01 Jun 2012
| by Sara Luker
The story has highlighted the need for the PR industry to sign up to a pledge to stamp out unpaid internships both in-house and in agencies. PRWeek and the PRCA launched a campaign in October 2011 to end the practice of unpaid internships. To date 58 consultancies have signed up to the campaign, confirming ...
01 Jun 2012
| by Sara Luker
Daily deals site Groupon is on the hunt for an agency to handle a UK account....The company has met with a shortlist of agencies to discuss an integrated brief covering business-to-business, consumer, corporate and issues management comms. Groupon confirmed the process although declined to add ...
by nearly 50 per cent . Currently the site does not retain a UK PR agency, but it used Brunswick for its ...
01 Jun 2012
| by John Owens
The agency has been brought in for a three-month project brief around the launch of the ninth generation of the car in the UK. It will work on securing coverage within the lifestyle press by reflecting ...
. In April PRWeek reported that the car giant was on the lookout for a social media agency to move away ...
31 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
PRWeek podcast about the pressures being placed on agencies during pitch processes. The discussion covered reverse auctions, the process by which some big pitches are carried out in which agencies bid ...
that agencies are not being given enough time to deliver pitches, with Sciplino stating that agencies should get ...
31 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
Andrew Wilson will be leaving the banking and insurance company in the next month to head to the marketing group led by Martin Sorrell, where he will take on a client facing role across a number of WPP s agencies. Wilson will be involved in a wide number of accounts including RBS s account work, currently ...
31 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
Relations Group - will be a top ten agency....showing a disinterest in PR. But this will make us a top ten PR agency. It s a good sector although it has some issues in public affairs, which we ve experienced. He added that the agency would ...
31 May 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
of Sacha Deshmukh , came as a surprise to many who thought the ambitious agency had its top team firmly ...
for the agency, which saw organic fee income growth of six per cent during 2011 and now has annual revenues ...
of UK work.'
Devine has plans for the agency to be in the top five within the next three to five ...
30 May 2012
| by Kate Magee
James Murphy, the founding partner of creative agency Adam & Eve, tells PRWeek how the pitch...His agency has just been bought by Omnicom for an estimated 60m.
How do pitches work in the ad industry?
The picture on the creative agency side is varied. It's still the case that only a ...
. An agency could spend 50k on materials alone for a really major pitch, and that's just the cost before man ...
30 May 2012
| by Alec Mattinson
Redleaf Polhill CEO Andrew Sharkey has left the recently merged agency to join City shop Smithfield....Sharkey joins the financial and corporate comms agency as a director, 18 months after becoming CEO of the combined agency when Redleaf bought out Polhill.
He said: It was time to move on from Redleaf Polhill ...
after an MBO from advertising agency Murray Hill.
He subsequently worked as a partner and director ...