PRmoment Podcast
350 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 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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Welcome to the PRmoment podcast 2018 year in review
December 13, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MBWelcome to a slightly different PRmoment podcast. This week we're going to be doing a year in review of 2018. The show will be divided up into three parts. First up, we have Alice Weightman, founder and CEO of Hanson Search, who's going to talk to us about the PR talent market in 2018. Then we have PRCA director general Francis Ingham, who’ll be giving us a wider perspective about the health of the sector over the past 12 months. Finally, we have Taylor Herring co-founder James Herri...
Barbara Bates, global CEO of Hotwire on the PRmoment podcast
December 11, 2018 10:00 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Barbara Bates, global CEO of Hotwire. Barbara was joint founder of the independent US tech specialist Eastwick and ran the firm for 25 years before selling to Hotwire, in what was Hotwire’s parent firm Enero Group’s biggest acquisition for the agency to date. Following Hotwire’s takeover of Eastwick, Barbara became global CEO of the agency that had bought her company. Hotwire has grown significantly ...
Nik Govier, founder and CEO of Blurred, on the PRmoment podcast
December 04, 2018 10:00 - 50 minutes - 23 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Nik Govier, founder and CEO of agency Blurred. Previously, Nik was the co-founder of consumer PR shop Unity. At its peak, Unity had a turnover of circa £4m. Nik has recently founded and self backed her new venture Blurred, which launched last month. Here is a flavour of what we discussed: How a job as a tour guide at at Madame Tussauds led to a career in PR 1 min How Nik’s early career was in...
Mandy Sharp, founder of Tin Man, on the PRmoment podcast
November 26, 2018 16:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing Mandy Sharp, founder of Tin Man. Mandy founded Tin Man in 2013 and it now has a fee income of £1.3m and employs 20 people. Previously, Tin Man was part owned by Unity co-founders Nik Done and Gerry Hopkinson, but Mandy has recently bought them out and is now the sole owner of Tin Man. Here is a summary of what we discussed: How it feels for Mandy owning 100% of Tin Man, having bought out Nik Done and Gerry Hopkinson who previously ...
Angie Wiles, Founder, The Difference Collective, on the PRmoment podcast
November 22, 2018 13:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBThis week, on the PRmoment oodcast, I interviewed Angie Wiles, founder of The Difference Collective. Previously, Angie founded Virgo Health with Sarah Matthew in 2003 before selling Virgo to Golin in 2012. Both Sarah and Angie have now left Golin. Angie is now doing it all again and set up The Difference Collective last year. Here is a summary of what we discussed: Why Angie preferred PR to marketing at uni How she blagged a job at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was on the IOC's press t...
Adrian Talbot, global CFO at Hotwire, on the PRmoment podcast
November 12, 2018 22:00 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBThis week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Adrian Talbot, global CFO at Hotwire. Most PR agency entrepreneurs I speak to reckon the time they hired an experienced financel director was a critical moment for the growth of their business – so I thought it would be interesting to get an experienced PR agency FD on the show to talk. Adrian has held senior FD posts in various PR firms for the last 15 years, including Hotwire, Instinctif, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and Burson Marstelle...
Brad MacAfee, chief executive officer, senior partner at Porter Novelli on the PRmoment podcast
November 07, 2018 16:00 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBThis week, on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing Brad MacAfee, chief executive officer, senior partner at Porter Novelli. Brad has worked at Porter Novelli for the past 18 years and is now the global CEO of this Omnicom-owned PR firm. Porter Novelli has around 90 offices in 60 countries. Here is a flavour of what Chris and I discussed: Brad identifies what he sees as the four growth categories for public relations over the next few years 1 min Whether company purpose has become th...
Chris Talago, VP PR & communications, JAPAC & EMEA at Oracle on the PRmoment podcast
October 23, 2018 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Chris Talago, VP PR & communications, JAPAC & EMEA at Oracle. Chris started his career in the British Army before moving, fairly randomly it has to be said, into PR. He started his career in-house before moving agency side with jobs at Text 100 and Hill and Knowlton. He then moved in-house to AMD before tacking back agency side to become general manager EMEA at Waggener Edstrom (now WE) before taking the Oracle job in 2016. Here is ...
Atlas Partners co-founder Vanessa Pine on the PRmoment podcast
October 16, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBThis week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Vanessa Pine, co-founder of Atlas Partners. What I love about Vanessa’s career is that it’s real! She says she doesn’t have any regrets, but there are a few career decisions which I suspect, in hindsight, she could have played out differently. Vanessa is currently a director at Atlas Partners which employs 10 people and has a fee income of £600K. Atlas was founded in 2015. Here is a summary of what Vanessa and I discussed: Vanessa tell...
The Romans founder and executive creative director Joe Mackay-Sinclair on the PRmoment podcast.
October 08, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I interview co-founder and executive creative director at The Romans, Joe Mackay-Sinclair Joe launched The Romans less than 4 years ago and already it has a fee income of about £3.5m and employs 30 people. Here is a summary of what Joe and I discuss: Whether he regrets Mother investing in a minority stake in The Romans, or whether he wished The Romans had remained independent 35 secs How the partnership with Mother has benefited The Romans 2.20 mins W...
The Communications Store founder Julietta Dexter on the PRmoment podcast
October 02, 2018 04:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome founder of The Communications Store Julietta Dexter. Julietta established The Communications Store 23 years ago and it now has an income of £16m and employs 200 people – 180 in London and 20 in the US. The Communications Store has remained independent and is a specialist consultancy operating in fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Here is a summary of what Julietta and I discussed: Why Julietta is so proud to have had the same ...
Headland founder Neil Hedges on the PRmoment podcast
September 25, 2018 04:00 - 50 minutes - 22.9 MBThis week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Neil Hedges, founder and partner at communications firm Headland. Neil has worked in the UK PR scene for nearly 40 years – so he knows his way around. Before setting up Headland, Neil was one of the founders of Fishburn Hedges – arguably UK PR’s pre-eminent PR shop of the 1990s and most of the noughties. Here is a taster of what Neil and I discussed: How Neil started his career in advertising and decided to move to public relations 0...
W Communication’s founder Warren Johnson on the PRmoment podcast
September 12, 2018 04:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MBThis week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome founder and managing director of W Communications Warren Johnson. Warren established W nine years ago and the business now has a fee income of circa £7.5m. W is the largest of a group of independent consumer agencies in London which are leading PR’s fight for creative work. Here is a flavour of what Warren and I discussed: Why he once left a career in PR to be become a builder Why if you’ve worked for someone for 10 years – you...
Chris Lewis on the PRmoment podcast
September 10, 2018 04:00 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and CEO of Lewis Communications Chris Lewis. Chris established Lewis 25 years ago and today it is a truly global agency operating in 26 markets with a fee income of £50m and circa 500 employees. Lewis is the only current example of a British-owned PR and communications firm that has successfully scaled its business globally. Here is the flavour of what Chris and I discuss Why survival was the primary objective for Lewis ...
Manifest founder and CEO Alex Myers on the PRmoment Podcast
August 02, 2018 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and CEO of Manifest Alex Myers. Manifest is a self defined brand communications agency and has a fee income of £3.5m. Manifest has grown by 70% in the last financial year and has offices in London, New York and Stockholm. Here is a summary of what Alex and I discuss: How Alex got into PR PR outside of London and the burgeoning Huddersfield PR scene! Why Alex, a northern lad, set up his PR firm in London ...
The PRmoment podcast with co-founder of Hope&Glory James Gordon-Macintosh
June 28, 2018 04:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I talk to co founder of Hope&Glory James Gordon-Macintosh. James went to Cambridge University and has then only really had two jobs in PR - first at Fishburn Hedges, the consumer side of which morphed into 77 PR, and then he set up Hope&Glory with Jo Carr in 2011. Hope&Glory has a fee income today of approx £5.5m. Here is a flavour of what James and I discuss: How his first job was as a journalist writing about Brazilian debt equities! ...
Cow PR founder Sian Morgan
June 20, 2018 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and MD of Cow PR Sian Morgan. Cow PR is a circa £3m fee income consumer PR shop in London. What’s interesting about Cow is that despite its relatively small size - it punches well above its weight creatively, and has done for basically the last 18 years so I want to discover from Sian how they have managed to do this. Here is a flavour of what I discuss with Sian: How Sian has...
Shine founder Rachel Bell on The PRmoment Podcast
June 11, 2018 04:00 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I caught up with serial PR entrepreneur and founder of Shine Communications Rachel Bell. Here is a quick summary of what Rachel and I discussed: Why she left Fleishman Hillard as an account director in 1997 to set up Shine. How the death of her father impacted her decision to launch Shine. Why Shine Communications was launched. Why Rachel took her first new business call for Shine on the morning of her father's funeral. Whether the anger Rachel felt ab...
Ketchum’s data and research expert Erin Salisbury
June 05, 2018 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBI’m pleased to welcome PRmoment’s Young Communicator of the Year, and data and research guru at Ketchum, Erin Salisbury. I wanted to interview Erin because I think we all pretty much get the need to increase the extent to which PR firms use data but Erin is at the frontline of this and I wanted to get her real world insight - from the client perspective, a colleague perspective and from a data and insight tools perspective. Here are some of the things Erin and I discuss; As a research and...
David Fraser from Ready 10 on the PRmoment podcast
May 22, 2018 04:00 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBThis week, in the second of our PR Trailblazers interviews, on The PRmoment Podcast we’ve got founder of Ready 10 - David Fraser. David spent 12 years at Frank PR before setting up Ready 10 in 2016. I wanted to get David on the show because I thought he would bring an interesting perspective to a couple of things. First if all, he worked for a big consumer PR firm before he decided to gamble and set up Ready 10. He’s only 2 years in and I know that for the first 18 months he wrote a work d...
GingerMay founder Victoria Usher on the PRmoment podcast
May 15, 2018 04:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MBThis is the first of a new format series on the PRmoment Podcast. We’re going to continue our Life Stories series but I wanted to make sure we include the stories of younger, up and coming talent who are trailblazing impressive careers. So welcome to the first of our Trailblazers PRmoment Podcasts. I’m pleased to welcome the founder and MD of PRmoment’s B2B agency of the year, Victoria Usher. I wanted to interview Victoria for a couple of reasons. First of all because Victoria ...
Portland UK MD Mark Flanagan on the PRmoment podcast
May 03, 2018 04:00 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I caught up with Mark Flanagan, the UK MD of Portland. The Omnicom owned agency is a rare example of an PR firm owned by a holding group that has a recent track record of double digit growth. What is it that has enabled Portland to grow much faster than almost all other PR firms owned by a holding company owned? Mark has had an interesting career; he has had big jobs outside of PR and communications before make the move into public relations,...
The PRmoment podcast with Bibi Hilton, UK managing director, Golin
April 24, 2018 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I’m pleased to welcome Bibi Hilton, UK managing director at Golin. Here is a flavour of what Bibi and I discuss: Why she has stayed at one agency for so long Why autonomy is important in a networked PR agency Why she likes working for large networked firms Bibi identifies the biggest changes in PR in the last 16 years - and it’s not just spray mount and fax machines! Why the fundamentals of public relations have not changed Bibi marks PR out of 1...
Tanya Hughes, Chief Global Officer of Talk PR on the PRmoment Podcast
April 18, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome the Chief Global Officer of Talk PR Tanya Hughes. Talk PR is owned by M&C Saatchi with annual revenues of approx £4.5 million. There are 2 things that make Tanya and Talk PR a particularly interesting story. One is that it most of its income comes from within its very defined market market specialism of beauty PR The second is that an independent UK firm - 60% of its income comes from global work. Here is ...
Dan Glover, co founder and creative director of The Academy on the PRmoment podcast
April 09, 2018 04:00 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBThis week I'm thrilled to be catching up with Dan Glover, co-founder and creative director of The Academy. If you look at the most famous consumer PR campaigns in the UK over the last 10 years or so, most of them (not all) have come from a very small number of PR creatives (probably less than 10) and Dan, with his work with The National Trust, Kellogs and Heathrow is undoubtedly a member of this pretty unique club. Here’s a summary of some of what Dan and I discuss: Why Dan doe...
Cirkle founder Caroline Kinsey
April 05, 2018 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment podcast I interviewed Caroline Kinsey, founder and chairman of Cirkle PR. Caroline set up Cirkle 20 years ago and today it has a £3.5 million independent PR firm.Here is a taster of what Caroline and I discuss:How it feels to have run a business for 20 yearsWhy Caroline started her own businessHow she developed her entrepreneurial spiritHow an independent firm like Cirkle manages its ups and downsWhy Cirkle started in Caroline’s converted garageCaroline identifies Ci...
Frank PR founder Graham Goodkind on The PRmoment Podcast
March 12, 2018 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Frank PR co-founder and Chairman – Graham Goodkind. Graham started his career at Lynne Franks PR, rising from account exec to MD. He left Lynne Franks when it was sold to Ketchum in 1998. He then became a bit if an internet entrepreneur before starting Frank in 2000. Here are the highlights of what Graham and I discuss: How Graham developed a passion for the media What it was like working at Lynne Franks PR, where Graham...
Lord Tim Bell
March 05, 2018 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBThis week on the PRmoment Podcast we’ve got Lord Tim Bell. Lord Bell started his career as a runner in an advertising firm and ended up becoming the one of the most high profile PR people in the world. Synonymous with The Conservative Party of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher and the now defunct Bell Pottinger - it’s been quite a career. Here are the highlights of what we discuss: Lord Bell’s perspective on the demise of Bell Pottinger How Bell Pottinger might have survived the O...
The Edelman Trust Barometer: A recording of our live stream video with an expert panel
January 29, 2018 05:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBThe Edelman Trust Barometer: A recording of our live stream video with Edelman Intelligence UK head Louise Turner. Howard Kosky from markettiers and James Erskine from Social CircleConsumers are less trusting of social media and continue to be sceptical of government, business, media and NGOs in the UK. This is according to the 2018 Trust Barometer, PR firm Edelman’s 18th annual trust and credibility survey.The UK version of the Edelman Trust Barometer found that social media companies have l...
Jo-ann Robertson, ceo of Ketchum London
January 26, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBThis week, PRmoment founder Ben Smith interviews Ketchum UK ceo Jo-ann Robertson as part of our series of one to one interviews with some of the most senior people in UK PR.Jo-ann has recently been appointed as UK ceo to Ketchum having been at the firm since 2011. Previously she spent eight years at Weber Shandwick. Jo-ann graduated in 2002 with a BA in Politics from the University of Strathclyde.
Lord Chadlington
January 24, 2018 05:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBPRmoment founder Ben Smith recently interviewed Lord Chadlington as part of our series of one to one podcasts with some of the most senior people in UK PR
Mark Borkowski
December 14, 2017 05:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MBIn the latest of a series of podcasts with PR industry leaders in the UK PRmoment founder Ben Smith recently interviewed Mark Borkowski
Jim Hawker
December 14, 2017 05:00 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBIn the latest of a series of podcasts with PR industry leaders in the UK PRmoment founder Ben Smith recently interviewed Threepipe owner Jim Hawker
Francis Ingham's life story on the PRmoment Podcast
October 26, 2017 04:00 - 14 minutes - 6.85 MBThis week I caught up with Francis Ingham CEO of The PRCA. This is the latest in a series of PRmoment Podcasts with some of the leading lights of UK PR. The PRCA has grown from an organisation with revenues of £700K to one of nearly £3.2m during Ingham's ten-year tenure. Francis and I discuss: How he was brought up on a Manchester council estate Why he hated school and refused to go for year Why he left home and school at 16 and spent two years living in the local catholic hostel How ...
Francis Ingham
October 26, 2017 04:00 - 14 minutes - 6.86 MBThis week I caught up with Francis Ingham ceo of The PRCA. This is the latest in a series of PRmoment Podcasts with some of the leading lights of UK PR. The PRCA has grown from an organisation with revenues with £700K to one of nearly £3.2m during Ingham's ten year tenure. Francis and I discuss: How he was brought up on a Manchester council estate Why he hated school and refused to go for year Why he left home and school at 16 and spent two years living in the local catholic hostel H...
Angie Moxham founder of 3 Monkeys Zeno
October 19, 2017 04:00 - 14 minutes - 6.85 MBThis week I caught up with Angie Moxham, chief monkey at 3 Monkeys Zeno. This is the latest in a series of PRmoment Podcasts with some of the leading lights of UK PR.Angie and I discuss: How she helped build one company, lost it and then built another one How she went to state school and then went to Oxford What it’s like at Oxford, coming from a state school background Her time at Le Fevre Communications How it came about that Le Fevre was sold for £1 What were her worst mo...
Francis Ingham responds to criticism over the PRCA's handling Bell Pottinger's expulsion
September 16, 2017 04:00 - 7 minutes - 3.46 MBIn a not unexpected move, the The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) announced last week that it had imposed its most serious sanction on Bell Pottinger, following its investigation into Bell Pottinger's work for Oakbay Capital in South Africa. The investigation followed a complaint from South Africa's Democratic Alliance. Bell Pottinger will not be eligible to reapply for corporate membership of the PRCA for a minimum period of five years. On the face of it, the PRCA had ...
Colin Byrne, ceo, UK and EMEA at Weber Shandwick
September 12, 2017 04:00 - 17 minutes - 8.15 MBToday we're interviewing Colin Byrne, CEO of Weber Shandwick UK and EMEA – in the latest of our series of interviews with some of the most high-profile leaders in UK public relations. By day Colin is CEO of the UK's most award-winning PR firm, with 35 years’ communications experience, by night he's a writer, aspiring novelist and musician.His PR experience spans domestic and international public relations.He joined Weber Shandwick in 1995, rising to lead the public affairs practice in London ...
Alex Aiken's top 3 government communications campaigns of the last 100 years
April 26, 2017 04:00 - 13 minutes - 6.08 MB2017 marks the centenary of the Government Communications Service. To mark the occasion I recently interviewed Alex Aiken, Executive Director for Government Communications on his top three historical campaigns for the UK government communications in the last 100 years.In a wide-ranging discussion Alex and I discussed the context in which the government communication service was founded in 1917 by John Buchan, who interestingly was also the author of the novel 39 Steps. Alex and I discuss the ...
Pitching for PR business: How did it end up this way with Henry Playfoot
April 05, 2017 04:00 - 13 minutes - 6.32 MBWe recently caught up with Henry Playfoot, founder of The Pitch Doctor to discuss the rights and wrongs of the pitch process. Henry reckons the pitch process is not the best way to match the needs of the client with the right agency and discusses why a more collaborative approach would work better for everyone.
PR is complacent about measurement, says Ali Gee
March 17, 2017 04:00 - 12 minutes - 5.88 MBI recently spoke to Ali Gee, deputy CEO at FleishmanHillard Fishburn in London, about the the measurement of public relations. I asked Ali whether as a profession, public relations is in danger of becoming paranoid about measurement? And whether PR is any worse at evaluating our work than our advertising friends? We also discuss whether, in an integrated world, it is possible to identify the contribution of public relations to the campaign objectives? Finally, Ali talks about whether she sees...
Francis Ingham from The PRCA talks about the Whirlpool / Hotpoint tumble dryer crisis
February 27, 2017 05:00 - 4 minutes - 2.19 MBFrancis Ingham from The PRCA talks about the Whirlpool / Hotpoint tumble dryer crisis by PRmoment
The secrets of entrepreneurship in public relations
February 21, 2017 05:00 - 8 minutes - 4.05 MBI recently caught up with Tony Langham to discuss entrepreneurship in PR. Tony set up Lansons with Claire Parsons 28 years ago and today Lansons has a fee income of circa £11 million pounds.I discussed with Tony:- How to keep a culture of entrepreneurship within a 28 year old business.- How Tony maintains his personal drive having lead Lansons for 28 years.- We talked about the British culture of successful independententrepreneurial PR firms and discussed the challenges of the "early" years,...
How to bring a PR firm back from the brink with Harvard's Ellie Thompson and Louie St Claire
February 14, 2017 05:00 - 8 minutes - 3.97 MBHarvard's fee income today it's close to five million pounds. In 2011 this had fallen to £1.6 million. Previously in about the year 2000 Harvard had been a 200 people agency with 5 offices with a fee income of circa seven million annually.I recently caught up with Ellie Thompson, MD of PR and AR at Harvard and Louie St Clare Group MD to talk about what it takes to bring a PR firm back from the brink.
The evolution of search marketing and the crossover between search and PR with Farhad Koodoruth
February 07, 2017 05:00 - 12 minutes - 5.7 MBIn our latest mini podcast we caught up with Farhad Koodoruth, Co-Founder at Threepipe to discuss the evolution of search marketing and the increasing crossover between search and public relations.
Francis Ingham claims the UK PR sector has grown by 10% in 2016
December 14, 2016 05:00 - 6 minutes - 2.8 MBAs part of our series of interviews reviewing 2016 I recently caught up with PRCA director general and ICCO CEO Francis Ingham. Francis identified the following trends for UK PR in 2016: UK public relations has grown by approximately 10% in 2016 according to the PRCA numbers, following a similar growth pattern of recent years.Public relations is becoming more blended disciplineNiche specialist agencies are doing well, alongside agencies with an international offer. Mid-sized generalist agenci...
Talk PR Tanya Hughes on how is international PR bought?
December 14, 2016 05:00 - 7 minutes - 3.43 MBThrough the numerous pitches and RFPs that we all enjoy, I suspect the majority of PRmoment readers have a pretty good understanding of how the purchasing process for domestic PR briefs works. However, many of the bigger accounts reside in global campaigns/retainers. How this business is pitched for and won is probably less well understood.PRmoment recently caught up with Tanya Hughes, president of the Sermo Communications, an international hub of independent PR firms, and PR agency Talk PR.W...
Giles Fraser, co-founder of Brands2Life, on PR agency trends in 2016
December 14, 2016 05:00 - 5 minutes - 2.5 MBAs part of a series of interviews reviewing 2016 I caught up with Giles Fraser, co-founder, of Brands2Life.Key trends from 2016 that Giles identifies include:There has been a continued demand for creative campaigns and content across all formats.Increasingly marketing directors are purchasing from PR agencies. They are keen to talk to PR firms because they recognise that they have good ideas, produce good content and can drive engagement quickly.To be successful PR firms need a broader range ...
Alice Weightman reviews the PR candidate and PR employer talent trends of 2016
December 13, 2016 05:00 - 10 minutes - 4.76 MBAs part of a series of interviews to review public relations in 2016 I thought it would be interesting to look in detail at one of the major challenges for PR agencies and increasingly for in-house PR and communications teams - finding enough appropriately skilled people.Joining me is Alice Weightman founder and CEO of Hanson search.Alice identifies three recruitment trends in 2016: •The rise of the freelancer.•The desire for candidates to have multiple skill sets.•The impact of a decreasing ...
Jeremy Thompson on why Cision has spent over $1.5bn on PR service providers
November 18, 2016 05:00 - 12 minutes - 5.78 MBBen Smith, the founder of PRmoment, recently caught up with Cision and PR Newswire CEO (EMEA and India) to discuss why Cision has spent over $1.5bn on PR service providers