Taking place on 9 and 16 June, CoronaCon is an online conference for CIPR members and PR practitioners across the sector. The speaker line-up consists of thought leaders in the world of PR and comms ...

Following rapid growth for its platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, Instagram has launched additional ways for its users to profit from the service including purchasable badges for viewers during Instagram Live videos and advertising on ...

Hand Luggage Only scooped its second Best Travel Blog award at the Vuelio Blog Awards 2018 in November. Written by Lloyd Griffiths and Yaya Onalaja-Aliu, Hand Luggage Only has had an incredible 12 months and ...

The way that PR and comms teams are using social media channels is changing, with more focus on paid campaigns and less on customer service. Last week, the PRCA’s Digital PR and Communications Report found ...

Social media sites continue to hit the headlines for not tackling fake news, especially since research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that fake stories spread faster than the truth on Twitter. In response, ...

Facebook is changing. We already know that teenagers are leaving the platform in droves, but now a study has revealed that fewer people are getting their news from social media, which is the first time ...

Artificial technology has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons. Google naively showed off the functionality of its new Duplex AI, while NtechLab has announced a new product to identify ethnicities (unfortunately ...

This week’s Five Things includes the demise of Leveson II and Klout, Childish Gambino’s This is America, the return of Sorrell and the launch #FuturePRoof. 1. Leveson II – the sequel that refuses to start ...

Much to Amber Rudd’s delight there have been other news stories this week. But with Prince Louis, historic scenes in Korea and Trump’s announced visit on Friday 13 July – you probably missed some of ...

Google is under fire from a coalition of child advocacy, consumer and privacy groups in the US. The collection of 23 campaigners, including the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy, ...

This week’s five things includes the weekly Facebook update, Sir Martin Sorrell investigation, Disney’s Sky News offer, Stranger Things lawsuit and Marc Jacob’s public proposal. 1. Facebook’s tricky teenage years It’s difficult to know where ...

It seems like an almost daily occurrence at the moment, but Facebook is one again facing a wave of negative press. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it was believed that 50m users had their data ...

The Beano has written an open letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, accusing the eccentric Conservative MP of ‘infringing the intellectual property rights’ of one of their cartoon characters and ‘masquerading as Walter Brown’ (aka Walter the ...

Donald Trump’s successful Presidential campaign has previously boasted that it did a better job on Facebook than Clinton’s, and an internal white paper from the social media giant has shown they’re right. Reported by Bloomberg, ...

On a long enough timeline, the life expectancy of all social media sites drops to zero. Facebook is suffering, but is this the beginning of the end or just another bump in the road? The ...

People don’t like change, and nowhere is that truer than on social media. Whenever a platform makes a change, no matter how insignificant, there is a backlash. But for Snapchat, that backlash has come with ...

Usually we’re discussing the issue of fake followers, but this week another issue has come to light – fake influencers. The Blogger Agent, an agency that connects brands and influencers, published a tweet warning about ...

Unilever, the giant multinational with brands including Marmite, Persil, PG Tips and Dove, has threatened to remove its digital advertising from platforms that fail to appropriately deal with content that ‘creates division in society and ...

This is a guest post from Heshaam Hague, a content marketer at UK cleaning price comparison website, Service Octopus. Heshaam has held both client-side and agency roles, leading content strategy for a wide range of clients. As many ...

Happy Groundhog Day! This week’s five things includes BBC pay, Matt Hancockers, Facebook’s users, grid girls and a video of the ‘most British resignation ever’. Happy Groundhog Day! This week’s five things includes BBC pay, Matt ...