The newly created Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed a head of news and media
financial services firms track social media activity across UK politics....The new offering will enable the financial services industry to track and analyse the social media activity of the UK Parliament, House of Lords members, MEPs, government departments, think-tanks and key ... that around 65 per cent of UK politicians have a social media presence, including the Chancellor George ...
The number of UK corporates with a dedicated social media presence has increased three-fold over...corporate social media presence, up from just 14 per cent of companies a year ago. Investis looked at companies with social media accounts used specifically for corporate comms and linked to from the corporate website. Marcus Fergusson, head of social media at Investis, said: We are now approaching a stage ...
follow high profile media revelations about Bell Pottinger and Portland editing clients' pages. The CIPR ... . The way journalists engage with social media also appears to be changing, preferring to 'listen in ... of digital. Over half of the journalists we surveyed recognised the importance of building a social media ...
's European media relations....Berry will become HSBC s regional head of media relations, UK and Europe. He is expected to remain at Fishburn Hedges until the end of April, taking up his new role in May. He will report to HSBC s co-head of comms Charles Naylor and replaces Rob Bailhache, who joined RBS Insurance in February . Berry has ...
The media handling of the controversial bonus of nearly £1m for the boss of RBS has been led...The RBS team, led by head of group media relations Jason Knauf, started issuing statements to the media last night as it emerged that chief executive Stephen Hester has received a bonus of 963 ... for failure'. The media relations team declined to discuss with PRWeek its media handling ...
Bishopsgate Communications has been taken on to handle comms for the float of a media firm...Sports Stars Media announced its intention to float on Monday and is looking to raise around 1.75m on London s AIM market in February. The Portugal-based firm aims to produce a cartoon sports series, the first of which will be a kids TV show starring Real Madrid and former Chelsea boss Mourinho ...
Media Square, the marcoms group that owns Smarts, has been bought out by its management team under...MSQ Partners completed the buyout of all of the agencies that previously comprised Media Square, the AIM-listed marketing comms group, yesterday. A press statement from the group stated that Media ... structure, with debt reduced to less than half of the level previously borne by Media Square . The group ...
How social media should be integrated across a business has been named by client leads as one...Five senior inhouse PROs discussed their views on social media at a recent roundtable event ... media as a marketing, customer service or PR tool was a key topic. As Barclaycard s senior PR manager ... time that all the different parts of the business are all trying to be active in social media ...
Lloyds Banking Group has promoted Ed Petter to become group media relations director....Petter had previously been head of corporate media relations at the bank, having joined Lloyds at the start of this year. Before joining Lloyds he was senior director, corporate relations at McDonald's Europe and global external relations manager, climate change and energy and materials at McKinsey ...
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