PR Council: Cannes winner Jung von Matt under investigation
The Jung von Matt agency was awarded a Gold PR Lion in Cannes. Now there are suspicions that the case violated transparency requirements. The German PR Council is investigating.
This principle states that the sender of a PR message must be recognizable. Online campaigns are no exception. According to Wuv.de, the German Council for Public Relations DRPR, the PR industry's self-regulatory body, is currently looking into the Mercedes case "Tramp a Benz" by Jung von Matt. In this case, the blog of the tramper and performance artist Stefan Gbureck had only been "unmasked" after identification by the web community and the intervention of bloggers. To get to the Mercedes agency Jung von Matt, which had registered the web presence, a query of the Internet domain is necessary.
A hearing of the agency on Case "Tramp a Benz" had already taken place on February 14, i.e. before the Cannes closing date, as Wuv.de further writes. A statement from Mercedes-Benz on the case is still pending, confirms the DRPR President Richard Gaul.

