PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Kat McGettigan, founder of Fine Lines. Kat describes Fine Lines as an “agency-growth agency.” Previously she worked at Grayling, M&C Saatchi and Weber Shandwick. Thanks so much to our PRmoment Podcast partners The PRCA. 3 mins “There are 3 pillars to good growth.” “You’ve got to service the wife!” 6.30 mins What is a good agency prop...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Battenhall founder Drew Benvie - asking if social media be banned. Battenhall is a social-first agency with 120 employees and won Large Agency of the Year at The PRmoment Awards 2024. Before we start, check out the programme for our PR Masterclass: Agency Growth Forum . It’s on 12th November 2024, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm GMT. Both face-to-face and virtual...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to Lis Lewis Jones founder of Liquid Liquid had its 20 year birthday its year - and for your background has a fee income of £2.5 m and it works across a few sectors but specialises in agriculture and food - which amongst other things means it has a chef on the payroll It has 35 employees and works across 25 countries. Lis is going to talk us through the...

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 October 2024. 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 ma...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This week we’re chatting to Kat McGettigan, founder of Fine Lines about how to pitch successfully. Kat describes Fine Lines as an “agency-growth agency.” Previously she worked at Grayling, M&C Saatchi and Weber Shandwick. On the show, we talk about how agencies can improve their pitch techniques but we’re also going to take a step back and look at the broader a...

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 insightful for PR, curious about how the publ...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking to the managing director of Pitch Marketing Group. Pitch is a sports marketing and consumer PR firm in London. It has a fee income of over 5 million pounds and 46 employees. Clients include Red Bull, NatWest, Beats By Dre, EA FC and Formula 1. Chris joined the business as an account manager in October 2012 and became the MD in 2021. Pitch became an EOT i...

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 September. 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 mark...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week, we’re talking to James Hewes, CEO of the PRCA. James joined the PRCA in January this year. The organisation had been in an uncertain state for a year or so because of the long-term illness and untimely passing of previous CEO Francis Ingham. In 2023/4, the PRCA set off on a governance review and subsequently made significant changes to its structure, senior team...

Today, we’re chatting with Billy Hamilton-Stent and Jon Lonsdale from Publicis Pro. For anyone who’s forgotten, the business was previously called Octopus Communications, and they sold to Publicis back in 2021. The firm specialises in B2B communications. Jon and Billy got in touch because they’ve been on their own AI journey for Publicis Pro and on the basis that a rising tide lifts all boats, the...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week, we’re talking to Sandy Lindsay MBE about her career in PR. Sandy is the founder and chair of Tangerine Group & non-executive director of various organisations, including The Rugby Football League. Sandy launched Tangerine 22 years ago, and the business has grown to have 120 employees with an income of over £7 million in fees. It became an employee-owned trust...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week, we’re talking to Natasha Hill, MD of Bottle PR. Recently Bottle has put together research looking at how PR can contribute throughout the sales funnel. Today Natasha will give us an insight into that research and we’ll talk through some examples of the type of contribution PR can make at the top, middle and bottom of an organisation’s sales funnel. Before we star...

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 the summer of 2024. 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 sel...

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 insightful for PR, curious about how the publ...

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 July 2024. 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 mark...

In our twice-yearly review of the UK PR market PRmoment founder Ben Smith catches up with Warren Johnson. Warren founded W Communications in 2009. It now has global revenues of £25m and a headcount of 200, with 120 in London at W, 40 at its travel PR specialist Lotus, 25 in Singapore, and 15 in New York. Do check out the agency and in-house programmes for our new education programme PRmoment Leade...

Welcome to our H1 Recruitment Year in Review PRmoment Podcast, where we discuss the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder and PR recruitment director at Latte. We look back at the talent trends in PR for the first half of 2024. The last six months have seen a significant change in the PR recruitment market. Dean tells us the top 3 reasons why PR people leave their jobs and reveals the latest P...

On the PRmoment Podcast , we interview UK public relations leaders, and today, we’re chatting with Alec Samways, CEO and founder of Splendid. Splendid is an independent consumer PR firm based in London. Its fee income is over £6 m. Splendid was launched in 2004 and so celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Also, thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors the PRCA. Here's a summary of...

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 June 2024. 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 PRmoment June 2024 iteration of the Global Creativity Review collection. In this series, founder of PRmoment Ben Smith joins a host of PR industry creatives to discuss, and sometimes dissect, the standout creative moments of the month.  This is the audio version of the Global Creativity Review: you can watch the video version, with all the campaign/work films on PRmoment's YouT...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast .  I’ve been looking forward to this one. We’re chatting with James Wright, the global chairman of Havas PR. James is one of a decent number of British PR folks who have moved to Australia.  Havas PR has had a good run globally and in the UK over the past few years. Global revenues are reported to be $236 m in 2023, up 5% on the previous year. Havas PR has 1600 empl...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast .  On the show today, I’m chatting with Jim Hawker. Jim has returned to PR. We lost him to performance marketing for ten years, but he’s now back amongst old friends. But it seems he’s still criticising us! Over the past three months, Jim has been on a bit of a tour de force around the PR sector, assessing its digital credentials in the context of his ten years work...

On the PRmoment Podcast , we catch up with UK public relations leaders and today we’re chatting with Current Global CEO George Coleman. It’s a timely discussion as we seem to be celebrating a few PR firm birthdays recently, so this is the latest in our unofficial “Birthday” Series as Current Global celebrates five years of existence! Current Global was born out of Weber Shandwick. It now has a rep...

For this PRmoment Podcast , something completely different. It’s one of those shows I thought I might have to do one day but I hoped that day would never come. On today’s show, Daney Parker reflects on 15 years as PRmoment’s editor. If you haven’t heard already, Daney is leaving her role as PRmoment editor. So today - it’s her running for the hills goodbye show! Daney and I started PRmoment back i...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . This week, we’re talking to Louise Jenkins, co-head of Edelman Data and Intelligence, EMEA, about the UK results of The Edelman Trust Barometer 2224 . If you’re listening to this podcast and you’re a senior member of a PR agency team, our subscription training service, PRmoment Leaders , was built for you. It features a new educational syllabus that will help deve...