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AN M-PRESSIVE ADDITION

Over the past 18 months, we’ve stamped a big, Franklin Rae-sized footprint across the international creative media industries; working with clients from Ireland to Malaysia, Portugal to the Philippines, the Netherlands to the United States. Earlier this year, we added Africa to our roster – through triple-play provider Zuku – and are delighted to increase our presence in the region further with the signing of South African pay-TV platform M-Net.

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CAMBRIDGE CALLING

CAMBRIDGE CALLING

Industry gossip was on the menu at FRC HQ on Monday morning as the team returned from the Royal Television Society’s flagship Cambridge Convention. The biannual event – the UK’s preeminent high-level gathering of broadcasting executives – was held across three days last week; at which we ran the event’s press office…not to mention attend a few sessions and sample the culinary delights of Kings College’s Great Hall.

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OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH

Fetlar, one of the most stunning islands in the UK, is likely to be the centre of media attention as it becomes one of the key locations for forthcoming movie Between Weathers. We are proud to be working with Fetlar Developments Limited to develop media awareness within this ambitious community in light of all Fetlar has to say.

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EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION

We’re over the moon to be working with Stealth Education, an educational gaming and app developer, to launch the first of its digital education projects, Gobby. The innovative app teaches English idioms to those who are already fluent in the language, but who find themselves being tripped up by that very British invention, the obscure colloquial phrase.

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TELLING THE TRANSMEDIA STORY

Transmedia is proving one of the buzzwords of 2011 as producers and rights owners race to exploit a proliferation of platforms, the much-hyped ‘second screen’ and new and innovative ways through which to consume content. So, what better time to be working with one of the world’s leading transmedia content producers? [...]

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SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS

We’ve come a long way, baby…but we always relish the opportunity to return to our programme publicity roots. This month sees us join forces once again with long-running client Raw Television to promote the network TX of its documentary, The Real Sleeping Beauty.

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TAKING AIM WITH ARROW MEDIA

Here at Franklin Rae, we’ve established a reputation for not only working with some of the industry’s most established players, but also some of its most exciting start-ups. Arrow Media, founded by John Smithson, Tom Brisley and Iain Pelling, certainly falls into the latter category.

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A Point of Historical Interest

We’re delighted to announce that leading factual producer, World Media Rights, has asked us to handle its autumn publicity campaign. World Media Rights prides itself on its ‘page-turning’ storytelling of history’s landmark events.

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IP Network Reveals Fresh TV Viewing Trends

IP Network – the wholly owned international advertising subsidiary of RTL Group – has appointed FRC to promote its new report, Television 2011. IP Network represents a portfolio of more than 40 leading television channels across Europe, and 20 radio stations in 11 European countries. The report analyses audiences, programmes and the leading trends in television in 37 countries, covering more than 900 European, American and Japanese television channels.

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WELCOMING BACK ALUNA

Following the great success of the 2010 film Aluna made by award-winning film-maker Alan Ereira, Franklin Rae are thrilled to announce that it has been called upon once more to bring the Kogi’s message to the UK. FRC will be drumming up publicity for the next instalment of Aluna which will be filming a Kogi woman, her husband and daughter on their first visit to the UK to warn the British public of the impending environmental castrophe the tribe fears the world is facing. We are understandably excited to be working on another worthy campaign for the Kogi and we have no doubt that the second documentation of the awe-inspiring South American tribe will be hugely successful.

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