The resourcefulness of the tobacco giants in the 1900’s and their alacrity to find new audiences is sometimes astounding. In order to influence women in the pleasures of the tobacco leaf, way back at the turn of the 20th century, the large tobacco companies actually targeted the suffragette movement, encouraging them to smoke in public,…
These days it’s common place to see wags in provocative clothing, short skirts and low cut tops. They are just various no names who try to attract attention by means of their dress, and whose ends are usually as an MTV reality TV host. In 1922, an English publicist St. John Morton was involved in…
Chelsea’s heroic win to get through to The Champions League final was fantastic to watch last night. The usual post match PR obligation however, proved yet again that Avram Grant fails to deliver to the media. His lack of charisma and inability to project his personality or provide incisive sound bites will create further speculation…
Out of the 14.080 adverts which drew complaints last year, the official government anti smoking campaign, showing a woman with a fish hook through her cheek, provoked the most anger. Over the last few years there has been a growth in the amount of complaints that the Advertising Standards Authority has received, particularly for commercials…
Good old Trinny and Susannah kick off a new TV series with a great old fashioned publicity stunt. Having spent years telling everyone else to strip off, now the two fashionistas have put their money where their mouth is and gone naked in the Sussex countryside. They persuaded hundreds of people to go with them…
The rather good – AccessInterviews has noted that my Sunday Times A Day in The Life interview is up on Times Online
For a second there, I thought the Mark Warner brand was plummeting to a certain death. News at lunch time was rife with comments that Kate McCann, in a forthcoming TV documentary, was suggesting that the absence of a child monitoring service on Mark Warner holidays was to blame for Maddie’s disappearance. So far the…
Why oh why is MTV associating itself with zzzzz list celebrities once again. Stand by for another desperate attempt by MTV to try and sell its pitiful content. It’s as subtle as getting a tan with a blow torch. The latest scam is a mildly amusing viral campaign for the skanky UK Big Brother series…
Shock tactics and lateral thinking make the “Miss Landmine” contest, dismissed by some as a “freak show”, the most interesting way to make the world aware of landmines again, since the death of Diana. The contest, created by a Norwegian film director, Morten Traavik, was inspired by the plight of landmine victims in Angola. There…
I loved the Orangutan protest covered in today’s Daily Mail. Environmentalists dressed in Orangutan costumes and besieged the London headquarters of Unilever, the giant household products conglomerate. At the same time, its offices in Rotterdam and Rome and a factory in Merseyside were targeted. According to a Greenpeace report, Burning Up Borneo is accusing Unilever…