As we roll towards the fourth month of Covid-19 being top of the agenda for countless people across the globe,…
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The Power of Internal Communications
A business’ employees are the lifeblood of the company. Making sure that the team is engaged, motivated and ready to…
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How Marketing Agencies Should Be Behaving During The Coronavirus Pandemic
The Coronavirus is affecting each and every one of us. Marketers need to react to this situation and shape comms…
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Best practices for working from home
Working from home can feel quite lonely, frustrating and boring. Thousands of people across the UK, and millions all…
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Radio, Everyone Still Loves You
You ‘have’ your time, you ‘have’ the power You’ve yet to have your finest hour Now, more than ever, the…
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Steering brands through crisis is all about purpose
At the beginning of 2020, before Coronavirus, social distancing and self-isolating were the most used words in the English language,…
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Video across Social Media
Social media is an ever-changing landscape, with algorithm shifts and platform updates happening frequently to ensure the best user experience. …
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The Rise of Podcasts
Podcasting was coined back in 2004 by journalist Ben Hammersly, who worked at The Guardian, by merging ‘iPod’ and ‘Broadcast’…
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The importance of traditional media within the evolving media landscape
As newsrooms shrink and the media landscape is ever-changing, we come to question what is the future of traditional media?…
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7 Digital Trends That Really Matter in 2020
Welcome to the new decade! In the last ten years, the social media landscape has changed rapidly, evolving from a…
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What a Pitch is Really About
What makes one agency’s pitch successful, and the others not? What makes the winner win and the losers lose? In…
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Perfecting Your Phone Pitch
Millennials have a reputation for always having their phones in their hand, using them for everything from banking and shopping…
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The Benefits of PR Media Visits
In today’s climate it’s safe to say that we are becoming, or have already become, a society that relies massively…
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CIPR Awards 2019
Every year as an agency, we strive to produce the best, most unique work possible for our clients. The Chartered…
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What Makes a News Story?
Before you start Make sure you have an interesting and newsworthy topic. Ask yourself: who would read it and who…
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Long term relationship or one night stand?
In a world where we are accustomed to immediate satisfaction, quick wins, and ‘celebrities’ capitalising on their 15 minutes of…
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Apprenticeships or University…
Nowadays there seems to be so much pressure from a young age about what route people take when it comes…
Read moreIntegration is key… why you need a team of specialists
Lots has been said and written about the changing PR landscape and the rapid rise in importance of digital –…
Read moreMeasurement in PR – the insight era
Once upon a time, measuring PR meant cutting out articles by hand and glueing them to an ever mounting pile…
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The importance of choosing the right public relations agency
The power of public relations (PR) is widely respected, with high profile advocates such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson…
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Talk Social: 9 October, 2018
Facebook finding a way around ad blockers Facebook is enabling first party cookie tracking, which will work around browsers that…
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How England won the social media world cup
Ahead of England’s World Cup semi-final, Alex Morton looks at how a social media charm offensive by the three lions…
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Talk Social: 10 July, 2018
Instagram Stories questions allow brands new ways to engage Instagram is giving creators of Stories a new way of interacting…
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Talk Social: 8 May, 2018
Story posts set to overtake newsfeed posting on social New research has revealed that Story sharing across social is about…
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Talk Social: 24 April, 2018
Rise and rise of Reddit Brands looking to explore new social platforms should take a look at the rise of…
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Talk Social: 17 April, 2018
Messenger now has a full 360 Facebook Messenger is now letting users take and post 360 images. Wraparound 360 images…
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What Facebook’s ‘meaningful’ change means for brands
Facebook is getting all deep and meaningful – changing its news feed yet again to push brands and publishers further…
Read moreTalk Social: 19 December 2017
Fighting engagement bait on Facebook It comes as little surprise that people have fed back to Facebook saying they despise…
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Talk Social: 12 December, 2017
Google tests fewer results on mobile search Google is testing a new mobile search option that reveal far fewer organic…
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Talk Social: 5 December, 2017
Google Trends now showing real time data from News, Images and Shopping Google Trends is to provide increased real-time data…
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What is the role of social for your brand?
With the rush to be ‘on’ social having scooped up every brand in the land, the question now is –…
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Talk Social: 31 October, 2017
Instagram unveils Go Live With A Friend Instagram has launched a new feature called Go Live With A Friend, which…
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Talk Social: 10 October, 2017
Instagram adds polls to Stories Instagram has added a sticker option to its popular social Stories function that allows brands…
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Talk Social: 3 October, 2017
Snapchat introduces first augmented reality adverts Snapchat has pulled off a digital first by launching sponsored 3D lenses that allow…
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Talk Social: 5 September, 2017
Cortana and Alexa now speaking to each other Amazon and Microsoft’s digital assistants are teaming up, allowing users to access…
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Talk Social: 16 August, 2017
YouTube gets chatty with in-app messaging feature This week, both Android and iOS YouTube apps got a major new…
Read moreTalk Social: 8 August, 2017
New privacy laws to impact social media giants Social media is facing its biggest ever shake up, with new privacy…
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Talk Social: 25 July, 2017
Hot stuff: Why everyone’s excited about Snapchat’s dancing frankfurter Has everyone seen Snapchat’s dancing hotdog? The little animated AR character…
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Talk Social: 20 June, 2017
Instagram trials new brand sponsorship disclosure In a move aimed at ending the blurred lines of influencers and celebs being paid…
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Talk Social: 13 June, 2017
Apple finds a new home Apple has taken a while to enter the home assistant market, despite every iPhone user…
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Talk Social: 30 May, 2017
Smartphone cameras now search tools Google has unveiled new technology to turn every smartphone camera into a search tool. Google…
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Talk Social: 16 May, 2017
Voice control now comes with a screen The future of internet search is the voice – but Amazon is hedging its…
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Talk Social: 9 May, 2017
Here is the news from Facebook Stung by criticism of its social platform as a feeding ground for false stories…
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Talk Social: 18 April, 2017
Facebook fights the social fakers Facebook has come out fighting (again) against fakery and spam on its social network. It…
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Would you hand over your social passwords to government?
US immigration’s travel restrictions have taken a new twist, with ‘extreme vetting’ proposals from President Trump’s administration now suggesting social media…
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Talk Social: 28 February, 2017
Welcome to the era of browser fingerprinting Tracking users around the internet, even if they use different browsers, is more…
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Talk Social: 21 February, 2017
Pirates to be sunk by search giants Google and Microsoft have agreed to join forces in a search-led fight against…
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Talk Social: 31 January, 2017
Annual filters launched by Snapchat Snapchat geofilters are an inexpensive way for smaller brands to get on to social…
Read moreTalk Social: 10 January, 2017
Google search results change to reflect real time Google has altered its desktop search algorithm, to display results more prominently from…
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Talk Social: 6 December, 2016
No queues at Amazon’s new supermarket Amazon has unveiled its supermarket of the future – one without tills, barcode scanners,…
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