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New agency diversity mark launched as CIPR publishes damning report

Stephen Waddington

The Blueprint is initially targeted at communications agencies and will expand to include in-house teams in 2021. ONS data from the more recent Census in 2011 reported that the BME or mixed ethnicity population in the UK was 13%. Applications are submitted to a panel of Blueprint consultants and advisory board members.

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Facebook And The Perils Of Opposition PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Is it ethical for a PR agency to smear a competitor? But one detail that interested communicators was that it brought on PR agency Definers Public Affairs to run political-style oppo against competitors like Google and Apple. But when the heat is on, it’s easy to blame the agency. So, was Definers ethical?

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M3 Communications Group, Inc. Awarded with Silver for PR Agency of the Year in Europe at the Stevie Awards

Maxim Behar

Maxim Behar's leading PR agency M3 Communications Group, Inc. was awarded with Silver in the PR Agency of the Year in Europe category at the international competition Stevie International Business Awards 2021. M3 Communications Group, Inc. Maxim Behar was also awarded with Bronze in the CEO of the Year category in 2018.

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From start-up to PR powerhouse: Looking back at 15 years of Presspage

Presspage

In 2008, Bart, Sébastien and Tim were working with a PR agency to promote their first young company, Viddix. “We Sébastien adds that the agency had never seen a platform quite like their press page: "Next thing we knew, they asked if we'd be interested in offering it as a product to some of their clients", he says.

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In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms

Sword and the Script

It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By So, what does this in-housing trend mean for PR agencies? I’d like to believe, PR agencies that specialized in crisis communications can identify here.

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Why Successful PR Agencies Invest In PR Tech

Mindful Marketing

In 2011, a Forbes contributor used the sentiment as a headline , and in 2015 “Trust Me, PR is Dead,” was the provocative title of a new book by Robert Phillips. The good news for PR agencies it that there are many tools to help deliver such reports with deeper insights in less time.

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Competence, growing pains, and talent turmoil highlighted by CIPR report

Stephen Waddington

More than half of organisations are struggling to recruit, including 78% of those working to recruit in agencies and consultancies. The figure is slightly less for agency and consultancy clients (46%). White British accounts for 89% of the profession versus 80% in the 2011 population census. LinkedIn data reported by Wadds Inc.

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