Instagram continues to grow at a rapid rate, with an estimated monthly user base of over 700 million people. But is the social network causing a decline in traditional bloggers? Or is it just another ...

An audio round-up of all the trending media, marketing an PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. Listen to Akeshia Clarke and Jake O’Neill’s top five stories you shouldn’t have missed: This week the ...

ProPublica, the investigative journalism site, managed to buy adverts targeted at people who had expressed an interest in the topics ‘Jew hater’, ‘How to burn jews’ and ‘History of why jews ruin the world’. After ...

The ASA and CMA discuss blogging, brands and the rules of disclosure. PRWeek’s Influencer Breakfast Briefing focused on brand and influencer collaborations, with a fireside chat between Guy Parker, CEO of the Advertising Standards Authority ...

The biggest annual survey into the habits and behaviours of UK bloggers has been published, revealing the industry is professionalising, not all bloggers believe in disclosure and relationships with PRs vary wildly depending on the ...

As Google and other search engines get smarter, your marketing strategy needs to as well. Getting your content in front of the right audiences is now more difficult than ever with the saturation of web ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s new daughter August has been announced to world on Facebook. In a sentimental post, Mark and Priscilla have written a letter to August about the world they hope she grows ...

Following beta trials with its high-profile influencers, LinkedIn has just rolled out video on its mobile platform to all of its users. Video on the professional network offers a whole heap of possibilities – some ...

Charlotte Eades was a prolific vlogger and charity campaigner who died in February 2016 from glioblastoma. Charlotte’s BAG is a UK registered charity that was set up in October 2016 in Charlotte’s memory. We’ve spoken ...

It started ten years ago as one man’s suggestion to group messages and ideas with the # symbol and now over 125 million hashtags are used on Twitter every day. The symbol is older than ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. DailyMailTV Building on its success as the most popular English-language news site, the Mail Online is launching ...

Social media has democratized influence and media owners are no longer the keepers of the conversations. Content marketing evangelist Jaime Pham wrote for #FuturePRoof on the need for PR’s involvement in corporate social communications. Social ...

John Sennett is the blogger behind John’s Road to Volunteering who this week is launching the #ILiveItIBlogIt campaign for bloggers everywhere. Celebrating diversity and individuality in blogging, the campaign aims to give bloggers a voice ...

The perfect headline can encourage click-through rates, audience engagement and the holy grail of social – going viral. At newsrewired, Steve Rayson from BuzzSumo presented an analysis of 100m headlines. The first thing they looked ...

At newsrewired yesterday (19 July), Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism presented new research on ‘Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments’. The news for most publishers is not ...

A round-up of all the trending media, marketing and PR stories you shouldn’t have missed this week. 1. Eddie wins the internet A 15-year-old schoolboy on work experience was given the opportunity to monitor Southern ...

It’s enough to send shudders down any newspaper, television or radio advertising sales professional’s spine. A £20 boost on Facebook helped the Welsh Assembly reach a staggering 90,000 people with a St David’s Day campaign ...

Most businesses will already be familiar with the basic process of optimising blog content before it’s published. Keywords, meta descriptions and relevant H1 tags are all features of today’s content that brands and bloggers need ...

Tomorrow’s key influencer may not be the same as today’s. A blogger with influence within one sector may not resonate with another, while newcomers join the online community every day. Bloggers and vloggers have become ...

It’s no secret that women are more active bloggers than men, but one of the most striking conclusions from the results of our 2016 Blogger Survey is the gender difference in blogging categories. Women dominate ...