PRmoment Podcast

 In a 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 when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with Greg Double, creative director of consumer PR agency Mischief. Mischief is the consumer PR arm of MHP. MHP and Mischief are own...

Ready 10 founder David Fraser is the next guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. 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 when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with the founder of Ready...

Welcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our June Global Creativity Review so we are talking creativity with our wonderful 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: Kim Allain, creative lead, MSL Ottilie Ross, creative director, Halpern Tom Rouse, crea...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our June 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 where he advises on buying and selling marketing s...

The Academy co-founder Mitch Kaye is the first guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. In a 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 when they started their businesses! Mitch co-founded The Academy with Dan Glover in 20...

Can AI revolutionize journalism and help us create more compelling stories? Join us in this fascinating conversation with Jane Wakefield, a former senior tech journalist at the BBC, and Aaron Kwittken, founder/CEO of PRophet, as we explore the impact of AI on newsrooms, PR teams, publishing models, and the free press.  We'll discuss the potential of AI for spreading misinformation, its role i...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast, on the show today we’re discussing how to improve the connectivity between public relations and journalism - is there a way to create a more efficient workflow between PRs and journalists? We’ll ask whether the relationship between PR and journalists is becoming damaged beyond repair and look and the reasons why this mutually beneficial relationship isn’t working b...

Every six months or so I like to catch up with the shy and reserved Warren Johnson from W Communications on the podcast to talk about the financial state of UK PR. And to my surprise- it’s that time again. The first 6 months of 2023 are basically done and dusted. My sense is that it’s been a bit of a phoney 6 months or so - the PR sector has been expecting a downturn but beyond a significant tech...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today we’re revealing the six key themes from AMEC’s Measurement Summit 2023. To reveal those trends we have Steph Bridgeman, founder of Experienced Media Analysts and Richard Bagnall who is a co-managing partner of Carma.  Before we start if you haven't taken a look already, the final entry deadline for The Creative Moment Awards is Friday 30th Ju...

Today we're chatting with industry legend a long-time owner of Propeller - Martin Loat. We look back on his 30 years working in public relations and including 22 years as a PR agency owner at Propeller. Martin talks about the ups and downs of agency ownership and why he decided now was the right time to exit. In March Martin sold the business via an MBO to Kieran Kent, Jody Osman and Rose Ben...

 Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast with PRmoment founder Ben Smith. Today on the show we’re chatting with Fran Ashcroft, senior director, of EMEA Communications at Intel.  Fran has worked for Intel for nearly 15 years at the firm and is currently preparing for an 8-week sabbatical. We’re going to talk about Fran’s 15 years in-house at Intel. We‘ll cover what modern international communications looks...

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 how...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our May 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 where he advises on buying and selling marketing se...

Welcome to a new PRmoment Podcast format where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connelly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We talk about all things PR recruitment - looking at some of the biggest moves we’ve seen recently and discuss some of the trends in the PR job market at the moment If you haven’t taken a look already - do check out the Creative Moment Awards website, the...

On the show today we’re talking about the results of the PRCA’s Governance Review with Ray Eglington, who is a board member of the PRCA and Group MD of Four Communications. Before we start a quick plug for our next couple of webinars: LinkedIn as a Marketing Channel and The March of PR: The increasing dominance of earned media ideas in integrated marketing . Here’s a summary of what Ray and PRmome...

This week we are talking creativity with a review of some of the best bits of creativity our panel has seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Lora Martyr, creative director, Taylor Herring Daniel Glover, co-founder & creative director, The Academy Indy Selvarajah, chief creative officer, Global Markets, Ketchum This is the second e...

On the show this week we talk to Rich Dawes, managing director of DawBell.  DawBell is one of the UK’s largest entertainment PR firms, working across talent, music and events. Clients include The Brits, Paul McCartney, Harry Styles, Elton John, James Corden and The Prince Estate. The firm has over 40 employees. Today we’re going to talk about the role of a modern publicist - and how it's chan...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our April 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 where he advises on buying and selling marketing...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting about how generative AI change PR. To be frank, there’s been no shortage of articles and LinkedIn posts on this but on the podcast today we’ll get to have a proper chat to talk about generative ai in PR. On the show, I’ve got a wise panel to chat about these issues including: Maya Koleva, head of research and insight, Commetric Rosie Bannister...

An insiders view of the structure, skill set and role of a modern in-house communications team Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Bibi Hilton, CEO of Creative Access  Known to PR people everywhere for her first career working in public relations which included stints and The Red Consultancy and Golin - Bibi was appointed CEO of Creative Access in September last year. Creat...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with 3 of Google's communications team to give us an inside view of how a modern PR and communications team works. On the show are Jo Ogunleye, B2B communications lead, UK, Julie Dilger, head of external communications, Google Ireland and Olivia O'Brien, senior associate, product communiou can still purchase your tickets for The PRmo...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Lucy McGettigan, partner at The Romans. Lucy was the 7th employee at The Romans when she joined Frank in 2017. The Romans has 80 employees, 70 in London and 10 in New York. It had a fee income of £8m globally in 2022 and grew by a remarkable 97% last year. On the show, Lucy is going to talk about the challenges of growing a consultancy bu...

This week we are talking creativity with a review of some of the best bits of creativity our panel has seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Kim Allain, creative lead, MSL Ottilie Ross, creative director, Halpern James Gordon-MacIntosh, co-founder and chief creative officer, Hope&Glor y This new regular episode of the PRmoment pod...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today is Jenny Halpern, founder and CEO of Halpern. Today we are talking about PR in the cost of living crisis. Halpern has a fee income of £5m. It's a consumer PR firm based in London. It was founded in 1993 by Jenny. Halpern is owned by The&Partnership, which is part owned by WPP. Jenny sold to business in 2013 to what has become The &Par...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Dee Gibbs, founder of Liberty Communications. Liberty is an independent tech PR firm, with a fee income of £1.7 m and this year Liberty celebrates its 25 birthday! So we thought it would be good to get her on the show to chat about 25 years of agency ownership hindsight. Do check out our latest webinar The implications of changing consume...