PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to our 2023 Creativity Review, where we talk about the best bits of PR creativity we saw last year. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Clare Morris, Clare Morris, associate director, Premier Don Ferguson, Don Ferguson, deputy MD, Hope & Glory PR Lora Martyr, creative director, Taylor Herring To remind the listeners of the rules - our creatives are n...

It’s been a funny old PR year. Some firms have had a tough time. Some firms have sadly gone bust, but many, possibly the majority, have seen growth of 5-10%. And in a decent number of cases, they’ve grown more than that. So it’s a difficult year to try and sum up, but on the show today, I’m joined by W founder Warren Johnson, and we’re going to talk through the key themes and challenges that 2023...

Welcome to our 2023 Year in Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises o...

Welcome to our Recruitment Year in Review on the PRmoment Podcast, where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We look back at the talent trends in PR for 2023. The year has seen huge changes in the PR recruitment market. Back in January, we were in the midst of a significant talent war in the sector, which saw a raft of above-inflation pa...

On the PRmoment Podcast, this week is Adam Clyne, founder of Coolr , and we’re going to talk about what social agencies do and how that compares to what PR firms do. Clearly, PR firms say they do social. But to what extent do they do social compared to the broader, or perhaps deeper, social remit of social agencies? And is this a problem for PR agencies? Do they need to worry about that? Or are th...

In a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with me, Ben Smith, we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in-hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses!  Today, we're chatting with Kirsty Leighton, founder & group CEO of Milk & Honey PR. Milk & Honey was launched in 2016 and is a £5 m fee-...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our November review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners , where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank...

On the show today, we welcome Charlotte Brooks, who is the managing director of PR agency Mischief. This is the latest In our ongoing in hindsight-themed PRmoment Podcasts, where PRmoment founder Ben Smith interviews public relations leaders - where our guests share their in hindsight, secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their careers. Charlotte’s been at Mischief for five y...

This week, we’re celebrating 15 years of the Taylor Bennett Foundation , and to do that, we’re talking to 3 of its alumni about how the programme helped their careers. On the PRmoment Podcast today, we’re talking to Kwaku Aning,  Shanice Hoo Mills and Toni Adeola For those of you not aware of the Taylor Bennett Foundation - well, I’d suggest you should! It’s an amazing charity that exists to encou...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week, we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director of the UK Government’s Communication Service. Alex has worked with six Prime Ministers when they've had to make their most crucial decisions.  He worked in government communications during Brexit, during the COVID crisis, when the queen died and when Russia invaded Ukraine. In short, he’s be...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you who 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, it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio. This offers a really interesting insight for PR people on how t...

The PR Network is a £5m fee-income global tech PR agency based in the UK. It has ten employees, no head office and 1300 associates all around the world who it can call upon. On average, it has 70-90 associates working for it at any one time. Before we start, we’ve just launched our latest webinars. One is our annual The Creative Year in Review 2023 , and the other is PR Analytics 2023 . Do check o...

On the PRmoment Podcast today, Pangolin PR co-founders David Phillips and Will Cookson reflect on ten years of running their agency. Pangolin is a consumer PR shop in London with a fee incline of £1.75m. Clients include Pernod and Pepsi, and it employs 17 people. On the show today, we will reflect on their regrets, lessons and achievements as they look back on ten years of owning their own busines...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our October review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners , where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank P...

Welcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our October Global Creativity Review, so we are talking creativity with a gorgeous panel who will identify and chat about some of the best bits of creativity they have seen in the past month or so.  On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are:  Daniel Glover, co-founder & creative director of The Academy Olivia Mushigo, soc...

Welcome to a new PRmoment Podcast where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We talk about all things PR recruitment - discussing some of the trends in the PR job market, including the latest numbers from Latte’s 2023 PR salary guide. If you’re interested in keeping an eye on the best PR jobs out there each week,  subscribe for free to PR...

On the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Katie De Cozar, director of CCgroup about how to improve the DE&I of PR agencies. CCgroup has made major changes to its business over the past 5 years which has seen significant improvements in the diversity of its employees. CCgroup is a £6m revenue PR firm based in London with 46 employees. In 2020 17% of CCgroups employees were BME, in 2023...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re chatting with Andy Peake, London CEO of creative agency VCCP. I’ve known Andy for about 25 years so, to an extent, we’ve followed each other's careers with interest over a couple of decades! As Andy is now CEO of one the largest creative agencies in London I thought it would be interesting to get him on the show to chat about the intersection of PR firm...

On the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Jo Carr, the president of Women in PR. Jo is also co-founder of PR agency Hope&Glory. Women in PR was founded in 1962. So it’s just turned 60! It has 350 members and the profile of the organisation has grown a lot over the last 10 years or so. Of all the trade associations in public relations, I’d suggest Women in PR is the one with the greates...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our September review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank P...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is 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 it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio and this offers a really interesting insight for PR people on ho...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking about values. We’re going part history lesson, part comms theory and part future gazing. To help talk us through that kaleidoscope we’ve Rebecca Grant, UK CEO and Global Chief Brand Officer of BCW on the show. We’re going to talk about the importance of values in successful communication campaigns.  The hope is that in 30 mins' time, you'll kno...

In this new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known at the start of their careers. This week on the PRmoment Podcast we're talking to Paul Joseph MD of Full Fat. Full Fat is a consumer PR and social agency with 18 employees. It specialises...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our July review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners advising on buying and selling marketing services...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we talk about what CEOs want from PR and we also identify the 7 top attributes that CEOs want in the comms directors. The folks at PR recruitment firm VMA have recently interviewed 20 CEOs and today we’re going to chat with VMA’s MD Lucy Cairncross about what she’s found out about CEO communication priorities. Thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors of the...