PRmoment Podcast

Today on the show we’re talking to media lawyer legend Jonathan Coad about what PR folks need to know about the law.  Jonathan Coad graduated from Jesus College Cambridge with an MA in law and is one of the UK’s highest profile media lawyers. His practice areas are copyright, defamation and privacy. His media clients have included Disney, ITV, Sky, Viacom, MTV, Channel 4, Sony, Huffington Post and...

Today on the show we’re looking back at 3 of the winning campaigns from The PRmoment Awards to dive a bit deeper into what they were all about and why they won. We’re looking at 3 campaigns from V&A, Greggs and Calm with Aarti Bulsara, director, Hope & Glory PR and DonFerguson, deputy MD, Hope & Glory PR We’ll be looking at the objective, strategy, creative, activation and results of t...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment podcast.  On the show today we’re talking to the 3 co-founders of Fight or Flight: Joe Walton, Charlie Meredith-Hardy and David Woodward. It’s Fight or Flights 5 anniversary this year so we’re going to chat about how this independent has gone from a start up with zero income 5 years ago to a business that now has a fee income of over £8m globally, with revenues in th...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is our quarterly bonus podcast, where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you who aren’t aware of Rajar - it was established in 1992 and operates the single audience measurement system for the radio industry in the United Kingdom Raja publishes the listenership figures each quarter, which is good for insight for PR, curious about how the public...

In the fourth episode of the season — recorded during Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May, 2025) — Elizabeth Howlett, editor at PRmoment and Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment are joined by Nick Morey, co-CEO at Dynamo PR who explains how taking a counselling skills course improved his leadership skills. 

Ben Smith and Jack Peat discussed Taylor Herring's report, " News is Dead. Long Live the News ," focusing on PR's adaptation to evolving newsroom structures and social media's transformative role in news generation and distribution. The report highlights the need for platform-specific content strategies, emphasizing authentic, visually engaging content tailored to algorith...

In the third episode of the monthly Career Edit podcast, Dean Connelly and Elizabeth Howlett discuss The Ultimate Talent Attraction Guide , created by Latte in partnership with PRmoment.  The pair run down how to attract and retain talent in the PR sector, and some of the issues surrounding this. Additionally, Howlett and Connelly talk about April’s people moves. 1 mins: Howlett thanks the PRmomen...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment podcast.  On the show today we’re talking to Heather Blundell, the UK CEO of Grayling. Heather joined Grayling in late 2023 after a brief spell at Ketchum as deputy UK CEO. Before that she’d headed up Weber’s Manchester office and been part of the leadership team at Weber in London. On the show today we’re going to talk through Heather’s career story, from her time a...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers & acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in April 2025 Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marke...

How will Trump's tariff chaos impact UK public relations ? PR’s H1 Review 2025 with W Communications founder Warren Johnson On the PRmoment podcast. Every six months or so I like to catch up with Warren Johnson from W Communications to talk about the financial state of UK PR. And as Q1 is done and dusted, Trump is having endless fun throwing tariffs at the global economy, and we've just...

For those of us who've worked in PR for looong time, there were 3 things you could rely on in public relations: There would be someone at every measurement conference who couldn’t resist the mention of AVE to start a fight/push their personal brand.  There would be an endless analysis of the pluses and minuses of PRs 2 UK trade bodies. This would take up an inordinate level of discussion amon...

In the second episode of the monthly Career Edit podcast, Dean Connelly and Elizabeth Howlett are joined by Jo Carr, president of Women in PR and co-founder CCO at Hope & Glory PR to discuss how PR leaders can support more women into senior roles.  Additionally, Howlett and Connelly talk about Axe + Saw's recent appointment of Hannah Sharrat who joins the agency as associate director, hav...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers & acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in March 2025 Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marke...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment podcast. Today we’re chatting to 2 of The PRmoment Awards jury chairs Alison Clarke and Michael Murphy to get a chairs perspective on the jury day. The PRmoment Awards have 5 judging streams incorporating 6 juries across one day. So there are 30 odd jury sessions, of about an hour across 5 different judging streams. Each stream has an experienced chair to make sure e...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers a d acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in February 2025. Bloch  is the lead consultant  PR, social, content and influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketing...

Today, the PRmoment Podcast has launched a new series, The Career Edit. Co-hosted by PRmoment’s editor Elizabeth Howlett and Dean Connelly, founder of PR recruitment firm Latte, the series will delve into the biggest debates surrounding the world of work and recruitment within the public relations industry.  Connelly and Howlett’s combined expertise in PR, recruitment, HR, talent and retention all...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment podcast. Today we’re chatting to the PRCA’s Interim CEO Sarah Waddington about her plans for the organisation.  In January this year Sarah was appointed to the role, having been appointed to the board of the organisation in 2023.. Sarah is about a month into the role but in that time the PRCA has joined the CBI, launched a PR Pitch guide and Ketchum has rejoined, hav...

Welcome to the latest PRmoment podcast. Today we’re chatting about some new research that looks at the impact of earned media on ChatGPT’s content . On the show to talk about this is Darryl Sparey, the MD and Co-Founder of Hard Numbers, a PRmoment award winning communications consultancy.  Hard Numbers is predominantly an B2B PR firm, working with clients like BT Group and Nebius AI, but also with...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers & acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in Jan 2025 Andrew is the lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR and a partner at PCB Partners, where he advises on buying and selling marketi...

Today on the PRmoment podcast we’re discussing the results of Global Women in PR’s Annual Index with Zeno UK MD Jo Patterson and Charlotte West Lenovo, vice president global corporate communications and board director of the Lenovo Foundation. 976 Female PR professionals around the world took part in the survey. Before we start don’t miss our next PR Masterclass: The Intersection of Data, Planning...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast, with editor Elizabeth Howlett and founder Ben Smith and we’re talking all things measurement and data.  Ben has been putting together PR measurement and analytics conference programmes since 2009. So he’s been an interested observer of that intersection for 16 years, so it's safe to say Ben understands the players, the bluffers and the issues when it comes to...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Louise Findlay-Wilson, managing director, Energy PR. Louise founded Energy PR 29 years ago. It’s a £1.1 m fee income business with 11 employees.  Energy PR is a generalist PR firm with a specialism in digital PR, so the SEO and link building side of things. Current clients include InnovateUK, the New York Toy fair and Trooli. We’ve just launched our P...

On the podcast today I’m chatting with Will Hart about the launch of PRmoment Leaders 3rd semester, from late Jan to April 2025. We also talk about the PR agency market currently and where it's at after an eventful 2024. Before that, the breaking news is that the PRmoment Awards final entry deadline is the 17th January. Don’t miss the opportunity to create proof points of the quality of your...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Rich Leigh, founder Radioactive PR. Rich founded Radioactive PR 10 years ago, so it’s another one of our birthday podcasts. Radioactive now has 6 employees and it’s fair to say it's been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for the business over the last few years and Rich is going to talk us through that journey on today's show. I’d describe Rich...

Welcome to this special episode of the PRmoment Podcast where I'll briefly talk about some to the most important elements about The PRmoment Awards . If you didn't know already, it's 1 week until the final entry deadline for The PRmoment Awards. In this special podcast, PRmoment founder and Ben Smith outlines some of the changes we've seen to the PRmoment Awards in the last 2 y...