PRmoment Podcast

Today on the PRmoment Podcast I'm talking to Mark Inskip, CEO of Kantar UK’s Media Division about its research revealing the challenges to the comms industry in 2021. According to the research, there are three big challenges facing the sector today:  The sheer volume of stakeholders comms professionals need to engage with The challenge of measuring impact in a landscape of highly scrutinized...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast I'm talking to George Coleman Co-Founder & CEO at Current Global. Current Global has just launched a commitment that every piece of communication it develops, curates or publishes on behalf of the firm and its clients will meet the highest accessibility standards.  Current Global is owned by Interpublic and has offices in Europe, America and Asia. It employs...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Tony Langham, co-founder and CEO of Lansons. Tony and PRmoment founder Ben Smith discuss the findings of a recent report Tony edited: How PR firms can recover fast from the pandemic. The report is a series of 250 word pieces of advice from (mostly) PR leaders from all around the world. 1.00 min Tony tells us how the "‘ How to Recover Fast fro...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Charlotte Mair, Founder and Managing Director, The Fitting Room The Fitting Room was originally called PR and Everything in Between in 2012. It was rebranded as The Fitting Room in 2017. The Fitting Room specialises in Food & Drink, Fashion, Music and Hospitality work. It has revenues of circa £1.2 m and employs 7 people. Clients include Cafe...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week is Adam Clyne, founder of Coolr. For Adam it’s been a pretty varied career, first of all he worked in PR, then he made the move into advertising with JWT. He launched his own digital agency called The Lab in 2002 which he then sold to the agency that is now Kindred. Spells at TVC and Weber Shandwick followed. Then he had a spell at LadBible before launching his ow...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re talking to Richard Rawlins, CEO and founder of Finn. Finn was founded in 2005, it has a turnover of approximately £3 million and 35 employees. It is based in Leeds and focuses exclusively on the FMCG sector. Here’s a flavour of what Richard and PRmoment founder Ben Smith discussed: 01.40 mins Why as a 21-year-old Richard enrolled in The British Army. 04.10 m...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re turning the tables and PRmoment founder Ben Smith is interviewed by Third City’s Chris Blackwood. Just a reminder that PRmoment Podcast listeners can get 20% off the first month off Propel Software here. Here’s a summary of what Chris and I discussed: 3.30 mins How Ben’s career has been split over two phases 8.30 mins Why empathy is a crucial...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment Podcast. This week I’m talking to ex Golin CEO Jon Hughes. These days Jon describes himself as a Senior advisor specialising in technology and corporate communications. Jon’s been looking at how technology is likely to change the shape of PR and communications businesses over the medium term and he’s giving us an insight into these ideas today. Here is the link where...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to James Kelliher, chief executive officer at Whiteoaks International. Whiteoaks is a 40 person tech PR agency based in Hook, Hampshire. It has a fee income of approximately £4m. Here’s a flavour of what James and I discussed: 1.30 mins   How James has spent pretty much his whole career at Whiteoaks - he joined as an account exec and he’s now the CEO a...

In the latest PRmoment Podcast I catch up with Effie Kanyua, director of PR & Comms, Hearst UK.  Effie is currently director of PR & Comms at Hearst UK having previously worked at Clarity, H&K, Splendid and Bauer Media. Here are some of the themes that Effie and I discussed: 2 mins How Effie retained a broad range of PR sector experience and why that's been really beneficial now s...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we talk to Jo-ann Robertson, Partner and CEO of Ketchum London in the latest of our PR Rest series of podcasts - that look at the state of public relations post the COVID-19 lockdown. Here’s a summary of what Jo-ann and I discussed: 1.55 mins What does the outlook for the next six months for PR firms?  7.40 mins Bearing in mind how many agency: client relationship...

Today on the PRmoment podcast, I’m talking to Matt Peacock, partner at Blurred, about something that I suspect six months ago few of us had heard of – no not Covid, but ESG! Environmental, Social, and Governance refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and societal impact of an organisation.  Matt is a partner at Blurred, an ex-corporate affairs director at Vodafone, and...

In the latest of our 'career stories' themed interviews, we talk to Frank co-founder Andrew Bloch. To those of you that are surprised that Andrew hasn't been on the show before, we can confirm that he hasn't, and he's definitely in the category of one of those guests that we've been saving up! As many of you will know, Andrew co-founded Frank PR in 2000 and it has bec...

This week, in the latest of our PR Reset series about how the PR world and the wider economy might reset post the Covid-19 lockdown, I’m talking to PRCA director general Francis Ingham.  It’s explosive stuff, the highlights are below, but Ingham believes approximately 5,000 UK PR people are likely to be made redundant and claims “ The majority of people on furlough within our industry have no idea...

This week, we're starting a new series called PR Reset, where I'm catching up with the CEOs of some of the UK's most prominent PR firms to talk about how they see their business, the PR world and the wider economy resetting post the Covid-19 lockdown.  First up, we've got the founder of W Communications Warren Johnson. Frankly, Warren’s on even more punchy form than ever! Here’...

Today, on the PRmoment Podcast, I'm talking to Julian Obubo, brand strategy director at Manifest London about "How to be an anti-racist company." Julian is a member of the leadership team at Manifest and, I know, has been a vital part of the agency's impressive growth in recent years. As has long been discussed, the diversity stats in PR are embarrassing with approximately 92%...

Today we’re talking to Ruth Kieran, CEO of Cirkle, about how an independent firm like Cirkle has coped and responded to the Covid-19 crisis so far. Here’s a summary of what Ruth and I discussed: How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the business?      How the crisis has been very specific in the way it has impacted firms. For example, Cirkle has a lot of food and drink clients including Morrisons...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, we've got Phil Hall, chairman of The PHA Group. For those of you that are not aware, Phil was the editor of the News of the World from 1995 to 2000. His old bosses included Piers Morgan and Rupert Murdoch – he was at the pinnacle of British tabloid journalism before he left it all behind in 2005 and founded Phil Hall Associates (Now The PHA Group). He starte...

This week, we welcome Tariq Ahmed, ex-group head of corporate communications at Liquid Telecom, to the PRmoment podcast.  Here’s a summary of what Tariq and I discussed:  In the context of the George Floyd racism protests in the US and throughout the world, including here in the UK, Tariq and I talk about his decision to change his name from Tariq Ahmed to Daniel Jacobs back in 2002 – when Tariq f...

This week we’re going to return to our roots - by going back to our regular career stories theme. We’ve pretty much covered the Covid-19 angle of PR and agency management if you want more info on that then have a listen to the past 5/6 episodes of the podcast, or have a look at the 25 plus Covid-19 articles on PRmoment.com - I think you’ll find all you need to know. It’s quite a body of work. This...

On the PRmoment podcast this week, we’ve got Adrian Talbot who is the FD of Hotwire PR. He’s one of the most experienced FDs in public relations, having been at Hotwire for over four years, before that he was at BBH, College Hill (now Instinctif) and Burson Marsteller.  As quick plug from me, if you haven’t booked already, then you don’t have long to book your tickets to our series of Lite events:...

On today’s show, we’ve got Chris Talago, VP PR and communications JAPAC and EMEA at Oracle. Chris is going to be giving us an in-house communicator’s perspective on the Covid-19 lockdown.  Here’s a flavour of what Chris and I discuss:  How have the comms team at Oracle coped with the Covid-19 crisis so far? What message is the comms team trying to get across at the moment?       Why Covid-19 requi...

This week I’m interviewing Amanda Coleman, Ex-head of Corporate Communications at Greater Manchester Police and author of the book Crisis Communication Strategies . Amanda has recently founded her own agency, Amanda Coleman Communications. Amanda and I are going to be looking at the UK governments’ communications performance since the Covid-19 crisis began. To emphasise, we are not attempting to a...

On today’s show, we’re talking to Mandy Sharp, founder and CEO of Tin Man Communications. Mandy and I are going to be talking about her experiences of running a consumer PR firm during the Covid-19 lockdown.  Here’s a summary of what Mandy and I discuss:  How has it been for Mandy and Tin Man since the Covid-19 crisis kicked off?       Why one of the problems for consumer PR firms has been that a...

On today’s show, we’ve got Crispin Manners and Richard Houghton, co-authors of ‘Grow, Build, Sell, Live: A Practical Guide to Running and Building an Agency and Enjoying It’, talking about the implications of the Covid-19 crisis for PR firms.  Here’s a summary of what we discuss: Most agencies have now dealt with the short-term demands of the Covid-19 crisis, but how helpful have the various gover...