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PR folk in Rio: Sabina Gault's last minute Rio trip ends with a photo with Phelps
PRWeek chats to comms pros in Brazil: Taking a last-minute flight from Los Angeles to Rio, Konnect Agency CEO Sabina Gault from Los Angeles said she found the reality on the ground very different to negative pre-Games press.
My biggest gaffe: Letting a junior staff member take the driving seat
Paul Lucas, director of Fever PR, recalls giving one of his younger members of staff free rein to drive a client's promotional sports car
'Uber of airlines' Surf Air aims for European lift-off by hiring Text100 in US and UK
On-demand membership airline Surf Air has hired Text100 as its agency of record in the US, as it prepares to launch the Californian brand in Europe in October, starting this weekend with a paid social campaign.
Ball in industry's court as childhood obesity strategy omits food promotion regulation
The Government's much-awaited childhood obesity strategy was published this morning, but did not include any restrictions on advertising and promoting certain foods, as had been hoped and expected by some.
PR folk in Rio: Edelman goes Dutch at Holland Heineken House
PRWeek chats to comms pros in Brazil: Emily Favret, account director at Edelman UK, discusses Heineken's activity with the Dutch Olympic team, the host nation's PR effort and "klap-mee-dailles" (no, we didn't know either).
Gimmick or gamechanger? How my virtual reality interview with Steve Redgrave panned out
Many initially dismissed virtual reality (VR) as a gimmick, soon to be confined solely to the realms of gaming. PRWeek tests the tech and assesses what place it might have in the future of comms...
Watch: Brooklyn Beckham positions Honor as smartphone for digital natives
Honor is trying to push its credentials as the smartphone brand for digital natives by announcing Brooklyn Beckham as a global ambassador.
Trio of PR firms named in Small Business Saturday UK's Small Biz 100
Three PR firms have been selected in a list of 100 small UK businesses whose stories will be used to celebrate enterprise in the run-up to December's Small Business Saturday.
Pinterest rolls out video ads in U.K. and U.S.
Pinterest is rolling out video ads in beta to test partners in the U.K. and the U.S. as it builds out its ad business to compete with Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
Leave.EU rejects request to stop Team GB intellectual property 'violation' in Rio posts
Brexit campaign group Leave.EU says it will not comply with a request from the British Olympic Association to remove social media posts in which it has used protected Olympic terms and "suggested an association" with the Games.
H+K Strategies MENA takes ASDA'A Burson's Bashar AlKadhi as new CEO
Bashar AlKadhi is leaving his position at ASDA'A Burson-Masteller, moving within the WPP group to take up the position of CEO of Hill+Knowlton Strategies' MENA region.
Senior comms pro Wilkinson leaves IPO for new Department of International Trade
Rosa Wilkinson has joined the newly created Department of International Trade in a senior comms role.
Cycling's Posh and Becks: But will Trott keep outshining Kenny as Team GB star?
Engaged GB cycling stars Jason Kenny and Laura Trott have both enjoyed huge success in the velodrome at Rio 2016 - and Kenny now looks set to make up ground on Trott on the PR front, having had a much lower profile to date, PRs suggest.
Ex-MHP financial chief Jamie Brookes joins RBS spin-off bank Williams & Glyn
Jamie Brookes, the former financial services chief of MHP and previously BNY Mellon's corporate affairs head, has joined Williams & Glyn, the high-street bank spun out of RBS, as head of corporate affairs, PRWeek has learned.
From Usain Bolt to Simone Biles: Six things that make an athlete a sponsor magnet
Six-time Olympic track cycling champion Jason Kenny recently said he "wasn't very marketable" while others, such as fellow cyclist, four-time gold medallist (and his fiancée) Laura Trott, appear to have better luck with sponsorship - what is it that puts an athlete top of the PR podium?
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It's complicated...the changing relationship between PR and marketing
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