As Jamie Carragher is now painfully aware – ‘Believe in better’ is Sky’s slogan. It has served them well, especially with the creation of the best punditry partnership on TV, Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville. The former foes, legends for their rival clubs, Liverpool and Manchester United respectively, have forged a fantastic partnership based on …
A guest blog from our consumer PR expert Lucy Capaldo on this PR crisis. It started badly, trailed off in the middle and the less that can be said about the end… This week United Airlines has been globally vilified after aviation police officials violently removed a man from a plane at Chicago O’Hare international airport …
Here’s a lazy comment that comes up in casual conversation with alarming regularity… “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”. Really? That is perhaps the laziest and dangerous PR “advice” I’ve ever heard. Consider #PieGate – the story that muddied the “magic of the FA Cup” and derailed the wheels of good faith that had …
By now, you have probably heard about the latest celebrity email hack, this time of the beloved Becks. I’m a massive football fan and also a fan of David Beckham as a sportsman and role model but there is no doubt that this will raise more than a few Beckham-esque eyebrows amongst football fans and …
I have said previously that Rolls Royce needs to think about the way it comes across. A great company but sometimes a tad too slow to respond – notably in light of the Quantas (Trent 900) saga. I’ve been told that they are in a tricky balancing act here which is doubtless …
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Rolls Royce has seen around $1.5bn wiped off its stock market value since the dramatic failure of one of its engines aboard a Qantas A380 last week. See this video for a great outline from the BBC. And yet, the response from their PR team (if indeed it was them who responded) has been tardy …
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what the whole event has missed since the potential PR disaster first began to loom on the horizon was a clear communications strategy. Not until the 11th hour, with the intervention of chief minister Sheila Dikshit, has there been a “face” to clarify, cajole and explain the difficult situation.