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News, views, opinions and general musings from across the Fifth Ring world.

5 things I learnt as a Fifth Ring Intern

by Amy Reid
17 Apr

Over the last 3 months, I have had the pleasure of interning alongside the PR team here at Fifth Ring, Aberdeen. Fifth Ring is a global B2B marketing agency which provides a wide range of specialist services. Therefore, I have not only obtained valuable experience in public relations, but gained a better understanding of the B2B marketing process as a whole.

To sum up my time at Fifth Ring my colleagues in the PR team asked me five questions to summarise my internship. 


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Topics: Team, Public Relations, Internal Communications

Keeping the doors of communication open to your stakeholders

by Amnah Senen
17 Apr

COVID-19 is no doubt changing our way of life and daily routines. By now, almost all companies in Singapore have joined the work-from-home (WFH) movement as part of stricter safe distancing measures in place.

At Fifth Ring, we continue communicating internally using various digital tools available and setting some foundations to ensure we operate as near to normal as possible. We have replaced face-to-face meetings with conference calls, refocused our marketing efforts, and reviewed clients’ marcomms plans for the year.

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Topics: Team, Marketing, Personas

How to engage participants during your video conferences

by Stevie Brown
31 Mar

With over a decade of broadcast experience, business manager Stevie Brown shares some insight from the world of entertainment, and how we can apply these principals to business video conference calls.  

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Topics: Team, Content, Internal Communications

The best independent agency in Scotland

by Michael Madden
21 Jan

 

The results are in and we have been ranked the top Scottish agency in the Drum Independent Agency Census (68th in the UK). 

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Topics: Team, Marketing, Strategy

Are you Looking for the Right Employees in all the Right Places?

by Fifth Ring
14 Jan


The overall oil & gas industry continues to see growth these days, and with that growth comes an increased focus on attracting the best and brightest employees. In order to attract the best, companies need to pay particular attention to their story, where to tell it and to whom to tell it.

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Topics: Insider, Team

Can New Gas Finds Help the UK Towards a Carbon Free Future?

by Andrew Bradshaw
06 Nov

In the latest edition of Energy North our Head of Energy Insight Andrew discusses the future of the U.K's gas industry in the North Sea.

It may be a remote, harsh and challenging area to operate in, but the deep waters west of the Shetland Isles may arguably hold the future of the U.K.’s gas industry and of the country’s wider energy provision in their grasp.

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Topics: Insider, Team, Energy Insight

4 Tips to Give You a Marketing Edge

by Fifth Ring
04 Oct

According to AdAge, there are more than 190,000 marketing professionals in the U.S. Have you ever stopped to think just how many of them are trying to target the exact same audience as you? How do you make sure you are the one that reaches them? 

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Topics: Insider, Team

Summer 2018 Internship Recap: What I Learned About Collaboration, Leadership and Teamwork

by David Mancipe
03 Sep

This was my first internship, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect before arriving at Fifth Ring Houston this summer. My only knowledge about internships was from what I'd seen in movies where interns get tasked with all the paperwork, have to do coffee runs and don’t have any say. Nerve-racking… but that wasn’t the case here.

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Topics: Insider, Team

ONS 2018 – looking to the future with a reminder of the past

by Andrew Bradshaw
28 Aug

Stavanger in Norway is the home of the international oil and gas industry this week as the city hosts the ONS conference and exhibition. 

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Topics: Insider, Team, Energy Insight

Fifth Ring Houston’s Time Capsule to Be Opened In 08/08/28

by Fifth Ring
23 Aug

The Fifth Ring Houston team recently buried a time capsule in celebration of its 10th anniversary. The time capsuleto be opened on 08/08/28is meant to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and envision the future. Below is the message that the time capsule contained.

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Topics: Insider, Brand, Team