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October 2016 in the Smoking Gun study

From our own CIPRs, to the Oscars in early 2017, the Christmas build up and of course the ever growing Halloween, there’s so much to get distracted about, unless you work at Manchester’s most dedicated ingenious PR firm. Always keeping our eyes on the ball for clients, the last four weeks have been no exception … Continued
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Innovative eats: The convenience food PR wars

October 2016 will be remembered as the month of food fights. Brexit chickens began coming home to roost as Unilever dealt a substantial blow to our hopes of not noticing the impending change to the passport queue, asking UK retailers to pay more for products. Tesco battled back, whilst last week Morrison’s passed that inflation … Continued
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The gig economy and companies without assets

News hit on Friday of a landmark court ruling here in the UK, meaning rideshare behemoth Uber will no longer be able to classify its drivers as self-employed. Instead they must be ‘employees’. One word difference, in reality this is a sign of impending upheaval. Until now, the taxi-alternative has been able to get away … Continued
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One for’t LADs – How banter became big news, in (almost) one click

Controversial, throwaway, outrageously successful, challenging, pointless, forward thinking… and, most of all, socially astute. The list of ways to describe rival websites LADBible and UNILAD could go on for much, much longer. The digital media giants, both based in our own hometown of Manchester, have been branded as everything from trashy to bigoted by critics, … Continued
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Rick's Rambles

Choose your spokespeople wisely, or face the consequences

Messages. Every firm on the face of the Earth has them, but without the right face to deliver, they might as well be preaching from the book of impending consumer obscurity. According to a report in the medical journal the Lancet, which last week went large in the mainstream media, GPs took part in a … Continued
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Blagger's Blog- Sociopathic bakers and Icelandic women

A weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “There’s something delightfully sociopathic about making a sausage roll look like a pig”
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Public Relations

Automotive PR: 5 road safety adverts to take note of 

Here at Smoking Gun heights we don’t just believe in coming up with fantastic, ingenious ideas to sell brands. We also believe in coming up with fantastic, ingenious ideas that have a positive impact. Hence us advising, and working with, so many companies on their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Even when not focussed on CSR we’re … Continued
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Blagger's Blog- Will Young smokes, Note7 explodes onto GTA

A weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “Smoking is strictly prohibited on Shell forecourts.”
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Drink PR

Food PR

Bagels at dawn: Food and drink PR stunts with real bite

Disclaimer – no bagels feature in the following post.
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Even social media experts are a bit surprised at Facebook Marketplace

With the vast majority of the English-speaking world busy trying to work out whether this is the most shocking, abusive, and astounding U.S. presidential campaign ever (answer= probably), it might surprise some to learn that politics isn’t the only topic from America worth discussing at the moment. Enter Mark Zuckerberg’s eBay, Etsy, and Craig’s List rival.
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The Blagger's Blog – Fracking PR fail, City Forest Park, Twitter drones

A weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “[Russians are] ridiculously good partiers.”
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The Blagger's Blog- All change at Auntie, Mario in Manc, RIP International NYTimes

A weekly roundup of media news, sans effort Quote of the week “Do we, the media, do enough today, to explain and explore? Or are we too busy moving on to the next thing, in thrall to the pace of news?”
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Rick's Rambles

Having cake and eating it are different things

Just when we thought 2016 couldn’t get any worse, the BBC proves why nobody should make final decisions whilst Mercury is in retrograde. Or at least that’s what two avid cake lovers told the world on Twitter. So Great British Bake Off, currently drawing audiences of 12million over on Auntie’s flagship TV station, has been … Continued
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