PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re talking to Louise Turner, managing director at Edelman Data & Intelligence, about the UK results of The Edelman Trust Barometer 2022 . Before we start just to say tickets for the PRmoment Awards have now gone on sale.  They will be the first PRmoment face-to-face awards since 2019!  Thanks to our PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA. Here’s a su...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Will Sturgeon, head of content and thought leadership at PwC UK about its CEO Report. PwC’s 25th Annual CEO Report reveals a growing trend towards more purposeful business practices, including a greater focus on trust, transparency and personal accountability from CEOs on issues such as climate change and inequality.  These are all issu...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Marcus Gault, managing director UK and Ireland of Onclusive. Dare I say many of you may not be aware but Onclusive is the new name for the Reputation Intelligence division of Kantar that was recently acquired by Symphony Technology Group. Onclusive has over 9,000 clients, across 130 markets and over 1,100 employees. So it’s a big beast...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re talking to Jon Rhodes, partner at BOLDT about what the important data points behind an organisation’s reputation are. BOLDT and Mettle Capital recently released their Trust in 2021 report. The report analysed more than 40 million conversations and pieces of content across more than 2,500 companies. Before we start, just to tell you about PRmoment’s...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Graz Belli, Co-Founder of Third City. Third City has a fee income of about £2.5 million and grew by 20% in 2021. It was founded 11 years ago. Third City sees itself as a corpsumer PR firm, offering both brand and reputational advice. Clients include the likes of BUPA, Starling, Zurich and G-Network. Previously Graz was managing director...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, we’re discussing a new report called Brands & Movements by Alfred which looks at how businesses face increasing pressure to act on issues impacting consumers, and asks what the pitfalls are for businesses engaging with these movements. In short, we’re going to be discussing whether society’s expectations of business have changed? On the show to discuss this...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week we’re chatting to Jo-ann Robertson, partner and CEO, London at Ketchum and Janita Lakhanpal, director of business development at Ketchum about “How to build a diverse PR agency” It’s a journey Jo-ann and Janita started back in 2018 and I thought it would be interesting to ask them on the show to chat about their experience of building a more diverse orga...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . It’s a weighty topic this week - on the show we’re going to be looking at some new research from Golin called The Polarisation Index . This research looks to investigate which topics polarisation society. Has modern society become more about affirming our own views, rather than exposing ourselves to different perspectives? To talk to us about this we’ve got Jonny...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . On the show this week we’re going to be talking about whether undiagnosed cases of the menopause are partly responsible the number of women aged 45+ leaving a career in PR. We’ve got Dr Clare Spencer from My Menopause Centre and Jo Carr, co-founder Hope&Glory on the podcast to talk to us about what the symptoms of the menopause are, why it is so often misdiagn...

Welcome to this week’s PRmoment Podcast . On the show we have Damon Statt and Gemma Moroney, co-founders of SHOOK. Shook was founded in June 2020, just a few months after the start of the first lockdown. In its first year they had a fee income of £335K and they are on target to hit £600K in the second trading year. Damon and Gemma have worked together since 2006—firstly at Frank, then at Mischief...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we’re talking about the lack of working class people working in public relations in the UK. In an attempt to increase the opportunities for working class people in PR Sarah Waddington and Stephen Waddington have launched Socially Mobile. Socially Mobile is a not for profit that offers training to people with a 1 to 3 years’ PR experience to turbo charge their care...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we talk about The Boris Phenomenon: Why don’t scandals, seemingly broken promises and political failings seem to affect Boris’s popularity in the same way other politicians would suffer. Here with me to discuss this is public affairs grandee Lional Zetter who has been a member of the Conservative Party for 30 years and long time, but now retired, PR Agency Dr - Ri...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we talk about The global impact of COVID on the PR sector. Here with me to discuss that is Dr. Pooja Arora from HCL Corporation and Shiv Nadar Foundation in India and Kathryn Lancioni, Instructor of Public Relations at Sefton University in the US. They have recently completed a piece of qualitative research that looks at the impact of the pandemic on the PR indust...

On the show is Debby Penton, managing director of Wildfire .  Wildfire is an independent tech PR firm with a fee income of £2.7m and 25 employees.  Thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors, The PRCA . Also, do please make a note that the PRmoment Awards 2022 have now opened for entries. Here’s a flavour of what Debby and I discuss: 1.30 mins Debby describes how, in her first-ever job, she w...

Welcome to this week’s PRmoment Podcast . On the show this week we’ve gone back to our roots and, honestly these are my favourite shows, we’re going back to our life stories theme. On the show is Martin Bostock, co-founder of Nelson Bostock and later Fever PR. Martin retired from PR in 2015 but I’ve always wanted to get him on the show because his is such an interesting story, which I’ve no doubt...

This week we’re drilling down into one of our favourite campaigns from 2021. We’re going to look at why a charity called Snow Camp used drill music in its Stop. Breath. Think campaign. On the show to talk us through the campaign is Peter Elms, director at Alpaca Communications , who helped put this campaign together. It’s a really interesting piece of work into how Snow Camp, a charity with a miss...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . On the show this week it’s the third of our mini-series we’re doing on ' PRs Hybrid Future' . Today we talked to Alice Weightman, founder of Hanson Search about its Future of the Workplace Report.  Some headlines from the report: 30% of marketing and communications employees question whether their current career is right for them, and are considering alt...

For this week's podcast, we’re talking to Howard Kosky, CEO of markettiers. For those of you that don’t know, markettiers is the UK’s largest broadcast PR firm. If you watch or listen to the news in the UK, most days you’re likely to hear a markettiers' campaign or two! Howard’s going to be chatting with us about what broadcast PR looks like as we all continue to emerge from the lockdown...

The second in our three part mini-series about PR’s hybrid working spectrum, this week we're talking to Rebecca Taylor-Cottle, head of communications, Northern Europe at Citrix about the potential for flexible working to change the landscape of how, and where, people work in PR. Potentially it could mean increased diversity, more older people working in the sector, a less London centric secto...

 In this week's podcast, we’re talking to Imogen Osborne, founder of The Pulse Business about a research project she has undertaken into face-to-face and virtual working environments post-COVID. 2 mins Imogen talks through the results of the latest research looking at the UK PR sector’s current approach to hybrid working. 8 mins Is a hybrid model a tougher model to integrate employees than an...

Welcome to the PR Pepper Challenge, produced in association with our good friends at Meltwater . On the show today we've got Bieneosa Ebite, Head of Corporate Communications at Centrica. Bieneosa talks about her role at Centrica, why she loves corporate communications and how PRs diversity stats have not moved in 10 years. The reason we've called this series of interviews The PR Pepper C...

2 mins Dee talks about her 3 year stint as Director of Comms in the Cayman Islands - which included the COVID crisis, an earthquake and the biggest hurricane season on record! 6 mins How Dee and her team lead the communications response to a 7.3 Richter scale earthquake. 11 mins Dee then talks about the Hurricane Season and the crisis comms required for that! 14 mins “In a crisis situation, people...

Here is a summary of what Andre and I discussed: 2 mins Andre talks us through what this report is all about and the key findings. 4 mins Andre discusses the data set behind the report including online articles from 25 UK national and business media from June 2016 to May 2021.  5 mins How and why the space for brands to feature in the media has shrunk. 5.30 mins How the overall number of articles...

On this week's podcast we’re talking to Jon Gerlis about the CIPR’s 'PR in the Pandemic' report. In terms of the methodology, 1029 people completed the questionnaire between 23 March 2021 and 19 April 2021.The online survey was complemented by ten interviews. The research was carried out by Chalkstream. Thanks so much, as ever, to the sponsors of the PRmoment Podcast The PRCA . Here...

On this week's podcast we’re talking to Will Hart, Group Managing Director at Unlimited Communications. Will joined Nelson Bostock in 2011 and became MD in 2020 before taking over the group MD role of Unlimited Communications from Nick Clark in April this year. Unlimited Group is owned by the private equity group DBay Advisors. 150 people work for Unlimited Communications in London, circa 70...