Bill Nighy Lends Voice to the Invisible Child Campaign From Oxfam and Moomin Characters
Acclaimed British actor Bill Nighy has pledged his support for The Invisible Child campaign from Oxfam and Moomin Characters Ltd, by recording a reading of the short story that inspired the campaign for theguardian.com. The Invisible Child campaign aims to help women and girls around the world fight inequality and escape poverty for good, with the […]
Preti Taneja Wins 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize for “awe-Inspiring” We that Are Young
The re-telling of King Lear is the second book from independent publisher Galley Beggar Press to receive the Prize, following Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing in 2014 Preti Taneja has won the eleventh annual Desmond Elliott Prize, the “UK’s most prestigious award for first-time novelists” (theDaily Telegraph), it has been announced this evening […]
The Astrid Lindgren Company Engages Riot Communications for Pippi Longstocking PR Campaign in the UK
Riot Communications, the award-winning culture and entertainment agency, is thrilled to announce it will be working with The Astrid Lindgren Company to celebrate the life and works of the ground-breaking Swedish author, children’s rights campaigner and original Rebel Girl ahead of the 75th anniversary of Pippi Longstocking in 2020. The Pippi books, first published in Sweden in 1945, […]
#RIOTSKILLS: How To Make a Good First Impression
Strike a pose! At Riot, we pride ourselves on being excellent communicators. We’ve won awards that stand testament to that, and clients who return again and again. However, we also know that success comes from constantly honing our skills – even when that means going back to basics. First impressions are critical to the work […]
#RIOTSKILLS: How to Plan a Purposeful Team Away Day
Purposeful and beneficial team away days ‘We’re going to have a team away day’ is the sort of sentence usually met with universal groans from colleagues as they stare at the 5,000 emails and counting in their inbox and the To Do list running across ten pages. An entire day spent away from the desk […]
#RIOTSKILLS: Tips for Launching a Debut
Here at Riot we LOVE a debut – whether we’re launching a new voice we know is going to resonate on a global scale, like we did with Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens, or running the “the UK’s most prestigious award for first-time novelists” (The Telegraph), the Desmond Elliott Prize. Over the past six months or so […]
Riot Communications Bags Hat-Trick with Third Yuval Noah Harari Book
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been retained by Penguin Random House to promote the hotly-anticipated new title from global superstar Yuval Noah Harari, author of the multi-million selling Sapiens and Homo Deus. Riot Communications has a long history with Harari, having handled publicity for his two previous books and, in the process, helped establish him as one […]
Riot Wins PPC Fourth Quarterly for La Belle Sauvage
2018 has gotten off to a great start here at Riot HQ as this week we learnt that our La Belle Sauvage launch campaign has won a PPC Quarterly Award. Not only that, but we have THREE of our campaigns shortlisted for the Annual Award. Judge, Steven Cooper of Waterstones, said: ‘I don’t think it was guaranteed […]
“Rebel Girls” Hire Riot Communications
Riot Communications has been engaged to promote the second volume of the smash-hit bestseller and agenda-setting book, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. The first volume – which celebrates the lives of 100 extraordinary women, providing real-life role models for girls in fairytale form – has become an international phenomenon. […]
#RIOTSKILLS: Five Tips for Successful Charity Partnerships
Five tips for successful charity partnerships Last week I had the huge privilege of working with the team at Oxfam to launch a new partnership between the aid and development charity and Riot client, Moomin Characters. The partnership centres around Moomin creator Tove Jansson’s short story The Invisible Child, which is about a little girl who […]
