I Don’t Like Mondays – Recession 2008 PR Industry Remix
I was talking to one of our team the other day about music and the Boomtown Rats classic song from 1979 came up. The scary thing was the person concerned had never heard of it. I played her the song –...
View ArticleProfitability of the PRWeek Top150: Scope for improvement?
I thought it was about time I turned my attention back to some good old analysis of numbers. With all the talk about the prospects for 2009 and following on from my analysis of the PRWeek Top 150 I...
View ArticlePRWeek Top 150 2009 Analysis – Who is best placed for 2009?
Following my recent podcast for PRWeek on this years Top 150 (note requires subscription) I promised some detail on my findings. Since then there has been some debate about the worth of the table...
View ArticlePR Industry beating the market in 2009 and then some
I helped PRWeek pull together some analysis last week of the results of the PR elements of some key Marcoms groups. The results can be seen in the graph below (you will need to access the original file...
View ArticlePR Week Top 150 2010 – 0.75 per cent up or 10 per cent down?
PR Week published its 2010 league table of the Top 150 PR agencies in the UK last week. The main headline was that overall the agency market was estimated to have grown by 0.75 per cent during 2009. As...
View ArticleUK PR Agency/Freelance market £2bn according to PRWeek/PRCA Census
PRWeek and the PRCA announced the results of their PR Census a few weeks ago now. One of the key headline numbers was their estimated turnover of the UK PR Industry – £7.5bn. I wanted to clarify how...
View ArticleWPP will still be No.1 in UK PR market post Publicis Omnicom merger implies...
As pretty much anyone in the Marcoms world must know by now, yesterday Omnicom and Publicis, the 2nd and 3rd largest groups, announced they are seeking to merge. The merger will create a combined group...
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