PRmoment Podcast

On 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 th...

This 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, beari...

On 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 grou...

On 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 mu...

This 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 i...

On 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 Glov...

On 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 ac...

This 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 pra...

This 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 day...

This 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 Ell...

This 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...

Today 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 fo...

Today 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...

Today 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...

On 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 fro...

On 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...

On 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 ow...

On 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 m...

Welcome 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...

Welcome 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...

This 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 a...

In 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 s...

This 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 relationship...

Today 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...

In 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 bec...