PRmoment Podcast

Francis Ingham from The PRCA talks about the Whirlpool / Hotpoint tumble dryer crisis by PRmoment

I recently caught up with Tony Langham to discuss entrepreneurship in PR. Tony set up Lansons with Claire Parsons 28 years ago and today Lansons has a fee income of circa £11 million pounds. I discussed with Tony:- How to keep a culture of entrepreneurship within a 28 year old business.- How Tony maintains his personal drive having lead Lansons for 28 years.- We talked about the British culture of...

Harvard's fee income today it's close to five million pounds. In 2011 this had fallen to £1.6 million. Previously in about the year 2000 Harvard had been a 200 people agency with 5 offices with a fee income of circa seven million annually. I recently caught up with Ellie Thompson, MD of PR and AR at Harvard and Louie St Clare Group MD to talk about what it takes to bring a PR firm back f...

In our latest mini podcast we caught up with Farhad Koodoruth, Co-Founder at Threepipe to discuss the evolution of search marketing and the increasing crossover between search and public relations.

As part of our series of interviews reviewing 2016 I recently caught up with PRCA director general and ICCO CEO Francis Ingham. Francis identified the following trends for UK PR in 2016: UK public relations has grown by approximately 10% in 2016 according to the PRCA numbers, following a similar growth pattern of recent years. Public relations is becoming more blended disciplineNiche specialist ag...

Through the numerous pitches and RFPs that we all enjoy, I suspect the majority of PRmoment readers have a pretty good understanding of how the purchasing process for domestic PR briefs works. However, many of the bigger accounts reside in global campaigns/retainers. How this business is pitched for and won is probably less well understood. PRmoment recently caught up with Tanya Hughes, president...

As part of a series of interviews reviewing 2016 I caught up with Giles Fraser, co-founder, of Brands2Life. Key trends from 2016 that Giles identifies include:There has been a continued demand for creative campaigns and content across all formats. Increasingly marketing directors are purchasing from PR agencies. They are keen to talk to PR firms because they recognise that they have good ideas, pr...

As part of a series of interviews to review public relations in 2016 I thought it would be interesting to look in detail at one of the major challenges for PR agencies and increasingly for in-house PR and communications teams - finding enough appropriately skilled people. Joining me is Alice Weightman founder and CEO of Hanson search. Alice identifies three recruitment trends in 2016: •The rise of...

Ben Smith, the founder of PRmoment, recently caught up with Cision and PR Newswire CEO (EMEA and India) to discuss why Cision has spent over $1.5bn on PR service providers