Evaluating the ROI of B2B Public Relations and Analyst Relations
In recent years B2B marketers seem increasingly caught up in the hullabaloo and hype surrounding e-marketing and social media – nowadays everyone’s captivated by rich new data reporting on SEO rankings, blog re-tweets, and which pages or content downloads most turn...
Attached or Detached Journalism – should we care?
For many of us in Public Relations, the study of journalism, whether professionally, by osmosis in the job, or just by casual observation, is something that most of us will admit to finding of interest and relevance. Therefore when watching the news on TV, or reading...
Why Pearson was wrong to sell the FT
In the world of newspapers and news media, there are some brands that are iconic, and some that are iconic for a reason. Sometimes the two can be mutually exclusive, for example, Warner Brothers made its name in the Twentieth Century with legendary films such as...
Have PR firms really come of age?
Working in B2B PR we often find ourselves sandwiched between the serious and demanding needs of our blue-chip clients and the somewhat fluffy, youthful and flaky reputation certain parts of our industry seems to enjoy promoting, and which we, as a PR firm, are by...
What is the future of editorial content – paid or earned – and what are the implications of this?
– by James Cooper, Ascendant Communications Recently a few items have come together to prompt a blog on this topic. Firstly, we were helping a client select a PR firm in Benelux and, as a PR guy being ‘sold to’ by other PR people, I was quite shocked at the way that paid content was […]
James Cooper live
Ascendant’s Managing Director, James Cooper, speaking at a recent Energy event in London, hosted by Power Efficiency, about the importance of using PR to support corporate reputation in the area of environmental legislation. Format not supported
Podcast by Gillie Tennant
Listen to a podcast by Gillie Tennant from our team talking about best practices in European PR and how best to plan a program.