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2018 is emerging as a year of growth and progress for many PR companies so far. One of the most recent organizations to see changes occurring in their network is Hydra Strategy – a senior only consultancy which began launching only a year ago in 2017. Hydra Strategy recently announced that they are appointing a […]
Bell Pottinger Makes Twitter Account Private Want to follow or talk to England’s PR consultancy, Bell Pottinger? Well, unlike most PR firms, now you have to get approval to do so, at least if you try to reach out to them on Twitter. Because they just set their account to private. That’s what some South […]
James Chapman Joins Bell Pottinger James Chapman is moving to Bell Pottinger on June 26th as a member of their political team. He should fill the spot easily as he used to be both a political editor at the Daily Mail and Brexit secretary David Davis’ chief of staff. Chapman declared that his new employer […]
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 a celebrity chef instead turned […]
New President at Carmichael Lynch From Among the Ranks Julie Batliner, top PR executive and managing partner of Carmichael Lynch, one of Interpublic’s agencies, has been promoted to President following the promotion of the previous president, Marcus Fisher after he was named CEO. She’ll continue with her current responsibilities, including her role as managing partner. […]
Bell Pottinger Helped Guptas with ‘White Monopoly Capital’ PR Zuma, the Guptas, and Bell Pottinger are reportedly in the middle of an orchestrated PR stunt to draw attention from state capture. Purportedly, senior staff member of the PR firm left the company when objections were raised about accepting the Gupta contract. After that, an aggressive […]
Paul Dyer named Lippe Taylor’s new President Lippe Taylor, a firm specializing in marketing to women, just named Paul Dyer their new president, bringing him in to develop the agency’s next generation creative communications model. Dyer left W2O Group after eight years. In his new position, he’ll increase the capabilities they offer clients by applying […]
WPP Subpoenaed by Department of Justice Three of WPP’s subsidiaries have been pulled into the U.S. DOJ’s investigation into production practices. WPP is a communications holding company based in London, and they are cooperating with the DOJ’s investigation. Some of the PR companies under the WPP umbrella include Burson-Marsteller, Ogilvy PR, and Hill+Knowlton Strategies. This […]
Conflict of Interest Puts Bell Pottinger In Hotseat Swiss luxury brand Richemont and its CEO, South African billionaire Johann Rupert, hired Bell Pottinger primarily to keep Rupert’s name out of the news. At some point after that, Bell Pottinger picked up another client, the Gupta family, who Rupert believes hired Bell Pottinger to tell and […]
Branson and Virgin Products Face Backlash with Help from Freud’s Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Group is pushing to keep Britain in the EU – fighting against Brexit by offering to pay for a campaign to accomplish that goal. But the many of the public in the U.K. are not happy about his plans. […]
