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Giffgaff pulls 'traumatising' Halloween ad featuring orphan girl
Giffgaff has apologised and pulled its Halloween campaign following complaints that its ad about an orphan girl was offensive and traumatising for vulnerable people.
Polansky: Mid-single-digit revenue growth for IPG PR firms in Q3
Weber Shandwick's CEO said Weber, Golin, and Rogers & Cowan performed particularly well in the quarter.
In brief: Roland Dransfield grows team, wins for Withpr, Brands2Life, Refresh
Roland Dransfield grows team, CIPR to moves offices in London, wins for Withpr, Brands2Life and Refresh.
Parliamentary officials begin internal comms campaign to help staff stand up to bullies
Senior officials will show staff at the House of Commons how to stand up to bullies by taking part in a role play in a film being shown to workers internally.
GSK moves global Panadol ad business into bespoke WPP team
WPP will create integrated campaigns and content encompassing advertising, digital, shopper activation and PR.
Flack on Friday: Finsbury's numbers, video blunder, creative spirit, new frontier for PRCA?
In Flack this week: rental costs eat into Finsbury's profit, the ghost of mentees past, and is this 'bro-heavy' corporate video the worst of all time?
'The impact on PR will be somewhere between dreadful and disastrous' - agency publicly backs Brexit people's vote
London agency Uprise PR has thrown its weight behind The People's Vote - a grassroots campaign to give the public a democratic vote on any Brexit deal.
Climate change comms in the post-truth, fake news era
Scanning the news headlines last Monday morning, the scale of communicating the climate change challenge waltzed past my eyes.
Social Misfits joins Freuds' parent group The Brewery
Social media and digital agency Social Misfits Media has joined Freuds' parent network, The Brewery Group.
Royal Caribbean welcomes new head of PR & Social on board
Royal Caribbean UK & Ireland has appointed Talk.Global board director Shilpa Saul as head of PR and Social, to steer the cruise ship firm's communications strategy.
Publicis Groupe returns to growth after 'bump' in previous quarter
Holding company reports organic growth of 1.3% in the third quarter.
Uber hires government special adviser as UK head of comms
Uber has hired Lottie Dominiczak, who has worked as a special adviser across a number of UK government departments, as head of communications for the UK.
Former pro cyclist Tom Copeland launches PR agency PaceUp
PRWeek caught up with Copeland to explain why he launched a niche agency to serve an industry that has been tainted by doping scandals and is notoriously difficult to secure long-term sponsorship deals.
Nik Govier launches 'an agency for a blurred world'
Unity co-founder Nik Govier has launched Blurred, a new consultancy with a vision of breaking down the distinction between corporate and consumer comms.
In Pictures: PRWeek UK Awards 2018 - part two
See the second batch of photos from the comms industry Oscars, the PRWeek Awards, which took place at London's Grosvenor House hotel on Tuesday night (16 October).
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30 under 30: passion with a side-dish of perspective
30 under 30 celebrates those with the potential to become industry leaders of the future. So what did this year's entries do right? And what does it mean to be young and ambitious in the world of PR?
Memorable campaigns lead to positive results
Analytics are revealing ever deeper insights into short-term outputs, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the most important PR metric of all - long-term reputation
Stop saying millennials have short attention spans
Attention spans are not getting shorter (that's the long and short of it). Those mercurial millennials are, in fact, able to concentrate for longer than a ten second Snapchat. Panelists from TVC Group, The Economist Group and EY took to the stage at Campaign's Brand Film Festival to tell us why.
Why it is cool to be kind
The industry has shifted with pace in the last ten years but one thing that remains is the clique-like behaviour of those that think they are in the gifted minority.