Insights: Stand’s Best Coverage

Pitching to media during a global pandemic
The PR industry has evolved a great deal over time, with the original focus solely on securing coverage, to adapting broad offerings, much like the services offered at Stand – including digital, strategy, insight and creative. However, while excelling...
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During lockdown, the power of a book is even more profound
In our second year working with the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction, we’ve found ourselves pitching the story to the press in amongst an incredibly unpredictable and competitive media landscape. Headlines are rightfully dominated by news around the ever-evolving...
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Breaking the silence for lonely older people
We were really proud to launch Contact the Elderly’s latest national media campaign last week. The campaign – which used a combination of a news story and a shareable social video – aimed to highlight the issue of loneliness...
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Our #CrackingClientCoverage for July!
Despite being the holiday season July has seen some amazing #CrackingClientCoverage. Here’s our round-up of the past month’s best bits.
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Our #CrackingClientCoverage for June!
Every month we compile a few of our favourite #CrackingClientCoverage and social success stories – here are our picks for June. City Year Social mobility has been in the news this month with the report from the Social Mobility...
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British Tomato Week: Encouraging Britons to buy British
This year we have been working with the British Tomato Growers’ Association to encourage people to buy British in the lead up to and during its British Tomato Week (22-28 May). Starting our outreach in January, our strategy involved three main...
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Our #CrackingClientCoverage for May!
May was a month of more cracking client coverage. Here is a roundup of the best bits. City Year UK City Year UK research hit the headlines this month as they called for the campaigning parties in June’s election...
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The fight for fair probate
Probate. Perhaps not something you’re overly familiar with, but you may have noticed it’s been hitting the headlines recently, since the Government tried to push through proposals to significantly increase fees. For the past few months, it’s been keeping...
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Our #CrackingClientCoverage for April
After an excellent April of #CrackingClientCoverage here are our highlights for the month! The Maiden Factor BEST BROADCAST SPREAD OF APRIL 2017 This April saw the return to the UK of Maiden, the yacht skippered by Tracy Edwards MBE...
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World Book Night: Revealing the nations reading habits and hang-ups
After commissioning some research to build the ultimate water-cooler conversation story, last week we created a fantastic buzz for The Reading Agency’s World Book Night. The story, which looked into Brits’ reading habits, received over 20 pieces of national and...
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The future of payment – the revolution of mobility technology
Phasing out petrol and diesel cars and introducing EVs is a great option in...
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Claire Brady on Net Zero Hero Podcast
Some people think that ‘circularity’ simply means recycling, but it is so much more...
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Earth Day
Earth Day provides an opportunity to take stock of our progress towards addressing the...
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When it comes to making sustainability claims, getting it wrong can cost organisations the earth
According to Robin Hicks, “2022 was the year that policymakers started to take greenwashing...
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Less is more: How low alcohol brands are targeting their Gen Z consumers
Dry January may be over, but giving up alcohol definitely hasn’t gone out of...
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Beyond B Corp: Breaking up with Barclays
Last year we became a certified B Corp, and to do so we had...
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Three takeaways from the IPCC’s ‘final warning’ report
This week has seen the release of the latest IPCC report assessing the climate...
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Why we’ve introduced a 4.5 day working week
As the rulebook of the working week gets rewritten, at Stand we continue to...
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Stand shifts as we move into our second decade
I founded Stand with one simple (but typically ambitious) belief: that good comms can...
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B Corp is a movement, not a moment
As B Corp month draws to a close, we reflect on how the movement...
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