PRmoment Podcast
350 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day 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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Inside the pitch process – we talk to Rebecca Wagstaffe from 3 Monkeys Zeno and Lenovo’s Charlotte West on the PRmoment podcast
December 03, 2019 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, we’re taking another change of tack – we’re talking about the pitching process and on the show we’ve got a PR buyer and a PR seller. On the buy side we’ve got Lenovo’s executive director, global corporate communications Charlotte West and on the sell side we’ve got 3 Monkey Zeno’s business development director Rebecca Wagstaffe. Here’s a summary of what Rebecca, Charlotte and I discussed: [00:01:19] What is a tissue meeting and are they a good idea? [00...
Steph Macleod, director at Kaizo, on the PRmoment podcast
November 26, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBKaizo is an independent PR firm specialising in two areas – B2B technology PR and health and wellness. It has a fee income of about £3m and employs 30 people. Steph and Rhodri Harries bought the business in 2011 and it’s an interesting story because fairly swiftly after that they lost three of their biggest clients. The firm is now thriving again and clients include the likes of Avast, Pure Storage and Snap Logic. Here’s a summary of what Steph and I discussed: [00:02:25] How Steph...
Case study: Why Samsung Quick Drive campaign won the Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year at the 2019 PRmoment Awards
November 21, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format. In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019. So today I’m talking to Pete Mountstevens, CCO & Managing Partner at Taylor Herring, about its 'Spin Cycle: the launch of Samsung Quick Drive' campaign that won the Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year at the 2019 PRmoment Awards. The early bird entry deadline ...
Case study: Why Samsung Quick Drive campaign won the Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year at the 2019 PRmoment Awards
November 21, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format. In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019. So today I’m talking to Pete Mountstevens, CCO & Managing Partner at Taylor Herring, about its 'Spin Cycle: the launch of Samsung Quick Drive' campaign that won the Integrated Communications Campaign of the Year at the 2019 PRmoment Awards. The early bird entry deadline ...
Marshall Manson, director at Brunswick, on the PRmoment podcast
November 19, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Marshall Manson. Marshall has been London based for the last 11 years. He worked at Edelman London as its digital director from 2008 to 2013, then he joined Ogilvy, from 2013 to 2018, latterly as the last UK CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations. Marshall joined Brunswick as a partner in April last year. Brunswick employs 1,100 people globally and 250 people in the UK. It has a global fee income of circa £300m. ...
Marshall Manson, partner at Brunswick, on the PRmoment podcast
November 19, 2019 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Marshall Manson. Marshall has been London based for the last 11 years. He worked at Edelman London as its digital director from 2008 to 2013, then he joined Ogilvy, from 2013 to 2018, latterly as the last UK CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations. Marshall joined Brunswick as a partner in April last year. Brunswick employs 1,100 people globally and 250 people in the UK. It has a global fee income of circa £300m. ...
A discussion about mental health in PR, with James Endersby and Jane Fordham on the PRmoment podcast
November 15, 2019 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast, we’re talking about mental health in PR. On the show we’ve got James Endersby, chief executive of Opinium, and Jane Fordham, who spent 20 years working in PR agencies before launching her eponymous consultancy in 2018 specialising in people, culture and diversity. Opinium has recently published a Mental Health and Wellbeing report in conjunction with the PRCA. One of the headlines coming out of the report says, and I quote: “that 62% of UK workers have s...
Asad Dhunna, founder of The Unmistakables, on the PRmoment Podcast
November 12, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Asad Dhunna, founder of The Unmistakables, on the PRmoment Podcast. Asad started his career at IncrediBull (now Text 100), before moving to Weber Shandwick and via a stint in-house at FleishmanHillard Fishburn. Asad set up the Unmistakables in Aug 2018. Alongside running his own agency until recently he was also director of communications at Pride in London. Here is a summary of what Asad and I discussed: [00:01:02] A...
Jennifer Mowat, managing director at Babel, on the PRmoment podcast
November 06, 2019 16:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Jennifer Mowat, managing director at Babel. Jennifer went to university at Cambridge. Her first job in PR was at Mantra (now Speed) before moving to Chameleon and Brands2Life as a director. She joined Babel as managing director in February this year. Babel is an independent tech PR firm with a revenue of circa £2m. It employs 20 people in the UK and five in the US. It was founded by Ian Hood and Narelle Morrison in 200...
David Benigson, CEO of Signal AI, on the PRmoment podcast
October 28, 2019 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBThis week we’re changing tack – we’re challenging our listeners out there to engage your brains! Technology means we’re on the cusp of data and insight playing a much bigger role in the planning, activation and measurement of communications. Alongside this development, a number of new (and established firms) have invested in the technology to more accurately and more swiftly understand the numbers behind communications. And on the show today is David Benigson who is the CEO at one of thes...
An update from the global ICCO PR Summit: Hear from Francis Ingham, Barbara Bates and new president of ICCO Nitin Mantri
October 16, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBHere's a special PRmoment podcast from the ICCO Global Summit in Lisbon featuring interviews with ICCO CEO Francis Ingham, global CEO of Hotwire Barbara Bates, and new president of ICCO and group CEO Avian WE in India Nitin Mantri. On the podcast we cover global public relations trends, whether PR has an ethics problem and focus on Nitin's plans for his two-year stint as ICCO president. Here's a flavour of what we discussed: Francis Ingham [00:00:32] What is ICCO? [00:00:39] Do we reall...
Alex Northcott, co-founder of Gorkana and founder of Roxhill Media, on the PRmoment podcast
October 16, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Alex Northcott, co-founder of Gorkana and founder of Roxhill Media. Alex has packed quite a bit into his career. He was originally in the British Army as an officer in the Gurkhas. His first job when he left the British Army was in PR at JP Morgan. He then worked for Morgan Stanley before cofounding Gorkana in 2004 alongside Michael Webster. Between them they grew Gorkana over a six-year period before selling to Durr...
Fenella Grey, chair at Porter Novelli London, on the PRmoment podcast
October 07, 2019 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Fenella Grey, chair at Porter Novelli London, on the PRmoment podcast Fenella was a director at Weber Shandwick between 2007 and 2013, then she spent almost six years at Freuds before joining Porter Novelli in 2014. She was MD of the London office, before becoming London chair in July last year. Porter Novelli in London has circa 75 full-time and part-time people in its London office. Here’s a summary of what Fenella ...
Niall Couper, head of media, PR and supporter communications for Amnesty International UK, on the PRmoment podcast
October 01, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBThis week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format from normal. In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019. So today I’m talking to Niall Couper who is head of media, PR and supporter communications for Amnesty International UK. The Amnesty International UK comms team won the in-house team of the year award at the PRmoment Awards this year. Here’s a flavour of what Niall...
Louie St Claire, CEO of Harvard and board director at Chime Specialist Group, on the PRmoment podcast
September 25, 2019 19:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Louie St Claire, CEO of Harvard and board director at Chime Specialist Group Harvard is part of the Chime Group, has a turnover of £7.5 million and grew by 18% last year. It has 80 employees. Chime originally bought Harvard in 2000 when it employed 200 people. What I love about Louie and Harvard’s story is that when Louie joined the company in 2011 it was down to a revenue £1.2m and had 11 employees left. So it’s be...
Dan Neale, co-founder of Alfred, on the PRmoment podcast
September 17, 2019 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Dan Neale, co-founder and MD at Alfred. Alfred is an independent PR shop in London focusing on the consumer, entertainment, technology and gaming markets. It has a fee income of circa 1.3m and about 15 employees. Alfred was founded in 2013 by Dan Neale and Gemma Pears. Gemma moved to the US for a short while and during that time Dan bought her out, meaning he now owns 100% of the business. Previously to Alfred, Dan h...
Nick Clark, MD of Nelson Bostock, on the PRmoment podcast
September 10, 2019 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome MD of Nelson Bostock Nick Clark. Nelson Bostock is one of those firms that everyone’s heard of, but it probably punches below its weight in terms of it’s profile in the PR industry. For those of you that don’t know, Nelson Bostock was founded in 1987 by Martin Bostock and Roger Nelson. The founders of the business have left the firm and it’s now part of Unlimited Group which is owned b...
Mark Lowe, co-founder at Third City, on the PRmoment podcast
July 30, 2019 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Mark Lowe, co-founder of Third City. Third City is a consumer PR firm in London with a fee income of over £2 million and a turnover approaching £3 million and 28 employees. Mark co-founded Third City in 2008 with Graz Belli. Previously Mark had worked at Band & Brown for six years. Here is a summary of what Mark and I discussed. [00:01:09] How Mark originally wanted to be an actor. [00:03:01] Mark talks us through...
Tom Buttle , CEO of Chameleon, on the PRmoment podcast
July 01, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-owner and managing director of Chameleon Tom Buttle Chameleon is an independent tech PR firm in London with a fee income of £2.1m and 20 people. The business was originally owned by Helen Holland before Tom Butttle and Tom Berry (what are the chances!) completed an MBO of the business in April 2017. Here’s a summary of what Tom and I discussed: [00:01:08] How Tom was a late starter in P...
Natasha Hill, managing director at Bottle, on the PRmoment podcast
June 26, 2019 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Natasha Hill, managing director at Bottle. Bottle has a turnover of £2m and is an independent multi-specialist PR firm in Oxford. The business was previously owned by Will and Claire Cairns. Will Cairns still has a stake in the business but Natasha and creative director Colin Cather now run the business day to day. Bottle has 25 staff and about 60% of its work is in consumer markets and 40% in B2B. Here is a flavour of what Natash...
Richard Fogg, CEO at CCgroup, on the PRmoment podcast
June 18, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBRichard Fogg, CEO at CCgroup on the PRmoment podcast This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m pleased to welcome Richard Fogg, CEO of CCgroup. CCgroup has a fee income of £3.5m and is an independent, technology-focused PR firm in London. The business was previously known as Companycare and rebranded as CCgroup in 2006 Rich and his business partner Paul Nolan completed a management buy out of the business in 2018 and we talk in detail about that process. [00:03:16] Why Rich believes his Bou...
Torod Neptune, worldwide group VP and chief communications officer at Lenovo Group, on the PRmoment Podcast
June 11, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories interviews, I’m pleased to welcome Torod Neptune, who is worldwide group vice president and chief communications officer at Lenovo Group. His CV is a beautiful thing – he’s previously spent time at Weber, WE, The US House of Representatives and Verizon before joining Lenovo in 2017. Torod is also a passionate supporter of increasing the number of BAME people working in PR. Here is a taster of what Torod and I discuss: [...
Torod Neptune, worldwide group VP and chief communications officer at Lenovo Group, on the PRmoment Podcast
June 11, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories interviews, I’m pleased to welcome Torod Neptune, who is worldwide group vice president and chief communications officer at Lenovo Group. His CV is a beautiful thing – he’s previously spent time at Weber, WE, The US House of Representatives and Verizon before joining Lenovo in 2017. Torod is also a passionate supporter of increasing the number of BAME people working in PR. Here is a taster of what Torod and I discuss: [...
Jon Lonsdale, CEO and joint founder of Octopus, on the PRmoment podcast
June 04, 2019 08:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Jon Lonsdale, CEO and joint founder of Octopus. Octopus has a fee income of £5m and is an independent technology-focused PR firm in London. The business has been going for nearly 18 years and was founded by three mates who worked together at Bite. Those friendships are still intact and are still at the heart of the business. Octopus has also, in Jon’s words “bet the farm” on its brands to sales positioning of the agency and we'l...
A bonus PRmoment podcast from AMEC’s Global Summit in Prague
May 29, 2019 09:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBHere’s a special PRmoment podcast from AMEC’s Global Summit in Prague: featuring PRmoment founder Ben Smith complete with an almost lost voice, Diageo’s Jim Alexander, AMEC chairman and CARMA CEO, Europe and the Americas Richard Bagnall and Mischief’s head of insight and strategy Gemma Moroney. We talk through the three perspectives of PR’s measurement opportunity – the client's perspective, the measurement provider’s perspective and finally, the PR firm’s side of the story. First up I tal...
Shimon Cohen, chairman of The PR Office on the PRmoment podcast
May 24, 2019 15:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interviewed chairman of The PR Office Shimon Cohen. The PR Office was founded in 2004, has a fee income of about £2.5m and about 15 employees. The business has clients across a broad range of sectors and Shimon has some interesting views on how he sees the scope of public relations. Here is a summary of what Shimon and I discussed: [00:01:05] How Shimon used to be executive director to the Chief Rabbi but ende...
Sharon Bange, managing partner at Kindred, on the PRmoment podcast
May 14, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Sharon Bange, managing partner at Kindred. Kindred has a fee income of circa £5m, a turnover of approx £9m and employs circa 50 people. It is an interesting story because the business almost went bust in 2010 (for reasons discussed in the podcast) but it has since recovered. Sharon has been with the business since 2003 and is now a managing partner. [00:00:48] How Sharon ended up in PR although ...
Rax Lakhani talking about the business of influence on the PRmoment podcast
May 07, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in anticipation of our Influence of Influence conference on 15 May, I interviewed Rax Lakhani, freelance PR and social media consultant, about the current state of influencer marketing. Here’s a summary of what Rax and I discussed: [00:01:30] Why Rax turned his back on full-time PR agency employment and became a freelancer. [00:04:56 ] Why Rax believes PR agencies have become incredibly good at commoditising what they do. [00:06:22] Why Rax worries that...
James Hickman, director, Hatch Communications, on the PRmoment podcast
May 02, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interviewed James Hickman, director, Hatch Communications. Hatch is a Leeds based consultancy founded in 2008 and they now have billings of £2m per annum and 25 staff. Hatch had 80% growth last year, all of which was organic growth. Clients include Diageo globally and the Rugby League World Cup Here is a summary of what James and I discussed: [00:00:56] Whether it is tougher to build a PR agency business outsi...
James Hickman, director, Hatch Communications, on the PRmoment podcast
May 02, 2019 08:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interviewed James Hickman, director, Hatch Communications. Hatch is a Leeds based consultancy founded in 2008 and they now have billings of £2m per annum and 25 staff. Hatch had 80% growth last year, all of which was organic growth. Clients include Diageo globally and the Rugby League World Cup Here is a summary of what James and I discussed: [00:00:56] Whether it is tougher to build a PR agency business outsi...
Dee Gibbs, founder of Liberty Communications, on the PRmoment podcast
April 23, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interview Dee Gibbs, founder of Liberty Communications. Dee founded Liberty Communications 21 years ago. Liberty is an independent PR firm, specialising in Tech PR. It has a turnover of £2.5m, approximately 25 people and offices in London and San Francisco. Here is a flavour of what Dee and I discussed: [00:01:20] Why, after working in-house for 15 years, Dee decided to start up her own firm. [00:04:17] Why, a...
Jon Hughes, CEO of Golin, on the PRmoment podcast
April 09, 2019 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome CEO of Golin Jon Hughes. Global PR firm Golin has a fee income of about $240m. Jon has been at Golin for about 14 years, he spent six years in the UK as co-managing director alongside Matt Neale, before moving to Hong Kong to head up its international business. He became CEO alongside Matt Neale and Gary Rudnick in 2017. Here are some of the highlights of what Jon and I discussed: [00:01...
Sarah Scholefield, CEO, UK and Ireland, Grayling, on the PRmoment podcast
April 02, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I'm pleased to welcome Sarah Scholefield, CEO, UK and Ireland, Grayling. Sarah has worked at Grayling for five years, having previously held senior roles in Singapore with Fleishman Hillard, Ruder Finn and Edelman Grayling has nine offices in the UK, 70 globally and 130 employees. Sarah can’t comment on these numbers because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but Grayling was reported to have a fee income of circa $55m gl...
Natalie Luke, founder and MD of Aduro Communications on the PRmoment podcast
March 28, 2019 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBNatalie started her career at Shine in 2003 before launching Aduro in 2012. Aduro has a turnover of £1m and employs 10 people. It specialises in consumer focused public relations work. [00:00:54] Why Natalie describes Aduro as the “Ronseal of PR”. [00:02:56] Why Natalie believes it is possible to isolate the impact of PR in a consumer market where there are numerous promotional channels. [00:03:52] How working with entrepreneurs showed Natalie that if she could demonstrate the impact o...
Scott Wilson, president Europe and Africa at Burson Cohn & Wolfe, on the PRmoment podcast
March 26, 2019 04:00 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Scott Wilson, president Europe and Africa at Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW). Scott started his career in journalism, before becoming head of media at Porter Novelli and then managing director of consumer at Weber Shandwick. Scott then moved to Cohn & Wolfe to become UK CEO and later MD of EMEA. And when Cohn & Wolfe and Burson Marsteller merged one year ago he got the nod for the president Europe and Africa job at Burson Coh...
Lawrence Francis, executive director of Premier on the PRmoment podcast
March 19, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I'm pleased to welcome executive director of Premier, Lawrence Francis. Lawrence has an interesting personal career story because he has successfully made the journey from being a business development director at Premier to working client side. Premier is one of UK PR’s best kept secrets; it's a big firm. It has a turnover of nearly 20 million pounds and employs 170 people. It specialises in entertainment, art and...
Neil Henderson, group director of global media and financial communications at Zurich Insurance Group, on the PRmoment podcast
March 13, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Neil Henderson, group director of global media and financial communications at Zurich Insurance Group. Neil is based in Switzerland. Previously, he has was head of media, content and partnerships at Which?, director of communications at Mastercard, executive director at Golin and head of media and broadcast at Red. Before this, he was a journalist with Sky, ITN and the BBC. [00:01:03] How Neil has managed his career s...
The UK findings of the Edelman Trust Barometer with Louise Turner, head of Edelman Intelligence UK & Ireland
March 11, 2019 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I’m interviewing Louise Turner, head of Edelman Intelligence UK & Ireland. Louise heads up a large part of Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer research and is here to tell us about the UK findings in a global context. Louise talks about a fair bit of data in this podcast and below are a few useful links where you can learn more about the context of the discussion. To hear more about the global Trust Barometer have a look here and all the UK specific findings...
Daljit Bhurji, co-founder of Diffusion on the PRmoment podcast
March 05, 2019 05:00 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder and CEO of Diffusion Daljit Bhurji. Diffusion was established 11 years ago and has a turnover of £5m and employes 60 people - 30 in London and 30 in the US, with offices in New York and more recently LA. It has a range of consumer, travel and technology clients. From about 26 minutes onwards, Daljit has some interesting things to say about diversity in public relations. [00:01:14...
Fanclub PR founder Adrian Ma on the PRmoment podcast
February 21, 2019 05:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome founder and MD of Fanclub PR Adrian Ma. Fanclub was established seven years ago, has a turnover of £1m and employes 11 people. It has a consumer and B2B client portfolio including Tesco Mobile and every PR person’s favourite organisation The NLA. Adrian has some really interesting things to say about the progress of PR’s diversity problem from about 32 minutes onwards. [00:01:35] Adrian te...
Tom Murphy, director of global communications, Microsoft Services, on The PRmoment Podcast
February 15, 2019 05:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBThis week in the latest of our life stories podcast I’m interviewing Tom Murphy, director of global communications, Microsoft Services. Tom started his career at Text 100 in Ireland and then worked for a couple of start-ups and mid-sized firms in their in-house teams before joining Microsoft Ireland in 2005. He moved to Microsoft's head office in Redmond in the US in 2009 and is now Global Communications at Microsoft Services. Tom joined us on the phone from Redmond. Here is a summary of ...
Brendon Craigie, founder of Tyto, on The PRmoment podcast
February 13, 2019 05:00 - 43 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m talking to co-founder of Tyto and previous global CEO of Hotwire Brendon Craigie. Brendon joined Hotwire in 2000, three months after it was founded and went on to become its group CEO. During his time at Hotwire the firm grew to have a turnover of $31 million. Unexpectedly for most observers, Brendon left Hotwire in 2017 following its acquisition of Eastwick. He set up Tyto in October of that year. Eighteen months later Tyto has a fee income of ap...
Tony Langham on the PRmoment podcast
February 08, 2019 05:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder and CEO of Lansons Tony Langham. Lansons is one of the UK's largest independent PR consultancies - with a fee income of circa £14m. The business was founded in 1989 by Tony and his now wife Clare Parsons. Lansons has about 110 employees. Here is a summary of what Tony and I discussed: [00:00:42] Tony tells us about the series of events that led to him and Clare launching Lansons...
Molly Aldridge, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Public Relations on the PRmoment podcast
January 30, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome Molly Aldridge, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Public Relations. Molly has worked for both large and small agencies, independent and networked. She joined M&C Saatchi Public Relations in 2012. The company has a fee income of circa £10m and employs circa 100 people. Here is what Molly reveals: [00:03:32] The importance of PR being a good place for parents to come back to work after havi...
Giles Fraser, co-founder of Brands2Life, on the PRmoment podcast
January 28, 2019 05:00 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBThis week, in the latest of our life stories podcast series, I’m interviewing Giles Fraser. Giles is co-founder of Brands2Life. He started the agency in 2000 with Sarah Scales and today, the agency has over 140 staff, a fee income of £14m and offices in the UK and US. Giles started his career at mid-sized agency Infopress on Fleet St when the papers were all still there and he spent four years pitching stories to journalists in the newsrooms and pubs. He then moved on to work in the com...
Aaron Kwittken on the PRmoment podcast
January 17, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBThis week I'm interviewing Aaron Kwittken, founder of KWT in the latest of life stories podcasts. Aaron started KWT, formally Kwittken, 13 years ago. Before this he followed a big agency career path working at MSL, Ketchum, Fleishman, Cohn and Wolfe and Havas. KWT has a fee income of $12 to $15 million dollars and around 80 employees including 12 in London. Aarron sold KWT to MDC Partners in 2010 and still owns a minority stake in the firm. MDC Partners also owns Allison Partners...
MWWPR’s Rebecca Blinston-Jones on the PRmoment podcast
January 11, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBThis week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Rebecca Blinston-Jones, UK managing director of MWWPR. MWWPR is a US-owned, mid-sized PR firm with revenues of $40-50m that employs around 250 people. In the UK it has revenues of £1.7m and employs around 20 people. Here is a taster of what Rebecca and I discussed: How her formative years at Text 100 played a huge part in Rebecca’s career 1.05 mins How Rebecca met her husband at Text 100 1.40 mins How Rebecca used to sign clients ...
MWWPR’s Rebecca Blinston-Jones on the PRmoment podcast
January 11, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBThis week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Rebecca Blinston-Jones, UK managing director of MWWPR. MWWPR is a US-owned, mid-sized PR firm with revenues of $40-50m that employs around 250 people. In the UK it has revenues of £1.7m and employs around 20 people. Here is a taster of what Rebecca and I discussed: How her formative years at Text 100 played a huge part in Rebecca’s career 1.05 mins How Rebecca met her husband at Text 100 1.40 mins How Rebecca used to sign clients ...
Howard Kosky, CEO of 4DC
January 04, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBIn a special PRmoment podcast I talk to Howard Kosky, CEO of 4DC, the recently launched podcast consultancy. In a wide-ranging conversation about podcasts, here is a summary of what Howard and I discussed: Why the rise in podcast popularity is linked to the continued popularity of radio 0.50 mins Whether the rise of podcasting is linked to consumers getting screen fatigue 1.42 mins The trend of narrowcasting 2.20 mins That 11% of UK adults listen to a podcast each week, average ho...
James Herring on the PRmoment podcast
January 02, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast. in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder of Taylor Herring, James Herring. James started Taylor Herring in 2001 alongside his then girlfriend Kath Taylor. Taylor Herring has had quite a 12 months, with work with Greggs, The Beano, Samsung, Diageo and Easyjet (and I could go on) grabbing attention. Taylor Herring is one of a group of independent firms in London who seem to be pushing the boundaries of public relat...