16 Dec 2011
| by Claire Murphy, consultant editor, PRWeek
As you mop up the debris from your Christmas parties and survey the year ahead, we bring you the cream of the crop of the case studies we have featured in the magazine this year.
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Client: 20th Century Fox PR team: Beatwax Timescale: November 2009-March 2011 Budget: 400,000
20th Century Fox wanted to create a global campaign to promote the third Chronicles of Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. After the box office...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: The ActionAid Happy Bubble Client: ActionAid PR team: Golden Goose PR Timescale: January 2011 Budget: 25,000
Golden Goose PR was asked to create a stunt to support the launch of ActionAid's wider 'What a Feeling!' advertising campaign and to support digital and social media...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: W London Premiere Client: Starwood Hotels PR team: John Doe Communications Timescale: September 2010-March 2011 Budget: 100,000
Starwood Hotels asked John Doe Communications to launch W London, its first major property in the UK.
Objectives
- To introduce the W brand...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: Music for RAIN Client: The Coca-Cola Company PR team: Paratus Communications Budget: 20,000 Timescale: March 2011
Coca-Cola has promised to provide at least two million Africans with clean water and sanitation by 2015 as part of its Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN).
Earlier...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: The Living Lab Client: Pizza Express PR team: Unity Timescale: October 2010-February 2011 Budget: 150,000
After turning 45, Pizza Express wanted to reinvent itself for the next 45 years. Unity was asked to come up with ideas ranging from design to service and food, to build...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: The Race to Unbox; Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Client: 3 Mobile PR team: Citizen Brando Timescale: 23 March Budget: 7,200
When Sony Ericsson launched phone Xperia Play, 3 Mobile was given the first ten phones to come off the production line. The mobile phone network asked Brando...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: Making 'Contactless' Streetwise with the World's First Cashless Busker Client: Barclaycard/Barclays PR team: The Red Consultancy; in-house Timescale: August 2010 Budget: 75,001- 100,000
The Red Consultancy was called in by Barclaycard to generate mass awareness of its contactless...
16 Dec 2011
Campaign: Raise a Roast Client: Crown Carveries PR team: Willoughby PR Timescale: February-April 2011 Budget: 25,695
Mitchells Butlers pub and carvery chain Crown Carveries wanted to capitalise on the royal wedding and asked Willoughby PR to create coverage.
Objectives
- To generate...
23 Nov 2011
| by Jane Bainbridge
Years spent gaining experience in the most unusual of places can sometimes be of great benefit. Jane Bainbridge talks to some PROs capitalising on their former lives.