10 Yetis Examples of Good and Bad PR - Tuesday 13th August 2019

We’re absolutely motoring through August and, if the weather is anything to go by, summer is already over. I’m back with this week’s good and bad PR, featuring some of my favourite things: alcohol, burgers, vagina blimps and dresses not big enough to fit over heads.

Good PR

In the vain hope that the summer weather will return and we might see a fraction of the sun that last year brought, there is little more refreshing than a vodka, lime and soda.

Well, the good news is that you can now buy this delicious treat in canned form, from Marks & Spencer, for as little as £2. I mean, I’m already sold, but if M&S can persuade Dianne Abbott to drink one on a train then they’re in the money.

Next, a university in London has made headlines this week after it announced plans to ban hamburgers on its campuses.

Now, despite being a big fan of burgers (yes, I know I’m an awful human but I’m *sort of* trying to stop), this is actually a positive move from Goldmiths; the university enforcing the rule. It is making a conscious effort to become carbon neutral by 2025, and has made a start by banning burgers, as well as charging for plastic bottles. Every little helps, and hopefully other institutions will follow suit.

Bad PR

In what seems to be a never-ending saga of online-clothes-that-don’t-fit-properly, I Saw It First is the latest to come under fire for selling an impossibly small dress.

One woman took to Twitter after purchasing a dress from the online retailer, only to find that it wouldn’t physically fit over her head. For reference, she provided a photo of the dress with a grapefruit, that only just squeezed through the gap.

The words ‘flying fanny blimp’ might not be something you come across on a day-to-day basis, but that’s exactly what this next story is about. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has found itself in hot water this week, after its organises allegedly banned the use of vagina illustrations in a show promoting women’s health and wellness.

Not only that, but a 19ft vagina blimp that the brand was planning to fly above the Royal Mile was also prohibited. In protest Elvie, the brand in question, has started a petition to #LetFannyFly, and is currently flying the blimp in a farm outside the city.