I am generally an early riser, and therefore a superior person.  My teenage son sleeps late into the day, a typically lazy Gen Z slacker. 

Facebook's announcement of changes to its traffic algorithms (the equations that determine what users see on their screens) to place...

Here's a really rather remarkable summary of a workshop exploring ways of producing better work through closer collaboration on planners...

A story going viral in the UK and beyond this morning: the safety pin as a symbol to resist racism, reportedly on the rise following last...

As chaos ensues around the UK referendum on EU membership, this blog has complied a wide range of posts and guidelines for communicating...

Most Americans and many Brits who've studied communications theory over the past three or four decades have encountered the seminal work...

Known best for its annual conference at the Swiss Alps resort town of Davos, the World Economic Forum is actually a prodigious content...

I haven't written much about the Cannes Lions festival this year - I wasn't there and only know what I've read from others.

But here's...

One of the hot topics at this year's marketing hullabalooza in Cannes is the use of virtual reality technology to give consumers a full...

Perhaps it's no surprise given the growth in autonomous planes, cars and every other mode of transport. But what is interesting is how...

Lovely story about a British grandmother's web search. 

Underlines nowadays, how we expect and demand every answer at our fingertips. 

In...

An ancient way of making wine from Roman times is being hailed at the summer drink. Made from leaving grape skins in for longer than...

Really interesting to see this study from the British Nutrition Foundation as it chimes with our proprietary research at Ketchum called...

Very happy to announce we've been asked to join the Rome 2024 bid team to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games to this magnificent city.

Unsurprisingly, leadership rears its head again in my ongoing quest for effective change in organisations.

Host leadership, from McKergow...

If it seems like you can't swing a cat without knocking a negroni cocktail out of someone's hand, it's because you can't.

They're...

Colleagues from the PR world share in the article below their predictions on which campaigns will bring home metal at this year's Cannes...

The appearance of Sports Direct supremo Mike Ashley, earlier this week, in front of the parliamentary Business, Innovation & Skills...

Over the course of the last five hours events have occurred (virtually simultaneously) that have left me questioning my own dependence on...

What, ice cream under threat from soaring vanilla prices? With the weather frankly over the past few days being the best we're going to...

So Amazon today launched Amazon Fresh across 69 postcodes in London. Promising to offer low prices and fast delivery, what's not to love?...

Here's an insight into human nature that really should find its way into one campaign or another: how we laugh around each other says a...

Here's a great campaign to encourage women to donate (some of) their hair for wigs for cancer patients - a new and very personal 'pink...

I've never though of myself as a feminist. I'm someone who believes in equality, and who works to ensure fairness regardless of sex,...

A large part of my quest for effective change in organisations focuses on leadership. Leaders clearly aren't the silver bullet but you...

Some years ago I was part of a crisis management team working for a pharmaceutical company facing the prospect of a product linked to...

Friend and US colleague Peter Fleischer is known to occasionally drop a swear-bomb into presentations and conversations - not to shock or...

PR Week has published its Global Power Book today (thanks for including me, guys) and will post observations and analyses from its survey...

Samsung's biopharma company Bioepis is focused on speeding up biosimilar drug development - aiming to be first or second to market for...

If you're a leader in global finance, your story needs to artfully demonstrate complete mastery of data, even as it changes by the second. 

The important stuff for marketing, media and PR. I've read it so you don't have to.You're welcome.#1 Three billion people online#2 Online...

My views on Brexit as shared with PRWeek.

If you make it to one PR conference this year, make it to England for the ICCO Oxford Global Summit, 29-30 September on the Oxford...

When it comes to selling sustainable products, research (see below) suggests that the rules are the same as for other goods: pick one...

A film that won't show for 99 years is already winning marketing competitions, giving it an early boost of momentum heading to the Cannes...

Interesting article highlighting the importance of women scientists and the barriers they may face when turning a degree course into a...

This is only a half-baked thought - better than a quarter-baked thought - but possibly not ready for public consumption.

Nonetheless, I'm...

In my quest to solve the puzzle effective behaviour change in organisations, I came across this interesting article about how brands are...

The PRCA, set up in 1969 to represent UK PR agencies, is asking the public whether it should consider changing its name.

Central questions...

Another Great British retailer has suffered at the hands of the Great British public. And why? Because it failed to modernise. It failed...