PRmoment Podcast

Ben Smith welcomed Angie Moxham and Mark Borkowski to the weekly PR news review on the PRmoment Podcast. On this week's show our panel discuss Farage and Jenrick, Grok's explicit AI images and alleged Wikipedia edits by Portland. Mark Borkowski criticised the Reform party's recruitment of Robert Jenrick as a "massive PR own goal," which Angie Moxham agreed was simply to ge...

This week we’re chatting to Nicky Regazzoni, co-founder & co-CEO of The PR Network and  Lesley Singleton, founder & CEO, Playtime PR about how to lead a virtual agency business. The virtual or in the office debate has become the ultimate PR conversation starter, up there with AVEs and timesheets. Everyone’s got an opinion and the truth is there are some virtual agencies, some hybrid (3 or...

Ben Smith welcomed Angie Moxham and Mark Borkowski to this week's PRmoment podcast News Review to discuss major PR stories, including "brand America" and Donald Trump's communication style, which Borkowski described as entering a dystopian age, with Moxham adding that America views life through a "Hollywood lens."  The trio discuss the societal impact of the political...

Elizabeth Giles and Ben Smith discuss the upcoming PRmoment Awards, noting the final entry deadline is January 23rd, and that the awards night is scheduled for April in both London and Manchester. Ben Smith explained the robust and transparent judging process, which includes individual prescoring based on criteria like objectives, strategy, and results, available in the entry pack, and highlighted...

This week we’re chatting to co founder of Signal AI David Benigson on the PRmoment podcast From media monitoring start-up, to $165m investment via 6 funding rounds: Signal AI founder David Benigson talks to PRmoment founder Ben Smith through its journey. In September 2025, Signal AI raised $165 million in a growth equity round led by Battery Ventures. This investment will support global expansion,...

It’s my twice yearly chat with W Communications founder and CEO Warren Johnson and today it’s our 2025 PR Agency Review of the Year. Warren founded W Communications in 2009. It now has global revenues of £25 m and a headcount of 200, with 140 in London and 60 across the rest of the world. Over the next half hour or so Warren and I will discuss the ups and downs of PR agency life over the last 12 m...

In the fifth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment and Elizabeth Giles are joined by Emma Ewing, founder of Big Fish Training about resilience over the holidays.  Ewing, who has previously worked with PRmoment on resilience has a unique insight as she brings her resilience expertise but also her vast knowledge of the PR sector, having provided coaching and training to...

This PR Talent Trends Year in Review podcast discusses the Public Relations (PR) job market and talent trends of 2025. The host is PRmoment founder Ben Smith and he's speaking with Dean Connelly, founder and PR recruitment director at Latte. The early entry deadline for the 2026 PRmoment Awards is on Friday, December 19th. The final entry deadline is on 23rd January. If you want more informat...

Welcome to our review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here, we discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers & acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2025 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 on buying and selling marketing...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. In today's show we’re doing something a little different. We’re talking about PR superpowers. You may have seen the Legends of Frank series that Frank has been running this year, to celebrate its 25th birthday, The Q&A style interviews with each Legend has been fun and informative. But today, as we reach the end of the year, I'm talking to GG to get a...

Welcome to the News Review on the PRmoment podcast . In this weekly show I’m joined by Angie Moxham, and Mark Borkowski This is the PR News Review where we look at the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective and this week we’re talking about rage bait. This week rage bait was named Oxford University Press' Word of the Year for 2025. Before we start, you can now enter the PRmome...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast . Today we’re chatting to Laura Burch, founder and managing partner at Work & Class and Roxy Kalha, founder and managing partner at The Heard about the challenges of founding a PR agency as a women. Laura launched Work & Glass in 2024 and Roxy launched The Heard in 2023.  Before we start, the final date to get your early entries in for The PRmoment Awards is...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in November 2025. 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 on buying and selling marketing...

Welcome to the News Review on the PRmoment podcast . In this weekly show I’m joined by Angie Moxham, and Mark Borkowski. This is the PR New Review where we look at the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective and this week we’re talking about the budget, the Labour government continuing dreadful communications and the resulting loss of trust from the electorate. Before we start, you...

Welcome to the News Review on the PRmoment podcast. If you're enjoying these shows don't forget to subscribe; we published at least one new podcast every week. In this episode it's our weekly New Review feature where we discuss the most interesting topics that we've seen in the media each week and I'll be doing that alongside my good friends Angie Moxham and mark Borkowski...

Thank you for joining us today! Our guest is Anouschka Menzies, co-founder of Bacchus PR. Bacchus PR was founded 27 years ago and now has over 130 employees across 5 offices - London, New York, Miami, Dubai and most recently Riyadh. It works across the fashion, restaurants, hotels and real estate sectors and has a fee income of approximately £14m. Annouska describes the type of business that Bacch...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast 's weekly News Review. We're joined by Angie Moxham, founder of 3 Monkeys and Fourth Angel and Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR. In this new show Mark, Angie and PRmoment founder Ben Smith review the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective. This week we compare the communications styles of Trump verses and the BBC. Does Trumps fearles...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in November 2025. 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 on buying and selling marketing...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast . Today, we're joined by Angie Moxham, founder of 3 Monkeys and Fourth Angel and Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR and PR commentator. In this new show Mark, Angie and PRmoment founder Ben Smith review the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective and this week we’re talking about Traitors, Meghan Markle’s return to acting and whether the Roy...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast . Today, we're thrilled to be joined by Lou Hoffman, founder and CEO of Hoffman. Hoffman is an independent US based PR firm with a fee income of approximately $30m. Lou founded the business in 1987. Hoffman specialises in tech PR and recently bought CCGroup in the UK. Hoffman has offices in North America, the UK and Asia. It employs about 460 people globally. B...

In the fifth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment give their best attempt at a spooky Halloween special episode.  Earlier in the week, Elizabeth asked PR professionals to submit anonymous recruitment horror stories, whether that be a candidate of nightmares, or an terrifying interview process — we wanted to hear about it, warts and all. Dean, a willing victim, must bl...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast . Today, we're thrilled to be joined by Lorraine Emmett, the founder and MD of the award-winning B2B tech PR agency, EC-PR. EC-PR is a boutique specialising in B2B PR for engineering, science, and technology scale-ups. They typically partner with high-growth B2B tech brands and companies with 50 to 999 employees, working with Strategic Marketing Leaders and CMO...

In the fourth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment and Elizabeth are joined by Shruti Gupta, account executive at Harvard and her colleague Joe McDermott, head of enterprise technology practice at Harvard.  Following Gupta's inspirational My PRmoment interview , in which she discussed having imposter syndrome after moving from India to the UK to work in PR, we as...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in October 2025 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 on buying and selling marketing se...

A recent survey by Fairtrade, with research undertaken by Kantar, finds 86% of shoppers want brands to be upfront about sourcing and more than half (55%) think businesses should take a ‘large amount’ or ‘full responsibility’ for protecting the human rights of workers in their supply chains. The study found that 59% of UK adults support Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) legislati...