All articles by Titania Touché – Page 6
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Comment & 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tales of Titania at Puff & Fluff PR
The mighty have fallen quite a long way it seems.
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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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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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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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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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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.