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WEEK RELEASE:
ManNotIncluded.com
- the world’s first online service dedicated to matching sperm
donors to lesbian and single women, anonymously - has appointed
Gillan Media for a PR push around their first anniversary in
July. Led
by flamboyant founder John Gonzalez, the controversial portal has
now launched in A
top gay freelance journalist himself,
ManNotIncluded.com
founder John Gonzalez said: “Grabbing
headlines will never be a problem for ManNotIncluded. But our
challenge is to gain the trust of our core audiences through the
endorsement of the media they consume. We must allay
suspicion.” “Key
gay, lesbian and women’s press will be targeted to achieve sensible,
measured, in-depth features around the first anniversary and
imminent births this summer. We’ll be utterly open and transparent
and let people make up their own minds based on the
facts.” -
ends – For
further information or visuals, or interviews with John Gonzalez, or
Adrian Gillan please contact: Adrian
Gillan - MD, Gillan Media Ltd Tel:
0207 6 22 99 11
E: adrian@gillanmedia.com M:
0774 086 7215 Visit
http://www.gillanmedia.com John
Gonzalez – Founder,
ManNotIncluded.com Tel:
0207 486 2726 E: johng@mannotincluded.com
M: 07989 401 335 Visit
http://www.mannotincluded.com
PR WEEK RELEASE: Thursday 13th February 2003
National charity UK Youth - the largest non-uniformed National Voluntary Youth Organisation in the UK - has appointed Gillan Media for retained press and PR support after a competitive five-way pitch. UK Youth works with 7000 youth groups, 40,000 youth workers and 750,000 young people. It operates across 41 local groups in England - with further divisions in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - supporting high quality voluntary youth work and educational opportunities for and with young people. In addition to strategic input and training, Gillan Media will raise UK Youth’s national profile - not least amongst government and sponsors - securing coverage in key national and charity media around high profile programmes, issues and events like charity President Nigel Mansell’s Golf Tournament. Working closely with the UK Youth fundraising team, Gillan Media MD Adrian Gillan will report monthly to Chief Executive John Bateman, with the one-year contract reviewed after six months. This appointment follows UK Youth’s decision to outsource their PR function for the first time. UK Youth Chief Executive John Bateman said:
Gillan Media MD Adrian Gillan said:
For further information or visuals, or interviews with Adrian Gillan or John Bateman, please contact: Adrian Gillan MD, Gillan Media Ltd
John Bateman – CEO, UK Youth
PR WEEK RELEASE: Thursday 14th March 2002 Gillan Media lands Hodder & Stoughton Debating Matters books launch Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Educational has appointed Gillan Media for the summer launch of Debating Matters, a series of eight books from the Institute of Ideas in which leading figures discuss key issues of the day. Covering topics from designer babies to teenage sex, the books boast contributors ranging from Peter Hitchens to Peter Tatchell. The Institute of Ideas hopes the series will stimulate intelligent public debate. Gillan Media will conduct a targeted and provocative media relations campaign over the summer months, making public debate an issue in its own right and positioning contributors as expert spokespeople on specific issues. Hayley Lewis, Hodder & Stoughton Educational Trade Marketing Manager, said:
Gillan Media MD Adrian Gillan said:
For further information or visuals, or interviews with Adrian Gillan or Hayley Lewis, please contact: Adrian Gillan MD, Gillan Media Ltd
Hayley Lewis – Trade Marketing Manager, Hodder & Stoughton Educational
PR WEEK ‘LETTER OF THE WEEK’ APPEARED THURSDAY 10TH JANUARY 2002 START-UP UPSTARTS MAKE BIG BOYS TREMBLE Small wonder the larger, more established agencies look ever more anxious. It’s not just a matter of clients tightening purses; it’s also a matter of those very same clients channelling what little money they have to other, leaner, smaller operators. And many of the staff the big consultancies have been laying off – together with others who simply see the opportunity - are setting up their own small agencies, all hungry to deliver, highly accountable and able to undercut on price due to lower overheads. You don’t have to be a ‘leading industry figure’ to see that - tech sector excepted - market conditions should be riper than ever for striking out on your own. As budgets shrink, those marketing directors with more sense than money are hunting even harder for the bangs-for-buck deliverers. They want raw results for fair money - not endless meetings, useless overheads, status reports and box ticking. They want one long no-frills thrill. Moreover, when the economy does eventually pick up again, don’t expect those that left the giants’ fold - that wealth of experience - to come rushing back. Many will be thriving in these growing companies which emerge from the ashes of down-turn. They may also attract - unsolicited of course - a fair few of their ex-colleagues. Quite a little aftershock! Naturally, those same start-ups will get bigger themselves and might just consider bids from the odd humbled Goliath keen to buy them up to regain some of what they lost in staff and business. And so the wheel turns. Eternal market forces are the laws of this jungle: the lumbering elephants may cull and consolidate to cope, but it’s the baby tigers they spawn in their wake that’ll be hard on their heals, picking up the pieces and growing stronger with each passing day. A typical economic cycle perhaps but a perennial quandary none the less for the bigger players. - ends –Thursday 8th November 2001 Gillan Media launches with Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund New consultancy Gillan Media has been retained to do media relations for the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund, set up to support the work of Tatchell and human rights campaigns he works with worldwide. The Fund officially launches in January, marking Tatchell’s 50th Birthday, with an event attended by major celebrities, opinion leaders and the man himself. Chairman of the Fund Steering Committee Richard Kirker said:
Gillan Media MD Adrian Gillan, who will also act as Fund Spokesman, said:
Gillan Media is the UK’s first dedicated, comprehensive media relations consultancy, aligning the client’s agenda with that of the media in all its forms. The consultancy is the brainchild of former PR Week Young Professional of the Year nominee Adrian Gillan, who has previously headed up media teams at agency giants Countywide Porter Novelli and, most recently, Bell Pottinger. Of his new consultancy Gillan said:
Like all staff who will work at the consultancy, Adrian Gillan also works as a freelance journalist, currently writing for media from Esquire to Gay.Com. Gillan Media is a limited company, based in an old converted Victorian schoolhouse in Lambeth. - ends –For further information, or interviews with Adrian Gillan or Richard Kirker, please contact: Adrian Gillan MD, Gillan Media Ltd
November 2000 Gillan Media becomes the UK's 1st dedicated, comprehensive media relations consultancy Gillan Media launches as the UK's first dedicated, comprehensive media relations consultancy, aligning the client's agenda with that of the media in all its forms, giving both client and media what they want. The consultancy is the brainchild of former PR Week Young Professional of the Year nominee Adrian Gillan, who had previously headed up media teams at agency giants Countywide Porter Novelli and, most recently, Bell Pottinger. Founder Adrian Gillan said: "Gillan Media was set up to fill a gap in the PR market. Media strategy and execution are undoubtedly core PR disciplines, much sought after by all clients. Yet few consultancies really show the balls to take informed risks and truly play the media game. We will do nothing else." Like all staff who will work at the consultancy, Adrian Gillan also works as a freelance journalist, currently writing for media ranging from Esquire to gay.com. Gillan Media is based in an old converted Victorian schoolhouse in Lambeth. - ends - For further information, visuals or an interview please contact: Adrian Gillan Managing Director Gillan Media Ltd t / +44 (0) 207 6 22 99 11 e / adrian@gillanmedia.com |
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