PRmoment Podcast

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...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I talk to co founder of Hope&Glory James Gordon-Macintosh. James went to Cambridge University and has then only really had two jobs in PR - first at Fishburn Hedges, the consumer side of which morphed into 77 PR, and then he set up Hope&Glory with Jo Carr in 2011. Hope&Glory has a fee income today of approx £5.5m. Here is a flavour of what James and I...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome founder and MD of Cow PR Sian Morgan. Cow PR is a circa £3m fee income consumer PR shop in London. What’s interesting about Cow is that despite its relatively small size - it punches well above its weight creatively, and has done for basically the last 18 years so I want to discover from Sian how they have ma...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I caught up with serial PR entrepreneur and founder of Shine Communications Rachel Bell. Here is a quick summary of what Rachel and I discussed: Why she left Fleishman Hillard as an account director in 1997 to set up Shine. How the death of her father impacted her decision to launch Shine. Why Shine Communications was launched. Why Rachel took her first new busine...

I’m pleased to welcome PRmoment’s Young Communicator of the Year, and data and research guru at Ketchum, Erin Salisbury. I wanted to interview Erin because I think we all pretty much get the need to increase the extent to which PR firms use data but Erin is at the frontline of this and I wanted to get her real world insight - from the client perspective, a colleague perspective and from a data and...

This week, in the second of our PR Trailblazers interviews, on The PRmoment Podcast we’ve got founder of Ready 10 - David Fraser. David spent 12 years at Frank PR before setting up Ready 10 in 2016. I wanted to get David on the show because I thought he would bring an interesting perspective to a couple of things. First if all, he worked for a big consumer PR firm before he decided to gamble and s...

This is the first of a new format series on the PRmoment Podcast. We’re going to continue our Life Stories series but I wanted to make sure we include the stories of younger, up and coming talent who are trailblazing impressive careers. So welcome to the first of our Trailblazers PRmoment Podcasts .  I’m pleased to welcome the founder and MD of PRmoment’s B2B agency of the year, Victoria Usher. I...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I caught up with Mark Flanagan, the UK MD of Portland. The Omnicom owned agency is a rare example of an PR firm owned by a holding group that has a recent track record of double digit growth. What is it that has enabled Portland to grow much faster than almost all other PR firms owned by a holding company owned? Mark has had an interesting career; he has had big j...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m pleased to welcome Bibi Hilton, UK managing director at Golin. Here is a flavour of what Bibi and I discuss: Why she has stayed at one agency for so long Why autonomy is important in a networked PR agency Why she likes working for large networked firms Bibi identifies the biggest changes in PR in the last 16 years - and it’s not just spray mount and fax machin...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m pleased to welcome the Chief Global Officer of Talk PR Tanya Hughes. Talk PR is owned by M&C Saatchi with annual revenues of approx £4.5 million. There are 2 things that make Tanya and Talk PR a particularly interesting story. One is that it most of its income comes from within its very defined market market specialism of beauty PR The second is that an in...

This week I'm thrilled to be catching up with Dan Glover, co-founder and creative director of The Academy. If you look at the most famous consumer PR campaigns in the UK over the last 10 years or so, most of them (not all) have come from a very small number of PR creatives (probably less than 10) and Dan, with his work with The National Trust, Kellogs and Heathrow is undoubtedly a member of t...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I interviewed Caroline Kinsey, founder and chairman of Cirkle PR. Caroline set up Cirkle 20 years ago and today it has a £3.5 million independent PR firm. Here is a taster of what Caroline and I discuss:How it feels to have run a business for 20 yearsWhy Caroline started her own businessHow she developed her entrepreneurial spiritHow an independent firm like Cirkl...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast I’m talking to Frank PR co-founder and Chairman – Graham Goodkind. Graham started his career at Lynne Franks PR, rising from account exec to MD. He left Lynne Franks when it was sold to Ketchum in 1998. He then became a bit if an internet entrepreneur before starting Frank in 2000. Here are the highlights of what Graham and I discuss: How Graham developed a passio...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we’ve got Lord Tim Bell. Lord Bell started his career as a runner in an advertising firm and ended up becoming the one of the most high profile PR people in the world. Synonymous with The Conservative Party of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher and the now defunct Bell Pottinger - it’s been quite a career. Here are the highlights of what we discuss: Lord Bell’s perspect...