In October, we celebrated two remarkable workplace anniversaries! Pauline celebrated her 10th year here at McOnie… and Carolyn celebrated her 15th! We sat with both to glean more about their time here at the agency, their standout moments and what…
The Future Hamburg Award is a new international startup award presented by the City of Hamburg. Innovative founders can submit their entry on www.future.hamburg/award in just five minutes and win an individual “Start me up in Hamburg” package. The tailor-made package offers…
Luxembourg’s Agency for the development of the financial center, LFF, requested a campaign proposal to promote its six lines of business: Finance, Banking, Sustainable Finance, Asset Management, Fintech and Insurance. Dedicated to these themes and revolving around the phrase “Futuring”,…
After another successful year of client wins and PR award short-listings, B2B communications agency McOnie is adding to its long list of accolades by extending its team of experienced PR professionals by hiring Director (client-team) Zara Lintin. With almost 20 years’ experience working…
Luxembourg’s Institute of Science and Technology sought to better present its activities to a broader public, while positioning itself as a key actor in the sector of research and innovation in Luxembourg, fuelling positive impacts on our future. binsfeld engineered…
IPRN will be another time part of the Impulse Committee of CIBECOM’2019 after having reached a new collaboration agreement with Fundacom, the foundation for the promotion of communication in Latinamerica. CIBECOM’2019, that brings together professional leaders of institutional, PR and…
Public Dialog, our partner from Poland, was won the first ever Grand Prix in an international PR contest. The campaign “Ibis, music lives here” occurred to be the best from final group of gold’s awards. Public Dialog has been awarded…
The Luxembourg’s investment fund industry association ALFI wanted to dedicate its 30th anniversary celebrations – a special session being scheduled at the end of its annual Global Distribution Conference in late September – to the issue of financial education in…
The IPRN European Meeting 2018 was held in Luxembourg with the highest member’ attendance ever, several new and happy faces and a very good agenda organized by our partner Binsfeld, thanks to Philippe Beck, Heike Fries and Claude Sauber, that…
“In a study conducted by the platform Babbler, it emerges working methods opposed between journalists and press officers, especially in the use of mass emails. Personalize the exchanges with the journalists and the opinion leaders is, for a long time,…
Countries, like individuals and companies, have a reputation and this is generated from the perceptions that different interest groups and the international community have about a particular country. This year the Reputation Institute presented its 2018 Country RepTrak® report to…
On the eve of its 40th anniversary, which will be celebrated in 2019, binsfeld is pleased to announce that four collaborators have joined its executive board. This decision illustrates binsfeld’s commitment to building relevant expertise into the management of its…
Passerelles agency has started cooperation with the Region of New Aquitaine for the media coverage of the first edition 48h Nature. Moreover, the agency has been selected by Bordeaux Congress and Exhibitions for the media relations management of the Vinitech-Sifel…
L45, agency specialized in on and off-line institutional relations, have realized a survey on how the italian financial and economic journalists use internet and social media for their job. They decided phone called 205 journalists with those who work daily,…
At this year’s IPRN Annual Meeting in Beijing, Jörg Pfannenberg, founder of JP│KOM, delivered useful insights into modern agency management. A major theme was how can mid-size, management-owned agencies create value for their stakeholders, while gaining a competitive edge, in…
Stratego celebrates 20 years building the reputation of local and international companies based in Panama, allowing us to grow in a sustained manner, developing stable and lasting relationships, providing solutions and strategic thinking, sharing experiences and knowledge, but of above…
Like all things in communications, thinking about your audience – their wants, needs, interests – is vital in creating a great strategy with impact that will generate good results. Social media marketing is no different as a form of online…
In a world where the masculine gender invades almost every aspect of life, there are increasingly feminist traits that support women’s visibility. This occurs not only in the family or professional sphere, but also in health, and in particular in…
Should senior executives take a public position on world affairs and political issues, like the CEOs of German Blue Chips Siemens, Daimler, Telekom, Trumpf and Evonik have recently? 5,000 people across Germany were asked this question as part of a…
PR Partner signed a contract for PR support of the Austrian health center “Verba Mayr”, a clinic that provides therapeutic, fitness- and SPA-programs. The agency’s specialists will provide a range of services for the PR-service contract, including preparation and dissemination…
Blockchain is the ultimate technology called to revolutionize the communications field. Digital identity could become the business keys for the future. But how? Blockchain technology has come to stay and its already changing many sectors by leaps and bounds. Blockchain…
A guide to China’s unique social media landscape In industrialized countries, social media use is mostly homogenous and dominated by a small set of platforms. Due to various social and political circumstances, China has developed its own distinctive social media…
Social media advertising, or influencer marketing: a popular and effective marketing tactic to reach a targeted audience and increase brand awareness. The plug So, “influencer marketing” is a trendy buzz word in communications, an approach that has skyrocketed in popularity over…
With the assistance of more than 400 professionals from all over Europe related to Corporate Communication, the “European Communication Summit” was held in Berlin, organized by the EACD, in which IPRN was present through our President, Luis González. Topics such…
Susanne Marell has made her decision: from 1 October 2018, she will be Managing Director at communications agency JP│KOM, which has offices in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main. In this role, she will be responsible for Human Resources and New…
Passerelles announces its association with Monet + Associates which take a minor part in its capital. Those French agencies, both members of IPRN, evolve with one another on the public relations market, a sector which is on a roll but…
Comunicación Iberoamericana, the agency specializing in tourism promotion will be the PR agency of Turkish Airlines in Spain, focusing on developing public relations strategies, reputation, press relations and actions aimed at the final consumer that increase the airline’s position within…
The annual conference of the International Public Relations Network (IPRN) announced the winners of the Project of the Year (POTY) competition, with the winners demonstrating 4 examples of outstanding PR work. The 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Public Relations…
When a petroleum and refinery company based in Seoul, Korea met the requirements for the first engine oil in Korea to meet API SN Plus standards, sharing the news around the globe was paramount. Increasingly stringent fuel economy and emissions…
It is a fact that the majority of people do not recognize, and are probably not interested to know who is the leader of a corporation, what is his vision and his trajectory. However, for some stakeholders knowing the reputation…
Clients are busy. Even as the work agencies do for them helps relieve that burden, it’s not always top of mind for clients to consider the question: “What sort of added value is my agency bringing?” But that doesn’t mean…
JP│KOM made a departure from conventional recruiting methods and tried out a more unusual way of finding new talent: they hosted a “speed dating” event for young professionals, in cooperation with the Berlin-based School for Communication and Management (SCM). On…
On the 14th of June the Sony Pictures Club evening meeting, organized by PR Patner event-division, was held. The event took place at the open summer verandah of the “Balkon” restaurant, which is on the 7th floor of Lotte Plaza.…
Crest Communications organised a series of celebrations of 20th anniversary of BB Centrum, the biggest administrative complex in the Czech Republic, for the real estate developer PASSERINVEST GROUP. On this occasion the founder and owner of the company, Mr. Radim…
AKHIA has launched its new brand and is now marketing itself as Akhia Communications. The Hudson-based agency has been in business for more than 20 years and has spent the last few years shifting its focus toward holistic communication consulting…
Anyone who has been working in PR over the last few years will have witnessed the dramatic increase of digital requirement from clients. Offering an integrated approach that includes both traditional PR tactics, supported by a digital marketing strategy is…
In early June 2018, the Luxembourgish Parliament adopted a landmark overhaul of its animal protection law. Among other things, the new law introduces notions of dignity and security, determines which animals may be kept and which might not, and strengthens…
The Boutique PR agency primo PR from Frankfurt am Main, focusing on tourism and hospitality, could recently win two new clients: Click&Boat and Lake Geneva. For Click&Boat, the European market leader in online boat rental, primo PR will concentrate on…
The specialized agency of PR, marketing and touristic promotion, Comunicación Iberoamericana, has won the tender and will be responsible for developing the communication strategy and creation and supply of contents for the communication department of Turismo y Planificación Costa de…
Four public relations agencies were awarded top honors for public relations campaigns conducted in their countries. The IPRN “Project of the Year” competition in Beijing, China, last month was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Public…
The 23th Annual General Meeting of IPRN, organized this year by Chinese member Blue Focus, attracted many of the public relations CEOs, owners and senior practitioners of the IPRN agencies to discuss worldwide PR trends, best practices, learn about the…
PR Partner has started cooperation with four new clients: NGENIX, Newtrax, Mildford and Barkli corporation. NGENIX company is a Russian cloud services provider for protecting and accelerating web resources. PR Partner team will be engaged in PR promotion of the…
Redwood Consulting, the communications, media and public affairs consultancy specialising in UK and international real estate and the built environment, celebrated its 25th birthday recently at the Rumpus Room in the Mondrian Hotel, London. Naturally, the combination of a warm…
The McOnie team have had an exceedingly positive start to the year. In just four months the team have been successful in achieving some major client wins that will help the agency achieve its business growth ambitions for 2018. Life…
Speed isn’t always something to boast about (just ask Keanu Reeves), but in the digital sphere it most certainly is. In July this year, Google will be rolling out an update that will see page speed become a ranking factor…
Comunicación Iberoamericana, the international communication consultant, has won the accounts to manage the communication and marketing of tourism of Quito (Ecuador) and Valladolid (Spain). Comunicación Iberoamericana will implement the communication and marketing plan of Quito in the Spanish, German and…
The World Public Relations Forum has become the main PR event of the industry, combining a high level group of academic and practitioner leaders from all over the world. Organized this year by the Norwegian Association of Communication, under the…
With the ongoing investigation into the ethical use of Facebook users’ data, it has been revealed that Facebook data of up to 87 million people- 37 million more than previously reported- may have been unethically shared with British political consulting…
Central de Informação is one of the four finalists of the 2018 SABRE Awards EMEA, in the category “Industry Sectors – Transportation and Logistics”, with project We Rock Fest, that we developed last year as a way to celebrate the…
Hamburg-based content agency Schwan Communications, who won last year’s POTY Award with their audience-building campaign “MusikImPuls” for the Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, started into 2018 with four new clients. Their sectors could not have been more diverse: “Projekt Nachhaltigkeit” is an…