This is a guest post from Niamh Boylan, junior PR account manager at Hatch. There is an industry term that has been known to divide opinion amongst PR and social professionals: awareness days. While some ...

This is a guest post by Ariatu PR founder Ronke Lawal, who specialises in PR and communications for clients in a range of B2C industries; including lifestyle, consumer goods and the creative enterprise sector, with ...

A large number of ethnic and minority professionals working in the communications industry are regularly made to feel uncomfortable at work due to their background, according to research from the Taylor Bennett Foundation (TBF) and ...

Vuelio parent company Access Intelligence has been recognised as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies in the FT 1000, a yearly ranking by the Financial Times and German data platform Statista. The FT 1000, now ...

A reputational crisis is on the horizon for your brand or client – what do you do next? Should you set up a press conference to get ahead of any criticism heading your way, or ...

Web3, ChatGPT and all-things AI-assisted and generated are big news in the communications and creative industries right now, and the Citizen Relations team has been paying attention to changing needs in the sector: ‘The volume ...

Does the world really still need International Women’s Day? For all those asking this question, the answer is very much ‘yes’. Gender inequality continues to thrive in 2023 – especially when it intersects with racism, ...

‘I never set out with the desire to be in the industry,’ says media, PR and events expert Claire Powell, founder of The CAN Group. ‘I started working with an events company, undertaking their marketing, ...

This is a guest post from Alice James, a strategic and creative freelance digital PR, specialising in reactive approaches. What is newsjacking? Newsjacking is often described as a brand marketing tactic where a brand responds ...

Financial services is heavy in responsibility and regulation – particularly in 2023, as the cost-of-living crisis continues to stretch budgets to breaking point and regulation changes hover on the horizon. With experience working across the ...

‘It is the long-term threats that we need to be most concerned about – every day, we are feeling the corrosive impacts of misinformation, but its effect on society and democracy will only fully show ...

This is a guest post from Hatch Group’s senior account manager Emily Boswell. At the start of a new year brands, marketeers and other industry professionals all start to look towards what lies ahead. At ...

Misinformation, disinformation and fake news is highly contagious and harmful, especially in the field of health. Effective PR and communications can help fight the spread and protect the public from its impacts. Our latest white ...

The causes of the energy crisis have been an international debate for almost a year, though gas and electricity suppliers are often first in line to carry the weight of public outrage – which was ...

Everyone in the UK has been impacted in some way by the cost-of-living crisis that has rumbled on for nearly a year now. From energy bills to mortgage payments to the interest rate; it has ...

Cryptocurrency – despite all of the excited/trepidatious reporting about it in the media, and the celebrities who saw opportunity and quickly got involved – is still very early in its development as a finance option. ...

The last UK lockdowns are long past, so what happens now when it comes to how we work? Firms like Goldman Sachs called staff back into the office, while other organisations are fully embracing hybrid ...

This is a guest post from Alex Halls, account director at Hatch. Food waste is a huge issue in the UK, with an estimated 10.2 million tonnes of food ending up in the bin every ...

At the start of what appears to be a long road ahead, the extent to which the energy crisis is being caused by net-zero policies has been highly debated across news and social media platforms ...

This is a guest post from Mary Poliakova, PR consultant and co-founder of Drofa Comms. PR and media professionals know the power of social media, with 93% of public relations professionals following journalists on social ...