February 11, 2019
With just under six months to go, preparations are well underway for the fourth instalment of bluedot festival. Held at the iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, this year the festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Influential German act Kraftwerk were the first headliner to be announced – followed by one…
Building businesses on Instagram is about to get a whole lot easier. In a digital age where consumers can barely be bothered to converse unless the words are typed into a keypad, the photo-sharing conglomerate has released new information this week that they may be working on an Instagram Shopping app. According to recent reports,…
A little over a week ago our festival team closed one of the last festivals of the British summer – Victorious. Another massive success with incredible performances from the likes of The Libertines, Paul Weller and the mighty Prodigy, Victorious is fast becoming one of the biggest and best in the festival calendar. With a…
Are you a SAE looking for a new home? We’re hiring! Due to a number of new business wins we’re looking for a Senior Account Executive to join our team. Based in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Carousel’s B2C client mix includes some of the nation’s best loved toys & games (including, LOL Surprise!, Baby Annabell and…
Our festival team are busily preparing for a trip to Portsmouth this weekend for our second year with the UK’s best metropolitan festival – Victorious. With more than 200 journalists attending from all points of the compass and dozens of interviews set up its going to be a busy press office this year but we…
Festival season is full steam ahead and last weekend Carousel worked alongside BBC and TBI Media to launch the BBC’s biggest EVER children’s festival: CBBC Summer Social. Located in Croxteth Park in Liverpool, the event saw some of the biggest stars from CBBC and CBeebies take to the city, including Sam and Mark, CBeebies favourites…
This month, Carousel helped to unveil the collection of artwork curated for the 10th Liverpool Biennial from contemporary artists from around the world in the UK culture capital. The city has been abuzz with excitement since Carousel announced the plans back in March for the unveiling of the projects inspired by this year’s theme, ‘Beautiful…
This month we worked with Huawei to help launch the new P20 lite. Our brief was to secure a global artist for a free gig at a high profile retail location. Always up for a challenge, our festivals and events team got to work! Headed up by Gawen Higgins, the team quickly established intu Trafford…
Due to a number of new business wins we’re growing our team and have three roles available: Social Media Executive Senior Account Executive Account Manager / Senior Account Manager Based in Manchester’s Northern Quarter, Carousel’s B2C client mix includes some of the nation’s best loved toys & games (including, LOL Surprise!, Baby Annabell and Little…
Reaching 1billion monthly active users on your social platform seems like a pretty good time to announce something new and exciting. That’s exactly what Instagram did today as the company introduced a new feature – Instagram TV. Available to everyone, the new section allows for videos longer than one minute, displayed full screen and vertically,…
As festival season kicks off this month, we’ve been busy launching a new initiative designed to help festival goers have the best and safest experience possible. Festival Safe, the brainchild of festival director Jon Drape, is an initiative supported by festival organisers, industry professionals and the emergency services. With the aim of providing vital information…
Showcasing the brand new Series 5 Num Noms collection, we invited a selection of top-tier influencers, celebrities, parenting bloggers, press and some lucky Num Noms fans to come and join us for a day of fun. Activities included testing out the new series 5 product, whizzing up their own smoothies on the smoothie bike, pizza…
The Carousel PR team decamped to the picturesque village of Hay-on-Wye last May bank holiday for the return of HowTheLightGetsIn. Known for being the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, HowTheLightGetsIn is a festival like no other you will have come across! This year’s theme was Darkness, Authority and Dreams and it was explored through an extensive…
We are looking for a driven and ambitious consumer PR Account Manager to join our team to work on some of the UK’s top retailers, toy brands, events & festivals. If you’re bright, creative and hardworking with a passion for retail and fashion, property, live events, beauty, toys and games then we want to hear…
3,000 shades of lipstick, 1,500 shades of foundation, 25,000 products – it’s safe to say the launch of Selfridges Trafford’s new Beauty Hall was one all the girls in the office wanted to work on. On Monday we unveiled the first phase of the new Beauty Hall with the highly anticipated UK launch of Anastasia…
Celebrities have incredible sway over trends in the market, and in return have huge influence over consumers buying patterns. Just one post on social media can take a product or brand from the unknown to the next best thing! Through establishing long-running relationships with celebrity agents, keeping up to date with celebrity news and keeping…