PRmoment Podcast

Today on the PRmoment podcast were chatting with Julietta Dexter who is Founder and CEO of The Communications Store. Julietta has recently launched the book ‘ Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values ’ which talks about Julietta’s personal story of lessons learned in the workplace and how to navigate a successful career while holding onto one’s personal beliefs and values....

Welcome to the latest podcast with Iain Anderson, Executive Chairman at Cicero/AMO. We’ve put our life stories podcasts on pause as they just don’t feel appropriate at the moment - so today Iain and I are going to be talking about Covid 19: The media, the politics, and the communications. Here is a summary of what Iain and I talk about: [00:02:12] Iain tells us how he's finding it as a busine...

We discuss how different sectors are affected, what the impact of the government’s furloughing scheme will be on the PR business, how the government’s business interruption loans can work, and the impact of Covid-19 on employees and clients to date. Here’s a summary of what we discussed: I’m conscious we have international listeners, to confirm the government schemes we’re talking about in this sh...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, we've got Jo Carr, co-founder, and chief client officer at Hope&Glory.    Hope&Glory was co-founded by Jo Carr and James Gordon-MacIntosh in 2011. It now has a fee income of circa £8.5 million, employs about 80 people and grew by 25% in 2019.    [00:01:26] How Jo originally wanted to be a journalist or work in advertising.    [00:03:33] How Jo was or...

It’s a bit of an owned-media special this week!     In the latest show, we talk to Will Sturgeon, head of content and thought leadership at PwC. Will talks us through PwC’s content strategy and explains why he believes the opportunity for owned-media content, distributed via a business’s experts, has never been greater.    In the UK, PwC has 22,000 employees and 900 partners and operates across mu...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, we’re taking another change of tack – we’re talking about virtual agencies with Tamara Littleton, CEO and founder of The Social Element.    There are plenty of virtual agencies around, but not that many have managed to scale to the size of The Social Element. It’s a 300-people (100 staff, 200 freelancers), £9m virtual consultancy business operating internationall...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing Louise Turner, head of Edelman Intelligence UK & Ireland. Louise talks to us about Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer research for the UK   in a global context. [00:02:23] How trust in the institutions that govern our society collapsed during the 2008 financial crash and has never recovered. [00:02:42] How the Edelman Trust Barometer measures t...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing Rachel Pendered, managing director of Media Zoo. Media Zoo has a fee income of circa £13m and approximately 130 employees. It’s an independent PR firm in London. It was co-founded by Rachel and Mark Killick in 2003. Before she co-founded Media Zoo, Rachel worked for the BBC and Channel 4 as a TV producer. Here’s a summary of what Rachel and I dis...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m interviewing Mitch Kaye, co-founder and CEO of The Academy. The Academy has a fee income of approximately £4.3m, it’s an independent PR firm in London. It has 50 employees and was co-founded by Mitch Kaye and Dan Glover in 2014.  Mitch previously founded Mischief which he sold to Engine within five years of its launch in 2006. The Academy describes itself as a...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m interviewing Greg Jones, managing director of Mischief. Mischief has a fee income of approximately £5m and employs 55 people. It’s part of the Engine Group. Mischief’s sister PR agency within Engine is the corporate shop MHP. Greg’s a rare example in PR of a creative director who has got the top job. He started his career at Shine, before stints at Slice (Engi...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing Gerry Hopkinson, owner and CEO of Unity. Unity is a £2.7m fee income consumer PR consultancy based in London. Clients include the likes of Axa, Vue, Freesat and AEG. Unity’s fee income has grown by 30% in the last 12 months. Gerry is a Canadian who came to the UK aged 24. His early career was spent at PR agencies QBO and Band and Brown. He also h...

Welcome to the second in a new mini-series of PRmoment podcasts where we interview the authors of books relevant to those who work in PR and communications. In the last year or so there have been a number of books launched by people I really respect in PR. Frankly, I don’t have time to read them all so, partly for selfish reasons, I thought I’d interview them on this show. Today I’m interviewing K...

On the PRmoment podcast this week we’ve got one of PR’s nice guys Justin Westcott. He’s currently got two jobs – not only is he chief operating officer of Edelman UK and Ireland, he’s also Edelman’s head of technology, EMEA. Justin started his PR career at Microsoft, before moving to August One and Inferno Communications. He joined Edelman in 2006. Edelman has a fee income of circa $890 million do...

This week we’re changing tack again with the second of our mini series of podcasts looking at the use of data, technology and insight in communications. On the show is Petra Masinova, global director, reputation intelligence at Kantar. Petra has worked in senior in-house roles – so she understands what senior communicators want and need from their communications. She has also had big agency experi...

Welcome to the first in a new mini-series of PRmoment podcasts were we interview the authors of books relevant to PR and communications people. In the last year or so there have been a number of books launched by people I really respect in PR – frankly, I don’t have time to read them all so, partly for selfish reasons I thought I’d interview them on this show. First up is someone who is returning...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, we’re taking another change of tack – we’re talking about the pitching process and on the show we’ve got a PR buyer and a PR seller. On the buy side we’ve got Lenovo’s executive director, global corporate communications Charlotte West and on the sell side we’ve got 3 Monkey Zeno’s business development director Rebecca Wagstaffe. Here’s a summary of what Rebecca,...

Kaizo is an independent PR firm specialising in two areas – B2B technology PR and health and wellness. It has a fee income of about £3m and employs 30 people.    Steph and Rhodri Harries bought the business in 2011 and it’s an interesting story because fairly swiftly after that they lost three of their biggest clients.    The firm is now thriving again and clients include the likes of Avast, Pure...

This week, in the latest PRmoment Podcast, we’ve got a change of format.   In anticipation of the PRmoment Awards 2020 I thought it would be interesting to hear from some of the winners from the PRmoment Awards 2019.   So today I’m talking to Pete Mountstevens, CCO & Managing Partner at Taylor Herring, about its 'Spin Cycle: the launch of Samsung Quick Drive' campaign that won the In...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Marshall Manson. Marshall has been London based for the last 11 years.    He worked at Edelman London as its digital director from 2008 to 2013, then he joined Ogilvy, from 2013 to 2018, latterly as the last UK CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations.    Marshall joined Brunswick as a partner in April last year.    Brunswick employs 1,...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, we’re talking about mental health in PR. On the show we’ve got James Endersby, chief executive of Opinium, and Jane Fordham, who spent 20 years working in PR agencies before launching her eponymous consultancy in 2018 specialising in people, culture and diversity. Opinium has recently published a Mental Health and Wellbeing report in conjunction with the PRCA. O...

This week, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Asad Dhunna, founder of The Unmistakables, on the PRmoment Podcast.  Asad started his career at IncrediBull (now Text 100), before moving to Weber Shandwick and via a stint in-house at FleishmanHillard Fishburn. Asad set up the Unmistakables in Aug 2018. Alongside running his own agency until recently he was also director of com...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcasts, I’m interviewing Jennifer Mowat, managing director at Babel. Jennifer went to university at Cambridge. Her first job in PR was at Mantra (now Speed) before moving to Chameleon and Brands2Life as a director. She joined Babel as managing director in February this year. Babel is an independent tech PR firm with a revenue of circa £2m. It employs...

This week we’re changing tack – we’re challenging our listeners out there to engage your brains! Technology means we’re on the cusp of data and insight playing a much bigger role in the planning, activation and measurement of communications. Alongside this development, a number of new (and established firms) have invested in the technology to more accurately and more swiftly understand the numbers...

Here's a special PRmoment podcast from the ICCO Global Summit in Lisbon featuring interviews with ICCO CEO Francis Ingham, global CEO of Hotwire Barbara Bates, and new president of ICCO and group CEO Avian WE in India Nitin Mantri. On the podcast we cover global public relations trends, whether PR has an ethics problem and focus on Nitin's plans for his two-year stint as ICCO president....

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast, I’m interviewing Alex Northcott, co-founder of Gorkana and founder of Roxhill Media. Alex has packed quite a bit into his career. He was originally in the British Army as an officer in the Gurkhas. His first job when he left the British Army was in PR at JP Morgan. He then worked for Morgan Stanley before cofounding Gorkana in 2004 alongside Mi...