PRmoment Podcast
360 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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H1 2024 PR Market Review with W Communications founder Warren Johnson
July 18, 2024 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBIn our twice-yearly review of the UK PR market PRmoment founder Ben Smith catches up with Warren Johnson. Warren founded W Communications in 2009. It now has global revenues of £25m and a headcount of 200, with 120 in London at W, 40 at its travel PR specialist Lotus, 25 in Singapore, and 15 in New York. Do check out the agency and in-house programmes for our new education programme PRmoment Leaders. PRmoment Leaders is our new subscription-based learning programme and community, built by...
PR’s updated salary bands for 2024
July 11, 2024 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBWelcome to our H1 Recruitment Year in Review PRmoment Podcast, where we discuss the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder and PR recruitment director at Latte. We look back at the talent trends in PR for the first half of 2024. The last six months have seen a significant change in the PR recruitment market. Dean tells us the top 3 reasons why PR people leave their jobs and reveals the latest PR salary bands. If you’re interested in keeping an eye on the best jobs that are out there eac...
20 years of Splendid: Alec Samways, CEO and founder of Splendid, on the PRmoment Podcast
July 04, 2024 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast, we interview UK public relations leaders, and today, we’re chatting with Alec Samways, CEO and founder of Splendid. Splendid is an independent consumer PR firm based in London. Its fee income is over £6 m. Splendid was launched in 2004 and so celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Also, thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors the PRCA. Here's a summary of what we talked about: 2 mins Alec reflects on the consumer PR market in London at the moment. “W...
The Review of PR Pitches and Mergers & Acquisitions in UK PR in June 2024 with Andrew Bloch
June 26, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBWelcome to our review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers & acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in June 2024. 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. Before we start,a reminder...
The Global Creativity Review: June 2024
June 19, 2024 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment June 2024 iteration of the Global Creativity Review collection. In this series, founder of PRmoment Ben Smith joins a host of PR industry creatives to discuss, and sometimes dissect, the standout creative moments of the month. This is the audio version of the Global Creativity Review: you can watch the video version, with all the campaign/work films on PRmoment's YouTube Channel. The Global Creativity Review is produced In partnership with our sister title Creativ...
James Wright, Havas PR Global Chairman on the PRmoment Podcast
June 17, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. I’ve been looking forward to this one. We’re chatting with James Wright, the global chairman of Havas PR. James is one of a decent number of British PR folks who have moved to Australia. Havas PR has had a good run globally and in the UK over the past few years. Global revenues are reported to be $236 m in 2023, up 5% on the previous year. Havas PR has 1600 employees globally. Before we start, a plug for our new subscription training service for senior ...
Does PR still have a digital problem?
June 10, 2024 18:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Jim Hawker. Jim has returned to PR. We lost him to performance marketing for ten years, but he’s now back amongst old friends. But it seems he’s still criticising us! Over the past three months, Jim has been on a bit of a tour de force around the PR sector, assessing its digital credentials in the context of his ten years working mainly in performance marketing. Today, he will give us a critical report on the state of ...
The “PR Birthday” Series: CEO George Coleman celebrates five years of Current Global on the PRmoment Podcast
June 03, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast, we catch up with UK public relations leaders and today we’re chatting with Current Global CEO George Coleman. It’s a timely discussion as we seem to be celebrating a few PR firm birthdays recently, so this is the latest in our unofficial “Birthday” Series as Current Global celebrates five years of existence! Current Global was born out of Weber Shandwick. It now has a reported fee income of over £35 m and about 300 employees globally, with about 30 in the UK. It de...
Daney Parker reflects on 15 years as PRmoment’s editor
May 28, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBFor this PRmoment Podcast, something completely different. It’s one of those shows I thought I might have to do one day but I hoped that day would never come. On today’s show, Daney Parker reflects on 15 years as PRmoment’s editor. If you haven’t heard already, Daney is leaving her role as PRmoment editor. So today - it’s her running for the hills goodbye show! Daney and I started PRmoment back in 2009 when we were both, shall we say, between jobs. We didn't know each other, and I think i...
The UK results of The Edelman Trust Barometer 2024
May 21, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week, we’re talking to Louise Jenkins, co-head of Edelman Data and Intelligence, EMEA, about the UK results of The Edelman Trust Barometer 2224. If you’re listening to this podcast and you’re a senior member of a PR agency team, our subscription training service, PRmoment Leaders, was built for you. It features a new educational syllabus that will help develop and retain your senior team members while preparing them to lead your business and drive futu...
Rajar’s results for Q1 2024: A record quarter for radio in the UK
May 17, 2024 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.95 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is our quarterly 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. It publishes the listenership figures for UK radio each quarter. This offers PR people really interesting insight into how the UK public engages with this important channel. On the show today, we have Alex Bla...
The “In Hindsight” Series: Missive founders Nicola Koronka and Emma Ross on the PRmoment Podcast
May 14, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this PRmoment Podcast, we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders. 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 Missive founders Nicola Koronka and Emma Ross. Missive is a tech PR firm with a fee income of £2.5 m. Current clients include Virgin Media 02, Tech Mahindra and PayU. Missive was founded ten years ago, ten years which seem to have flown by! Here is a...
How to use defensive communications to counter brand disinformation
May 09, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Rafi Mendelsohn, VP marketing at Cyabra, about how brands can counter disinformation and fake track stories before they become a problem. It’s a serious show today - we’re talking evil bots, stock market manipulation and cluster analysis - which helps you decide which circles of conversation you need to worry about. Cyabra AI is a tool that uncovers fake accounts and the GenAI content that fuels disinformation campaign...
Why does the UK have a lobbying register that excludes 96% of lobbyists?
May 07, 2024 20:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Alastair McCapra, chief executive at CIPR about the lobbying register and why the UK has a lobbying register that excludes 96% of lobbyists. Before we start,do take a look at our latest PR Masterclass: PR and AI. All the details can be viewed on the homepage of PRmoment.com. With gentle good-natured irony today, also thanks goes to our PRmoment podcast sponsors, the PRCA. Here’s a summary of what Alastair and PRmomen...
A guide to buying, selling and growing your PR firm, from Michael Murphy
May 03, 2024 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, we’re chatting with Michael Murphy and we’re going to talk about Michael’s guide to buying, selling and growing your PR firm. Michael is an advisor and non-executive for a range of PR firms. Notably, he’s helped WE since 2014. He also currently works with Coverdale Barclay, Alfred, and Lodestone, amongst others. Previously, he was CEO of APAC and CEO of International at Weber Shandwick from 1993 – 2000, CEO of Trimedia International f...
The review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in UK PR: April 2024
May 02, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBWelcome to our April 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in April 2024. 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. Before...
Iain Anderson on a potential incoming Labour government’s approach to business
April 29, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBCan communications help bridge the divide between the UK government and UK business community? Today on the PRmoment podcast, I am interviewing Iain Anderson, executive chairman of H/Advisors Cicero. Iain recently wrote a report for the Labour Party titled “A New Partnership: A Long-term Plan for Government Business Relations to Power our Economy and Society,” and I thought it would be interesting to get Iain on the show to discuss how communications might help to change the relationship b...
Is UK PR losing its entrepreneurial flair?
April 24, 2024 13:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Jules Herd. Jules is the founder of PR agency Five in a Boat, which she started six years ago. It’s a tech PR firm with a fee income of about £750K. The business mainly does reputation advisory work, so it is at the more serious end of the PR spectrum. Looking to the future, Five is a Boat is looking to double in size and wants to launch in San Francisco in the short term. Five in a Boat has grown for five years since i...
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...