The metaverse is coming. B2B marketers should start taking notes…

As soon as Mark Zuckerberg renamed his Facebook empire Meta, we all knew instinctively that the Metaverse was going to become part of our lives, with expansion forecasted at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 48%...

How B2B companies can own the News narrative

We’ve discussed News as Entertainment and News as a Narrative, all illustrated by the Main Stream Media and its obsession with readership and clickbait in the brave new world of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok – they keep on coming...

PR blunders of 2016

Here at IBA we always try to learn from not just our own but others past mistakes. Here, Jon Brown at IBA decided to have a quick look at some memorable PR disasters of 2016 – and what we learned…

News: Fake It ‘til You Make It?

Fake news has been making the news recently – most notably with Facebook fielding criticism that it played a role in disseminating fake news around the US election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined steps last month to combat fake news…

The rise of robo-PR?

'Smart' is the new normal across a host of industries at the minute, artificial intelligence and smart cities are becoming a reality and smart devices are taking the consumer world by storm. Could PR be another industry set to witness…

Take a lesson from Pokémon Go – bring PR campaigns to virtual life

Like everyone else, I'm sure you haven't missed the news of Pokémon Go taking the world by storm, combining augmented reality with your everyday smart phone. Children, adults, the IBA editorial team – everyone's wandering around outside with their eyes…