PRmoment Podcast

This week we’re changing tack again with the second of our mini series of podcasts looking at the use of data, technology and insight in communications. On the show is Petra Masinova, global director, reputation intelligence at Kantar. Petra has worked in senior in-house roles – so she understands what senior communicators want and need from their communications. She has also had big agency experi...

Welcome to the first in a new mini-series of PRmoment podcasts were we interview the authors of books relevant to PR and communications people. In the last year or so there have been a number of books launched by people I really respect in PR – frankly, I don’t have time to read them all so, partly for selfish reasons I thought I’d interview them on this show. First up is someone who is returning...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, we’re taking another change of tack – we’re talking about the pitching process and on the show we’ve got a PR buyer and a PR seller. On the buy side we’ve got Lenovo’s executive director, global corporate communications Charlotte West and on the sell side we’ve got 3 Monkey Zeno’s business development director Rebecca Wagstaffe. Here’s a summary of what Rebecca,...

Kaizo is an independent PR firm specialising in two areas – B2B technology PR and health and wellness. It has a fee income of about £3m and employs 30 people.    Steph and Rhodri Harries bought the business in 2011 and it’s an interesting story because fairly swiftly after that they lost three of their biggest clients.    The firm is now thriving again and clients include the likes of Avast, Pure...

This week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format.   In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019.   So today I’m talking to Pete Mountstevens, CCO & Managing Partner at Taylor Herring, about its 'Spin Cycle: the launch of Samsung Quick Drive' campaign that won the In...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Marshall Manson. Marshall has been London based for the last 11 years.    He worked at Edelman London as its digital director from 2008 to 2013, then he joined Ogilvy, from 2013 to 2018, latterly as the last UK CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations.    Marshall joined Brunswick as a partner in April last year.    Brunswick employs 1,...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, we’re talking about mental health in PR. On the show we’ve got James Endersby, chief executive of Opinium, and Jane Fordham, who spent 20 years working in PR agencies before launching her eponymous consultancy in 2018 specialising in people, culture and diversity. Opinium has recently published a Mental Health and Wellbeing report in conjunction with the PRCA. O...

This week, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Asad Dhunna, founder of The Unmistakables, on the PRmoment Podcast.  Asad started his career at IncrediBull (now Text 100), before moving to Weber Shandwick and via a stint in-house at FleishmanHillard Fishburn. Asad set up the Unmistakables in Aug 2018. Alongside running his own agency until recently he was also director of com...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Jennifer Mowat, managing director at Babel. Jennifer went to university at Cambridge. Her first job in PR was at Mantra (now Speed) before moving to Chameleon and Brands2Life as a director. She joined Babel as managing director in February this year. Babel is an independent tech PR firm with a revenue of circa £2m. It employs...

This week we’re changing tack – we’re challenging our listeners out there to engage your brains! Technology means we’re on the cusp of data and insight playing a much bigger role in the planning, activation and measurement of communications. Alongside this development, a number of new (and established firms) have invested in the technology to more accurately and more swiftly understand the numbers...

Here's a special PRmoment podcast from the ICCO Global Summit in Lisbon featuring interviews with ICCO CEO Francis Ingham, global CEO of Hotwire Barbara Bates, and new president of ICCO and group CEO Avian WE in India Nitin Mantri. On the podcast we cover global public relations trends, whether PR has an ethics problem and focus on Nitin's plans for his two-year stint as ICCO president....

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Alex Northcott, co-founder of Gorkana and founder of Roxhill Media. Alex has packed quite a bit into his career. He was originally in the British Army as an officer in the Gurkhas. His first job when he left the British Army was in PR at JP Morgan. He then worked for Morgan Stanley before cofounding Gorkana in 2004 alongside Mi...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Fenella Grey, chair at Porter Novelli London, on the PRmoment podcast Fenella was a director at Weber Shandwick between 2007 and 2013, then she spent almost six years at Freuds before joining Porter Novelli in 2014. She was MD of the London office, before becoming London chair in July last year. Porter Novelli in London has cir...

This week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format from normal. In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019. So today I’m talking to Niall Couper who is head of media, PR and supporter communications for Amnesty International UK. The Amnesty International UK comms team won the in-h...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Louie St Claire, CEO of Harvard and board director at Chime Specialist Group Harvard is part of the Chime Group, has a turnover of £7.5 million and grew by 18% last year. It has 80 employees. Chime originally bought Harvard in 2000 when it employed 200 people. What I love about Louie and Harvard’s story is that when Louie join...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Dan Neale, co-founder and MD at Alfred. Alfred is an independent PR shop in London focusing on the consumer, entertainment, technology and gaming markets. It has a fee income of circa 1.3m and about 15 employees. Alfred was founded in 2013 by Dan Neale and Gemma Pears.  Gemma moved to the US for a short while and during that ti...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome MD of Nelson Bostock Nick Clark.    Nelson Bostock is one of those firms that everyone’s heard of, but it probably punches below its weight in terms of it’s profile in the PR industry.    For those of you that don’t know, Nelson Bostock was founded in 1987 by Martin Bostock and Roger Nelson. The fou...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Mark Lowe, co-founder of Third City.  Third City is a consumer PR firm in London with a fee income of over £2 million and a turnover approaching £3 million and 28 employees. Mark co-founded Third City in 2008 with Graz Belli. Previously Mark had worked at Band & Brown for six years. Here is a summary of what Mark and I dis...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-owner and managing director of Chameleon Tom Buttle Chameleon is an independent tech PR firm in London with a fee income of £2.1m and 20 people. The business was originally owned by Helen Holland before Tom Butttle and Tom Berry (what are the chances!) completed an MBO of the business in April 20...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Natasha Hill, managing director at Bottle. Bottle has a turnover of £2m and is an independent multi-specialist PR firm in Oxford. The business was previously owned by Will and Claire Cairns. Will Cairns still has a stake in the business but Natasha and creative director Colin Cather now run the business day to day. Bottle has 25 staff and a...

Richard Fogg, CEO at CCgroup on the PRmoment podcast This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m pleased to welcome Richard Fogg, CEO of CCgroup. CCgroup has a fee income of £3.5m and is an independent, technology-focused PR firm in London. The business was previously known as Companycare and rebranded as CCgroup in 2006 Rich and his business partner Paul Nolan completed a management buy out of the busi...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories interviews, I’m pleased to welcome Torod Neptune, who is worldwide group vice president and chief communications officer at Lenovo Group. His CV is a beautiful thing – he’s previously spent time at Weber, WE, The US House of Representatives and Verizon before joining Lenovo in 2017. Torod is also a passionate supporter of increas...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m pleased to welcome Jon Lonsdale, CEO and joint founder of Octopus.  Octopus has a fee income of £5m and is an independent technology-focused PR firm in London.  The business has been going for nearly 18 years and was founded by three mates who worked together at Bite. Those friendships are still intact and are still at the heart of the business.  Octopus has...

Here’s a special PRmoment podcast from AMEC’s Global Summit in Prague: featuring PRmoment founder Ben Smith complete with an almost lost voice, Diageo’s Jim Alexander, AMEC chairman and CARMA CEO, Europe and the Americas Richard Bagnall and Mischief’s head of insight and strategy Gemma Moroney. We talk through the three perspectives of PR’s measurement opportunity – the client's perspective,...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interviewed chairman of The PR Office Shimon Cohen. The PR Office was founded in 2004, has a fee income of about £2.5m and about 15 employees. The business has clients across a broad range of sectors and Shimon has some interesting views on how he sees the scope of public relations. Here is a summary of what Shimon and...