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.

This PR stunt by Amazon caught my eye The story is Amazon is launching a set of drones in several year's time and currently testing them You can watch the very clever video below This stunt has been covered everywhere, so much kudos to the PR team...

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So I have had a lot going on recently, following my company re-brand and last night the Prohibition team ventured out into Leeds to the Pride Awards to see if we could pick up an award or two I have been to the awards a number of times before...

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PR is somewhat of a new thing for many SEO companies They’ve shifted to content marketing, content strategy and the like, and because of that, they’re slow on the trigger in terms of really assimilating the skills that experienced PR companies...

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So last week I was talking to a friend of mine who likes his tech and he was telling me all about Android TV boxes and how brilliant they are I am a bit of a sceptic when it comes to things that deliver free entertainment but after watching his TV I...

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I am proud to announce here on my personal blog that after a very busy year my team and I have changed our PR agency name to Prohibition to reflect the recent account wins and growth in team size I am sure a few of you spotted the change to my...

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Its been a busy few months at Prohibition HQ and so I have been busy sorting out a number of new account wins My next post will have some big news on that front but I will save that for later However, here are two stories that caught my eye by...

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As you may have heard, Facebook EdgeRank is no more A Facebook insider confirmed that the term [EdgeRank] is no longer being used internally (and hasn’t been for over two years) and noted that there are currently over 100,000 factors that go into...

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So Banksy one of my personal heroes has done it again with a PR stunt to beat all others A few days ago he arranged to have an old guy sell his really very expensive art on a random broken looking market stall in New York He was selling them at...

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This is just a quick note to let you know that tomorrow I will be speaking on The future of the social web taking a part in a panel discussion I have been speaking at a few events recently and this one should be interesting as it will include all of...

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We have all been behind the camera and been asked a question we weren't expecting So I love this video as live on BBC News 24, consumer affairs correspondent Karen Bowerman interviews a man who she believes to be the online music expert Guy...

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