PRmoment Podcast

On the show this week we’re talking to Fenella Grey EMEA managing director & chair at Porter Novelli. Porter Novelli has had an interesting few years. Brad MacAfee took over from Karen van Bergen as Porter Novelli’s global CEO in 2016 and he was replaced by ex McKinsey executive David Bentley in early 2020. But a constant throughout this period was Fenella Grey who headed up the London office...

One year on from the MBO of Frank PR On the show this week we’re catching up with Frank PR’s Graham Goodkind and Alex Grier, one year on from a particularly eye-catching deal where Alex and Graham bought back the remaining 75% of Frank for approximately £850,000 from Enero.  14 years earlier, back in 2007, Frank was sold to Photon Group (as Enero was then known) for more than £20m. If you haven&ap...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to crisis PR lawyer Jonathan Coad, about his new book Reputation Matters.  Jonathan is one of the UK’s top media lawyers, he’s spent 30 years working on both the PR side and the editorial sides of the fence.  Reputation Matters gives a unique insight into how the media works with practical advice on how to deal with PR crises effectively.  Jonathan i...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Alex Warren about his book Spin Machines - which asks the question “ Can PR be replaced by AI? ” As well as writing his book Alex is also a senior account director at Wildfire PR. On the show, Alex talks about whether an algorithm can devise a PR strategy? Can a robot brainstorm a creative campaign? Can artificial intelligence write persuasively,...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Michelle Goodall, chief marketing officer, Guild about the techniques required to build a community, the differences between a network and a community and what are the advantages for organisations in having an engaged community. Do take a look at the stunning selection of free webinars we’ve got coming up: ranging from PR and TikTok , Changing yo...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, we’re talking to Nicole Yost, CEO of HAVAS Just:: and Corin Baird, head of digital at HAVAS Just:: about the incredible year that healthcare PR has had. We’re going to be talking about the top healthcare trends and what excellence in this buoyant sector of the public relations world looks like. Before we start just to promo our stunning selection of free webinars...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Here’s the second 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 service...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Time flies doesn't it. We’re well over a quarter of the way through 2022 - remember those plans and hopes we all had on Jan 1st? Well, it’s time for a progress report! PR land seems to continue to be pretty frantic - it’s a hot market both in terms of the amount of work going through in house teams, agencies are as busy as ever and the pressure for talent int...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This is a quick bonus pod - we’re chatting to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene.  Andrew is a co-founder and Non Executive Director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. ...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Lara Gould about whether journalists make good PR people.  Lara used to work at The Mail On Sunday and the Sunday Mirror. In 2014 she left journalism for PR and set up Goldbug Communications in 2016. For those of you that don’t know, Goldbug is a brand communication consultancy with revenue of £2.7 million. The shortlist for The PRmomen...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Kat McGettigan, founder of Fine Lines . Kat describes Fine Lines as an “agency-growth agency.” Previously she worked at Grayling, M&C Saatchi and Weber Shandwick. On the show, we talk about how agencies can improve their pitch techniques but we’re also going to take a step back and look at the broader area of growth strategies for P...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Anna Geffert, founder of Hera Communications . Anna is the current President of Women in PR and we’re talking to her today about the 60th Anniversary of Women in PR. The organisation was founded in 1962 and on the show today we’re going to discuss how it started and how it’s changed over the last 60 years. As you’ve probably seen, the s...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re talking to Louise Turner, managing director at Edelman Data & Intelligence, about the UK results of The Edelman Trust Barometer 2022 . Before we start just to say tickets for the PRmoment Awards have now gone on sale.  They will be the first PRmoment face-to-face awards since 2019!  Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. Here’s a su...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Will Sturgeon, head of content and thought leadership at PwC UK about its CEO Report. PwC’s 25th Annual CEO Report reveals a growing trend towards more purposeful business practices, including a greater focus on trust, transparency and personal accountability from CEOs on issues such as climate change and inequality.  These are all issu...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Marcus Gault, managing director UK and Ireland of Onclusive. Dare I say many of you may not be aware but Onclusive is the new name for the Reputation Intelligence division of Kantar that was recently acquired by Symphony Technology Group. Onclusive has over 9,000 clients, across 130 markets and over 1,100 employees. So it’s a big beast...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re talking to Jon Rhodes, partner at BOLDT about what the important data points behind an organisation’s reputation are. BOLDT and Mettle Capital recently released their Trust in 2021 report. The report analysed more than 40 million conversations and pieces of content across more than 2,500 companies. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Graz Belli, Co-Founder of Third City. Third City has a fee income of about £2.5 million and grew by 20% in 2021. It was founded 11 years ago. Third City sees itself as a corpsumer PR firm, offering both brand and reputational advice. Clients include the likes of BUPA, Starling, Zurich and G-Network. Previously Graz was managing director...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, we’re discussing a new report called Brands & Movements by Alfred which looks at how businesses face increasing pressure to act on issues impacting consumers, and asks what the pitfalls are for businesses engaging with these movements. In short, we’re going to be discussing whether society’s expectations of business have changed? On the show to discuss this...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Jo-ann Robertson, partner and CEO, London at Ketchum and Janita Lakhanpal, director of business development at Ketchum about “How to build a diverse PR agency” It’s a journey Jo-ann and Janita started back in 2018 and I thought it would be interesting to ask them on the show to chat about their experience of building a more diverse orga...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . It’s a weighty topic this week - on the show we’re going to be looking at some new research from Golin called The Polarisation Index . This research looks to investigate which topics polarisation society. Has modern society become more about affirming our own views, rather than exposing ourselves to different perspectives? To talk to us about this we’ve got Jonny...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . On the show this week we’re going to be talking about whether undiagnosed cases of the menopause are partly responsible the number of women aged 45+ leaving a career in PR. We’ve got Dr Clare Spencer from My Menopause Centre and Jo Carr, co-founder Hope&Glory on the podcast to talk to us about what the symptoms of the menopause are, why it is so often misdiagn...

Welcome to this week’s PRmoment Podcast . On the show we have Damon Statt and Gemma Moroney, co-founders of SHOOK. Shook was founded in June 2020, just a few months after the start of the first lockdown. In its first year they had a fee income of £335K and they are on target to hit £600K in the second trading year. Damon and Gemma have worked together since 2006—firstly at Frank, then at Mischief...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we’re talking about the lack of working class people working in public relations in the UK. In an attempt to increase the opportunities for working class people in PR Sarah Waddington and Stephen Waddington have launched Socially Mobile. Socially Mobile is a not for profit that offers training to people with a 1 to 3 years’ PR experience to turbo charge their care...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we talk about The Boris Phenomenon: Why don’t scandals, seemingly broken promises and political failings seem to affect Boris’s popularity in the same way other politicians would suffer. Here with me to discuss this is public affairs grandee Lional Zetter who has been a member of the Conservative Party for 30 years and long time, but now retired, PR Agency Dr - Ri...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we talk about The global impact of COVID on the PR sector. Here with me to discuss that is Dr. Pooja Arora from HCL Corporation and Shiv Nadar Foundation in India and Kathryn Lancioni, Instructor of Public Relations at Sefton University in the US. They have recently completed a piece of qualitative research that looks at the impact of the pandemic on the PR indust...