Communications agency Exposure is celebrating after raising £29,500 – and smashing its £20k target – for its chosen charity SE1 United, as part of a month-long charity auction that ends on the 31 October. The progress of the initiative was announced at a glittering event at the Bankside Vaults on London’s South Bank, held to […]
Coca-Cola has apologised after a promotion it was running for its Vitaminwater brand in Canada resulted in ‘You Retard’ being printed on one of its bottle caps. Playing off of Canada’s bilingualism, the promotion put a random English word with a French word. In this case, the English ‘You’ was put with ‘Retard’ which in […]
The McLaren Group, which includes the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula One team, has joined forces with YouTube in a new commercial partnership. “At McLaren we have great stories to tell. Whether it’s the passion and intrigue of Formula One, or how we develop ground breaking new technologies, people are fascinated by what we do. Our […]
Yahoo is set to rebrand next month, and is showing 30 variations of the new identity before the final new logo launches. The new identity is set to launch on 4 September, and a different iteration of it will be used on the Yahoo homepage each day before the launch, in an initiative Yahoo calls […]
Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe have announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for a merger of equals, creating the world’s leading company in communications, advertising, marketing and digital services, with combined 2012 revenue of $22.7 billion (€17.7 billion). Based on closing prices on July 26, 2013, Publicis Omnicom Group will have a combined […]
Car manufacturer Kia has engaged Microsoft Advertising’s new creative format ‘Storyboard’ for MSN to showcase its GT, Rio, Picanto and Sportage models. The campaign, which runs for 24 hours from July26, forms part of Kia’s wider focus on driving customers to become brand ambassadors. Also running on MSN mobile, the display ad expands upon a […]
@GreatBritain, @Israel and@Sweden are the best examples of country promotion on Twitter BEIJING — Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications firm, today released the second part of its “Twiplomacy” study (http://twiplomacy.com), looking specifically at country branding on Twitter. The study shows that only 9 governments out of 193 UN member states own their country name Twitter handle. […]
The Interpublic Group announced today that Andy Polansky has been named Chief Executive Officer of Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading public relations companies. Polansky has served as President of Weber Shandwick since March 2004. The company in 2012 was named Global Agency of the Year by The Holmes Report, topped The Holmes ReportGlobal Creativity Index […]
Ogilvy Public Relations (Ogilvy PR) today announced the launch of ACE (Analyst Community Engagement), a new global service designed to give technology companies an informed, strategic and measurable approach to industry analyst relations. Ogilvy PR’s ACE service will be driven by a global team based in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, […]
A week after being named “Global PR Firm of the Year” by The Holmes Report, Weber Shandwick was named “Digital PR Firm of the Year” by PR News at the annual PR News Digital PR awards, held yesterday at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. “We are honored to be recognized as the best digital firm and proud to […]