Author Archives: Emma Brown

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Oscars PR stunt

Media stunts are very much hit or miss. With the reaction to Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest stunt being very much divided, here are two opposing views.   For Austin it was a hit  Sacha Baron Cohen’s PR perfection at the Oscars saw his upcoming film ‘The Dictator’ promoted in every major news outlet across the world. [...]

Self-disclosure on social media: what happened when Firefly turned matchmaker and what does it mean for your brand?

Last Tuesday – more commonly known as Valentine’s Day – Firefly conducted what we believe to have been a first for the industry: social media matchmaking. Teaming up with our friends at PR Moment, we invited fellow PR and comms professionals to participate by tweeting us with “why they love working in PR”, using the [...]

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Good PR habits to commit to in 2012

There’s something satisfyingly symbolic about a new year: a fresh start; a blank page on which to inscribe a long list of self-improving rules and resolutions. Whether giving up chocolate or alcohol, or swapping lie-ins for 6am workouts, it seems no one is free from the ‘new year, new you’ mantra that takes hold each [...]

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