By Stephen Foster on September 6, 2011
PR specialist The Holmes Report has calculated that global PR fees in 2010 were at least $8.8bn, up eight per cent on 2010. This is a marked improvement on 2009 in which fees fell by 7.5 per cent and, according to Holmes, indicates an industry employing nearly 60,000 people earning fees of about $148,000 each. [...]
Posted in Finance, News, PR | Tagged chime, edelman, fleishman-hillard, global pr fees, holmes report, Interpublic, omnicom, Paul Holmes, pr compnaies, PR Week, publicis groupe, Richard Edelman, weber shandwick, WPP
By Stephen Foster on April 18, 2011
The Liberal Democrats are trying to raise over £1m to top up their depleted coffers and central to this much-needed fundraising is a new ‘Leader’s Forum’ which is trying to sign up 50 businesses at £25,000 each. The special on the menu is access to Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg at [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged bell pottinger public affairs, coalition government, leader's forum, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, Peter Bingle, PR Week, westminster lobbyists
By Stephen Foster on April 8, 2011
Andy Coulson is not just the former News of the World editor most implicated in the ongoing phone hacking scandal but, until recently, coalition PM David Cameron’s director of communications so he knows a bit about public relations. But, as some of his new PR peers queue up to tell PR Week, the problem for [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, david jones, elbrus, Euro RSCG, Kate Robertson, m&c saatchi, news of the world phone hacking, one young world, pha media, Phil Hall, PR Week
By Stephen Foster on April 6, 2011
Although he claims he’s an old fart and nobody’s interested in him any more, Lord Bell (Tim Bell as was in his Saatchi days) isn’t and people are. Now in his 70th year and recovering from a recent heart bypass his Lordship recently entered the public lists to complain about criticism he received over his [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News, Politics, PR | Tagged bahrain, Bell Pottinger, chime, Danny Rogers, easyJet, hhcl, icon, Lord Bell, Margaret Thatcher, Mark smith, meerkats campaign, morethanfreeman, PR Week, Rupert Howell, saatchi & saatchi, sfw, sports marketing, Tim Bell, vccp, WPP
By Staff on March 24, 2011
The famously affable and debonair Lord Bell (Tim Bell as he was in his advertising days) has clearly been stung by criticisms of his company Bell Pottinger’s involvement with the Bahrain government and has written to trade publication PR Week to defend his reputation and that of other PR companies involved in the Middle East. [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged bahrain, Bell Pottinger, chime communications, comic relief, Lord Bell, middle east, PR Week, Tim Bell, today programme, tunisia
By Stephen Foster on October 20, 2010
Coalition government deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has won PR Week’s gong as communicator of the year, which will be some consolation to him as angry Lib Dems eviscerate him and his sidekick treasury minister Danny Alexander for their role in preparing chancellor George Osborne’s £83bn public spending cuts, due to [...]
Posted in News, Politics, PR | Tagged coalition government, Danny Alexander, Danny Rogers, liberal democrats, Nick Clegg, PR Week
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2010
PR has proved to be something of a vale of tears for former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers. First he joined Lehman Brothers shortly before the US investment bank imploded in 2008 and then he took up the reins as head of media at BP on the eve of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster [...]
Posted in News, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, Anji Hunter, Bob Dudley, BP, David Bickerton, Peter Mandelson, PR Week
By Stephen Foster on April 30, 2010
I’ve just caught up with this interview by Danny Rogers with Matthew Freud in PR Week but it’s riveting stuff. Freud, who runs the UK’s eighth-largest (and probably most profitable) PR agency, claims that PR agencies are “more rigorous” than their marcomms rivals and should take the lead on matters creative, especially the generation of [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged AMV BBDO, Danny Rogers, Matthew Freud, nescafe, PR Week, walkers
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