What started for many as a creative outlet has now become a full-time career, as our Influencer Survey 2020 showed there is a record number of bloggers who are professional, with their work providing their ...

On Tuesday 28 July, our first live accessmatters session took place. We launched accessmatters as a platform to encourage listening, sharing of experience, learning from best practice, and collaboration on the actions that will have ...

Whether it was prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement or #metoo, gender pay gap reporting or homophobic attacks, there have been (many) moments in the last years where it has felt clear that essential ...

A decade of State of the Profession surveys from the CIPR continues with the 2020 report, released today, which focuses on social mobility, public relations as a professional community and how the views of those ...

Last week, we celebrated the Public Affairs Awards – the annual celebration of the best campaigns, consultancies and practitioners in the business. Vuelio was headline sponsor once again, and we were delighted to spend an evening ...

While brands and agencies have tussled with the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Rule 40 which prevents non-official sponsors from connecting their brands with Team GB, the pro-Brexit campaigning group Leave.EU has decided to completely ignore ...

The challenges facing public sector communications departments are numerous: dwindling resources, slashed budgets and a disengaged public. With so many factors working against them, government marketing departments face an uphill battle when it comes to reaching ...

Creativity has always been considered a vital component of PR practice but in recent years its impact has grown. According to the recent Holmes Report, 73% of in-house respondents are more likely to approach their ...

The UK economy is ‘recovering faster than expected’ and what better way to spread the cheer than to lower the cost of beer, bingo and air travel!While Britain’s mainstream media has given George Osborne’s 2014 ...

This week’s comms news round up comes a day early but here are the most interesting stories from the past week including the controversy surrounding Mastercard’s Brit Awards sponsorship, Facebook’s new custom gender options as ...

This week’s comms news highlights include the latest press freedom index, ITV’s new female-focused channel ITVBe and the launch of a new digital magazine by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. All news stories curated via @CisionUK. ...

This week’s comms news highlights include Gmail outage which hit millions of users on Friday, the world’s most popular news website, Mail Online, changing its domain to a worldwide ‘.com’ and the launch of ITV’s ...

Here’s my selection of main comms news including the Guardian Media Group announcing the sale of its Auto Trader stake, the launch of ‘trending’ topics on Facebook and the use of Twitter by top 100 ...

Microsoft was thought to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army over the weekend and today it was reported that a rival Turkish group had attacked and defaced the SEA website. The talk of ...

An interview with Neville Hobson, the most influential PR blogger in Vuelio’s Top 10 UK PR Blogs. Neville spoke to Vuelio about his blog Nevillehobson.com, not ranting in posts, good PR and his hopes for 2014. Why ...

An interview with Dan Slee, author of The Dan Slee Blog, which came fourth in Cision’s Top 10 PR Blog ranking. Dan spoke to us about the importance of local government services, his blogging highlight ...

The new year kicked off with a fresh security breach when Snapchat revealed that 4.6 million of its users’ data and phone numbers had been downloaded by hackers. The launch of Huffington Post’s new publication, ...

UK Independence Party (UKIP) has appointed Patrick O’Flynn of The Daily Express, as its new director of communications. Patrick will leave his job of eight years as the chief political commentator at the newspaper in ...

Rob Flett, currently Edinburgh news editor for BBC Scotland is joining the Church of Scotland as communications manager.  Rob started freelancing at BBC Radio Orkney as a student in 1990, developing a taste for broadcasting ...

As part of our Top 10 Top 10s, I’ve compiled a list of major comms news stories which have been curated via @CisionUK Twitter account over the year. Read my pick and let me know ...