Mother’s Day Marketing Campaigns: The Best & The Worst
While it isn’t the biggest day in the commercial calendar, Mother’s Day still presents marketers with an opportunity to both promote their brand and make money. We take a look at how two well-known names have been using March 15th 2015 to raise awareness about their offering...
How 7 Brands Are Supporting Comic Relief 2015
After its usual two-year break, Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day will be back on our screens for another three-hour marathon of performances, stories and entertainments*. We take a look at how some of the UK’s biggest brands will be supporting the charity in 2015…
Newsroom Best Practices blog: some review session tips and tricks!
We are excited to re-launch our customer success blog to help all our customers learn how best to utilise and capitalise the amazing space that is their newsrooms. We will be going over content ideas, sharing strategies, SEO tricks and tips, support tools, and many other useful and mind blowing ideas.
Surfing the silver way: watch the reaction of an 82-year-old digital novice join Tinder
Today marks the kick off of the EU Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing, a discussion on how demographic change can offer new opportunities for innovation and growth - 'the Silver opportunity'.
How do you sustain a great online newsroom?
Most organisations are transitioning to the brand newsroom approach. What sets apart those who are succeeding from those who are not is investment in technology. A robust content management system, with blogging capability and social-media integration eliminates some of the tedious publishing tasks and enables you to create streamlined processes.
PR is dead? Not really, but it's what you do that matters
Recently Unilever CEO Paul Polman was voted number one in PRWeek’s 2015 Powerbook, the UK PR industries bible of those that matter in the world of communications.
Squarespace & Wix prove paid media is here to stay
If I had received a pound for every time I had heard, discussed or read the terms content marketing, inbound or growth hacking over the last 18 months I would be a very rich man.
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.