All articles by Titania Touché – Page 6
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Comment and Opinion
Marco's stock pots make P&F proud, cocktail cock-up doesn't
Marco Pierre White has lumbered back onto our screens to promote Knorr Stock Pots…
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Comment and Opinion
Inexplicable PR success at Aldi, as Crispello causes confusion
With the German balance of payments depending entirely on Aldi exports, a lot is riding on your next purchase of gesalzen gemischten Nüssen…
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Comment and Opinion
Plebs, badgers and smoking rules
“My God, what are we going to call them if we can’t call them plebs?” exclaims Karoline (with a K) during our Monday morning meeting…
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Comment and Opinion
Puff & Fluff PR fails to make the MAP Awards shortlist
Well, the posh frocks can stay in the wardrobe for another year…
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Comment and Opinion
Wine stroke panic, coffee conspiracy and PR effectiveness
The announcement that three glasses of wine a day increases the risk of a stroke is the kind of shock…
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Comment and Opinion
The PR world's gone mad, worries Karoline (with a K)
Karoline (with a K) is slumped on her office desk and sobbing when I enter, two near-empty bottles of Campari on the floor…
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Comment and Opinion
Health claims, super Marmite and gullible clients
PR’s ability to operate outside the tiresome strictures of EU health claims regulation lends a…
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Comment and Opinion
Tales of Titania: Be very afraid, Ecuador
Very occasionally we’re treated to an agency ‘bonding’ dinner in a vain effort to meld us into a cohesive…
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Comment and Opinion
Titania: chocolate propaganda and Triclosan trials
Chocolate propagandists have been in overdrive this week, pumping out dodgy PR designed to cast a…
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Comment and Opinion
ROI for Britain's swingball kings
The media will shortly be thick with chatter about return on investment. How many swingball and knitting medals did we get?
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Comment and Opinion
Tales of Titania: Sunshine, Stacey Solomon and pizza love
I’m blissed out on sunshine. Not, alas, in a strappy-sundress-lying-down-in-the-park sort of way.
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Comment and Opinion
Tales of Titania: Olympics silly season and survey fever
The pre-Olympics silly season is upon us, meaning that lame PRs who haven’t got any real news to punt at the media…
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Comment and Opinion
Bribery, booze and Sugar Puff living
Ask the pretty young PR exec what she’s doing as she gazes adoringly into the eyes…
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Comment and Opinion
Strawberry overload and co-operative communists
If you’ve visited a supermarket in the past couple of weeks you’ll know that there isn’t a strawberry to be had in the land… not.
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Comment and Opinion
Tales of Titania at Puff & Fluff PR
The mighty have fallen quite a long way it seems.
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Comment and Opinion
Milky desserts, Porkinson's demise and ale for the ladies
Our campaign to restore milk-based desserts to their rightful place on the nation’s tables…
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Comment and Opinion
Marketing jargon, Spots v Stripes and Aldi's ranging plan
Some bits of PR and marketing jargon are meaningless, ‘ROI’ and ‘client focused agency’, for example. Others are redolent with power.
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Comment and Opinion
Jubilee war stories
Having been forced outside by the drivel that was It’s A Royal Cock-Up on the BBC, I am able to swap Jubilee war stories…
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Comment and Opinion
Mangoes, M&S and salmon for £2
Themed days, weeks, fortnights and months are the last refuge of the PR puff-artist who has run out of ideas - so there are lots of them about.
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Comment and Opinion
Titania: Clinton Cards and the Scottish invasion
Things in Britain may be looking up. Not for the economy, of course, but there is, at last, the faintest glimmer of enlightenment at the end of a very long tunnel of bad taste.