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  • Gambling with your PR: Six of the best gambling PR stunts

    With the recent publicity stunt by Paddypower in backing David Ginola’s failed bid for the FIFA presidency with campaign #teamginola, we at Mynewsdesk thought to share some of the PR punts that organisations in one of the UK’s largest industries have taken in the past.

  • Why should we care about influencer relations?

    The explosion of social media has democratized communications. It has levelled the playing field affording almost everyone the opportunity to become an influencer.

  • Cruising your way through Crisis Communications: UK vs. USA

    ​Let me set the scene. It is Monday morning at the office, second week on the job. Request from the team to write some blogs on things happening in communications and PR. So, I raised my hand to write about crisis communications and a difference between a proactive US approach versus a proactive UK approach

  • Get your customer's attention with these 4 content ideas

    Sometimes old tricks are the most useful ones, that's why they're classics. Here are our top 4 tips based on what we have learned from our most read blog posts from 2014. Maybe you'll find some content ideas for your communication and marketing activities. Let's make 2015 newsworthy!

  • Top of the PR pops: Christmas edition

    Merry Christmas dear readers! Rather than our usual top of the PR pops post we're doing a quick round up of our favourite Christmas campaigns. What are your favourite Christmas campaigns?

  • The reputation economy: why communicators need a seat at the top table

    ​Recently the Harvard Business Review released their Top 100 CEO list. The findings of that research study, and in particular the way it was put together, tell me that after the CFO the top communicator at any company is the CEO’s most important team member.

  • The future of communications: a video guide

    Are you on top of communications trends? We put together a guide on the communications trends and inspiring PR practices we learned at our event, #FutureComms14, which was held in London in June.

  • Top of the PR pops: November Highlights

    The temperature has dropped and it's beginning to feel a lot more festive. However, I've tried to keep the mentions of Christmas to a minimum as I'll save that for another post! Here are some of the things that have got us talking over the last month...

  • How to get influencers and keep them: the best tips from four experts

    As Dale Carnegie said in his 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People, “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”

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