January 2010
8 posts
PR by Debenhams
There was some really fun PR today by clothing retailer, Debenhams - a nice, quick story that got heaps of coverage. To summarise, the brand revealed research results, which showed that the height of a man’s waistline is directly linked to his age and where he is in his life - a nice, quick story that got heaps of coverage including pieces in The Telegraph, The Metro, and The Guardian.
More PR I love, and this time it's by KFC
Ok, so I’m a bit behind with this, but since I’m treating this blog as my scrapbook, I couldn’t let it be without one of my FAVOURITE PR stunts from last year.
In order to publicise their new grilled menu range, KFC began a “lobbying” campaign directed at the UN for the fictional Grilled Nation to be accepted as a member state - the best part of which saw an actor posing as Colonel Sanders...
Completely brazen PR story from...
Saw some great PR today from beautifulpeople.com and wanted to share/keep a record of it.
In short, beautifulpeople.com is a dating website where only the prettiest people are allowed to roam. Today it released a story claiming that due to Christmas weight, over 5,000 members were deemed too unnattractive for the site and therefore dropped. The icing on the cake was the following quote from...
25 UK PR recruiters and other helpful people to...
Useful PR job search info from Dan Howe
danhowe:
I was cleaning up my Twitter the other night, and noticed all the job search people I was following from back when I was looking for work.
They came in handy for me, so I thought I’d pull them together in a list for anyone out there who’s looking for a job.
The full list can be found here on TweepML. With TweepML you can follow them all really...
