All articles by Titania Touché – Page 7
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Comment and Opinion
Commercial suicide and the Jubilee bandwagon
As we gather round the kettle (no water cooler comforts here at P&F), opinion is divided on Pepsi’s decision to put Michael Jackson back on its cans.
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Comment and Opinion
Everyday stooges and the Clairol Clause
One hundred days to go and, inspired by some marketing genius at Florette
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Comment and Opinion
Smoke, mirrors and a fleet of dead tractors
Whisper this, because it may undermine our sweet-natured, pure and wholesome image, but almost all PR girls smoke.
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Comment and Opinion
Oxfam food, vampires and sausage theft
One of our clients is so excited by the news that Oxfam is to sell more food products that they asked me to do a series of store visits as research. Puh-leese.
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Comment and Opinion
Olympic feats of boozing and chutzpah
Here in London’s busy West End, thoughts are turning to the Olympics and how an agency like P&F, held together with string, booze and chutzpah at the best of times, will cope with three weeks of utter disruption.
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Comment and Opinion
Trust me. We've never been to a Harvester before
When I was a girl there was an ad on TV that began “Have you ever been to a Harvester before?”. The response from mummy was always “Good God, no!”
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Comment and Opinion
George's bonfire and a GM whopper
There’s a lot to be said for only telling half a story.
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Comment and Opinion
Limp salads and fallen idols
As illustrations of how far our sporting heroes can fall, I give you not George Best or even Dereck Chisora, but Olympic medallists Colin Jackson, Sally Gunnell and Roger Black.
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Comment and Opinion
Putting Liverpool on the chavmap
If you hadn’t heard of Armand de Brignac or Ace of Spades Champagne before, then this week’s PR coup, the supposed £200,000 bar tab in Liverpool, has put the brand firmly on the chavmap.
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Comment and Opinion
Are you a Walsh or a Moody?
Walsh or Moody? Our annual reviews are approaching and Karoline
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Comment and Opinion
Twitter teens trending towards the super-strength
Ever heard of displacement marketing? It’s when you make one of your products so unattractive shoppers have no choice but to trade up to something else.
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Comment and Opinion
It's tough up north (of Camden)
So all the shops up North are now empty (and not just Ugo, apparently). I wouldn’t know, as PR girls are temperamentally unsuited to travel north of Camden.
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Comment and Opinion
Kraft falls for an early April Fool
We have, as has every PR agency, been working on our April Fool’s stories. A rare opportunity to…
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Comment and Opinion
Nobs, knobs and Tesco envy
Tesco-envy is about to sweep the land faster than an Ocado finance director leaping from a speeding delivery van.
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Comment and Opinion
Fictional festivals and supreme self-confidence
When we invented Blue Monday it was supposed to grow, just like other fictitious events such as Fathers’ Day and Easter, into a vast money-making scheme for retailers.
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Comment and Opinion
Floppy haircuts and paradigm shifts
Morrisons must have a proper PR agency working for them (serious boys in suits, floppy haircuts, directors that talk about paradigm shifts).
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Comment and Opinion
Rip-offs, reindeers and a drunken snog
As the retail trade wades into the festive season, we here at P&F are pondering the most important event of the year: The Party.
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Comment and Opinion
Laboutins and stinky boy cover
Some good news in the midst of the recessionary gloom at P&F. I have been promoted from account manager to senior account manager.
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Comment and Opinion
PR prisons and Olympic transgressions
News that a vast temporary prison is to be set up in London during the Olympics has sent shivers down the spines of marketing folk.
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Comment and Opinion
Tales of Titania: Free ballpoints and blank-eyed bimbettes
Oh Mein Gott. Haben sie been to Anuga? It's enormous (don't know the German for that. Never had to use it with any Germans I've met). In fact, I don't know very much German at all. But that's not what it says on my CV, which Karoline (with a K)...