10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Shine Communications has been chosen to handle the launch and
ongoing PR for Worldpop.com, the UK internet start-up which has received
unprecedented financial backing. A global, 24-hour rolling pop news
magazine, the site will be launched in early 2000 across all media,
including internet, TV, radio,...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
ISP Freeserve has appointed Larkspur on a consumer brief following
a three-way pitch. Larkspur replaces Marbles PR, which resigned the
account in October (PR Week, 22 October) because it was considering
legal action against Freeserve business partner HFC Bankover its Marbles
credit card.
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
A Ketchum survey has found a significant willingness mong Britons
to break the law in order to stop unacceptable business practice.
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE and SEBASTIAN VESPER i
Financial PR agency Lansons Communications has set up a specialist
internet PR agency, Lansons Digital Media, with an initial pounds
200,000 in business.
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Dennis Publishing is to launch its first glossy women s title in
February 2000, and has recruited Rachel Shattock, who edits NatMags M,
as editor.
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
ITN is to provide news to a children s web site, www.miss
dorothy.com, which has just been launched by journalist and TV presenter
Sharon Doughty.
10 Dec 1999
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
Organisation: Cliff Richard Organisation
03 Dec 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Argyll Consultancies, parent of IT PR agency Kaizo, became only the
second PR group to join the off-share trading market OFEX last week.
03 Dec 1999
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) has drawn criticism from the
PR industry once again, this time for its charges for electronic
distribution of press cuttings. Each photocopied cutting costs NLA
licencees 2p. But that charge is doubled to 4p if a cutting is
distributed electronically.
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Terence Gibbons, former head of national and regional PR for the
Millennium Dome, has joined Band and Brown as group account director in
charge of e-commerce clients. Reporting to chairman Nick Band and
managing director Gill Brown, Gibbons started work last month on BT
internet and web-based shopping...