According to a late 2017 report by the Pew Research Center, 67% of adults now get their news from social media feeds, up from 62% at the beginning of 2017. The truth is evident. Your PR agency landing a piece of coverage online and hoping a consumer will stumble across it is no longer enough. […]
You may have heard about the enigmatic pixel, a piece of HTML code inserted into the back end of your website. You can use them on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and they offer brands a number of benefits – here they are in a nutshell: 1. Retargeting, retargeting, retargeting For any social ad we […]
It’s a question we are being asked more and more: ‘Is Facebook a B2B channel?’ Unfortunately, the answer isn’t a simple one, in fact the answer we are giving more often than not is ‘maybe’. Here are the pros and cons for B2B marketers considering Facebook as a key part of their marketing communication mix: […]
Attending trade shows is expensive, with some B2B marketers having cut them entirely from their marketing plans. However, the recent MACH exhibition at the NEC was highly successful for a number of our clients, and the Machine Tool Association’s own visitor numbers claimed a five per cent increase in attendance. So, if trade shows remain […]
If Facebook Live isn’t part of your social strategy, it really should be. For starters, Facebook will prioritise Live in newsfeeds, with most of your followers receiving a notification when you go live. With around 1% of followers seeing other organic content, Facebook Live gives you unparalleled levels of ‘free’ reach. It also gives you […]
Unless you live on the moon, you’ve probably noticed that it’s been a difficult couple of weeks for Facebook. We’re not here to judge (we’ll leave that to the US Congress), but we can confirm that there are six changes that will affect how brands use Facebook – and they look something like this: […]
1. State Street Global Advisors: Fearless Girl The perfect melding of company mission, zeitgeist and imagery. Even if you didn’t know who was behind it, you surely saw the bronze image of the girl standing in front of Wall Street’s charging bull in New York’s financial district. The key lies in what the image […]
GDPR, like Brexit, is coming – like it, or not. With the countdown to 25 May well and truly on, here’s our pick of the brands that have already got GDPR covered
Our round-up of the most anticipated advertising campaigns during this year’s Super Bowl… 1. Amazon Amazon rarely do things by halves and this year’s Super Bowl ad is no exception. Featuring a wealth of celebrities from Gordon Ramsay to Rebel Wilson and Sir Anthony Hopkins, the ad showed Amazon’s back up plan if Alexa was […]
Last week, we caught up with Facebook to talk through their much-publicised algorithm change, and what it means for brands. As it stands, we believe there are 12 key things we all need to know, and they look like this 1. Everything is about meaningful interactions When Zuckerberg first hinted at major changes for […]
We delivered £3.60 in sales for every £1 spent on PR, through a search for the UK’s first Chief Adventure Officer
About this time last year, eMarketer reported that 84% of marketers were planning to run some sort of influencer campaign over the next twelve months. They weren’t far wrong…
