PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our January 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 Head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Before we start the...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re talking to George Hutchinson founder of River Effra Communications about the expanding area of risk methodology in crisis communication. It’s an interesting area which takes another perspective on PR’s increasingly complex intersection with data. The central concept is to use risk methodology to model and understand the reputational consequences for...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting with Zoe Ward Waring from Sunny Side Up and John Higginson from Higginson Strategy about how and why their respective organisations have become a BCorp . On the show, we talk about what being a BCorp is all about and what the process to becoming BCorp looks like. To put the discussion into some context in the UK there are 1375 BCorp organis...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re reviewing the biggest PR disasters of 2022 with crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman.  Just to confirm we’re talking today about events and disasters where communications played a key role, we’re not suggesting all of these examples are crises driven by poor PR - although in a number of the cases we talk about on this show a poor communicatio...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our final PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies. Before we start the final en...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re chatting with Shayoni Lynn, chief executive officer at Lynn Group about behavioural science theory and the implications of the application of behavioural in PR and communications. Shayoni previously worked as a journalist and then in the in-house team of Cardiff University before launching Lynn Group in 2019. Lynn has a turnover of £2.6m and 30 employee...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re reviewing 2022 from the perspective of a PR agency with Warren Johnson, founder of W Communications.  W has a fee income of £13m, offices in London New York and Singapore, Edinburgh, Kuala Lumpa, Los Angeles. It employs approximately 160 people globally and 126 in London.  If Year in Review Podcasts are your type of thing then do have a listen to our Y...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re reviewing 2022: The Year in Communications with Charlotte West, executive director of global corporate communications at Lenovo. Charlotte and PRmoment founder Ben Smith talk through the biggest events in PR and communications through 2022. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 early entry deadline is on 16th December, check out the awards site PRmom...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re talking about career learning and professional development in PR. We’re going to chat about the differences between career education and career training. We’ll discuss why PR (in the UK at least) seems to value PR experience over education  - and ask whether this is a problem. We’ll also talk about the available courses for PR and comms professionals th...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Heather Kernahan, global chief executive officer of, Hotwire about her career story. Hotwire has 500 employees globally and about 90 in London.  It has offices in 11 countries. Heather joined Hotwire when it acquired Eastwick in 2016. She became CEO in 2021 following Barbara Bates’ move to the holding company Enero. Before joining Eastwi...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re chatting to Mark Borkowski about some of the biggest stories in the media recently. For those who don’t know, Mark’s had a stellar PR career, starting as a publicist in the theatre and running Borkowski PR for something like 32 years. Before we start the PRmoment Awards 2023 early entry deadline is on 16th December, check out the awards site PRmomentAwa...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Rick Guttridge, founder of Smoking Gun about his career story in public relations and how he went from a procurement officer for the Royal Mail to PR agency CEO. Smoking Gun is a £1.5 m PR firm based in Manchester, clients include Interflora, the NHS and Alton Towers. It has 15 employees. Previously Rick worked for Brazen and Connectpoin...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Victoria Dean, chief executive officer of Portland about her career story. Portland has 350 employees globally and 270 in London. It has offices in Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Washington, Nairobi, Singapore, Doha and London. Victoria’s career has been a fascinating journey - she has spent the majority of her career working for The British a...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today we’re talking about PR degrees - or rather the lack of them! To confirm there are still a number of excellent PR degree courses available but there are far fewer PR undergraduate places in the UK than there were 10 years ago. On the show this week we look into the reasons behind this, asking whether it is a UK-centric trend and whether it’s a decline that can...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting about the role of modern corporate affairs with Sian O'Keefe, vice president of corporate affairs, Mars Wrigley Europe, Central Eurasia, Belarus & Turkey. It’s a corporate affairs special this week and Sian and I talked about the increased breadth and importance of the corporate affairs role within large businesses. We’ll discuss t...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’ve put in 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 they publish the listenership figures for UK radio and this offers a really interesting insight for P...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Charles Tattersall, chief executive of Citypress about why he decided to sell his business to his employees through an employee-owned trust, rather than via an acquisition. In the show today we’re going to tell you agency owners out there what you need to know about taking your agency business into employee ownership. Charles will talk u...

This week we’re chatting to Sheeraz Gulsher, EMEA communications, Snap and co-founder of People Like Us , about whether PR is making any progress in its quest to be more diverse and represent the audience that it aspires to communicate with. Before we start, do check out the home page of PRmoment for our latest webinars, including The intersection of Data, Insight and PR Planning and The State of...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today we're talking to Madan Bahal, co-founder of India's largest PR firm. Madan and I are going to talk about how, as an independent firm, Adfactors has grown from being one of a pack of highly regarded PR agencies in India - to becoming the biggest PR firm in India, frankly by a long, long way. It's a story that any independent PR firm...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Here’s the latest of our bonus pod series where I chat to Andrew Bloch about PR Pitches and merger & acquisition trends in the UK PR scene. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now Head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services...

This week we’re chatting to Chris Owen, UK Director at The Hoffman Agency about his experience being an alcoholic working in public relations. Chris has written a number of articles about the period of his life when he drank too much, including Things I don’t miss about alcohol addiction and How the NHS saved my life .  On the show today we talk about Chris’s problems with alcohol in the context o...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Emma Kane, Chief Executive of SEC Newgate UK and Deputy Group CEO Deputy SEC Newgate S.p. A about her career story in public relations. Previously Emma founded Redleaf Communications before selling the business to Porta in 2014. Porta combined with SEC Newgate in June 2019 in a reverse merger to form SEC Newgate. This integrated a number...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Emily Morgan, managing director, operations and innovation at The Red Consultancy. Emily has worked at Red for over 22 years and she’s recently evolved her role too, as the job title suggests, prioritise innovation within the firm. The Red Consultancy has a fee income of about £13m and is part of the Accordience, which was previously kno...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Bradley Tooth, head of social media at Democracy PR about how brands can move from broadcasting content on social media to engaging with their customers and potential customers through social media. For those vintage social media users amongst our listeners - Brad was one of the guys who got blisters on his hands when 02 attempted to re...