Bondy Consulting

Bondy breakfast with Simon Smith, partner at ‘the city’s most feared’ defamation lawyers -  Schillings

On 18^th November, Bondy hosted its first breakfast bonanza, inviting clients to share the expertise of leading defamation lawyer Simon Smith, online guru and award winning blogger Jonathan Hopkins, and Bondy’s own crisis expert, Sharon Roche.

With more than 1.46 billion people worldwide using the internet, businesses and individuals may find themselves the victims of leaked private and confidential information, or false or inaccurate stories and allegations that are credited and repeated because they are “published” online.

Whether they are a competitor’s planned attacks, disgruntled employees or the work of careless media or bloggers, the damage from a reputational attack can spread like a virus – often with grave commercial and personal consequences.

Having worked for the city’s most feared defamation lawyers, Simon Smith shared his insights and tips for communications professionals on how to face the online reputation challenges.  For further information and a copy of his paper contact jessicabondy@bondyconsulting.com.

Published: Bondy Consulting, November 2009

PRWeek has revealed the final shortlist for this year's PRWeek Awards.

The list, published in this week's PRWeek, unveils the finalists in each awards category including the prestigious Consultancy of the Year Award.

Agencies in the running for this coveted award include three-time winners Blue Rubicon, Edelman, Lansons Communications, Frank PR, 3 Monkeys and Mischief PR.

Edelman is also in the running for the International Consultancy of the Year award alongside Burson-Marsteller, Text 100, Four Communications and Weber Shandwick.

Up-and-coming agencies Bondy Consulting, Diffusion PR, Pretty Green, Tetra Strategy and Wolfstar will battle it out to be crowned New Consultancy of the Year.

Other awards to be dished out on the night include Communicator of the Year, Public Sector Department of the Year, Specialist Consultancy of the Year and a host of awards for groundbreaking work over the last 12 months.

The PRWeek Awards 2009 will be held in central London on October 20.

Published: Cathy Wallace, prweek.com, 07 August 2009, 10:04am

Blue Rubicon was awarded the Outstanding Public Relations Consultancy prize at the CIPR Excellence Awards 2009 last week.

The agency beat off competition from finalists; Tangerine Public Relations & Coaching, Manning Selvage & Lee, Lansons Communications, London Communications Agency and Threepipe Communications.

Other winners included Bondy Consulting who picked up the Outstanding Small Consultancy award and Claire Gibson from the Energy Retail Association who took home Outstanding Young Communicator. Turk Telecom won the Corporate and Business Communications award.

No award was given in the Investor Relations category.

Published: Gorkana, 14th July 2009

Recently established Bondy Consulting won the Outstanding Small PR Agency at this year's CIPR Excellence Awards.

The firm was set up in early 2008 by former Ketchum corporate and consumer MD Jessica Bondy.

Other winners at the event, which took place at The Artillery Garden, London, on 7 July, included Blue Rubicon as Outstanding PR Consultancy.

Macmillan Cancer Support and Limelight Public Relations in conjunction with McCann Erickson each picked up two awards.

Macmillan Cancer Support won the Public Affairs and Not-for-Profit categories for its 'Prescription charges campaign'.

Limelight PR, with McCann Erickson, took home the Healthcare and Integrated Campaigns awards for their 'ComputerTan' campaign.

The award for Outstanding In-House Public Relations team went to the London Borough of Camden.

'From more than 900 entries and 145 finalists emerge 26 winners,' said CIPR president Kevin Taylor. 'This goes to show what a remarkable achievement it is to win one of our CIPR Excellence Awards.'

Published: PR Week UK, 10 July 2009, 00:00am

Recently established Bondy Consulting won the Outstanding Small PR Agency at this year's CIPR Excellence Awards.

The firm was set up in early 2008 by former Ketchum corporate and consumer MD Jessica Bondy.

Other winners at the event, which took place at The Artillery Garden, London, on 7 July, included Blue Rubicon as Outstanding PR Consultancy.

Macmillan Cancer Support and Limelight Public Relations in conjunction with McCann Erickson each picked up two awards.

Macmillan Cancer Support won the Public Affairs and Not-for-Profit categories for its 'Prescription charges campaign'.

Limelight PR, with McCann Erickson, took home the Healthcare and Integrated Campaigns awards for their 'ComputerTan' campaign.

The award for Outstanding In-House Public Relations team went to the London Borough of Camden.

'From more than 900 entries and 145 finalists emerge 26 winners,' said CIPR president Kevin Taylor. 'This goes to show what a remarkable achievement it is to win one of our CIPR Excellence Awards.'

Published: Gemma O'Reilly, prweek.com, 08 July 2009, 10:08am

Kublax, a personal finance management website, has taken on Bondy Consulting to handle its nationwide launch.

Bondy will handle the consumer and corporate communications for the free website. Kublax uses data to compare spending habits against income and alerts users if they are overspending or if they need to pay a bill to avoid facing penalty charges.

Cancer Research UK has brought in Kaizo to review social media for its online fundraising initiative MyProjects. The agency will be reviewing conversations and issues on social media platforms in order to find new ways to engage the charity's supporters in programmes such as MyProjects.

Sony Pictures Television International has hired online PR specialist Hot Cherry to run a campaign for BBC One programme Damages. The legal drama stars Glenn Close, Rose Byrne and Ted Danson. Hot Cherry's online PR and marketing campaign will raise awareness of the series through social media. The agency's brief is to encourage people to purchase episodes of Damages on iTunes.

Ruder Finn has appointed Adele McIntosh as an associate director in its corporate and technology division. McIntosh joins from Brands2Life, where she was an associate director and worked on T-Mobile campaigns. She will report to Becky McMichael, head of Ruder Finn's corporate and technology division.

Eurocom Worldwide, the global PR network, has found almost half of senior executives from international tech companies expect revenues to increase in 2009 despite the global economic climate. The findings come from Eurocom's Annual IT Confidence Survey, which it conducted in association with PR agency Six Degrees.

Published: PR Week UK, 10 April 2009, 00:00am

The UK Film Council has brought in Bondy Consulting to launch its new film search engine FindAnyFilm.com.

The agency won the consumer and trade account with the government backed body following an eight way pitch.

Visitors to FindAnyFilm.com can search when and where a film is available in the UK, whether in the cinema, on TV, DVD or Blu-ray. The website also allows people to check whether the film is available for sale, rental, download or streaming.

The website contains over 30,000 film records and cover films in 20 genres and over 60 languages.

Bondy Consulting's brief is to create awareness of the brand and drive traffic to the site. The agency will be leading an online and offline PR campaign targeting consumer, tech, film, media and new media press.

Published: Chloe Markowicz, PR Week UK, 30 January 2009, 09:59am