Posts Tagged ‘PR Stunt’

OH NO YOU DIDN’T! Part 2: Media Behaving Badly

This is Part Two of a two-part series entitled: OH NO YOU DIDN’T!, or stories of media and bloggers behaving badly told from the PR person’s perspective.

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Does Evil Knievel PR Really Work? An Analysis of Launching (and Flopping) at SXSW

  We’ve been following South By Southwest Interactive even closer this year, as we pulled together a panel for our client Recyclebank entitled“Can Gaming Make the World Better?” Of all of the media coverage coming out of the event, I found this piece from AdAge’s David Berkowitz particularly interesting, both for the article itself and [...]

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37Signals Satires Twitter Valuation: Why Didn’t I think of That?!

I tend to frown on PR stunts for the simple reason that 99 out of 100 typically fail. But yesterday’s zinger by 37Signals CEO Jason Fried was, in a word, brilliant. The post, titled “PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT” has been the subject of 200+ blogs and generated more [...]

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