What’s the social verdict on Boris’ Bikes?  September’s On Trend article for Communicate Magazine focuses on just that by reviewing the social media profile of Barclays cycle hire.  Which brand name gets the highest votes ...

An article published this week by Advertising Age entitled ‘RIP, the Press Release – Long Live the Tweet’ has unsurprisingly been causing quite a stir online, with the majority of commentators disagreeing with the author. ...

Cision Research Europe publishes results of ‘2010 Social Journalism Study’ in UK, France and Germany Cision Europe’s Social Journalism study conducted among UK, French and German journalists in July, underscores that Social Media have become ...

High street fashion lovers will pretty soon be able to buy from some of the UK’s largest high street retailers any time they like.  Last Thursday, Zara launched its e-commerce site, today Uniqlo launches its ...

Rob Nowill (22) has been at  Fourpublicity, the in-house PR unit at fashion sales agency Fourmarketing, for just over a year. He looks after brands including oki-ni.com, JC de Castelbajac, True Religion Brand Jeans, C.P. Company, ...

  According to the latest ABCs, UK magazine sales increased by 0.3 per cent in the first half of 2010 compared to last year. This follows a robust performance in the previous period, where total ...

Logging into Facebook this morning, I learned (after asking a friend to translate) that my ‘top’ piece of news is that a girl I met once in a club on a recent trip to Poland ...

Last year “Party princess” Zoe Griffin, the Sunday Mirror’s “youngest and hottest columnist”, took the brave step of leaving her position as the paper’s showbusiness columnist to become a fulltime blogger. Now one year later ...

Our latest On Trend column for Communicate Magazine looks at the social media profiles of the major UK summer festivals and their sponsors. Is NME’s sponsorship of T in the Park as good a fit ...

The Times and Sunday Times launched their redesigned websites in May and began charging on 1st July  after offering registered users a free trial for one month. The costs are £1 for a daily or ...

Christmas may be 6 months away but now is the crucial time when it comes to planning your pitches to ensure successful Christmas coverage. In the run up to Christmas, all kinds of publications offer ...

Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber has been the target of an intense online hate campaign in recent weeks. One of the latest incidents occurred when Justin crowdsourced the decision on which country he should tour ...

In 2006, a group of students from Wroclaw, south-western Poland, took advantage of an apparent lack of native social networks to create in Nasza-Klasa.pl. Like Friends Reunited – the name translates as “Our Class” – Nasza-Klasa ...

While journalist Neil Ashton tweeted that England manager Fabio Capello “nailed” John Terry for his comments on Sunday, social media seems to have been rather quieter about both the coach and his former captain.  A ...

The second European Summit on Measurement from AMEC got underway in Barcelona yesterday.  There’s a lot going on – discussions on content licensing, the industry’s future, the needs of PR professionals and measuring business outcomes.   ...

Last week we published a Top 10 UK Cycling blog ranking. The blogosphere discusses anything from road safety and cycling gear to specialist BMX, Mountain and Fixed Gear bicycles. Although Fixed Gear bicycles are a growing ...

Can social media predict the winner of this year’s Big Brother? At this early stage, I’m going to sit on the fence and say no. Following our success in using social media to predict the recent ...

In February this year, we published a series of interviews with singers, musicians, DJs and other music industry insiders as part of Music Week. Some interviews weren’t quite ready for that week – and our ...

John Self’s blog Asylum is a part of the Brit Lit Blogs collective. “Brit Lit Blogs is the brainchild of six British literary bloggers. Each working hard at bringing readers to forgotten or overlooked books, ...

Prior to the Guardian Hay Festival, we’ve interviewed The Guardian’s Literary Editor, Claire Armitstead. Claire was previously Arts Editor and has worked as a Theatre Critic for the Ham & High, the Financial Times and ...