It’s the end of an era, you might say. Google has announced it is to close the consumer Google+ network, following a massive data flaw it did not report, allegedly for fear of regulation.    ...

Clear insight into your target audiences and ensuring you have the ability to engage them with your core messages are essential elements in successful campaigns, said Mandy Sharp, founder and CEO of creative PR agency ...

So much has happened that choosing Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed this week has been like deciding who will accompany Meghan Markle down the aisle, except we didn’t end up with Charles. 1. No ...

This week’s Five Things You Shouldn’t Have Missed from the world of media, PR and comms includes YouTube’s response to Logan Paul, Facebook’s news feed changing, Steve Bannon, the Daily Mail and Virgin Trains argument, ...

The Home Affairs Committee has questioned Google, Facebook and Twitter over the work they’re doing to combat online hate. The Committee questioned Dr Nicklas Berild Lundbald, vice president public policy at Google EMEA; Simon Milner, ...

Another Budget has been and gone. This time, the Chancellor announced new funding for the NHS, reform of Universal Credit and the scrapping of Stamp Duty against the backdrop of very gloomy economic figures from ...

Shares in Snap continue to decline after recently announcing missed targets on growth vs estimates. So, at a time when the company should be cosying up to Wall Street and reassuring investors, the last thing ...

The former Chief of Staff to David Davis has taken to Twitter in a scathing attack of the Government’s Brexit strategy. James Chapman, who was also George Osborne’s director of communications and now works at ...

At newsrewired yesterday (19 July), Nic Newman from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism presented new research on ‘Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments’. The news for most publishers is not ...

Workplace, Facebook’s newest enterprise product, is a promising tool for the marketing communications industry. Here Ketchum’s Melissa Barry writes for #FuturePRoof on the benefits of the system.  Workplace by Facebook has the ability to fundamentally ...

Want to deflect a little social media heat away from your brand? How about letting a smart, polite and socially-savvy teenager run your Twitter account for the day? That’s exactly what embattled train operator Southern ...

A group of Facebook content moderators, responsible for removing terrorist-related content from the social network have had their safety compromised after a technical glitch exposed their personal details to terrorist sympathisers and supporters. The bug ...

Simon Ragoonanan decided to leave his career as a TV producer to become a stay at home dad to his 6-month-old daughter in 2012. Simon created the blog, Man Vs Pink to document his experience ...

Diary of the Dad was created in 2010 by Tom Briggs to document his children Xander, Dylan, and toddler Amelie as they grow up and learn new things. Diary of the Dad covers the challenges ...

Moving up to first place is John Adams, the father behind Dad Blog UK, which he launched after deciding to leave his career in communications to become a stay at home dad in 2011. Winner ...

Facebook, along with the wider social web, has faced much criticism in recent years for the spreading of “fake news”. Fake news is something that the social network has stated that it is committed to fight. ...

It’s always the case with election campaigns that the parties’ plans will be disrupted by events outside of their control. This weekend, for example, the opposition parties have been using the cyber-attack which affected the ...

Media reports suggest that anti-EU groups used highly sophisticated and largely unregulated “dark” political advertising to target specific groups of people in the run up to the Brexit vote. It is understood that pro Leave groups ...

As the general election gets underway, we’ve compiled all the news, policy announcements, stakeholder reaction and social media analysis to keep you up to date. Arriving in your inbox on Monday, you’ll have a round-up ...

Facebook’s algorithms are used to target “insecure” children as young as 14 and may be used to sell highly targeted advertising according to a recent report in The Australian. According to the report, journalists have ...