Flack: Merry Crunchmas, Cuban Brothers and Buckingham Palace
12 Dec 2008
Merry Crunchmas, one and all! With tumbleweeds blowing over Flack's normally packed party calendar
1. Taylor Herring is defying the Scrooges by issuing this witty Christmas card to top contacts such as PRWeek. Drawn by Private Eye cartoonist Tony Husband, it appears to suggest HRH The Queen is now an agency client.
Merry Crunchmas, one and all! With tumbleweeds blowing over Flack's normally packed party calendar
Reviewer: Catriona Hamilton, account director, Rooster PR
1. Earlier this week Bragster - the website for daring and bragging, apparently - dared Londoners to find the giant credit card that was projected on to London monuments. Skywrite Communications' idea led to one cheeky chap spending £665 on a plasma TV.
Tory comms chief Andy Coulson took decisive PR action last week - advising David Cameron not to attend a secret party thrown by multi-millionaire Michael Hintze.
Reviewer: Pam Sharpless, director, USP Content.
1. A stunning event took place last week, masterminded by BMW's corp comms manager Mark Harrison, to launch the new 7 Series model. Harrison's team used the car to chauffeur a bevy of media luminaries - including TV presenter Ginny Buckley (1a) - to Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck restaurant in Bray (1b).
Reviewer: Ghislain Pascal, managing director, Panic
The CIPR PRide Awards in Scotland were presented by local radio DJ Grant Stott, John Leslie's brother. After comically plugging his show to the assembled PROs he targeted former head of public relations at Glasgow City Council John Brown - brother of the Prime Minister. 'We've got something in common,'...
1. As the lyrics go: 'He looks handsome, he looks smart. He is a walking work of art.' Threepipe is promoting a competition for children to design a technicolour dreamcoat for Joseph actor Lee Mead. The Vodafone competition is for Anti-Bullying Week.