Opera Mini makes a song and dance of hitting 50 million users in India
The flash mob was followed by a meet up for Opera users and bloggers
Good and Bad PR
A ‘How to get away with Murder’ stunt is the PR winner
A recent video campaign to mark the launch of the US legal drama ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ impresses this week. Meanwhile there is some horribly bad PR for BrandsOnSale and their insensitive Halloween costume options
Apple and Facebook egg-freezing offer goes down a (media) storm
On balance, we think the Apple and Facebook initiative to pay for female employees to have their eggs frozen, is a good PR move. We are not so impressed with a Singapore branch of Pizza hut that insulted one of its customers
Modi appropriates Mahatma Gandhi and revives a discarded political brand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the smartest politicians in recent times, PR wise. Master of the symbolic image, he has moved on from invoking BR Ambedkar to Mahatma Gandhi
Flipkart’s Big Billion Day sale gets Bad PR
The hotly anticipated sale has come under fire after problems with purchasing and claims of inflating prices in the run up to the day
Australian bottoms stunt comes out on top this week
A bottom’s up stunt from Australian environmental protestors gets the top spot this week
Krispy Kreme’s #BigOccasion campaign is the PR winner
Mmmmm, doughnuts! Krispy Kreme wins us over this week with a giant box of its baddies. Meanwhile, we are shocked to hear Barbie utter profanities. Is she having some sort of a meltdown?
Give a high-five to KLM, this week’s PR winner!
KLM impresses with its high-five campaign, while Nestle proves that a chocolate teapot is very useful indeed when it comes to generating good PR. Meanwhile, Apple has a bumpy ride
Domino’s funny customer complaint tweets makes it the PR winner this week
A stupid customer makes Domino’s look clever this week, but a stupidly-named competition means Malaysian Airlines looks dumb and insensitive
Alia’s genius comeback is the PR winner this week
While Times of India gets Bad PR as it is revealed it wants control over their journalists Twitter and Facebook accounts