The UK’s public confidence in businesses remained stable, while trust in media and the government has dipped.  According to the 2014  edition of global PR agency Edelman’s Trust Barometer, faith in the media, which had staged ...

Continuing our Top 10 Top 10s, we present the top 10 media stories of 2013 according to @MediaJake. Agree? Disagree? Think we’ve missed something? Let us know in the comments below. 1. Phone hacking trial ...

Following the ‘Most popular media titles for PR professionals’, we present the most popular contacts on CisionPoint as part of our Top 10 Top 10s of 2013. The CisionPoint Media Database is the most comprehensive ...

Nelson Mandela has died aged 95. The former president of South Africa is being mourned the world over and social media is playing host to an outpouring of grief. As the news broke, people took ...

The Scottish Government launched its independence blueprint at a press conference this morning, with Alex Salmond calling it a ‘mission statement’ for the future. The whitepaper comes ahead of the yes/no vote for Scottish independence ...

More journalists now have over 500 followers on their preferred social network than in 2012, according to the UK Social Journalism Study 2013. The results reveal that 62% of journalists now have more than 500 ...

‘Mr. Zuckerberg: Facebook is failing marketers.’ This is how Nate Elliott, vice president and principal analyst at market research firm Forrester begins his open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of the $100 ...

Largest recorded upward revision to marketing budgets in the UK reflects an economy on the mend. Results from the latest Bellwether report released today indicates that the UK’s marketing spend is at its highest level ...

CONTAINS SPOILERS – Breaking Bad finished on Sunday night (or Monday, depending where you are) bringing an end to what is surely the first ‘globally aired’ television programme to benefit from the combination of Twitter ...

The juxtaposition of long-form multimedia visualisations and quick-fire breaking news dominated the sessions at the latest digital journalism conference news:rewired. While digital media is still in an experimentation phase (something it may never leave) these ...

Continuing our Fashion Week theme, Cision’s data scientist Terry Adeagbo has created an infographic showing the most popular fashion websites on social media in the UK. Using data from Facebook and Twitter, Cision’s algorithm ranks ...

‘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 BBC’s decision to hire Godric Smith, the government’s former spin chief, to help rebuild its damaged reputation amid the Jimmy Savile child-abuse scandal, seems to have backfired. The news reported first by The Sunday ...

Once again, the Guardian has chosen its top 100 most ‘powerful’ people in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, media business, advertising, marketing and PR. In a move that’s more than reminiscent of Time magazine’s ...

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 ...

After writing that James Harding seemed to have an easy first day, the BBC was struck with another Newsnight scandal. Beardgate, as the event has inevitably been dubbed, has caused a storm of comment, opinion ...

The twelfth hour has struck, proving both the bookies and social media right. Peter Capaldi was announced as the next actor to play Doctor Who during a live programme on BBC One. Cue reaction.  The ...

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 ...

What would Hugh Grant’s media impact look like, if he was a brand? Using data from CisionPoint, we can see that the Daily Mail published 105 stories about Hugh Grant between April and June. The ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a social media analysis. The Superman reboot Man of Steel is in cinemas today, so if you’re lucky you’re reading this on your smartphone waiting ...