Gorkana meets… London Live
Approaching its third birthday, London Live is the first and only 24 hour entertainment channel devoted to London. Jim Grice, head of news at London Live, talks to [...]
60 Seconds with Goadi Consulting’s Fiona Chow
Fiona Chow tells Gorkana how her personal experiences led to the creation of her own consultancy Goadi Consulting, and motivated her to help secure rights for women who take [...]
Bite signs Azimo
Azimo, the digital money transfer service, has hired Bite to drive brand awareness in the UK through corporate and consumer media relations. Bite will raise the company’s [...]
New home insurance firm Neos hires Frank
Frank has been named as the UK PR agency for Neos, the smart home insurance company which recently raised more than £1 million funding from investors, including [...]
Sodexo hands UK brief to Havas PR
Global services provider Sodexo has appointed Havas PR as its retained UK agency. Employing more than 34,000 people in the UK, Sodexo develops, manages and delivers a range of [...]
Hill’s Pet Nutrition hands social brief to Clarion
Hill’s Pet Nutrition has appointed Clarion Communications to handle its social media strategy and content in the UK, as the Colgate Palmolive-owned company looks to grow brand [...]
Trends and solutions for 2017 at Bell Pottinger Engage launch
As it launched its integrated practice Engage this morning (January 25), Bell Pottinger – with The Future Laboratory – outlined five trends and resolutions likely [...]
Cannes Lions 2017 opens for entries
Entries are now open for the 2017 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as the organisers say a “significant focus” has been placed on simplifying the entry [...]
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment names digital lead
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has appointed Disney’s Maker Studios’ Ellie Reed to its board as head of digital. At Disney’s Maker Studios, Reed headed up the [...]
Ian Priest named non-exec chair of Pitch Marketing Group
Pitch Marketing Group has today appointed Ian Priest, co-founder of ad agency VCCP, as non-executive chairman. Priest is currently chief executive of global marketing [...]
Sundeep Sehijpal chosen to lead Star PR
Sundeep Sehijpal, a PR consultant and former reporter at the Worcester News, has been brought in to lead Star Public Relations, the West Midlands agency launched by the [...]
Tin Man wins six-figure PR brief from Monarch
Monarch, Britain’s oldest surviving airline brand, has handed a six-figure PR brief to creative comms agency Tin Man following a four-way pitch. The holiday company, which [...]
Restaurant Yang Sing appoints Havas PR
Yang Sing, one of Manchester’s longest-established and best-known Chinese Cantonese restaurants, has appointed Havas PR UK to support its 40th anniversary year. Havas PR has [...]
This Girl Can creator joins The Playbook
Tanya Joseph, the architect of Sport England’s award-winning This Girl Can campaign, has joined The Playbook’s new Change Network – a group of specialist advisors with [...]
John Doe promotes Ocean Beach Club Ibiza and STK Ibiza
John Doe has won a PR brief to handle, consumer, trade and influencer activity for Ocean Beach Club Ibiza and STK Ibiza. The agency will position Ocean Beach Club Ibiza and [...]
Nina Sawetz departs BOTTLE to launch Future consultancy
Nina Sawetz has launched her own consultancy called Future, after more than six years at Oxford PR agency BOTTLE, where, most recently, she was head of consumer editorial. [...]
Alfred wins UK comms brief for Neato Robotics
Neato Robotics, a manufacturer of smart robots for the home, has chosen Alfred to handle all UK comms activity, spanning consumer, trade and influencer relations, following a [...]
HSE Cake names creative director
HSE Cake, Havas Media Group’s UK sport and entertainment agency, has promoted Lizzy Pollott to creative director. Pollott has been with HSE Cake since 2006 and leads creative [...]