PRmoment Podcast

This week on the PRmoment podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome founder and MD of Fanclub PR Adrian Ma. Fanclub was established seven years ago, has a turnover of £1m and employes 11 people. It has a consumer and B2B client portfolio including Tesco Mobile and every PR person’s favourite organisation The NLA. Adrian has some really interesting things to say abou...

This week in the latest of our life stories podcast I’m interviewing Tom Murphy, director of global communications, Microsoft Services. Tom started his career at Text 100 in Ireland and then worked for a couple of start-ups and mid-sized firms in their in-house teams before joining Microsoft Ireland in 2005. He moved to Microsoft's head office in Redmond in the US in 2009 and is now Global Co...

This week on the PRmoment podcast, I’m talking to co-founder of Tyto and previous global CEO of Hotwire Brendon Craigie.  Brendon joined Hotwire in 2000, three months after it was founded and went on to become its group CEO. During his time at Hotwire the firm grew to have a turnover of $31 million.  Unexpectedly for most observers, Brendon left Hotwire in 2017 following its acquisition of Eastwic...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast, in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder and CEO of Lansons Tony Langham. Lansons is one of the UK's largest independent PR consultancies - with a fee income of circa £14m. The business was founded in 1989 by Tony and his now wife Clare Parsons. Lansons has about 110 employees. Here is a summary of what Tony and I discussed...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome Molly Aldridge, Global CEO of M&C Saatchi Public Relations. Molly has worked for both large and small agencies, independent and networked. She joined M&C Saatchi Public Relations in 2012.    The company has a fee income of circa £10m and employs circa 100 people.    Here is what Molly reveal...

This week, in the latest of our life stories podcast series, I’m interviewing Giles Fraser. Giles is co-founder of Brands2Life. He started the agency in 2000 with Sarah Scales and today, the agency has over 140 staff, a fee income of £14m and offices in the UK and US.    Giles started his career at mid-sized agency Infopress on Fleet St when the papers were all still there and he spent four years...

This week I'm interviewing Aaron Kwittken, founder of KWT in the latest of life stories podcasts.   Aaron started KWT, formally Kwittken, 13 years ago. Before this he followed a big agency career path working at MSL, Ketchum, Fleishman, Cohn and Wolfe and Havas.   KWT has a fee income of $12 to $15 million dollars and around 80 employees including 12 in London.   Aarron sold KWT to MDC Partne...

This week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Rebecca Blinston-Jones, UK managing director of MWWPR. MWWPR is a US-owned, mid-sized PR firm with revenues of $40-50m that employs around 250 people. In the UK it has revenues of £1.7m and employs around 20 people. Here is a taster of what Rebecca and I discussed:  How her formative years at Text 100 played a huge part in Rebecca’s career 1.0...

In a special PRmoment podcast I talk to Howard Kosky, CEO of 4DC, the recently launched podcast consultancy.    In a wide-ranging conversation about podcasts, here is a summary of what Howard and I discussed:    Why the rise in podcast popularity is linked to the continued popularity of radio 0.50 mins Whether the rise of podcasting is linked to consumers getting screen fatigue 1.42 mins The trend...

This week on the PRmoment podcast. in the latest of our life stories series, I’m pleased to welcome co-founder of Taylor Herring, James Herring.    James started Taylor Herring in 2001 alongside his then girlfriend Kath Taylor.    Taylor Herring has had quite a 12 months, with work with Greggs, The Beano, Samsung, Diageo and Easyjet (and I could go on) grabbing attention.    Taylor Herring is one...

Welcome to a slightly different PRmoment podcast. This week we're going to be doing a year in review of 2018.   The show will be divided up into three parts.  First up, we have Alice Weightman, founder and CEO of Hanson Search, who's going to talk to us about the PR talent market in 2018.   Then we have PRCA director general Francis Ingham, who’ll be giving us a wider perspective about t...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing Barbara Bates, global CEO of Hotwire.  Barbara was joint founder of the independent US tech specialist Eastwick and ran the firm for 25 years before selling to Hotwire, in what was Hotwire’s parent firm Enero Group’s biggest acquisition for the agency to date. Following Hotwire’s takeover of Eastwick, Barbara...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, as part of our life stories series, I’m interviewing  Nik Govier, founder and CEO of agency Blurred.  Previously, Nik was the co-founder of consumer PR shop Unity. At its peak, Unity had a turnover of circa £4m.  Nik has recently founded and self backed her new venture Blurred, which launched last month.  Here is a flavour of what we discussed:  How a job as a t...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast, I’m interviewing  Mandy Sharp, founder of Tin Man.  Mandy founded Tin Man in 2013 and it now has a fee income of £1.3m and employs 20 people.  Previously, Tin Man was part owned by Unity co-founders Nik Done and Gerry Hopkinson, but Mandy has recently bought them out and is now the sole owner of Tin Man.  Here is a summary of what we discussed: How it feels for...

This week, on the PRmoment oodcast, I interviewed Angie Wiles, founder of The Difference Collective. Previously, Angie founded Virgo Health with Sarah Matthew in 2003 before selling Virgo to Golin in 2012. Both Sarah and Angie have now left Golin. Angie is now doing it all again and set up The Difference Collective last year. Here is a summary of what we discussed:  Why Angie preferred PR to marke...

This week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m interviewing Adrian Talbot, global CFO at Hotwire.    Most PR agency entrepreneurs I speak to reckon the time they hired an experienced financel director was a critical moment for the growth of their business – so I thought it would be interesting to get an experienced PR agency FD on the show to talk.    Adrian has held senior FD posts in various PR firms f...

This week, on the PRmoment podcast , I’m interviewing Brad MacAfee, chief executive officer, senior partner at Porter Novelli.  Brad has worked at Porter Novelli for the past 18 years and is now the global CEO of this Omnicom-owned PR firm. Porter Novelli has around 90 offices in 60 countries.  Here is a flavour of what Chris and I discussed:  Brad identifies what he sees as the four growth catego...

This week, on the PRmoment Podcast , I’m interviewing Chris Talago, VP PR & communications, JAPAC & EMEA at Oracle.    Chris started his career in the British Army before moving, fairly randomly it has to be said, into PR. He started his career in-house before moving agency side with jobs at Text 100 and Hill and Knowlton. He then moved in-house to AMD before tacking back agency side to be...

This week, on the PRmoment Podcast , I’m interviewing Vanessa Pine, co-founder of Atlas Partners. What I love about Vanessa’s career is that it’s real! She says she doesn’t have any regrets, but there are a few career decisions which I suspect, in hindsight, she could have played out differently. Vanessa is currently a director at Atlas Partners which employs 10 people and has a fee income of £600...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I interview co-founder and executive creative director at The Romans, Joe Mackay-Sinclair Joe launched The Romans less than 4 years ago and already it has a fee income of about £3.5m and employs 30 people. Here is a summary of what Joe and I discuss: Whether he regrets Mother investing in a minority stake in The Romans, or whether he wished The Romans had remained...

This week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome founder of The Communications Store Julietta Dexter. Julietta established The Communications Store 23 years ago and it now has an income of £16m and employs 200 people – 180 in London and 20 in the US.   The Communications Store has remained independent and is a specialist consultancy operating in fashion, beauty and lifestyle.   Here is a...

This week on The PRmoment podcast I’m catching up with Neil Hedges, founder and partner at communications firm Headland. Neil has worked in the UK PR scene for nearly 40 years – so he knows his way around. Before setting up Headland, Neil was one of the founders of Fishburn Hedges – arguably UK PR’s pre-eminent PR shop of the 1990s and most of the noughties. Here is a taster of what Neil and I dis...

This week, on the PRmoment Podcast, I’m pleased to welcome founder and managing director of W Communications Warren Johnson. Warren established W nine years ago and the business now has a fee income of circa £7.5m. W is the largest of a group of independent consumer agencies in London which are leading PR’s fight for creative work. Here is a flavour of what Warren and I discussed: Why he once left...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and CEO of Lewis Communications Chris Lewis. Chris established Lewis 25 years ago and today it is a truly global agency operating in 26 markets with a fee income of £50m and circa 500 employees. Lewis is the only current example of a British-owned PR and communications firm that has successfully scaled its business globally. Here is...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and CEO of Manifest Alex Myers. Manifest is a self defined brand communications agency and has a fee income of £3.5m.   Manifest has grown by 70% in the last financial year and has offices in London, New York and Stockholm.   Here is a summary of what Alex and I discuss:   How Alex got into PR PR outside of London and the burgeoning...