Ketchum London adds Mark Walsh as Consumer Director Ketchum, a member of Omnicom’s PR holdings, just announced that Mark Walsh will be the consumer director in their London office where he’ll direct his energy to strategic counsel for consumer brands in London, as well as adding to their list of
It was meant to get people talking about teen suicide and, at least by that measure, the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why certainly accomplished that. Of course, it also got a lot of people talking about the shot itself, and a lot of that commentary was less than complimentary.
YouTube advertising has been a major benefit to Tubers who have made a career out of posting videos to the platform. And YouTube content has come to define entertainment for a generation. So many of the cultural touchstones for the Millennial generation have come from shared viewing on YouTube. But
David Shane Named Deputy MD for Finn Partners West Coast Offices Based out of Los Angeles, David Shane moves into the deputy managing director of the West Coast operations of Finn Partners and will report to Howard Solomon, managing partner. Shane has also been named as a senior partner with
Weber Shandwick Helps with Nike’s Breaking2 Exhibition Marathon Nike sponsored the Breaking2 Marathon last week. It was a private exhibition race which means photos from the event can be used by Nike for marketing purposes. And they will be. Already there’s controversy over the race photos. At such events, there
Quarterback Jay Cutler’s tumultuous time with the Chicago Bears is at an end. While Cutler showed signs of brilliance from time to time, critics blasted his “inconsistency” and failure to really get and keep the Bears in the playoff hunt year after year. Others come to Cutler’s defense, saying the
Ivanka Trump wants to highlight and celebrate women in business, but at least one prominent businesswoman is saying “count me out.” Reshma Saujani, who founded Girls Who Code, is making no bones about not wanting anything to do with Ivanka, at least as long as she’s working for her father.
Fyre Festival and 42West Efforts When the Fyre Festival was canceled on opening day a few weeks ago, it was not pretty – in so many ways! The luxury accommodations in many cases turned out to be tents used in disaster assistance situations, the multi-star cuisine to be provided by
It’s been a bad 2017 over at Fox News. While the network continues to do well in the ratings and with advertisers in most time slots, big name personalities and leaders have fallen from grace, and it looks like the hits will keep coming… at least for the foreseeable future.
PR Industry Leader Al Golin Dead at 87 Back in the early days of McDonald’s’ and Al Golin (1957), Mr. Golin pitched to Ray Kroc selling him on how much less expensive it was to get positive stories in the paper about his restaurants than to buy advertising. With that
