Pushing the boundaries on best practice

Awards and PR often seem to go hand in hand. Whilst there are ample opportunities to submit your best work for recognition amongst industry peers, I was particularly excited about this one! The PRCA MENA Awards held on February 8th was a first…

Winners-Large Consultancy of the Year

It was on April 1st 2010 that the journey of Seven Media began in the unlikely setting of a portacabin in Ras Al Khaimah. As co-founder Matt Slater and I stood in the prefabricated building (the makeshift headquarters of RAK Media City), signing…

Matrix PR’s first Red Carpet moment at the PRCA MENA awards 2017!

Napolean Bonaparte once said – “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” The inaugural PRCA Awards 2017 saw Matrix PR, one of the oldest agencies in the region, do just that. On a…

What a first awards…

The great and the good of the local public relations and communications industry descended on the H Hotel last week to celebrate and award the leading lights and most compelling campaigns of the past 12 months at the inaugural PRCA MENA Awards. The…

Winners of inaugural PRCA MENA Awards announced

The inaugural PRCA MENA Awards 2017 celebrated the very best individuals, teams, and campaigns from the PR and communications industry from across the Middle East and North Africa. Leading practitioners attended the awards at the H Hotel…

PRCA MENA announces Young Lions PR competition in partnership with Cannes Lions

PRCA MENA is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Cannes Lions for the second year running to be the Cannes Lions PR Partner for the Middle East and North Africa. The competition will see teams of two individuals aged 30 and under…

PRCA and PRWeek launch new tranche of Fast Track mentoring scheme

The PRCA and PRWeek is pleased to announce the latest tranche of the Fast Track mentoring scheme, which are aimed at inspiring the next generation of PR and communications leaders to follow in the footsteps of some industry legends. The Fast…

PRCA MENA Announces ‘17 for 17’: 17 recommendations for great communications in 2017

Silent Influencers 2017 will see the return and rise of silent influencers. A set of high net worth individuals or authorities, who among their peers, will be able to create far reaching awareness for your brand purely through word-of-mouth…

Five principles every ghostwriter needs to follow

By Claire Walker, CEO and founder, Firefly Communications You’ll be searching for a needle in a haystack if you want to identify any business executive who can make the time to write their own content (though, more often than not, the ideas…

17 for 2017: Changing media, changing the creative process, changing behaviours.

Whether you call it PR, communications, content services, whether you are a freelancer, boutique agency or multinational, the industry around us will change faster than ever before next year. We are seeing a unique dichotomy building within…