How to get bloggers to write about you

Tim Burrowes

April 14, 2009 10:00

In a past life I wrote about music. I’d get 10-15 emails a day from PR companies around the world promoting new artists, albums or tours. They were always unsolicited, text heavy, impersonal and mass mailed. I didn’t write a single article about any of the bands they promoted.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.