PRmoment Podcast
342 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe PRmoment Podcast is a series of life story style interviews with some of the leading lights of UK PR.
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What skills does a modern PR leader require?
April 22, 2024 21:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBOn the show today, I’m chatting with Will Hart, who is the CEO of PRmoment Leaders. Before becoming CEO of PRmoment Leaders, Will was the group MD of Unlimited Group and, before that, the managing director of PR agency Nelson Bostock for over ten years. Will joined PRmoment in January this year to lead its subscription training programme for agency directors - PRmoment Leaders. The first semester of masterclasses has just been released and includes the following themes: How to build and ...
Mitch Kaye, celebrating 10 years of The Academy on the PRmoment podcast
April 02, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Mitch Kaye, co-founder and CEO of The Academy, as we look back on ten years since he and Dan Glover launched The Academy. The Academy is an independent PR firm in London with a fee income of approximately £7m. It has 56 employees and was co-founded by Mitch Kaye and Dan Glover in 2014. If you want to join your PR peers, don’t forget to buy your tickets for The PRmoment Awards. The Manchester Awards are on Thursday 11th April and the Lond...
The review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in UK PR: March 2024
March 26, 2024 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBWelcome to our March 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew launched Andrew Bloch & Associates in 2020....
The role of recruitment in solving PR's diversity problem
March 25, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBBraver co-founders Darain Faraz and Mike Levaggi on the PRmoment podcast Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On today's show, I’m chatting with two of Braver's co-founders: Darain Faraz and Mike Levaggi. Previously, Darain spent 11 years in-house at LinkedIn. Mike's career has included roles at Seventy Seven, Hope&Glory and Snap. Alongside Sheeraz Gulsher, they launched Braver in September last year. Braver is a talent consultancy specialising in helping PR employers increase the diversity...
Do in-house B2B communicators value creativity?
March 12, 2024 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBOn the show today, I’m chatting with Jo Ogunleye, B2B Communications Lead at Google UK and Laura Wheeler, Head of Communications UKI, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Google Cloud. Both are B2B communicators, and we’re going to talk about what creativity looks like in B2B communications, how it can be used and how it can be integrated across the appropriate B2B channels. Thanks to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. A quick mention about the relaunch of PRmoment. If you take a look a...
Global Women in PR's Annual Index charts the progress towards gender equality in the PR workplace
March 12, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On today's show, I’m chatting with Charlotte West, executive director of corporate communications at Lenovo, and Jo Patterson, UK MD at Zeno. Today, we’re discussing the findings of the Global Women in PR Annual Index, a research programme that aims to measure the status of women working in PR and communications worldwide. Before we start, we should pay tribute to GWPR co-founder Angela Oakes. Angela sadly passed away after a brief illness last year but h...
The Global Creativity Review: February 2024
February 27, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBWelcome to our February Creativity Review. Here, we are talking about the best bits of PR creativity we’ve seen this month. On the show today are: James Gordon-MacIntosh, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Hope&Glory Leila Mountford, Partner, Creative Director at Portland Kim Allain, Creative Lead, MSL UK To remind the listeners of the only rule of our global creativity review, our creatives are not allowed to choose their own work! This is part of our regular series of creativity ...
The review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in UK PR: February 2024
February 23, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBWelcome to our February 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also co-founder and managing partner...
Did anyone read the PR ethics code? A discussion about the PR ethics with Mary Beth West and Trevor Morris
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today, we’re talking PR Ethics, basically because Mary Beth West, who is a senior strategist at Fletcher Marketing PR in the US, has funded research by the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), which compares and contrasts 24 global ethics codes of PR. On the show today, Mary Beth is going to talk through some of the themes of this research. Today’s podcast also sees the return of the finest voice radio voice in PR - Trevor Morris, who I suspect will bring ...
How do find your organisation's reputation North Star? With Delphi's Ellie Thompson and ZOE's Danielle Restivo
February 09, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBOn the show today, I’m chatting with Delphi co-founder Ellie Thompson and ZOE’s communications director, Danielle Restivo, about how to find your organisation's reputation North Star. Ellie was previously CEO at Harvard. She launched Delphi alongside Louie St Clare and Pete Marcus in May last year. Danielle has had in-house experience in senior roles at the likes of Linkedin, SAP, Google and Vodafone. She joined ZOE as its communications and PR director in 2023. The central premise behind...
Rajar’s results for Q4 2023
February 05, 2024 12:00 - 14 minutes - 9.77 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about RAJAR results for Q4 2023 with Alex Blakemore, newsroom producer at Markettiers. For those of you who aren’t aware of RAJAR - it was established in 1992 and operates the single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. Each quarter, it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio. This offers a really interesting insight for PR people on how the UK public engages with this import...
Matt Neale, CEO of Golin, on the PRmoment Podcast
February 01, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, we've got Matt Neale, Golin's global CEO. I first met Matt just after we launched PRmoment in around 2008 when he was co-CEO of Golin in London. Since then, Matt's moved to New York, been promoted goodness how many times and now runs Golin globally. It's great to see a Brit in a global role at a big global agency. Matt joined Golin in 2005 from its then sister agency Weber Shandwick - he was appointed joint MD of the London office along...
January 2024 PR Pitches and M&A Review
January 29, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBWelcome to our January 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also co-founder and managing partner ...
My career in hindsight: Kindred’s Sharon Bange on the PRmoment Podcast
January 25, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Sharon Bange, joint managing director at Kindred. Sharon has been at Kindred for an extraordinary 20 years. In that time, the business has seen huge change, including nearly going out of business when the then-new Conservative government came into power in 2010. It’s one of those firms that has consistently punched above its weight when it comes to creative, award-winning work. Kindred is a consumer PR firm that has...
How technology is rebooting communications: Ashwani Singla, founding managing partner of Astrum Reputation Advisory
January 23, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Ashwani Singla, founding managing partner of Astrum - Reputation Advisory. Astrum is an Indian PR firm which specialises in reputation management and corporate communications. It employs 30 people in India and one in America! Ashwani set up Astrum in 2015, previously he worked for the likes of Genesis Burson Marsteller and Penn Schoen Berland. Most of the listeners of this podcast are in Europe, so I thought it would ...
The intersection of Purpose, ESG and CSR with Lewis Iwu, founding partner at Purpose Union on the PRmoment Podcast
January 17, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Lewis Iwu, founding partner at Purpose Union, about the intersection of Purpose, ESG and CSR. Are the terms interchangeable? Has Purpose superseded CSR and how much confusion is there both amongst communicators and consumers about the crossover between these terms? Purpose Union was co-founded by Lewis in 2019, has about 20 employees and previous clients include Natwest, Sky and The Wellcome Trust. The agency specialis...
My career in hindsight: Bieneosa Ebite on the PRmoment Podcast
January 10, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with one of my favourite people, the wonderful Bieneosa Ebite. Bieneosa is head of communications and government affairs, inclusion & diversity at GSK. In this regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith, we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their, in hindsight, secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their careers! Bieneosa Ebite joined GSK 18 months ag...
The Global Creativity Review for 2023
January 08, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBWelcome to our 2023 Creativity Review, where we talk about the best bits of PR creativity we saw last year. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Clare Morris, Clare Morris, associate director, Premier Don Ferguson, Don Ferguson, deputy MD, Hope & Glory PR Lora Martyr, creative director, Taylor Herring To remind the listeners of the rules - our creatives are not allowed to choose their own work! You can enjoy the video version of this episode here. Th...
The PR Review 2023, with W Communications founder Warren Johnson
December 14, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBIt’s been a funny old PR year. Some firms have had a tough time. Some firms have sadly gone bust, but many, possibly the majority, have seen growth of 5-10%. And in a decent number of cases, they’ve grown more than that. So it’s a difficult year to try and sum up, but on the show today, I’m joined by W founder Warren Johnson, and we’re going to talk through the key themes and challenges that 2023 has brought to the PR agency market. Warren founded W Communications in 2009, and it now has g...
The 2023 PR Pitches and M&A Year in Review
December 12, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MBWelcome to our 2023 Year in Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. He is the founder of Andrew Bloch & Associates, ...
The PR Talent and Recruitment Year in Review, with Dean Connolly, founder at Latte
December 08, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBWelcome to our Recruitment Year in Review on the PRmoment Podcast, where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We look back at the talent trends in PR for 2023. The year has seen huge changes in the PR recruitment market. Back in January, we were in the midst of a significant talent war in the sector, which saw a raft of above-inflation pay rises - but the cost of living crisis and a tougher trading environment saw the dynamics of the P...
Are social budgets now moving beyond PR firms again?
November 30, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast, this week is Adam Clyne, founder of Coolr, and we’re going to talk about what social agencies do and how that compares to what PR firms do. Clearly, PR firms say they do social. But to what extent do they do social compared to the broader, or perhaps deeper, social remit of social agencies? And is this a problem for PR agencies? Do they need to worry about that? Or are they better off out of a very competitive social agency market? To introduce our guest, Adam Clyn...
In Hindsight: With Kirsty Leighton, founder & group CEO of Milk & Honey PR
November 22, 2023 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with me, Ben Smith, we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in-hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Today, we're chatting with Kirsty Leighton, founder & group CEO of Milk & Honey PR. Milk & Honey was launched in 2016 and is a £5 m fee-income PR firm with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Munich. Before we start, we’ve got some huuuuge news...
PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions: November 2023 update
November 20, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our November review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank PR, where he is still a non-executive director at Frank PR. Before we start, we’ve got some huuuug...
In Hindsight: Charlotte Brooks, managing director at Mischief on the PRmoment Podcast
November 17, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBOn the show today, we welcome Charlotte Brooks, who is the managing director of PR agency Mischief. This is the latest In our ongoing in hindsight-themed PRmoment Podcasts, where PRmoment founder Ben Smith interviews public relations leaders - where our guests share their in hindsight, secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their careers. Charlotte’s been at Mischief for five years and took over the managing director role from Greg Jones when he left last year. Before join...
Celebrating 15 years of the Taylor Bennett Foundation: How the programme helped the careers of Kwaku Aning, Shanice Hoo Mills and Toni Adeola
November 07, 2023 07:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week, we’re celebrating 15 years of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, and to do that, we’re talking to 3 of its alumni about how the programme helped their careers. On the PRmoment Podcast today, we’re talking to Kwaku Aning, Shanice Hoo Mills and Toni Adeola For those of you not aware of the Taylor Bennett Foundation - well, I’d suggest you should! It’s an amazing charity that exists to encourage black, Asian and minority ethnic graduates to pursue a career in communications. It does th...
How the UK government attempts to counter the disinformation campaigns of Russia and China
November 01, 2023 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week, we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director of the UK Government’s Communication Service. Alex has worked with six Prime Ministers when they've had to make their most crucial decisions. He worked in government communications during Brexit, during the COVID crisis, when the queen died and when Russia invaded Ukraine. In short, he’s been in the room during many of the most difficult periods of the UK government since the Second Wor...
Rajar’s results for Q3 2023
October 26, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you who aren’t aware of Rajar - it was established in 1992 and operates the single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. Each quarter, it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio. This offers a really interesting insight for PR people on how the UK public engages with this important channel. Today, we have Alex Blakemore, newsroom pr...
Are there any truly global PR campaigns anymore? The PR Network’s managing director, Eileen Boydell, on the PRmoment Podcast
October 26, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThe PR Network is a £5m fee-income global tech PR agency based in the UK. It has ten employees, no head office and 1300 associates all around the world who it can call upon. On average, it has 70-90 associates working for it at any one time. Before we start, we’ve just launched our latest webinars. One is our annual The Creative Year in Review 2023, and the other is PR Analytics 2023. Do check out the PRmoment homepage for all the details. Finally, thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sp...
In Hindsight: Pangolin PR co-founders David Phillips and Will Cookson reflect on 10 years of running their agency
October 20, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast today, Pangolin PR co-founders David Phillips and Will Cookson reflect on ten years of running their agency. Pangolin is a consumer PR shop in London with a fee incline of £1.75m. Clients include Pernod and Pepsi, and it employs 17 people. On the show today, we will reflect on their regrets, lessons and achievements as they look back on ten years of owning their own business. To deal with the elephant in the room straight away - some listeners out there might be po...
PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions: October 2023 update
October 16, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our October review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank PR, where he is still a non-executive director at Frank PR. Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors...
The Global Creativity Review for October on the PRmoment Podcast
October 12, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBWelcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our October Global Creativity Review, so we are talking creativity with a gorgeous panel who will identify and chat about some of the best bits of creativity they have seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Daniel Glover, co-founder & creative director of The Academy Olivia Mushigo, social creative, Coolr James Gordon-MacIntosh, co-founder and chief creative officer, Hope&Glory PR...
Your PR recruitment update for October with Dean Connolly, founder at Latte
October 03, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to a new PRmoment Podcast where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We talk about all things PR recruitment - discussing some of the trends in the PR job market, including the latest numbers from Latte’s 2023 PR salary guide. If you’re interested in keeping an eye on the best PR jobs out there each week, subscribe for free to PRmoment’s Top 10 PR Jobs updates. Before we start, if you haven’t already, do take a look at our ne...
How to improve the DE&I of PR agencies, Katie De Cozar on the PRmoment Podcast
September 27, 2023 15:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Katie De Cozar, director of CCgroup about how to improve the DE&I of PR agencies. CCgroup has made major changes to its business over the past 5 years which has seen significant improvements in the diversity of its employees. CCgroup is a £6m revenue PR firm based in London with 46 employees. In 2020 17% of CCgroups employees were BME, in 2023 that has increased to 37%. Some background stats for our listeners: According to the CIPR State...
Andy Peake, London CEO of VCCP on the PRmoment Podcast
September 20, 2023 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re chatting with Andy Peake, London CEO of creative agency VCCP. I’ve known Andy for about 25 years so, to an extent, we’ve followed each other's careers with interest over a couple of decades! As Andy is now CEO of one the largest creative agencies in London I thought it would be interesting to get him on the show to chat about the intersection of PR firms and advertising agencies. VCCP London has 850 employees and according to Nielson Billings Rankin...
Jo Carr, president of Women in PR on the PRmoment Podcast
September 13, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Jo Carr, the president of Women in PR. Jo is also co-founder of PR agency Hope&Glory. Women in PR was founded in 1962. So it’s just turned 60! It has 350 members and the profile of the organisation has grown a lot over the last 10 years or so. Of all the trade associations in public relations, I’d suggest Women in PR is the one with the greatest momentum currently. For our international listeners, there is an organisation called Global Wo...
Jo Carr, president of Women in PR, on the PRmoment Podcast
September 13, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Jo Carr, the president of Women in PR. Jo is also co-founder of PR agency Hope&Glory. Women in PR was founded in 1962. So it’s just turned 60! It has 350 members and the profile of the organisation has grown a lot over the last 10 years or so. Of all the trade associations in public relations, I’d suggest Women in PR is the one with the greatest momentum currently. For our international listeners, there is an organisation called Global Wo...
PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions: September 2023 update
September 05, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our September review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank PR, where he is still a non-executive director. Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors The PRCA. ...
Rajars results for Q2 2023
August 08, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you that aren’t aware of Rajar - it was established in 1992 and operates the single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom. Each quarter it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio and this offers a really interesting insight for PR people on how the UK public is engaging with this important channel. On the show today we have Alex Willi...
Rebecca Grant, UK CEO and global chief brand officer of BCW on the implications of Schwartz’s values theory on communications
August 02, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBToday on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking about values. We’re going part history lesson, part comms theory and part future gazing. To help talk us through that kaleidoscope we’ve Rebecca Grant, UK CEO and Global Chief Brand Officer of BCW on the show. We’re going to talk about the importance of values in successful communication campaigns. The hope is that in 30 mins' time, you'll know about the basics of Schwartz’s values theory, why it matters to communications and we’ll give you an i...
The “In Hindsight” Series: Paul Joseph MD of Full Fat on the PRmoment Podcast
July 26, 2023 09:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known at the start of their careers. This week on the PRmoment Podcast we're talking to Paul Joseph MD of Full Fat. Full Fat is a consumer PR and social agency with 18 employees. It specialises in FMCG and event work. Current clients include San Miguel, Poretti, and Sziget Festival (a massive fes...
PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions: July 2023 update
July 20, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our July review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR. He is also a partner at PCB Partners advising on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. Do look at the brace of new webinars ...
What do CEOs want from PR?
July 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast we talk about what CEOs want from PR and we also identify the 7 top attributes that CEOs want in the comms directors. The folks at PR recruitment firm VMA have recently interviewed 20 CEOs and today we’re going to chat with VMA’s MD Lucy Cairncross about what she’s found out about CEO communication priorities. Thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors of the PRCA. Here’s a summary of what Lucy and I discussed: 2 mins What are CEO’s current prioriti...
The “In Hindsight” Series: Greg Double on the PRmoment Podcast
July 06, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBIn a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with Greg Double, creative director of consumer PR agency Mischief. Mischief is the consumer PR arm of MHP. MHP and Mischief are owned by Next Fifteen, which acquired them from Engine last year. Mischief has recently won Diageo and Tea...
The “In Hindsight” Series: Ready 10 founder David Fraser
June 28, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBReady 10 founder David Fraser is the next guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. In this new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with the founder of Ready 10 David Fraser. Ready 10 has revenues of £4 m and 35 employees. It is a consumer PR shop based in Lond...
The Global Creativity Review for June on the PRmoment Podcast
June 26, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBWelcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our June Global Creativity Review so we are talking creativity with our wonderful panel who will identify and chat about some of the best bits of creativity they have seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Kim Allain, creative lead, MSL Ottilie Ross, creative director, Halpern Tom Rouse, creative director, Pitch Marketing Group This is the third episode of our monthly global creativ...
PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions: June 2023 update
June 21, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our June review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR. He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. If you haven’t taken a look a...
The “In Hindsight” Series: With The Academy’s co-founder Mitch Kaye
June 16, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBThe Academy co-founder Mitch Kaye is the first guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. In a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Mitch co-founded The Academy with Dan Glover in 2014. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Mischief. The Academy is a consumer PR shop in Londo...
AI and the Future of Journalism: Revolutionizing Newsrooms and Combating Misinformation
June 13, 2023 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBCan AI revolutionize journalism and help us create more compelling stories? Join us in this fascinating conversation with Jane Wakefield, a former senior tech journalist at the BBC, and Aaron Kwittken, founder/CEO of PRophet, as we explore the impact of AI on newsrooms, PR teams, publishing models, and the free press. We'll discuss the potential of AI for spreading misinformation, its role in storytelling, and even how The Guardian has been an early adopter of AI technology. As we delve i...
Is an over-reliance on email the central cause of tension between public relations and journalism?
June 09, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast, on the show today we’re discussing how to improve the connectivity between public relations and journalism - is there a way to create a more efficient workflow between PRs and journalists? We’ll ask whether the relationship between PR and journalists is becoming damaged beyond repair and look and the reasons why this mutually beneficial relationship isn’t working better. To talk about this we’ve got Charlie Russell who is the founder of Synapse. Synapse is ...