Spark Communications announces MBO and looks back on 2020
After 20 years of Spark, and 20 years at Spark, I am thrilled to say after a management buy-out Kewal and I now fully own the company. We are very excited for what the future holds, and our plans include building out our content services, offering a broader range of multi-channel content, as well as...
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From scandal in Silicon Valley to the Russian Revolution: The Spark podcast playlist
In the last six months, we’ve all had a little more time on our hands (I won’t mention the c-word), which has allowed us to devote ourselves to all manner of interests – from reading and cooking, to walking and quizzing. When it comes to what we’re listening to in our spare hours, the figh...
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How a piece of PR research can impress colleagues, clients, journalists and even your Mum
As well as checking I’m eating properly and what I’m growing on my balcony, when I catch up with my Mum, she always likes to ask how my day at work was. Sadly, I can’t always give her a straight answer as some of our tactics, processes and B2B-oriented stories don’t make a huge amount of sense to so...
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Spark Communications wins UK PR brief with content services and productivity platform NetDocuments
We’re pleased to announce that we have won a UK PR brief with NetDocuments, the leading secure cloud-based content services and productivity platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and compliance departments. With the huge rise in remote working over the last six months, the NetDocuments pla...
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Facetime (or Zoom) with the boss: Starting at a new PR agency during the lockdown
Not in a thousand years would I have imagined starting a new job during a global crisis. For a while, I found it to be a good hook for a self-deprecating joke – ‘this could only happen to me! ’ – but this joke quickly became tiresome when I realised the reality of my situation: I’d be starting a new...
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