Interpublic Group’s Draftfcb has acquired Inferno, a London-based independent marketing, PR and social media firm, announced Carter Murray, Draftfcb Worldwide CEO.  The new entity, initially called Inferno Draftfcb, will have joint capabilities spanning on and offline advertising, CRM, ...

We Are Social, the specialist digital marketing and communications agency has announced that BlueFocus Communications Group, China’s largest marketing services company has acquired 82.8% stake in the business. The deal is estimated to draw an ...

Journalists use Twitter to source and promote stories; PRs use Twitter to promote stories and help journalists source them – yet, few journalists actually bother following leading corporate Twitter press feeds. Case in point: British ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the week gone by. The highlights include views from MPs on BBC payoffs; ...

Adaptly, a social advertising technology company, has appointed Sean O’Neal as the company’s first president. Sean joins the firm from The Daily Mail Online where he served as the chief marketing officer for a year.  ...

3 Monkeys Communications, a consumer technology and lifestyle PR agency, has won Honeywell’s European home comfort and energy solutions business. The brief spans the UK and the Netherlands where 3 Monkeys Communications is working with ...

Today’s advent blogger is Luke Westaway, editor of CNET’s Crave. Earlier this year, Luke won Digital Editorial Individual 2013 at the AOP Digital Publishing Awards.  As for all the advent bloggers, we asked Luke two very ...

How often have you cringed at the ‘Likes’ generated on the bad news your friend posted on Facebook?  The social networking giant now plans to change that by introducing a ‘sympathise’ button, allowing users more ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the week gone by. The highlights include Nigella Lawson winning public appeal over ...

After a hotly contested five-way pitch, 3 Monkeys Communications Ltd won the UK corporate, CSR and consumer PR account for United Biscuits, a leading confectionary and snacks company. The campaign brief includes supporting a business ...

Customers took to social media to condemn the Royal Bank of Scotland, which includes NatWest and the Ulster Bank, after payment systems went down between 6:30pm and 9:30pm on ‘Cyber Monday,’ one of the busiest ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the week gone by. The highlights include a revival in advertising and PR ...

Black Friday is a term which in the old days referred to stock market crashes and national calamities but since the early 2000’s the term has come to represent the biggest shopping day in America, taking ...

Global marketing and technology agency DigitasLBi has promoted Julia Conroy to the role of UK PR and marketing director. In the newly-created role Julia will work to raise DigitasLBi’s profile in the UK while continuing ...

Technology PR agency Context has hired Emma Burgess as account manager. She joins the agency from a global intranet company Interact, based in Cheshire where she was marketing and communications manager for three years. Prior to ...

The inaugural Public Relations Show hosted by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) took place yesterday at the Business Design Centre in central London. The free-to-attend event allowed the 1,000 PR professionals in attendance ...

Optimism has returned to the advertising and PR sectors, signaling a revival of UK’s recession-ridden economy. According to the results from two separate survey reports, advertising and PR budgets are surging to pre-recession levels, lifting ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the week gone by. The highlights include the government’s £410,000 spend on Green Deal ...

Wikipedia’s parent company, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), has threatened Wiki-PR with legal action for ‘engaging in paid-advocacy editing’ of articles on the online-encyclopedia, and demanded that this practice immediately ‘cease and desist.’  Wiki-PR positions itself ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the week gone by. The highlights include a round-up of expert PR views ...