Month: August 2014

Last weekend I was kindly invited to Ox Pasture Hall to sample the hotel and see what I thought about it and the surrounding area. As I have been blogging for almost eight years now, I do get offered a lot of things to review on the blog but sadly due to time restraints, I don’t tend to take them up very often, but this really seemed like an interesting offer as the hotel looked stunning online. The hotel itself is set in more than seventeen acres of beautiful gardens situated in the stunning North York Moors National Park, which ... Read more

To celebrate the Prohibition team being shortlisted for the CIPR’s Outstanding Consultancy award we decided to take the team out for a fancy burger and a drink or two. We were looking for somewhere local in Leeds that was a little bit different and decided to pay a visit to the new Almost Famous in Leeds. I believe there are already a couple in Manchester and Liverpool. I had taken the time to carefully read the entire menu carefully as it was packed with mouth watering burger concoctions like the “Johnny Mac” which has a deep fried Mac & Cheese ... Read more

A few weeks ago you may remember I wrote about a Twitter shop my team and I at Prohibition created to help create some online chatter at a construction trade show. Well in that article I promised you I would share the video, well here it is. This wasn’t created to showcase the success of social media, rather to highlight the trade show itself but it should help give you a feel for what we were able to deliver for our client.

Yesterday John Owens wrote an article on PR week about a new tech start-up company who are on the lookout for a clever creative PR idea which they will pay £3,000 for. Bizarrely though TransferWise, the company in question, have already lined up an agency to implement the idea. They just need someone else to come up with it. This different take on things sparked a number of opinions in the PR industry, most of which resulted in the company apologising for any offence that they may have caused to the agencies that put their heart and soul into campaign ... Read more