 Google grant to create an automated news service for local press. Working in collaboration with start-up Urbs Media, PA hopes to create 30,000 data-driven stories each ...

This week’s Political Updates, covers moves and changes at all levels of government.    Government Departments Robbie Gibb has been appointed as the Number 10 Director of Communications. Nicola Dandridge has been appointed as the Chief ...

Uber may have disrupted the way we get from A to B but there is nothing new about the way the company allegedly conducted its everyday business operations. Allegations of sexism and high profile executive ...

The Vuelio Blog Awards are back in 2017 to celebrate the best bloggers the UK has to offer. This year we’re introducing a new award which is self-nominated, and we need your help. The Best ...

Politics of late has given a fair few examples of what works – and what doesn’t work – in communication and public engagement. During the relatively short period of campaigning before the general election came ...

Fifteen hyperlocal newspapers have been given the green light to bid for BBC cash to employ a ‘local democracy’ reporter. The scheme, which will give local newspapers the opportunity to tap into an £8 million ...

As problems go, the news that The Great British Bake Off was moving from the BBC to a commercial rival was perhaps more than a little ‘first world’. Beloved presenters, including Mel, Sue and the ...

The BBC has announced plans to overhaul its Children’s programming to tackle competition from the internet. Investing an additional £34m across the next three years, the budget for children’s programming will rise to £124.4m by ...

A six-year-long campaign led by the Glasgow Evening Times has resulted in the Scottish government making sweeping changes to organ donation systems in the country. The campaign, which was launched in 2011, lobbied the Scottish ...