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5 Common Misperceptions of Social Customers

Cision

Black Friday 2015 has come and gone, and one trend dominated all others: more and more people are purchasing online rather than shopping at brink-and-mortar retailers. This is based upon comparative sales data between 49 annual print ads and three annual TV ads that run on Black Friday, Christmas and Father’s Day.

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Top nine PR crises so far for 2019

Prohibition

The clothing-retail company featured a young black boy wearing a hoodie which read “Coolest monkey in the jungle”. The commercial went viral, was featured in almost all national publications and generated more than four million views on YouTube in just two days. Let’s take a look at the top nine crises of 2019 so far.

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Controversy PR: how brands cash in on the offence economy

Mark My Words

This week, Centre Parcs announced that it would be joining an increasing number of brands – Lego, Paperchase, the Southbank Centre – who have chosen to stop advertising in the newspaper. Recently, Poundland received a slapdown from the Advertising Standards Authority over its ‘Elves behaving badly’ social campaign. It’s the Daily Mail.

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The art of controversial PR

Mark My Words

Eminent columnists – many of whom would not be seen dead with a Waterhouse print- wrote powerful condemnations. Recently Poundland received a slapdown from the Advertising Standards Authority over its “Elves behaving badly” social campaign. Needless to say, the gallery had to order more prints. In any case an outcry erupted.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Typically, it is synonymous with broadcast and print media: radio, TV, and film (small and large screen), print media, and advertising. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years.

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