Friday saw the release of the 23rd official [we don’t include Never Say Never Again or the ‘original’ Casino Royale] James Bond outing in Skyfall. Needless to say, there was a great deal of excitement ...

The circulation and readership figures of magazines are vital for their advertisers and ultimately their survival. ‘Digital dimes’ do not currently add up to ‘print dollars’ but the overheads of running a digital publication are ...

Friday 10 September saw Canterbury Christ Church University host the Social Media, Journalism and Communication Practitioners International Symposium. The day’s schedule brought together journalists, social media experts and academics to share ideas and presentations on ...

For the last couple of months we have been tracking social media mentions for adidas and Nike, looking at how the brands of a sponsor and a non-sponsor have been affected by the Olympic Games. Our ...

Last month we published an analysis showing social media mentions of adidas and Nike after looking at a report into people’s awareness of Olympic Games sponsors. Since then Nike launched its ‘find your greatness’ London campaign ...

Hackney Weekend was this year’s Big Weekend festival held by BBC Radio 1 at Hackney Marshes in east London. As the London 2012 Olympics are also being held in East London, Radio 1 made this ...

Last night saw 20 awards and 28 commendations presented at the Online Media Awards. The evening was in the plush Emirates stadium and the improvement on last year’s ‘basement’ location was highlighted as an example ...

Earlier this week New Media Knowledge published new research into people’s awareness of Olympic Games sponsors. 40 people had been asked to list any Olympics sponsors they could think of. Adidas was in the lead ...

NeverSeconds is a blog that until last night was ran by nine-year-old VEG, real name Martha Payne, and her dad Dave. The tagline ‘One primary school pupil’s daily dose of school dinners’, sums up almost ...

The Top 5 UK Pharma websites ranking is based on the UMV worldwide figures provided by Google Ad Planner. 1. BioPortfolio (130,000) 2. PharmiWeb.com (22,000) 3. Pharmaceutical Business Review (18,000) 4. The Pharma Letter (18,000) ...

Last updated: 29/02/2012. Cision presents the top 5 UK running magazines. These magazines are editorially independent with a main interest of running. Each outlet in the ranking are linked to their associated website, if available. ...

Last updated: 15/02/2012 Cision presents the Top 10 UK Fashion magazines. These magazines have to be editorially independent with a main interest of Fashion and have a frequency of either monthly or a weekly. Annual ...

The last couple of days have turned out to be a complete nightmare for a number of high profile people protected by injunctions or not. A hash tag #superinjunctions have been used to circulate tweets ...

Reputation Online yesterday looked at the “difficulties of algorithmic authority” in an article featuring quotes from Azeem Azhar, founder of Peer Index. As he did when I interviewed him for our “Identifying and targeting social media influencers” webinar, ...

Pew, the self-proclaimed non-partisan US research group, has just published an overview of the “State of News Media 2011“. While the report naturally describes the US market, there is plenty here to interest UK media ...

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. – Marshall McLuhan As ...

Just published online as part of PR Week’s Digital PR series: Cision Europe CEO Peter Granat’s views on influence and those who wield it. Here’s a snip: There are a number of factors that makes ...

Since the dawn of PR, practitioners have been looking for one-size-fits-all ROI to prove their worth, in line with (some) other departments. With Equivalent Advertising Values (EAVs) and clip volumes now ‘officially’ derided, the quest ...

  According to the latest ABCs, UK magazine sales increased by 0.3 per cent in the first half of 2010 compared to last year. This follows a robust performance in the previous period, where total ...

The second European Summit on Measurement from AMEC got underway in Barcelona yesterday.  There’s a lot going on – discussions on content licensing, the industry’s future, the needs of PR professionals and measuring business outcomes.   ...