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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The secrets of a successful virtual pitch
March 22, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast we're talking about virtual pitching. Virtual pitching is clearly an area that's become more important during the Covid lockdowns and today we're going to be talking to three guests with different perspectives on the pitch process Andrew Bloch is Lead Consultant PR for the AAR, an agency referral company. Also on the show is Rebecca Wagstaffe, Business Development Director at 3 Monkeys Zeno and finally, we’ve got Charlotte West, Executive Director, Global...
Alex Grier, Managing Partner of Frank PR on The PRmoment Podcast
March 13, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Alex Grier, Managing Partner of Frank PR. Alex has worked at Frank for 16 years, he joined the firm in 2005 when there were 15 employees and he saw it sold to Photon (which later became Enero) in 2007. Alex has recently been part of the management team which has bought the agency back from Enero. Frank was originally bought by Photon for just over £8m but over the next 5 years Frank's management hit various incentive targets and the final am...
Alex Grier, Managing Partner of Frank PR on The PRmoment Podcast
March 13, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Alex Grier, Managing Partner of Frank PR. Alex has worked at Frank for 16 years, he joined the firm in 2005 when there were 15 employees and he saw it sold to Photon (which later became Enero) in 2007. Alex has recently been part of the management team which has bought the agency back from Enero. Frank was originally bought by Photon for just over £8m but over the next 5 years Frank's management hit various incentive targets and the final am...
Carrie Rose, CEO & co-founder of Rise at Seven on the PRmoment podcast
March 11, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBOn this week's podcast, I talked to Carrie Rose, CEO & Co-Founder of Rise at Seven. To give you some context, just over 2 years ago Rise at Seven barely existed, one year ago it employed 14 people with a turnover of about £1.5 million and today it employs 64 people and has a turnover of over £4 million. So it really is a story of incredible growth especially when you bear in mind that the last 24 months (remember Brexit!) haven’t exactly been a walk in the park for any business, especially...
Edelman during the lockdown: A story of two halves? Justin Westcott, CCO UK and Ireland of Edelman on the PRmoment Podcast
March 04, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Justin Westcott, Edelman’s chief operating officer of Edelman UK and Ireland and head of technology, Edelman EMEA. Edelman had a fee income of circa $840 million dollars in 2020, down from about $890m from the previous financial year. So Edelman’s revenues decreased 5.9% in 2020 - which, most observers seem to reckon is a pretty decent result, bearing in mind the tumultuous nature of 2020! Here’s a flavour of what Justin and PRmoment founde...
Justin Westcott, chief operating officer UK and Ireland of Edelman, on Edelman UK during the lockdown
March 04, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Justin Westcott, Edelman’s chief operating officer of Edelman UK and Ireland and head of technology, Edelman EMEA. Edelman had a fee income of circa $840 million dollars in 2020, down from about $890m from the previous financial year. So Edelman’s revenues decreased 5.9% in 2020 - which, most observers seem to reckon is a pretty decent result, bearing in mind the tumultuous nature of 2020! Here’s a flavour of what Justin and PRmoment founde...
Francis Ingham, Director General of the PRCA on the PRmoment podcast
February 25, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBOn this week's show, I'm chatting to Francis Ingham, Director General of the PRCA about what the PRCA describes as “an ethical divide (that) has emerged between those willing to embrace ethics and professional standards, and those unwilling to adopt such values.” A PRCA spokesperson has said “almost half (of lobbyists) are happy to be unregulated and unaccountable. And within this group are some enormously influential companies.” To put this spat into more context The PRCA’s analysis of l...
Chris McCafferty, Group CEO, MSL UK on the latest PRmoment podcast
February 23, 2021 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBOn this week's podcast, I'm chatting to Chris McCafferty, group CEO MSL UK. Chris has been at MSL for about a year and a half. Previously he worked for Red, Microsoft, Weber Shandwick, Myspace and Shine. In 2010 Chris launched Kaper PR which was a JV with Karmarama. The Karmarama Group was sold to Accenture in 2016. MSL employs about 150 in the UK and is owned by Publicis. Thanks so much to the podcast sponsors, the PRCA. If you haven't taken a look yet, here are all the categories for...
Elena Davidson CEO of Liberty Communications on the PRmoment Podcast
February 18, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I chatted to Elena Davidson, CEO of Liberty Communications. Liberty is a boutique technology public relations firm based in London with a fee income of about £2 million. The business was founded by Dee Giibs in 1998. 75% of its fee income is from the UK and mainland Europe and 25% from the US. There’s a link in the show notes to an interview I did with Dee back in 2019. Before we start, thanks so much as ever to the podcast sponsors, the PRCA. And if yo...
Chris Hides, managing director of The Academy on the PRmoment podcast
February 12, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBOn this week's show, I'm chatting to Chris Hides, managing director of The Academy. Chris joined The Academy in December 2020 having previously been co-founder and MD of M&C Saatchi Talk, which was the merged business of M&C Saatchi PR and Talk PR. The Academy employs 50 people and has revenues of £4.4m. As many of our listeners will know it was founded by Mitch Kaye and Dan Glover in 2014. Before we start, thanks so much as ever to the podcast sponsors, the PRCA. And if you haven't tak...
Ondine Whittington Group managing Director of Golin UK and Virgo Health on the PRmoment podcast
February 10, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBOn this week's podcast I'm chatting to Ondine Whittington, group managing director of Golin UK and Virgo Health. Ondine has worked for Virgo since 2006 and stayed with the firm when it was bought by Golin in 2014. She became the UK MD of Golin Virgo in March 2020. Golin employs about 70 people in London and Virgo about 60. Golin is well known for its consumer work but it also operates across the tech and healthcare verticals. Before we start, thanks so much as ever to the podcast sponsors...
Does PR have an ethics problem? A discussion on the latest PRmoment podcast
February 01, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBThis week we're talking about whether PR has an ethics problem. Are PR ethics absolute? Are they relative? Or are they personal to all of us? If you were an outside observer of the Twitter chat of various PR thought leaders you’d have thought that bad ethics is a real and present danger to the business of public relations. But is it? How much bad practice is there? And what does that poor practice look like? On the show to discuss this issue are the co-authors of Public Relations Ethics T...
Nicky Regazzoni, co-founder of the PR Network, on the PRmoment Podcast
January 28, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week I'm catching up with Nicky Regazzoni, co-founder of the PR Network, talking us through her career story in public relations. For those of you that are not aware, Nicky launched the network 15 years ago with Georgina Blizzard. The PR Network now has a fee income of £3.8 million and recorded an impressive 13 percent growth in 2020. Clients include Purple Bricks and Snapchat. These days the PR Network is a multi specialist agency. Thanks as ever to the PRmoment Podcast Sponsors, the...
We're all busy but we're not happy: A discussion on the realities of lockdown working
January 19, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis week we're talking around the idea that during lockdown we all seem to be super busy- but it’s not much fun! There seems to be a relentless nature to working from home that many hadn’t expected. In this podcast, we explore whether this repetitive, somewhat joyless for some, way of working can be avoided and discuss the impact it is having on PR teams. On the show this week are Jackie Elliott, chairman of Cathcart Consulting, Louie Sinclair, CEO of Harvard and Matt Buchanan, head of PR ...
How the Covid crisis forced entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs again! With Victoria Usher, CEO of Ginger May
January 14, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast we chat to Victoria Usher, CEO of Ginger May about how the Covid crisis has reawakened many people's entrepreneurial spirit. Thanks, as ever, to the PRmoment Podcast Sponsors the PRCA. Don’t forget to take a look at the PRmoment Awards categories. The early bird deadline for entries is Friday 26th February. Here’s a summary of what Victorial and I discussed: 02.20 mins As an entrepreneur how has Victoria felt over the past 10 months? 03.00 mins How Vict...
Being gay in the creative industry: Two personal experiences
January 12, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBToday on the PRmoment podcast I'm catching up with Marc Allenby, ECD of both Harvard and Eat the Fox; the tech Marketing & PR agencies, part of the Chime Group and Daniel Maynard, vice president, Communications, Media (Television & Direct-to-Consumer) Europe & Africa at The Walt Disney Company. Before we start just a reminder for all of you that the PRmoment Awards are now open for entries or the details on the awards microsite PRmomentAwards.com. We talk about Marc and Daniel's experience...
Mark Inskip, CEO Kantar UK Media Division, discussing increasingly stretched communication teams, the importance of automation in PR, and AVEs
December 10, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBToday on the PRmoment Podcast I'm talking to Mark Inskip, CEO of Kantar UK’s Media Division about its research revealing the challenges to the comms industry in 2021. According to the research, there are three big challenges facing the sector today: The sheer volume of stakeholders comms professionals need to engage with The challenge of measuring impact in a landscape of highly scrutinized budgets The increased automation of public relations. Here’s a summary of what Mark and I discus...
Mark Inskip, CEO Kantar UK Media Division, discussing increasingly stretched communication teams, the importance of automation in PR, and AVEs
December 10, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBToday on the PRmoment Podcast I'm talking to Mark Inskip, CEO of Kantar UK’s Media Division about its research revealing the challenges to the comms industry in 2021. According to the research, there are three big challenges facing the sector today: The sheer volume of stakeholders comms professionals need to engage with The challenge of measuring impact in a landscape of highly scrutinized budgets The increased automation of public relations. Here’s a summary of what Mark and I discus...
A sector-wide best practice approach to producing accessible communications begins
December 03, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBToday on the PRmoment Podcast I'm talking to George Coleman Co-Founder & CEO at Current Global. Current Global has just launched a commitment that every piece of communication it develops, curates or publishes on behalf of the firm and its clients will meet the highest accessibility standards. Current Global is owned by Interpublic and has offices in Europe, America and Asia. It employs over 200 people. 1.20 mins George’s father is deaf so accessible communication is a personal subject f...
How PR firms can recover fast from the pandemic
December 01, 2020 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Tony Langham, co-founder and CEO of Lansons. Tony and PRmoment founder Ben Smith discuss the findings of a recent report Tony edited: How PR firms can recover fast from the pandemic. The report is a series of 250 word pieces of advice from (mostly) PR leaders from all around the world. 1.00 min Tony tells us how the "‘How to Recover Fast from the Pandemic" report came about. 3.00 mins Why the report is perfect toilet reading material! 4....
Charlotte Mair, Founder and Managing Director, The Fitting Room on the PRmoment Podcast
November 20, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Charlotte Mair, Founder and Managing Director, The Fitting Room The Fitting Room was originally called PR and Everything in Between in 2012. It was rebranded as The Fitting Room in 2017. The Fitting Room specialises in Food & Drink, Fashion, Music and Hospitality work. It has revenues of circa £1.2 m and employs 7 people. Clients include Cafe Rouge, Sony, Green King and Putt shack. Charlotte welcome to the show 1.30 mins How Charlotte st...
Adam Clyne, founder of Coolr on the PRmoment Podcast
November 05, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week is Adam Clyne, founder of Coolr. For Adam it’s been a pretty varied career, first of all he worked in PR, then he made the move into advertising with JWT. He launched his own digital agency called The Lab in 2002 which he then sold to the agency that is now Kindred. Spells at TVC and Weber Shandwick followed. Then he had a spell at LadBible before launching his own social media agency Coolr in 2017. Coolr is a social media agency with about 20 employees. ...
Richard Rawlins, CEO and founder, of Finn on the PRmoment Podcast
October 27, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBOn the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Richard Rawlins, CEO and founder of Finn. Finn was founded in 2005, it has a turnover of approximately £3 million and 35 employees. It is based in Leeds and focuses exclusively on the FMCG sector. Here’s a flavour of what Richard and PRmoment founder Ben Smith discussed: 01.40 mins Why as a 21-year-old Richard enrolled in The British Army. 04.10 mins Why Richard left the army. 05.35 mins Is it surprising more ex-service personnel don’t ...
Turning the tables: Ben Smith is interviewed by Third City’s Chris Blackwood on the PRmoment podcast
October 13, 2020 18:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBWelcome to the latest PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re turning the tables and PRmoment founder Ben Smith is interviewed by Third City’s Chris Blackwood. Just a reminder that PRmoment Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first month off Propel Software here. Here’s a summary of what Chris and I discussed: 3.30 mins How Ben’s career has been split over two phases 8.30 mins Why empathy is a crucial skill in publishing 9.30 mins How PRmoment was started in the midst of the financial crisi...
How will technology change the shape of PR and comms businesses? Jon Hughes on the PRmoment Podcast
October 06, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBWelcome to the latest PRmoment Podcast. This week I’m talking to ex Golin CEO Jon Hughes. These days Jon describes himself as a Senior advisor specialising in technology and corporate communications. Jon’s been looking at how technology is likely to change the shape of PR and communications businesses over the medium term and he’s giving us an insight into these ideas today. Here is the link where PRmoment Podcast sponsors can get the reader off of 20% off the first month off Propel Softwa...
James Kelliher, Chief Executive Officer at Whiteoaks International on the PRmoment Podcast
September 28, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to James Kelliher, chief executive officer at Whiteoaks International. Whiteoaks is a 40 person tech PR agency based in Hook, Hampshire. It has a fee income of approximately £4m. Here’s a flavour of what James and I discussed: 1.30 mins How James has spent pretty much his whole career at Whiteoaks - he joined as an account exec and he’s now the CEO and majority shareholder. 4.46 mins Did James ever get close to leaving Whiteoaks? 7.00 mins ...
Effie Kanyua, director of PR & Comms, Hearst UK on the PRmoment Podcast
August 26, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBIn the latest PRmoment Podcast I catch up with Effie Kanyua, director of PR & Comms, Hearst UK. Effie is currently director of PR & Comms at Hearst UK having previously worked at Clarity, H&K, Splendid and Bauer Media. Here are some of the themes that Effie and I discussed: 2 mins How Effie retained a broad range of PR sector experience and why that's been really beneficial now she has moved to a senior in-house role. 4.40 mins Why Effie deliberately avoided becoming known as a vertical...
Jo-ann Robertson, partner and CEO of Ketchum London joins the PRmoment Podcast as part of our PR Reset series
August 20, 2020 08:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast we talk to Jo-ann Robertson, Partner and CEO of Ketchum London in the latest of our PR Rest series of podcasts - that look at the state of public relations post the COVID-19 lockdown. Here’s a summary of what Jo-ann and I discussed: 1.55 mins What does the outlook for the next six months for PR firms? 7.40 mins Bearing in mind how many agency: client relationships have changed during the lockdown we discuss the longer-term prospects for UK public relatio...
Is ESG the most important development for public relations in 50 years?
August 04, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBToday on the PRmoment podcast, I’m talking to Matt Peacock, partner at Blurred, about something that I suspect six months ago few of us had heard of – no not Covid, but ESG! Environmental, Social, and Governance refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of an organisation. Matt is a partner at Blurred, an ex-corporate affairs director at Vodafone, and visiting professor at Henley Business School. Here’s a summary of what Matt and I discussed:...
Frank co-founder Andrew Bloch on the PRmoment Podcast
July 16, 2020 15:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBIn the latest of our 'career stories' themed interviews, we talk to Frank co-founder Andrew Bloch. To those of you that are surprised that Andrew hasn't been on the show before, we can confirm that he hasn't, and he's definitely in the category of one of those guests that we've been saving up! As many of you will know, Andrew co-founded Frank PR in 2000 and it has become one of the UK's largest consumer shops with a fee income of approximately £8m in 2019. Here are some of the themes Andr...
Francis Ingham on the PRmoment podcast: “The majority of PR agency employees who have been furloughed are likely to be made redundant”
July 08, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBThis week, in the latest of our PR Reset series about how the PR world and the wider economy might reset post the Covid-19 lockdown, I’m talking to PRCA director general Francis Ingham. It’s explosive stuff, the highlights are below, but Ingham believes approximately 5,000 UK PR people are likely to be made redundant and claims “The majority of people on furlough within our industry have no idea what’s coming their way”. Ingham also reveals the PRCA will come out of the Covid lockdown abo...
Warren Johnson on the PRmoment podcast: “As with any recession there is a certain thinning of the herd, but on aggregate there will be a re-professionalisation of the industry”
July 06, 2020 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week, we're starting a new series called PR Reset, where I'm catching up with the CEOs of some of the UK's most prominent PR firms to talk about how they see their business, the PR world and the wider economy resetting post the Covid-19 lockdown. First up, we've got the founder of W Communications Warren Johnson. Frankly, Warren’s on even more punchy form than ever! Here’s a summary of what we discussed: 2.12 mins How Warren has managed the coronavirus lockdown crisis for W. 2.50 ...
Julian Obubo, brand strategy director at Manifest London on "How to be an anti-racist company" on the PRmoment Podcast
July 02, 2020 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBToday, on the PRmoment Podcast, I'm talking to Julian Obubo, brand strategy director at Manifest London about "How to be an anti-racist company." Julian is a member of the leadership team at Manifest and, I know, has been a vital part of the agency's impressive growth in recent years. As has long been discussed, the diversity stats in PR are embarrassing with approximately 92% of the sector describing themselves as British White. If you’d like to understand more about the diversity challe...
Phil Hall, chairman of the PHA Group, on the PRmoment podcast
June 10, 2020 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, we've got Phil Hall, chairman of The PHA Group. For those of you that are not aware, Phil was the editor of the News of the World from 1995 to 2000. His old bosses included Piers Morgan and Rupert Murdoch – he was at the pinnacle of British tabloid journalism before he left it all behind in 2005 and founded Phil Hall Associates (Now The PHA Group). He started the business in his front room and his first client was none other than Paul McCartney. He went ...
Ruth Kieran, CEO of Cirkle, on the PRmoment podcast
June 10, 2020 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBToday we’re talking to Ruth Kieran, CEO of Cirkle, about how an independent firm like Cirkle has coped and responded to the Covid-19 crisis so far. Here’s a summary of what Ruth and I discussed: How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the business? How the crisis has been very specific in the way it has impacted firms. For example, Cirkle has a lot of food and drink clients including Morrisons and Cafe Nero. Morrisons is extremely busy and Cafe Nero obviously had to shut all of its st...
Tariq Ahmed, ex-group head of corporate communications at Liquid Telecom, on the PRmoment podcast
June 08, 2020 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBThis week, we welcome Tariq Ahmed, ex-group head of corporate communications at Liquid Telecom, to the PRmoment podcast. Here’s a summary of what Tariq and I discussed: In the context of the George Floyd racism protests in the US and throughout the world, including here in the UK, Tariq and I talk about his decision to change his name from Tariq Ahmed to Daniel Jacobs back in 2002 – when Tariq found he was unable to get a job in public relations as a Muslim man in the UK. How Tariq set...
Alec Samways, CEO & head of creative strategy at Splendid Communications on the PRmoment podcast
May 29, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBThis week we’re going to return to our roots - by going back to our regular career stories theme. We’ve pretty much covered the Covid-19 angle of PR and agency management if you want more info on that then have a listen to the past 5/6 episodes of the podcast, or have a look at the 25 plus Covid-19 articles on PRmoment.com - I think you’ll find all you need to know. It’s quite a body of work. This week on the PRmoment podcast, our guest is Alec Samways, CEO & head of creative strategy at S...
Adrian Talbot, finance director of Hotwire PR, on the financial management of a PR firm during Covid-19
May 15, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBOn the PRmoment podcast this week, we’ve got Adrian Talbot who is the FD of Hotwire PR. He’s one of the most experienced FDs in public relations, having been at Hotwire for over four years, before that he was at BBH, College Hill (now Instinctif) and Burson Marsteller. As quick plug from me, if you haven’t booked already, then you don’t have long to book your tickets to our series of Lite events: We’re running online seminars on PR Analytics, The Intersection of PR and SEO and The Influenc...
Chris Talago, VP PR and communications JAPAC and EMEA at Oracle, gives an in-house perspective on the Covid-19 lockdown
May 11, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBOn today’s show, we’ve got Chris Talago, VP PR and communications JAPAC and EMEA at Oracle. Chris is going to be giving us an in-house communicator’s perspective on the Covid-19 lockdown. Here’s a flavour of what Chris and I discuss: How have the comms team at Oracle coped with the Covid-19 crisis so far? What message is the comms team trying to get across at the moment? Why Covid-19 requires a fundamental rethink of communications, not merely a pause on the status quo. Whe...
Amanda Coleman and Ben Smith discuss the UK government’s communications performance since the Covid-19 crisis kicked off.
May 07, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week I’m interviewing Amanda Coleman, Ex-head of Corporate Communications at Greater Manchester Police and author of the book Crisis Communication Strategies. Amanda has recently founded her own agency, Amanda Coleman Communications. Amanda and I are going to be looking at the UK governments’ communications performance since the Covid-19 crisis began. To emphasise, we are not attempting to assess the UK governments overall response to Covid-19 because neither Amanda nor I are scienti...
Amanda Coleman and Ben Smith discuss the UK government’s communications performance since the Covid-19 crisis kicked off.
May 07, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week I’m interviewing Amanda Coleman, Ex-head of Corporate Communications at Greater Manchester Police and author of the book Crisis Communication Strategies. Amanda has recently founded her own agency, Amanda Coleman Communications. Amanda and I are going to be looking at the UK governments’ communications performance since the Covid-19 crisis began. To emphasise, we are not attempting to assess the UK governments overall response to Covid-19 because neither Amanda nor I are scienti...
Mandy Sharp, founder and CEO of Tin Man Communications, on what it’s like running a consumer PR firm during the Covid-19 lockdown
May 07, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBOn today’s show, we’re talking to Mandy Sharp, founder and CEO of Tin Man Communications. Mandy and I are going to be talking about her experiences of running a consumer PR firm during the Covid-19 lockdown. Here’s a summary of what Mandy and I discuss: How has it been for Mandy and Tin Man since the Covid-19 crisis kicked off? Why one of the problems for consumer PR firms has been that a lot of their work is project-based. Hilton is one of Tin Man’s clients, Mandy and I di...
Crispin Manners and Richard Houghton, co-authors of ‘Grow, Build, Sell, Live: A Practical Guide to Running and Building an Agency and Enjoying It’, talk about the implications of the Covid-19 crisis for PR firms
May 05, 2020 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBOn today’s show, we’ve got Crispin Manners and Richard Houghton, co-authors of ‘Grow, Build, Sell, Live: A Practical Guide to Running and Building an Agency and Enjoying It’, talking about the implications of the Covid-19 crisis for PR firms. Here’s a summary of what we discuss: Most agencies have now dealt with the short-term demands of the Covid-19 crisis, but how helpful have the various government schemes been for UK PR firms? Is pride getting in the way of some firms putting some o...
Julietta Dexter, Founder, The Communications Store discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the fashion, beauty and lifestyle businesses and the impact of culture on business
April 17, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBToday on the PRmoment podcast were chatting with Julietta Dexter who is Founder and CEO of The Communications Store. Julietta has recently launched the book ‘Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values’ which talks about Julietta’s personal story of lessons learned in the workplace and how to navigate a successful career while holding onto one’s personal beliefs and values. The Communications Store was founded in 1995, is a privately owned communications firm with an i...
Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman at Cicero/AMO on the PRmoment podcast
April 02, 2020 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBWelcome to the latest podcast with Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman at Cicero/AMO. We’ve put our life stories podcasts on pause as they just don’t feel appropriate at the moment - so today Iain and I are going to be talking about Covid 19: The media, the politics, and the communications. Here is a summary of what Iain and I talk about: [00:02:12] Iain tells us how he's finding it as a business person working through the Covid-19 crisis. [00:02:46] How as a PR professional Iain feels pri...
Rachel Bell and David Fraser discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the UK's PR agency market
March 31, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBWe discuss how different sectors are affected, what the impact of the government’s furloughing scheme will be on the PR business, how the government’s business interruption loans can work, and the impact of Covid-19 on employees and clients to date. Here’s a summary of what we discussed: I’m conscious we have international listeners, to confirm the government schemes we’re talking about in this show are the UK government's schemes. Rachel Bell interview: [00:01:35] What types of business...
Rachel Bell and David Fraser discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the UK's PR agency market
March 31, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBWe discuss how different sectors are affected, what the impact of the government’s furloughing scheme will be on the PR business, how the government’s business interruption loans can work, and the impact of Covid-19 on employees and clients to date. Here’s a summary of what we discussed: I’m conscious we have international listeners, to confirm the government schemes we’re talking about in this show are the UK government's schemes. Rachel Bell interview: [00:01:35] What types of business...
Jo Carr, co-founder, and chief client officer at Hope&Glory, on the PRmoment podcast
March 10, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, we've got Jo Carr, co-founder, and chief client officer at Hope&Glory. Hope&Glory was co-founded by Jo Carr and James Gordon-MacIntosh in 2011. It now has a fee income of circa £8.5 million, employs about 80 people and grew by 25% in 2019. [00:01:26] How Jo originally wanted to be a journalist or work in advertising. [00:03:33] How Jo was originally a corpsumer PR person and made the switch to consumer relatively late in her career. [00:08:1...
Jo Carr, co-founder, and chief client officer at Hope&Glory, on the PRmoment podcast
March 10, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, we've got Jo Carr, co-founder, and chief client officer at Hope&Glory. Hope&Glory was co-founded by Jo Carr and James Gordon-MacIntosh in 2011. It now has a fee income of circa £8.5 million, employs about 80 people and grew by 25% in 2019. [00:01:26] How Jo originally wanted to be a journalist or work in advertising. [00:03:33] How Jo was originally a corpsumer PR person and made the switch to consumer relatively late in her career. [00:08:1...
Will Sturgeon, head of content and thought leadership at PwC, on the PRmoment podcast
March 02, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBIt’s a bit of an owned-media special this week! In the latest show, we talk to Will Sturgeon, head of content and thought leadership at PwC. Will talks us through PwC’s content strategy and explains why he believes the opportunity for owned-media content, distributed via a business’s experts, has never been greater. In the UK, PwC has 22,000 employees and 900 partners and operates across multiple vertical sectors and disciplines. Will has a content team of about 10 people. Here’...