PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Ruth Allchurch, UK MD WE. We’re going to talk about Ruth’s career to date including her time at Diageo, her experience at Cirkle and most recently at WE where she has took the UK income of the firm to close to £7m, from about £3m when she joined as the UK MD 4 years ago. Currently, 60 people work in London for WE and current clients incl...

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. This week we’re chatting to Rebecca Grant, UK CEO,  BCW Global.  Rebecca has one of the biggest jobs in UK PR. She heads up a team of over 200 people at BCW’s London office and she led the Cohn & Wolfe London operation through the merger with Burson Masteller to a period of significant growth for what was already a big PR and comms operation. Rebecca joined BCW...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Alex Myers, founder and global CEO of Manifest. Manifest employees circa 70 people globally, has a fee income of over £5m globally, with about $2m of that coming from its fast-growing New York Office. London remains its largest hub.  It also has offices in Stockholm and Melbourne. Do check out the home page of PRmoment for our latest we...

Welcome to this week's The PRmoment Podcast. On the show, this week is James Beveridge, founder of Made by Giants . James is one of PR's most experienced creative directors. He moved from the creative agency Further into PR in 2014 to work for Fishburn.  He started Made by Giants back in 2020 and it's now a £700K B2B tech PR firm. On the show today we're going to talk about som...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Alex Aiken, long-time executive director, of the UK Government’s Communication Service. We’re going to talk to Alex about his career in government communications, the personalities of the Prime Ministers he’s worked with and the changes he made during his time heading up the Government Communications Service. Before we start, just to te...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Darryl Sparey, co-founder of Hard Numbers about how to measure the impact of your PR Darryl believes the opportunity is ripe for communicators everywhere to accurately measure their results through sales software like Hubspot and the like. And today Darryl is going to give his insight into the techniques and tools that he’s found...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Chris Curtis, head of political polling at Opinium in the first of a regular slot where we discuss the latest polling trends in UK politics. Before we start, PRmoment’s webinar caravan is off again. We’ve got a programme of 8 webinars coming up in September and November which we’ll be launching over the next 6 weeks. Already up o...

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...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to PR academic Tom Watson about the History of PR - when, where and how did the business of public relations begin. Tom is a professor emeritus at Bournemouth University, he taught on Bournemouth’s PR degree for a number of years. Previously he spent much of his career running his own PR firm and he was the founder of the annual His...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week with me Ben Smith we’re talking to Nick Braund, founder of Words and Pixels about the PR for start-ups market. Nick founded Words and Pixels in 2020, it has a fee income of just over £1 million, grew by 300% in 2021 and specialises in the PR for start-up scene. Just a nudge to remind you all about the final deadline for The Creative Moment Awards on Friday 1st Jul...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast with me Ben Smith. Today we’re talking to Daisy Hawker Wallace about what clients want from their PR agency? Daisy is currently deputy director & head of PR at Avanti West Coast. Previously she’s worked in-house at Virgin Trains and Virgin. She’s had agency roles at Ketchum and TVC. So she’s sat on both sides of the fence and today she’s going to give her perspe...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Here’s the third of a new 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...

On the show this week we’re talking to Fenella Grey EMEA managing director & chair at Porter Novelli. Porter Novelli has had an interesting few years. Brad MacAfee took over from Karen van Bergen as Porter Novelli’s global CEO in 2016 and he was replaced by ex McKinsey executive David Bentley in early 2020. But a constant throughout this period was Fenella Grey who headed up the London office...

One year on from the MBO of Frank PR On the show this week we’re catching up with Frank PR’s Graham Goodkind and Alex Grier, one year on from a particularly eye-catching deal where Alex and Graham bought back the remaining 75% of Frank for approximately £850,000 from Enero.  14 years earlier, back in 2007, Frank was sold to Photon Group (as Enero was then known) for more than £20m. If you haven&ap...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to crisis PR lawyer Jonathan Coad, about his new book Reputation Matters.  Jonathan is one of the UK’s top media lawyers, he’s spent 30 years working on both the PR side and the editorial sides of the fence.  Reputation Matters gives a unique insight into how the media works with practical advice on how to deal with PR crises effectively.  Jonathan i...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Alex Warren about his book Spin Machines - which asks the question “ Can PR be replaced by AI? ” As well as writing his book Alex is also a senior account director at Wildfire PR. On the show, Alex talks about whether an algorithm can devise a PR strategy? Can a robot brainstorm a creative campaign? Can artificial intelligence write persuasively,...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Michelle Goodall, chief marketing officer, Guild about the techniques required to build a community, the differences between a network and a community and what are the advantages for organisations in having an engaged community. Do take a look at the stunning selection of free webinars we’ve got coming up: ranging from PR and TikTok , Changing yo...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, we’re talking to Nicole Yost, CEO of HAVAS Just:: and Corin Baird, head of digital at HAVAS Just:: about the incredible year that healthcare PR has had. We’re going to be talking about the top healthcare trends and what excellence in this buoyant sector of the public relations world looks like. Before we start just to promo our stunning selection of free webinars...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Here’s the second of a new 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 service...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Time flies doesn't it. We’re well over a quarter of the way through 2022 - remember those plans and hopes we all had on Jan 1st? Well, it’s time for a progress report! PR land seems to continue to be pretty frantic - it’s a hot market both in terms of the amount of work going through in house teams, agencies are as busy as ever and the pressure for talent int...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This is a quick bonus pod - we’re chatting 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 agencies. ...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Lara Gould about whether journalists make good PR people.  Lara used to work at The Mail On Sunday and the Sunday Mirror. In 2014 she left journalism for PR and set up Goldbug Communications in 2016. For those of you that don’t know, Goldbug is a brand communication consultancy with revenue of £2.7 million. The shortlist for The PRmomen...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Kat McGettigan, founder of Fine Lines . Kat describes Fine Lines as an “agency-growth agency.” Previously she worked at Grayling, M&C Saatchi and Weber Shandwick. On the show, we talk about how agencies can improve their pitch techniques but we’re also going to take a step back and look at the broader area of growth strategies for P...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Anna Geffert, founder of Hera Communications . Anna is the current President of Women in PR and we’re talking to her today about the 60th Anniversary of Women in PR. The organisation was founded in 1962 and on the show today we’re going to discuss how it started and how it’s changed over the last 60 years. As you’ve probably seen, the s...