All articles by Titania Touché – Page 7
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Comment & 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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Everyday stooges and the Clairol Clause
One hundred days to go and, inspired by some marketing genius at Florette
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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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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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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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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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George's bonfire and a GM whopper
There’s a lot to be said for only telling half a story.
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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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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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Are you a Walsh or a Moody?
Walsh or Moody? Our annual reviews are approaching and Karoline
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 & OpinionTales 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)...