As we approach the festive season and endure the transition from the best UK summer in years to cold, wintry weather, we can happily report that the last few months have been a busy time for us. We’ve worked with a wide range of clients all requiring extensive and complex media campaigns and have successfully managed to juggle the demands, achieving outstanding results with … [Read more...]
Defending the indefensible
The 19th century American showman and circus owner Phineas T. Barnum is credited with inventing the saying 'There's no such thing as bad publicity'. A peerless self-promoter, Barnum operated in a time when telegrams were at the cutting edge of communication - and reputation destroying gaffes were rarely made public. Fast forward to 2017 and a series of social media blunders by … [Read more...]
West is best!
Those of us in the Bath / Bristol area know it’s a great place to live and work – so it’s always pleasing to see our views backed up by sound research. It’s been awhile now since we posted a blog about the Bath and Bristol area being the fastest growing tech sector in the UK – and having seen the recent analysis in Tech Nation 2017, we thought it timely to write about how all … [Read more...]
Flying into a PR storm
It’s a pity that JetSmarter chose to ignore the saying “not all publicly is good publicity” – otherwise it would’ve steered a very different course and avoided a horrific PR own goal. Up until now the start-up had often been described as the ‘Uber for private jets’ … how it was reinventing private air travel (for those lucky enough to afford it). But last week JetSmarter’s … [Read more...]
Apple vs. FBI – the iPhone fight
You know it’s a big story when the likes of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Cisco and Apple forget their differences and become brothers in arms. In a rare showing of Silicon Valley unity, the tech giants have joined the campaign to fight a judge’s order to help unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook, the San Bernardino gunman. It’s the US judicial system pitted against the … [Read more...]
Silicon Gorge On The Rise
Bristol and Bath have always been well known for innovation, creativity and engineering across a wide range of industries but over the past few years our area of the country has become the fastest growing high tech sector in the UK. In fact in the last week it has been labelled as the most productive tech cluster in the country with £296,340 of sales per worker – way ahead of … [Read more...]