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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 21st December 2012

The last media roundup of 2012 sees Facebook sell our memories, an American school m'am teach us about Christmas, and Wallace and Gromit Googling, of course.
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Vital statistics: UK media update

It has been a torrid time of late, from press standards to low advertising spend. But how bad is the truth behind those headlines?
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2012 in the Smoking Gun study

What a few weeks. Recent times here on Quay Street have seen award wins, nominations, and plenty of media coverage.
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Infographic: The Christmas Movie Flow Chart

‘Tis the season to be jolly and with less than a week till Christmas day we decided to use our usual infographic blog post to share this handy flow chart to help you pick which festive film to watch.   Thanks to lemon.ly for creating this infographic.
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A valuable acronym: SoLoMo

We all know about social and mobile media, but with the emphasis now falling on local too your business needs to adapt in order to remain competitive.
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Five PR and marketing predictions for the future

We asked leading media, marketing and social media experts for their thoughts on new trends. From the decline of Apple to social responsibility, here are their answers.
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The social media annual 2012

What was the most tweeted event of the year? Who is the most influential person on social media of all time? We reveal all.
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The Blagger's Blog

The Blagger's Blog 14th December 2012

Lidl's Twitter campaign goes viral, resulting in 10,000 Christmas dinners, a 50ft rubber duck sails the Thames, and Google avoids $2billion in global taxes.
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Introducing the Facebook glossary of terms

Page Organic Impressions, Post Consumers, Engaged Users... U.S. digital media pro Jon Loomer explains what Facebook Insights is really talking about.
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Rick's Rambles

Pointless PR pitches, time wasters, fishermen and snoopers.

A word to the wise: we have proof that sometimes in public relations there can be such a thing as a bad new business call.
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Infographic: The history of texting

Celebrating something of a media birthday the SMS is now 20 years young, and this PR agency has posted the graphic to prove it.
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An award winning Manchester public relations agency

Like any good PR firm we weren't going to let accolades stop us from doing our job properly, hence only just taking time to contemplate last week's CIPR success.
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The Blagger's Blog 30th November 2012

David Cameron and Leveson, Cyril Smith drags politics through the mud, dates for the diary, news predictions, oh, and Smoking Gun's weighty CIPR awards yield.
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