Author: Chris Norton

Chris Norton is the founder of Prohibition and an award winning communications consultant with more than twenty years’ experience. He was a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and has had a varied PR career having worked both in-house and in a number of large consultancies. He is an Integrated PR and social media blogger and writes on a wide variety of blogs across a huge amount of topics from digital marketing, social media marketing right through to technology and crisis management.

I have been busy this week at Prohibition HQ, reading this and that, but something that really stood out to me was the interesting annual study on Social Journalism which is conducted each year by Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University Each...

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You know I love a clever idea or quirky campaign Well this week I was sent this little beauty and I love the simplicity of it This initiative was created by Leo Burnett from Buenos Aires for Samsung's Argentinian corporate office to promote road...

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Well I think it’s fair to say that I have had a busy few months, and in fact, the last twelve seem to have been the busiest in my entire career My PR Agency Prohibition has thankfully been winning new clients hand over fist and this week our work...

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I came across this amusing stunt the other day a great prank style stunt from viral marketing agency Thinkmodo for a new car selling app called Carlister It asks “What if you had the strength to lift a car with your bare hands” They give this...

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Over the next few months I will be interviewing practitioners from the world of public relations and digital marketing from across the globe, people I respect and look up to I decided to call this series 20:20 Vision The concept of this is that I...

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I have heard some interesting thoughts this week from various people in the industry, I have also met with a number of SEO specialists who have asked us at Prohibition if we can help with the outreach phase of their SEO campaigns I value SEO and...

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Over the next few months I will be interviewing practitioners from the world of public relations and digital marketing from across the globe, people I respect and look up to I have decided to call this series 20:20 Vision The concept of this is that...

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Over the last couple of months I have been really busy giving my usual lectures to my lovely PR and Journalism students at Leeds Beckett University and one of the presentations I have crafted is on the Future of Social Media listening which covers...

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I read some interest thoughts the other day, extensive research carried out by business intelligence tool L2 revealed that an increasing amount of brands are migrating from Facebook and focusing their attention on the use of Instagram This surge in...

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I know I have been rather quiet recently and the last two months have been rather busy at Prohibition HQ if I am honest We have had a stellar record year won several new accounts, hired a number of talented  new recruits and taken on some exciting...

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