Francis Ingham, Chief Executive, ICCO The year 2019 may well be remembered as the one when PR rediscovered its Cannes mojo. Let’s be candid. The last few years have been years of disappointment for the PR industry at Cannes. The number of wins has been low. The ratio of PR firms entering compared with advertising […]
On Thursday 6th June, ICCO European members gathered in Rome, with the theme of combating misinformation running throughout the day culminating in an open debate. PR association leaders from fifteen countries were represented and have all agreed to work collaboratively on tackling this issue through affiliations with international institutions, journalism bodies and lawmakers. More detail […]
Jon Meakin – Chair, AMEC Agency Group, and Global Head of Strategic Services, Grayling PR agency people are a strange breed – and I say that as a longstanding member of that tribe myself. We are full of contradictions: Fiercely competitive with one another, and with rival agencies, but at the same time extremely fickle, […]
Elise Mitchell, ICCO President provides a round up of all the newly latest member benefits, projects and events for 2019! Highlights include *NEW* ICCO Resource Library Launch – here *Biggest Ever* Cannes Lions #HouseofPR , June 17th -21st here *NEW* Agency Finder – coming soon! #PowerofEthics – September 2019 ICCO Global Summit, 9th -10th October […]
The first meeting of the ICCO Africa Group (IAG) took place on Monday 13th May 2019, ahead of the APRA Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The group comprised of representatives from national PR associations, institutes and societies across Africa with the purpose of discussing opportunities for collaboration, sharing of information, ideas and resources. The next aim […]
Don’t Cry Wolf have become the first ever start up agency to be a platinum sponsor of ICCO’s House of PR at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. They join WE Communications and FlieshmanHillard as the first three to confirm for the 2019 festival. Francis Ingham, Chief Executive, ICCO said “For the past five years, […]