Politician of the Week

01.06.12 Posted in Blog by openroad

With the turning of the New Year comes a new chapter in our ever popular Politician of the Week. This week we award this illustrious title to non-other than Lord Glasman. The Labour peer and architect of “Blue Labour” managed to land a knife directly between Ed Miliband’s shoulder blades by declaring that the beleaguered [...]


Case Study: Vevo

01.06.12 Posted in Our Clients by openroad

See the music

Task: VEVO is the world’s leading, all-premium music video and entertainment platform. In 2011 the company opened a UK office and hired Open Road to handle its PR.


Brave new world

12.14.11 Posted in Blog by openroad

It was to be the new revolution.  With the arrival of the Internet, we were promised that technology would change the way we worked.  We were promised that flexible working, home working and greater autonomy would be our’s.  We were promised an end to ‘core hours’, unnecessary ‘face time’ and needless hours of travel.  But [...]


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Open Road!

12.12.11 Posted in Blog by openroad

For this year’s Christmas card, we’ve put together a time lapse which will reveal a special Christmas message from the team. Each view of the viral triggers a £1 donation to our chosen charity for this year Bowel Cancer UK, up to a maximum of £1000. So if you like it, please do forward it [...]


Protected species

12.07.11 Posted in Blog by openroad

Christmas cards can be many things in the eye of the beholder: proud / boastful, friendly / guilt-ridden, low-key / lazy. That ambiguity applies in triple strength for politicians, whose every move we scrutinise to confirm our worst suspicions. So what a wonderful surprise to discover that some of them really do have a sense [...]