05.17.13 Posted in Blog, Media and PR, Open Road by Isobel Bradshaw
Those industrious wonks at Ofcom have been at it again. The new edition of the snappily-named ‘UK Audience Attitudes to the Broadcast Media’ emerged last week – both as a whopping report or in a bite sized deck…of 112 slides. So, what do these mounds of stats tell us? Well, we have become a bit [...]
05.02.13 Posted in Media and PR, Open Road by Isobel Bradshaw
Special guest blog from Open Road Associate, Simon Taylor Pandemics and bird flu are back in the news, and visits to Chinese poultry markets probably should be off the tourist trail for a while. However it does raise the question of corporate crisis preparedness, because whilst the risk to staff and executives directly may be [...]
03.28.13 Posted in Open Road by Granny Apples
I’m feeling very Eastery (yes it is a word) today, excited with the prospect of a long weekend eating chocolate. Also, this morning we all came into the office to find a little treat at our desks. Thank you Open Road Easter Bunny!
03.08.13 Posted in Blog, Media and PR, Open Road by Andy May
The Media Guardian has just published full tables for February’s ABC newspaper print circulation figures. Not many surprises here, more dire news for print titles unfortunately as the market for paper newspapers continues to contract. The Sun on Sunday has done particularly badly, sales have fallen 40% since launch. Alexander Lebedev is the one proprietor [...]
03.05.13 Posted in Blog, Digital, Open Road by Granny Apples
I heard about this last year, but apparently it is now closer to being a reality. Socialmatic has announced a branding deal with Polaroid for a camera that allows you to add filters in the style of Hipstamatic or Instagram. I’m a little obsessed with Instagram, so the ability to immediately print my (what I [...]