Cision Completes Acquisition of PR Newswire

Expanded capabilities include the industry’s largest content distribution network, influencer outreach, best media monitoring and analytics. Cision is proud to announce that our acquisition of PR Newswire is complete. We’re excited to bring new, global opportunities to clients through expanded PR, IR, social, content and multimedia distribution, meaningful metrics, and soon, single-platform integration. Our investments […]

Gorkana wins seven AMEC Awards at the 2016 AMEC Summit

Gorkana, the UK’s leading provider of media intelligence services won seven AMEC Awards at the ceremony last night which marked the end of the annual two-day AMEC Summit. Awards included a platinum for the Most effective media intelligence research and insights company for the work we did with NHS Blood and Transplant, this prize was […]

Gorkana nominated for 13 AMEC Awards

Gorkana is proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for a record-breaking 13 awards at the 2016 AMEC awards ceremony taking place in London, on June 16. The awards ceremony is part of AMEC’s annual summit which takes place on 15 – 16 June with the theme: ‘Making metrics matter – taking measurement mainstream’. During the two days, […]

Make tea, not war!

On Thursday, HBO released a 40 second spot for season 6 of Game Of Thrones which will debut in April. The teaser, featuring Jon Snow whose fate remains unknown, reignited the rumours that he might be alive. Game of Thrones enthusiasts have long suspected and hoped that Snow’s death at the end of season 5 was not meant […]

Word of the year, Lego and an all new Google+

The Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year 2015 is not actually a word. Instead, for the first time ever, a pictograph has been given the honour. The emoji ‘face with tears of joy’ took the top spot this year, beating competition from words like ‘Brexit’, ‘ad blocker’ and ‘lumbersexual’. Research by Oxford University Press and Swiftkey showed that ‘face with tears […]

Happy Birthday Instagram!

This week, Facebook unveiled ‘Reactions’, a new tool that will allow users to go beyond the Like button and use emojis to express their emotional responses. Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox has described Reactions as “a more expressive Like button”, with initial pilots taking place in Ireland and Spain. Reactions looks like an exciting addition to Facebook and […]