With Halloween and Bonfire Night out of the way, we’re gearing up for Christmas. And the same goes for the retailers. In the run-up to the big day, brands big and small, fight it out to win column inches and the hearts and minds of...
Ambitious, disruptive, successful. If one company represents the modern tech start-up, it has to be Uber. But it hasn’t been an easy ride for the world’s largest ‘mobility as a service provider’ famous for its ride-hailing taxi app. Let’s take a look at some Uber PR successes...
When you hear the words ‘chicken’ and ‘fast food,’ one brand likely springs to mind. We’re talking, of course, about Kentucky Fried Chicken now known as KFC. Thanks to its secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices, and being one of the first fast food brands...
Founded in 1896, the Daily Mail has risen to become one of England’s biggest papers. With its heady mix of tabloid news and celebrity gossip, it attracts more than 2.2 million daily readers. However, the Saturday edition is even more popular. Three million people pore...
In 2016, Disney was named the world’s most powerful brand. In 2018, it was the world’s best-regarded company. And in 2020, it was voted the world’s most-admired entertainment company for the seventeenth year running. Those are impressive accolades. The Disney PR team must be doing something right. So...
When it comes to PR, the South Korean electronics giant Samsung has had its share of good, and spectacularly bad times. Remember the exploding Galaxy Note 7? Or the folding phone that didn’t fold? These were embarrassing PR screw-ups from one of the world’s leading...
When it comes to Amazon public relations, the giant online retailer has always been a little unorthodox. Back in 2008, for instance, they enlisted a band of regular users to do PR for them, called the ‘Holiday Customer Review Team’. And this forward-thinking mindset has served them...
Very few brands hold a candle to Netflix. As CEO Reed Hastings said, their biggest competitor isn’t YouTube or Amazon — it’s sleep. You don’t get 200+ million paid subscribers by accident, so studying the Netflix PR team’s strategy is worthwhile for any brand that...
The Red Bull Stratos Space Jump. WWF's Earth Hour. Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty. Just three examples of PR stunts done right. In each case, they got people talking and generated huge amounts of publicity for the brands behind them. It may not be the newest...
It goes by many names: Auntie, the Beeb, the BBC. As one of the biggest state-funded media organisations in the world, it’s no surprise that the British Broadcasting Corporation has become a cultural icon. But what are the top threats to the BBC’s public relations efforts...
