Hello! I'm working on a 2025 update of a GLOBAL retail subscriptions report. Please get in touch if you're a PR in this area or an expert/analyst who'd like to be featured. I'm looking for insight on consumer behaviour as well as new launches. Thanks!
17.03.2025 11:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A Northern background! That poor, poor woman.
22.01.2025 08:47 β π 25 π 2 π¬ 6 π 0
Holy shit.
22.01.2025 09:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Anyone working with any Nordic fashion brands? I'm working on a large retail report and keen to hear from brands (large and small) and retail tech in this area. Thank you! #journorequest #futureofretail
21.01.2025 11:47 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Well that was depressing.
14.01.2025 17:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hello Bluesky community,
Please help me get off the ground here and follow me if you're an @nujofficial or CSPA member or are interested in journalism or later life ambitions
Thanks, Christine
06.01.2025 17:01 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 4 π 1
Hello! Anyone working tonight? I'm on Marketing Beat shifts tonight/tomorrow/Friday so do send me any relevant UK marketing/agency/creative news! Thank you! hazeldavis@gmail.com. #journorequest
01.01.2025 22:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
sorry mostly UK!
17.12.2024 11:30 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
URGENTLY seeking #marketing news for tomorrow. Please send me all your press releases tonight on new appointments/campaigns/research. hazeldavis@gmail.com Thank you!
12.12.2024 16:38 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Yes please!
12.12.2024 11:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"we're worried it's still too easy for writers to earn a living"
11.12.2024 17:20 β π 103 π 16 π¬ 4 π 1
Any project managers/PRs for interesting projects, please get in touch as I'm seeking PPM news/features/case studies. All interesting projects welcomed! #journorequest #projectmanagement
05.12.2024 09:44 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Best song under two mins EVER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1F...
04.12.2024 11:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes, people will post pictures on social media of sleeping arrangements on Xmas Eve and I will once again attempt to leverage this to raise money for charity β just pinning this to my profile to head off the relentless (i.e. sporadic) enquiries
03.12.2024 18:22 β π 1264 π 258 π¬ 82 π 94
A tube of βSUPER ACIDS x-treme acid rush peelβ which I believe you smother on your face to make yourself look like Julie Andrews.
...alidocious
03.12.2024 12:43 β π 194 π 33 π¬ 5 π 0
Good morning! Remember, you don't have to eat one chocolate a day from the Advent calendar. You can eat them all and then get another calendar.
Stick with me for more great Holiday tips! π
02.12.2024 11:13 β π 13961 π 1395 π¬ 488 π 117
Metro review of Funny Girl β close-up on pullout quote, which reads: Sheridan Smithβs Fanny brims with self-belief
Happy ninth anniversary of the opening night of Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory in south London, a production which gave rise to one of the best pull quotes ever seen by human eyes
02.12.2024 08:27 β π 507 π 113 π¬ 10 π 5
Sure. Thanks. hazeldavis@gmail.com.
01.12.2024 22:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hello PRs and marketing people, I'm doing some news shifts on Marketing Beat and I'm after interesting and relevant daily news for the next month. Any new appointments, campaigns, research, etc, welcome! #journorequest #prrequest
01.12.2024 20:42 β π 19 π 4 π¬ 5 π 0
Undefeated.
28.11.2024 13:21 β π 346 π 14 π¬ 8 π 1
Fay Weldon still owes me a tenner.
28.11.2024 12:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A photograph taken in Poundland in Luton. It shows a cardboard container full of red, yellow and blue plastic pumps designed for inflating balloons. On the cardboard container is the slogan βSave your breath - balloon pumpsβ.
My favourite insult
28.11.2024 07:26 β π 1303 π 234 π¬ 18 π 5
Yeah mine was like this too. And I think there's value in it BUT we didn't have the distraction of phones and internet and (no judgement obvs), without extracurricular "stuff", "kids today" just don't have the same happy boredom we had.
26.11.2024 16:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
ITβS NEVER HEβLL, AUTOCORRECT; ALWAYS HELL.
25.11.2024 10:35 β π 775 π 44 π¬ 30 π 6
It's ok. They totally did! :)
20.11.2024 17:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm Hazel. "Nobody's ever going to go out with you"
20.11.2024 13:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The five stages of wedding grief
09.01.2024 10:23 β π 465 π 109 π¬ 5 π 2
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