{"id":4324,"date":"2012-01-06T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uk.cision.com\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2012-01-06T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:20:31","slug":"weekly-comms-news-round-up-030112-060112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/weekly-comms-news-round-up-030112-060112\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly comms news round up 03\/01\/12-06\/01\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back and hope you all had a splendid holiday! Here is this week&#8217;s comms round up curated from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/CisionUK\" target=\"_self\">@CisionUK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrum.co.uk\/news\/2012\/01\/03\/facebook-launches-new-ad-awards-us\" target=\"_blank\">New Facebook ad awards will recognise &#8216;best Facebook marketing&#8217;<\/a> via\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/thedrum\">@thedrum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrum.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Drum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facebook has announced a new set of advertising  awards in the US in a  bid to build better relationships with the industry, reports  Adweek.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/econsultancy.com\/uk\/blog\/8584-mapping-the-social-media-landscape-for-2011-infographic\" target=\"_blank\">Mapping the social media landscape for 2011: infographic<\/a> by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/vikkichowney\">@vikkichowney<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/econsultancy.com\/uk\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Econsultancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all know how popular (and often overhyped) social media has become over the past few years, but it&#8217;s always good to remind ourselves of its true size with the latest statistics and figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wallblog.co.uk\/2012\/01\/04\/huffington-post-plans-to-launch-ten-international-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post plans to launch ten international sites<\/a> by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/gordonmacmillan\">@gordonmacmillan<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/wallblog.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">THE Wall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Huffington Post is looking to double its audience within the next  two years as it seeks to form partnerships with struggling newspapers,  according to a report in the FT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themediabriefing.com\/article\/2012-01-04\/why-news-media-businesses-need-to-understand-how-shopping-is-going-digital\" target=\"_blank\">Why media businesses need to understand how shopping is going digital<\/a> by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/psmith\">@psmith<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themediabriefing.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Media Briefing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If traditional content publishing is a cathedral, shopping is something  close to being its high priest. Journalists won\u2019t like to admit it, but  as well as playing a crucial role in informing the public and  campaigning on vital issues (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2081905\/Stephen-Lawrence-trial-Killers-Gary-Dobson-David-Norris-role-free-Press.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\">this week\u2019s events<\/a> have demonstrated) the media\u2019s <em>other<\/em> key role is <strong>to tell people on what to buy<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nma.co.uk\/opinion\/brands-must-get-ready-for-the-connected-tv-world\/3033055.article\" target=\"_blank\">Brands must get ready for the connected TV world<\/a> by\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Jessdaviesmk\">@Jessdaviesmk<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nma.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Media Age<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next week all eyes will be on the Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics  Show (CES) &#8211; the world\u2019s largest consumer technology conference. This  annual event helps catapult products like connected TVs into the  mainstream.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back and hope you all had a splendid holiday! Here is this week&#8217;s comms round up curated from @CisionUK. New Facebook ad awards will recognise &#8216;best Facebook marketing&#8217; via\u00a0@thedrum The Drum &#8220;Facebook has announced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5741],"tags":[3242,3259,3293,3433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}