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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How to use risk methodology in your crisis comms strategies
January 09, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re talking to George Hutchinson founder of River Effra Communications about the expanding area of risk methodology in crisis communication. It’s an interesting area which takes another perspective on PR’s increasingly complex intersection with data. The central concept is to use risk methodology to model and understand the reputational consequences for an organisation if it behaves in a particular way. George set up River Effra earlier this y...
How and why PR firms can become a BCorp
January 03, 2023 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting with Zoe Ward Waring from Sunny Side Up and John Higginson from Higginson Strategy about how and why their respective organisations have become a BCorp. On the show, we talk about what being a BCorp is all about and what the process to becoming BCorp looks like. To put the discussion into some context in the UK there are 1375 BCorp organisations, in the US there are 2226 and globally there are 5711. So it’s predominantly a UK and U...
The biggest PR Crises of 2022
December 27, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re reviewing the biggest PR disasters of 2022 with crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman. Just to confirm we’re talking today about events and disasters where communications played a key role, we’re not suggesting all of these examples are crises driven by poor PR - although in a number of the cases we talk about on this show a poor communications strategy made a bad situation worse! Amanda is the author of the excellent book Crisis Comm...
The biggest PR crises of 2022
December 27, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re reviewing the biggest PR disasters of 2022 with crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman. Just to confirm we’re talking today about events and disasters where communications played a key role, we’re not suggesting all of these examples are crises driven by poor PR - although in a number of the cases we talk about on this show a poor communications strategy made a bad situation worse! Amanda is the author of the excellent book Crisis Comm...
PR Pitches and M&A update: December 2022
December 20, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our final PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now head of PR 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. Before we start the final entry deadline for the PRmoment Awards is on 27th January - check out PRmomentAwards.com for all the ...
PR Pitches and M&A update: December 2022
December 20, 2022 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to our final PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now head of PR 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. Before we start the final entry deadline for the PRmoment Awards is on 27th January - check out PRmomentAwards.com for all the ...
Why behavioural science theory will make you better at PR
December 16, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re chatting with Shayoni Lynn, chief executive officer at Lynn Group about behavioural science theory and the implications of the application of behavioural in PR and communications. Shayoni previously worked as a journalist and then in the in-house team of Cardiff University before launching Lynn Group in 2019. Lynn has a turnover of £2.6m and 30 employees. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 are now open for entries - do check out the awar...
Why behavioural science theory will make you better at PR
December 16, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re chatting with Shayoni Lynn, chief executive officer at Lynn Group about behavioural science theory and the implications of the application of behavioural in PR and communications. Shayoni previously worked as a journalist and then in the in-house team of Cardiff University before launching Lynn Group in 2019. Lynn has a turnover of £2.6m and 30 employees. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 are now open for entries - do check out the awar...
The PR Review of 2022: with Warren Johnson on the PRmoment Podcast
December 15, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re reviewing 2022 from the perspective of a PR agency with Warren Johnson, founder of W Communications. W has a fee income of £13m, offices in London New York and Singapore, Edinburgh, Kuala Lumpa, Los Angeles. It employs approximately 160 people globally and 126 in London. If Year in Review Podcasts are your type of thing then do have a listen to our Year in Communications show with Charlotte West, executive director of global corporate communi...
The Communications 2022 Year in Review: A permacrisis of war, death and scandal
December 08, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re reviewing 2022: The Year in Communications with Charlotte West, executive director of global corporate communications at Lenovo. Charlotte and PRmoment founder Ben Smith talk through the biggest events in PR and communications through 2022. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 early entry deadline is on 16th December, check out the awards site PRmomentAwards.com for all the details. The final entry deadline is 27th January. Thanks to the P...
Education Vrs Experience: What are the benefits of an in-career PR qualification?
December 07, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re talking about career learning and professional development in PR. We’re going to chat about the differences between career education and career training. We’ll discuss why PR (in the UK at least) seems to value PR experience over education - and ask whether this is a problem. We’ll also talk about the available courses for PR and comms professionals that do want to do more to educate themselves about communications theory and practice. A theme...
Heather Kernahan, global chief executive officer, Hotwire on the PRmoment Podcast
December 02, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Heather Kernahan, global chief executive officer of, Hotwire about her career story. Hotwire has 500 employees globally and about 90 in London. It has offices in 11 countries. Heather joined Hotwire when it acquired Eastwick in 2016. She became CEO in 2021 following Barbara Bates’ move to the holding company Enero. Before joining Eastwick Heather had a senior comms role at Autodesk in the US. Hotwire was founded in 2000 and was...
The Media Review with Mark Borkowski on the PRmoment Podcast: Musk, Hancock and The World Cup
November 29, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re chatting to Mark Borkowski about some of the biggest stories in the media recently. For those who don’t know, Mark’s had a stellar PR career, starting as a publicist in the theatre and running Borkowski PR for something like 32 years. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 early entry deadline is on 16th December, check out the awards site PRmomentAwards.com for all the details. Thanks to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. Here’s a su...
Rick Guttridge, founder of Smoking Gun on the PRmoment Podcast
November 24, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Rick Guttridge, founder of Smoking Gun about his career story in public relations and how he went from a procurement officer for the Royal Mail to PR agency CEO. Smoking Gun is a £1.5 m PR firm based in Manchester, clients include Interflora, the NHS and Alton Towers. It has 15 employees. Previously Rick worked for Brazen and Connectpoint PR. He and his wife Vanessa founded Smoking Gun in 2010. Smoking Gun has had an interestin...
Victoria Dean, chief executive officer of Portland, on the PRmoment Podcast
November 22, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Victoria Dean, chief executive officer of Portland about her career story. Portland has 350 employees globally and 270 in London. It has offices in Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Washington, Nairobi, Singapore, Doha and London. Victoria’s career has been a fascinating journey - she has spent the majority of her career working for The British and Commonwealth Foreign Office, in various non-communications roles including head of the pol...
Victoria Dean, chief executive officer of Portland, on the PRmoment Podcast
November 22, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Victoria Dean, chief executive officer of Portland about her career story. Portland has 350 employees globally and 270 in London. It has offices in Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Washington, Nairobi, Singapore, Doha and London. Victoria’s career has been a fascinating journey - she has spent the majority of her career working for The British and Commonwealth Foreign Office, in various non-communications roles including head of the pol...
PR Pitches and M&A update: November 2022
November 16, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR 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. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 are now open for entries - do check out the awar...
Why PR degrees need your help
November 14, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re talking about PR degrees - or rather the lack of them! To confirm there are still a number of excellent PR degree courses available but there are far fewer PR undergraduate places in the UK than there were 10 years ago. On the show this week we look into the reasons behind this, asking whether it is a UK-centric trend and whether it’s a decline that can be reversed. Over the past 5-10 years we’ve seen a massive reduction in the number of underg...
What happened to PR degrees?
November 14, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re talking about PR degrees - or rather the lack of them! To confirm there are still a number of excellent PR degree courses available but there are far fewer PR undergraduate places in the UK than there were 10 years ago. On the show this week we look into the reasons behind this, asking whether it is a UK-centric trend and whether it’s a decline that can be reversed. Over the past 5-10 years we’ve seen a massive reduction in the number of underg...
How has the corporate affairs role changed? With Sian O'Keefe, vice president of corporate affairs, Mars Wrigley Europe, Central Eurasia, Belarus and Turkey
November 02, 2022 14:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting about the role of modern corporate affairs with Sian O'Keefe, vice president of corporate affairs, Mars Wrigley Europe, Central Eurasia, Belarus & Turkey. It’s a corporate affairs special this week and Sian and I talked about the increased breadth and importance of the corporate affairs role within large businesses. We’ll discuss the reasons behind this change, where the most important intersections are within a business for a corp...
How has the corporate affairs role changed? With Sian O'Keefe, vice president of corporate affairs, Mars Wrigley Europe, Central Eurasia, Belarus and Turkey
November 02, 2022 14:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting about the role of modern corporate affairs with Sian O'Keefe, vice president of corporate affairs, Mars Wrigley Europe, Central Eurasia, Belarus & Turkey. It’s a corporate affairs special this week and Sian and I talked about the increased breadth and importance of the corporate affairs role within large businesses. We’ll discuss the reasons behind this change, where the most important intersections are within a business for a corp...
What Rajar’s Q3 Results 2022 mean for PR folks
October 27, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’ve put in 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 they publish 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 ...
Most independent PR agencies would be better off as employee-owned trusts, argues Charles Tattersall, CEO at Citypress.
October 26, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Charles Tattersall, chief executive of Citypress about why he decided to sell his business to his employees through an employee-owned trust, rather than via an acquisition. In the show today we’re going to tell you agency owners out there what you need to know about taking your agency business into employee ownership. Charles will talk us through why he thinks agency owners should sell their business to their employees and how yo...
Sheeraz Gulsher, co-founder of People Like Us, on whether PR is making any progress in its quest to be more diverse
October 25, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week we’re chatting to Sheeraz Gulsher, EMEA communications, Snap and co-founder of People Like Us, about whether PR is making any progress in its quest to be more diverse and represent the audience that it aspires to communicate with. Before we start, do check out the home page of PRmoment for our latest webinars, including The intersection of Data, Insight and PR Planning and The State of Social Media Marketing Report. 1 min Sheeraz tells us about People Like Us and its next event. ...
Sheeraz Gulsher EMEA Communications, Snap and co-founder of People Like Us on whether PR is making any progress in its quest to be more diverse
October 25, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Sheeraz Gulsher EMEA Communications, Snap and co-founder of People Like Us about whether PR is making any progress in its quest to be more diverse and represent the audience that it aspires to communicate with. We’ll also talk about the ethnicity pay gap in PR - the reasons behind it and how the sector can make more rapid progress in decreasing the ethnicity pay gap. Before we start do check out the home page of PRmoment for our...
How to scale your independent PR firm: From Madan Bahal, co-founder of Adfactors - India's largest PR agency
October 18, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today we're talking to Madan Bahal, co-founder of India's largest PR firm. Madan and I are going to talk about how, as an independent firm, Adfactors has grown from being one of a pack of highly regarded PR agencies in India - to becoming the biggest PR firm in India, frankly by a long, long way. It's a story that any independent PR firm founder or CEO should hear because while it's become an inspirational story, it's also a story of hard work a...
How to scale your independent PR firm: From Madan Bahal, co-founder of Adfactors - India's largest PR agency
October 18, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today we're talking to Madan Bahal, co-founder of India's largest PR firm. Madan and I are going to talk about how, as an independent firm, Adfactors has grown from being one of a pack of highly regarded PR agencies in India - to becoming the biggest PR firm in India, frankly by a long, long way. It's a story that any independent PR firm founder or CEO should hear because while it's become an inspirational story, it's also a story of hard work a...
PR Pitches and M&A update: October 2022
October 13, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR 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. Do take a look at the PRmoment home page for details on our latest webinars, including Th...
Chris Owen, UK director at The Hoffman Agency talks about his experience of being an alcoholic working in PR
October 06, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBThis week we’re chatting to Chris Owen, UK Director at The Hoffman Agency about his experience being an alcoholic working in public relations. Chris has written a number of articles about the period of his life when he drank too much, including Things I don’t miss about alcohol addiction and How the NHS saved my life. On the show today we talk about Chris’s problems with alcohol in the context of his career as a PR professional. We ask whether working in public relations made him more lik...
Emma Kane, Chief Executive of SEC Newgate UK and Deputy Group CEO Deputy SEC Newgate S.p.A on the PRmoment Podcast
September 23, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Emma Kane, Chief Executive of SEC Newgate UK and Deputy Group CEO Deputy SEC Newgate S.p.A about her career story in public relations. Previously Emma founded Redleaf Communications before selling the business to Porta in 2014. Porta combined with SEC Newgate in June 2019 in a reverse merger to form SEC Newgate. This integrated a number of businesses that had been acquired over the years including Redleaf, Publicasity, Newgate, ...
What does innovation look like for PR firms in 2022?
September 16, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Emily Morgan, managing director, operations and innovation at The Red Consultancy. Emily has worked at Red for over 22 years and she’s recently evolved her role too, as the job title suggests, prioritise innovation within the firm. The Red Consultancy has a fee income of about £13m and is part of the Accordience, which was previously known as the Huntsworth Group. Red has a fee income of circa £14 m. The nature of a consultancy...
How to move from just broadcasting content on social media, to a customer engagement strategy
September 14, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Bradley Tooth, head of social media at Democracy PR about how brands can move from broadcasting content on social media to engaging with their customers and potential customers through social media. For those vintage social media users amongst our listeners - Brad was one of the guys who got blisters on his hands when 02 attempted to reply to every customer's Tweet during the early days of its Surprise and Delight strategy. Sinc...
Ruth Allchurch, MD of WE UK on the PRmoment Podcast
September 08, 2022 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Ruth Allchurch, UK MD WE. We’re going to talk about Ruth’s career to date including her time at Diageo, her experience at Cirkle and most recently at WE where she has took the UK income of the firm to close to £7m, from about £3m when she joined as the UK MD 4 years ago. Currently, 60 people work in London for WE and current clients include Capgemini, Intel, Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Boehringer Ingelheim and Google Waves. Befor...
PR Pitches and M&A update: August 2022
August 30, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and Non-Executive Director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR 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. Don’t forget the early entry deadline for The ESG Awards is coming up on Friday 16th Sept...
Rebecca Grant, UK CEO, BCW Global on the PRmoment Podcast
August 21, 2022 17:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Rebecca Grant, UK CEO, BCW Global. Rebecca has one of the biggest jobs in UK PR. She heads up a team of over 200 people at BCW’s London office and she led the Cohn & Wolfe London operation through the merger with Burson Masteller to a period of significant growth for what was already a big PR and comms operation. Rebecca joined BCW in 2011, previously she worked for Weber Shandwick and The Red Consultancy. She was appointed UK...
Alex Myers, founder and global CEO of Manifest on the PRmoment Podcast
August 11, 2022 20:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Alex Myers, founder and global CEO of Manifest. Manifest employees circa 70 people globally, has a fee income of over £5m globally, with about $2m of that coming from its fast-growing New York Office. London remains its largest hub. It also has offices in Stockholm and Melbourne. Do check out the home page of PRmoment for our latest webinars, including PR Analytics, LinkedIn as B2B Marketing Channel and The intersection of Data...
Does PR need more creative creative directors?
July 28, 2022 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBWelcome to this week's The PRmoment Podcast. On the show, this week is James Beveridge, founder of Made by Giants. James is one of PR's most experienced creative directors. He moved from the creative agency Further into PR in 2014 to work for Fishburn. He started Made by Giants back in 2020 and it's now a £700K B2B tech PR firm. On the show today we're going to talk about some research that James has been doing on creative directors in PR, the skill sets of good creative directors in PR ...
Alex Aitken on the PRmoment Podcast
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Alex Aitken, long-time executive director, of the UK Government’s Communication Service. We’re going to talk to Alex about his career in government communications, the personalities of the Prime Ministers he’s worked with and the changes he made during his time heading up the Government Communications Service. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s new Patron Scheme. If you are a regular consumer of our content, incl...
Alex Aiken on the PRmoment Podcast
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director, of the UK Government’s Communication Service. We’re going to talk to Alex about his career in government communications, the personalities of the Prime Ministers he’s worked with and the changes he made during his time heading up the Government Communications Service. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s new Patron Scheme. If you are a regular consumer of our content, inclu...
Alex Aiken, ex Executive Director, UK Government Communications on the PRmoment Podcast
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director, of the UK Government’s Communication Service. We’re going to talk to Alex about his career in government communications, the personalities of the Prime Ministers he’s worked with and the changes he made during his time heading up the Government Communications Service. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s new Patron Scheme. If you are a regular consumer of our content, inclu...
Alex Aiken, executive director, UK Government Communications on the PRmoment Podcast
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director, of the UK Government’s Communication Service. We’re going to talk to Alex about his career in government communications, the personalities of the Prime Ministers he’s worked with and the changes he made during his time heading up the Government Communications Service. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s new Patron Scheme. If you are a regular consumer of our content, inclu...
How to measure the impact of your PR with Darryl Sparey, co-founder of Hard Numbers
July 11, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Darryl Sparey, co-founder of Hard Numbers about how to measure the impact of your PR Darryl believes the opportunity is ripe for communicators everywhere to accurately measure their results through sales software like Hubspot and the like. And today Darryl is going to give his insight into the techniques and tools that he’s found most useful in taking that approach. Hard Numbers is a B2B tech PR firm with a fee income of...
How to measure the impact of your PR with Darryl Sparey, co-founder of Hard Numbers
July 11, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Darryl Sparey, co-founder of Hard Numbers about how to measure the impact of your PR Darryl believes the opportunity is ripe for communicators everywhere to accurately measure their results through sales software like Hubspot and the like. And today Darryl is going to give his insight into the techniques and tools that he’s found most useful in taking that approach. Hard Numbers is a B2B tech PR firm with a fee income of...
When will Boris go?
July 06, 2022 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.41 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Chris Curtis, head of political polling at Opinium in the first of a regular slot where we discuss the latest polling trends in UK politics. Before we start, PRmoment’s webinar caravan is off again. We’ve got a programme of 8 webinars coming up in September and November which we’ll be launching over the next 6 weeks. Already up on the site are PR Analytics, LinkedIn as a B2B Marketing Channel and The intersection of Data, ...
When will Boris go?
July 06, 2022 04:00 - 9 minutes - 6.41 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Chris Curtis, head of political polling at Opinium in the first of a regular slot where we discuss the latest polling trends in UK politics. Before we start, PRmoment’s webinar caravan is off again. We’ve got a programme of 8 webinars coming up in September and November which we’ll be launching over the next 6 weeks. Already up on the site are PR Analytics, LinkedIn as a B2B Marketing Channel and The intersection of Data, ...
PR Pitches and M&A update
June 29, 2022 16:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and Non-Executive Director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR 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. Don’t forget the entry deadline for The Creative Moment Awards is coming up on Friday 1st...
The history of public relations with Tom Watson, professor emeritus at Bournemouth University
June 24, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to PR academic Tom Watson about the History of PR - when, where and how did the business of public relations begin. Tom is a professor emeritus at Bournemouth University, he taught on Bournemouth’s PR degree for a number of years. Previously he spent much of his career running his own PR firm and he was the founder of the annual History of PR Conference - the 2022 version of which takes place in Bournemouth on July 6th and 7t...
The PR for start-ups market explained
June 16, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Nick Braund, founder of Words and Pixels about the PR for start-ups market. Nick founded Words and Pixels in 2020, it has a fee income of just over £1 million, grew by 300% in 2021 and specialises in the PR for start-up scene. Just a nudge to remind you all about the final deadline for The Creative Moment Awards on Friday 1st July 2022. And don’t forget you can become a PRmoment Podcast Patreon - just follow the link on ...
What do clients want from their PR agency?
June 10, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast with me Ben Smith. Today we’re talking to Daisy Hawker Wallace about what clients want from their PR agency? Daisy is currently deputy director & head of PR at Avanti West Coast. Previously she’s worked in-house at Virgin Trains and Virgin. She’s had agency roles at Ketchum and TVC. So she’s sat on both sides of the fence and today she’s going to give her perspective on the agency: in-house relationship and how you can make it work most effectively. Before ...
PR Pitches and M&A update
May 30, 2022 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Here’s the third of a new bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and Non-Executive Director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR 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. Don’t forget the entry deadline for The Creative Moment Awards is coming up on Friday 1s...