The international media attention around the twerking Miley Cyrus was far from wearing thin when she ‘sparked’ fresh controversy by smoking a joint on stage at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome during the Europe MTV video music ...

Bacall Associates is a PR, marketing and sales support agency that specialises in travel at the top end of the market. The firm gets its name from Jeff Bacall, a PR and marketing expert who ...

On 14 October I posted a blog on Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education rights. The article titled ‘Brand Malala: A PR phenomenon ...

The current economic climate has required chief executives and senior management within businesses to take on more responsibilities and get involved in the daily running of a company, in and out of the boardroom. Even ...

Who is Malala? The world now has the answer to this question, the same question that the Taliban gunman posed to a group of girls on their way home from school in an open van ...

Facebook is allowing users, including brands, journalists and government agencies, to take advantage of its big data with Facebook Graph Search. This has raised questions over privacy. Graph Search is being advertised on a personal ...

As the shutters went down on US federal offices yesterday, several Twitter, social media accounts and websites of key government departments were suspended. While President Barack Obama and certain members of the Congress still have ...

Cision’s Top 10 Social Media blogs has been featured in the CorpComms magazine this week. The article names the three leading blogs on the list and explains what helps them make the cut. ‘We Are ...

Look around you, everything is smart – smartphones, smart cars, smart TVs, smart meals, and even smart cities. It’s no surprise then that content, (our close friend in the digital era) is the latest to ...

Tech = geek? Not where brands are concerned. In this year’s CoolBrands Top 20 list, tech giant Apple fought off stiff competition from 10,000 independent brands to retain the top spot in the 12th annual survey ...

This is a guest post by Jacqui Paterson, a founding member of boutique social media collective Mothers & Shakers. Jacqui discusses how mums looking for a career change can get the most from social media and blogging.  When ...

‘Content marketing is the only marketing left,’ claims Seth Godin, marketing guru and bestselling author. He’s right because if trend analysis are anything to go by, the future of trade lies right here on the ...

The countdown to Fashion Week for New York, London, Milan and Paris, the capital cities of style, has begun. But even as the lights and cameras return to runways next month, the real action within ...

Without any fuss (or as much as an announcement) Google updated the link schemes document on its webmaster guidelines last month in a bid to filter out content that manipulates its PageRank algorithm with ‘unnatural’ ...

The Great Google has come under fire lately for allegedly breaching privacy laws in regards to Gmail accounts, and then for preaching ethical SEO practices that can potentially change the way PR companies use press ...

School’s off, sun’s out, work’s slow and Facebook is brimming with smug travel updates (down to photos of the last eaten meal), because it’s that time of the year when Britain is on summer holiday. ...

Exotic cocktails waiting to be had, cheeky shoppers showing off their spoils, a half-eaten slice of apple strudel and freshly manicured nails (in the metallic hues that are all the rage) are just some of ...

If rumours are to be believed then footballer of the year GarethBale will soon be sporting the Real Madrid jersey, marking a world transfer record pegged at £100mn. The real winner though is bwin, the online gaming and betting company ...

In just under a year, Netflix Inc. went from being a DVD-shipping company to a market leading video sharing service, outpacing leading television networks and bumping its share value threefold on the way. How? By ...

‘Please turn off all personal electronic devices, including laptops and cell phones… but don’t panic yet, you may tweet your take-off experience within moments of connectivity at 12,000 feet off the ground.’ How’s that for ...