PRmoment Podcast

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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 t...

Welcome 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 P...

Welcome 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 u...

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. 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

This 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 o...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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 kno...

Welcome 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 re...

Welcome 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 incl...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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 we...

Welcome 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 som...

Welcome 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 te...

On 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...

On 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 o...

Welcome 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...

On 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 His...

On 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 Jul...

Welcome 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 perspe...

Welcome 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...