Category: Industry News

CAP – Weight-loss and detoxing: Cut out the bad stuff and ensure a balanced diet of responsibility and evidence

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: CAP – Weight-loss and detoxing: Cut out the bad stuff and ensure a balanced diet of responsibility and evidence. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Hot on the heels of Christmas festivities, comes the New Year and renewed commitments to a moderate lifestyle. Marketers keen to promote weight-loss products and regimes should take care to…

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CIPR 2022 Excellence Awards launched and open for entries

Stuart Mitchell

Entries have opened for the 2022 CIPR Excellence Awards – the PR industry’s most prestigious celebration of creativity and best practice from across the world. Now in their 38th year, the CIPR’s flagship Excellence Awards celebrate the very best individuals, teams, and campaigns over the last year. There are 32 categories to enter including the new ‘Best Podcast Award’ category. The dates to enter the Excellence Awards 2021 are: 8 February – Earlybird entries close 22 February – Standard entries close 1 March – Final entries close 31 March – Shortlist announcement…

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Make Ethnicity Pay Gap Top Priority – PRCA REEB

Stuart Mitchell

  The PRCA’s Race and Ethnicity Equity Board (REEB) recently called for PR and communications organisations to disclose their ethnicity pay gaps ahead of the UK’s Ethnicity Pay Gap Day on 8th January. The push comes as figures in the 2021 PRCA UK PR Census reveal the industry’s ethnicity gap as £8,084.50 (or 16%). Organisations looking to track and act on ethnicity pay gaps are encouraged to use PRCA REEB’s free and comprehensive Ethnicity Pay Gap Guide. The guide features advice on how to overcome challenges in ethnic pay reporting, including how to…

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CAP: On the road again: travel marketing and COVID-19

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: On the road again: travel marketing and COVID-19. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. Non-essential travel may now be possible, both within the UK and, subject to government restrictions, further afield.  But before travel marketing campaigns take off again, it’s important to make sure that they are compliant with the rules. Whether you are advertising…

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CAP – Stay up to data: four key tips on using personal data for marketing

Stuart Mitchell

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Stay up to data: four key tips on using personal data for marketing. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January, the date on which the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, known as…

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