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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 17th September 2015

Quote of the week “Sh!t off you ham mannequin” @TechnicallyRon responding to David Cameron’s Tweet regarding the Labour Party now being a ‘threat to national security’, via Twitter. Weekly High This week ExCel London has been hosting the DSEi – AKA an international fair for the arms trade, where weapons and security deals are negotiated. … Continued
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Digital Marketing: Apple blocks ads, Google warns of apps

Digital marketing and public relations industry press has been alive with discussions surrounding news that Apple’s impending iOS9 – that’s the new operating system being launched for iPhones and iPads- will come with ad blocking software embedded. In many ways this has been a long time coming. Back in 2013 Forbes reported on a study … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog 11th September 2015

Quote of the week “By the time I was completely stoned, I felt utterly bereft.” Channel 4 news legend and all round media big gun Jon Snow, commenting on the time he tried, and did not enjoy, smoking cannabis. Weekly High On a lighter note than our last instalment, this week we’ve fallen in love … Continued
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Social Media

'Digital Britain' responds to refugee crisis on social media

You can’t move for stories on every possible media platform concerning the current situation in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. From right wing tabloids to lefty broadsheets, national radio stations to local news sites, it seems everyone has an opinion on what needs to be done. More so, everyone has an opinion on … Continued
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Finally! Use Facebook to advertise on Instagram in the UK!

It seems that Facebook has owned Instagram forever (three years is a long time in this day and age) and it’s come as a surprise to many that it’s taken this long for Instagram ads to be a viable option for all, rather than just for the biggest global brands with huge budgets. As an … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog 4th September 2015

Quote of the week “Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay – just for way less.” Entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, who owns the Nasty Girl vintage fashion store, which began on eBay. We thought it was appropriate given eBay turns 20 years young today. Happy Birthday eBay! Thanks … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog 28th August

Quote of the week “Naturally, what Labour fears is not Tory entryism, but the horror of infiltration by the sort of people Labour is supposed to represent.” Frankie Boyle, writing on the Labour leadership race for The Guardian newspaper. Weekly High Vuelio, Europe’s leading supplier of software that transforms the way organisations managed their stakeholder engagement- with … Continued
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August 2015 in the Smoking Gun study

What do you get if you cross a month that’s notoriously bad for new business, half an inbox full of out of office replies, and the UK’s most ingenious public relations team? How about more coverage than can possibly be read in four weeks, another client win, and a record number of approaches from firms … Continued
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How to deal with internet trolls and influence brand opinion

Journalists aren’t the only ones to suffer at the hands of online outrage from social media followers. Nevertheless, the example of Guardian columnist, Owen Jones, provides an ideal case in point. Over the course of two or three years, one of Jones’ internet trolls has been a guy called ‘George’. During this time, the scribe’s unofficial … Continued
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Toys, lube, rubber: Sex and marketing and the mainstream

The combination of media silly season and the Ashley Madison debacle means a lot of us have had the one thing none of us really like to talk openly about on the mind. Correction- on the mind more than usual. Sex is a strange cultural nuance. The majority of us over a certain age do … Continued
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PR must improve, with or without beards

Should the length of your beard correlate to the size of marketing spend allocated to you by your clients, or indeed your profit margin? I assume not but I’m sure there’s probably a spurious survey out there somewhere that would tell me the answer. The unarguable truth is that marketers are spending an ever increasing … Continued
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This year's X Factor twist…

The X Factor has revealed a series of twists for this year’s competition, letting the public vote on Twitter to help decide which category each judge will mentor. This is the first time the ITV talent show will be letting viewers vote via a hashtag, with the name of the judge then the category for … Continued
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The Blagger's Blog 21st August 2015

Quote of the week “You’re saying: ‘You don’t get what everybody else gets. You have to go shop up by the tyre section.” Melissa McCarthy commenting on plus-size sections in women’s clothes shops. Weekly High Controversial and elusive street artist Banksy has come up with what can only be described as Disneyland in a most twisted … Continued
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