PRmoment Podcast

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Sharon Bange, managing partner at Kindred. Kindred has a fee income of circa £5m, a turnover of approx £9m and employs circa 50 people. It is an interesting story because the business almost went bust in 2010 (for reasons discussed in the podcast) but it has since recovered. Sharon has been with the busin...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in anticipation of our I nfluence of Influence conference on 15 May, I interviewed Rax Lakhani, freelance PR and social media consultant, about the current state of influencer marketing. Here’s a summary of what Rax and I discussed: [00:01:30] Why Rax turned his back on full-time PR agency employment and became a freelancer. [00:04:56 ] Why Rax believes PR agenci...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interviewed James Hickman, director, Hatch Communications. Hatch is a Leeds based consultancy founded in 2008 and they now have billings of £2m per annum and 25 staff. Hatch had 80% growth last year, all of which was organic growth. Clients include Diageo globally and the Rugby League World Cup Here is a summary of what...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I interview Dee Gibbs, founder of Liberty Communications. Dee founded Liberty Communications 21 years ago. Liberty is an independent PR firm, specialising in Tech PR. It has a turnover of £2.5m, approximately 25 people and offices in London and San Francisco. Here is a flavour of what Dee and I discussed: [00:01:20] Why,...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome CEO of Golin Jon Hughes. Global PR firm Golin has a fee income of about $240m. Jon has been at Golin for about 14 years, he spent six years in the UK as co-managing director alongside Matt Neale, before moving to Hong Kong to head up its international business.  He became CEO alongside Matt Neale an...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I'm pleased to welcome Sarah Scholefield, CEO, UK and Ireland, Grayling. Sarah has worked at Grayling for five years, having previously held senior roles in Singapore with Fleishman Hillard, Ruder Finn and Edelman Grayling has nine offices in the UK, 70 globally and 130 employees. Sarah can’t comment on these numbers...

Natalie started her career at Shine in 2003 before launching Aduro in 2012.  Aduro has a turnover of £1m and employs 10 people. It specialises in consumer focused public relations work. [00:00:54] Why Natalie describes Aduro as the “Ronseal of PR”. [00:02:56] Why Natalie believes it is possible to isolate the impact of PR in a consumer market where there are numerous promotional channels.  [00:03:...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Scott Wilson, president Europe and Africa at Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW). Scott started his career in journalism, before becoming head of media at Porter Novelli and then managing director of consumer at Weber Shandwick. Scott then moved to Cohn & Wolfe to become UK CEO and later MD of EMEA. And when Cohn & Wolfe and...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I'm pleased to welcome executive director of Premier, Lawrence Francis. Lawrence has an interesting personal career story because he has successfully made the journey from being a business development director at Premier to working client side. Premier is one of UK PR’s best kept secrets; it's a big firm. It has...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Neil Henderson, group director of global media and financial communications at Zurich Insurance Group. Neil is based in Switzerland. Previously, he has was head of media, content and partnerships at Which?, director of communications at Mastercard, executive director at Golin and head of media and broadcast at Red. Before this,...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m interviewing Louise Turner, head of Edelman Intelligence UK & Ireland. Louise heads up a large part of Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer research and is here to tell us about the UK findings in a global context. Louise talks about a fair bit of data in this podcast and below are a few useful links where you can learn more about the context of the discussion...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder and CEO of Diffusion Daljit Bhurji. Diffusion was established 11 years ago and has a turnover of £5m and employes 60 people - 30 in London and 30 in the US, with offices in New York and more recently LA. It has a range of consumer, travel and technology clients. From about 26 minutes onwa...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome founder and MD of Fanclub PR Adrian Ma. Fanclub was established seven years ago, has a turnover of £1m and employes 11 people. It has a consumer and B2B client portfolio including Tesco Mobile and every PR person’s favourite organisation The NLA. Adrian has some really interesting things to say abou...

This week in the latest of our life stories podcast I’m interviewing Tom Murphy, director of global communications, Microsoft Services. Tom started his career at Text 100 in Ireland and then worked for a couple of start-ups and mid-sized firms in their in-house teams before joining Microsoft Ireland in 2005. He moved to Microsoft's head office in Redmond in the US in 2009 and is now Global Co...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m talking to co-founder of Tyto and previous global CEO of Hotwire Brendon Craigie.  Brendon joined Hotwire in 2000, three months after it was founded and went on to become its group CEO. During his time at Hotwire the firm grew to have a turnover of $31 million.  Unexpectedly for most observers, Brendon left Hotwire in 2017 following its acquisition of Eastwic...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder and CEO of Lansons Tony Langham. Lansons is one of the UK's largest independent PR consultancies - with a fee income of circa £14m. The business was founded in 1989 by Tony and his now wife Clare Parsons. Lansons has about 110 employees. Here is a summary of what Tony and I discussed...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome Molly Aldridge, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Public Relations. Molly has worked for both large and small agencies, independent and networked. She joined M&C Saatchi Public Relations in 2012.    The company has a fee income of circa £10m and employs circa 100 people.    Here is what Molly reveal...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast series, I’m interviewing Giles Fraser. Giles is co-founder of Brands2Life. He started the agency in 2000 with Sarah Scales and today, the agency has over 140 staff, a fee income of £14m and offices in the UK and US.    Giles started his career at mid-sized agency Infopress on Fleet St when the papers were all still there and he spent four years...

This week I'm interviewing Aaron Kwittken, founder of KWT in the latest of life stories podcasts.   Aaron started KWT, formally Kwittken, 13 years ago. Before this he followed a big agency career path working at MSL, Ketchum, Fleishman, Cohn and Wolfe and Havas.   KWT has a fee income of $12 to $15 million dollars and around 80 employees including 12 in London.   Aarron sold KWT to MDC Partne...

This week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Rebecca Blinston-Jones, UK managing director of MWWPR. MWWPR is a US-owned, mid-sized PR firm with revenues of $40-50m that employs around 250 people. In the UK it has revenues of £1.7m and employs around 20 people. Here is a taster of what Rebecca and I discussed:  How her formative years at Text 100 played a huge part in Rebecca’s career 1.0...

In a special PRmoment podcast I talk to Howard Kosky, CEO of 4DC, the recently launched podcast consultancy.    In a wide-ranging conversation about podcasts, here is a summary of what Howard and I discussed:    Why the rise in podcast popularity is linked to the continued popularity of radio 0.50 mins Whether the rise of podcasting is linked to consumers getting screen fatigue 1.42 mins The trend...

This week on the PRmoment podcast. in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder of Taylor Herring, James Herring.    James started Taylor Herring in 2001 alongside his then girlfriend Kath Taylor.    Taylor Herring has had quite a 12 months, with work with Greggs, The Beano, Samsung, Diageo and Easyjet (and I could go on) grabbing attention.    Taylor Herring is one...

Welcome to a slightly different PRmoment podcast. This week we're going to be doing a year in review of 2018.   The show will be divided up into three parts.  First up, we have Alice Weightman, founder and CEO of Hanson Search, who's going to talk to us about the PR talent market in 2018.   Then we have PRCA director general Francis Ingham, who’ll be giving us a wider perspective about t...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Barbara Bates, global CEO of Hotwire.  Barbara was joint founder of the independent US tech specialist Eastwick and ran the firm for 25 years before selling to Hotwire, in what was Hotwire’s parent firm Enero Group’s biggest acquisition for the agency to date. Following Hotwire’s takeover of Eastwick, Barbara...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing  Nik Govier, founder and CEO of agency Blurred.  Previously, Nik was the co-founder of consumer PR shop Unity. At its peak, Unity had a turnover of circa £4m.  Nik has recently founded and self backed her new venture Blurred, which launched last month.  Here is a flavour of what we discussed:  How a job as a t...