PRmoment Podcast

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...

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. It publishes the listenership figures for UK radio each quarter. This offers PR people really interesting insight in...

In this PRmoment Podcast , we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders. Our guests will share their in-hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known at the start of their careers. This week on the PRmoment Podcast, we're talking to Missive founders Nicola Koronka and Emma Ross. Missive is a tech PR firm with a fee income of £2.5 m. Current clients include Virgin Media 02, Tech...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . On the show today, I’m chatting with Rafi Mendelsohn, VP marketing at Cyabra , about how brands can counter disinformation and fake track stories before they become a problem.  It’s a serious show today - we’re talking evil bots, stock market manipulation and cluster analysis - which helps you decide which circles of conversation you need to worry about. Cyabra AI...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast .  On the show today, I’m chatting with Alastair McCapra, chief executive at CIPR about the lobbying register and why the UK has a lobbying register that excludes 96% of lobbyists. Before we start,do take a look at our latest PR Masterclass: PR and AI .  All the details can be viewed on the homepage of PRmoment.com. With gentle good-natured irony today, also thanks...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast.  On the show today, we’re chatting with Michael Murphy and we’re going to talk about Michael’s guide to buying, selling and growing your PR firm. Michael is an advisor and non-executive for a range of PR firms. Notably, he’s helped WE since 2014. He also currently works with Coverdale Barclay, Alfred, and Lodestone, amongst others.  Previously, he was CEO of APAC a...

Welcome to our April 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in April 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 a...

Can communications help bridge the divide between the UK government and UK business community? Today on the PRmoment podcast, I am interviewing Iain Anderson, executive chairman of H/Advisors Cicero . Iain recently wrote a report for the Labour Party titled “ A New Partnership: A Long-term Plan for Government Business Relations to Power our Economy and Society ,”  and I thought it would be interes...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast.  On the show today, I’m chatting with Jules Herd. Jules is the founder of PR agency Five in a Boat , which she started six years ago. It’s a tech PR firm with a fee income of about £750K. The business mainly does reputation advisory work, so it is at the more serious end of the PR spectrum. Looking to the future, Five is a Boat is looking to double in size and want...

On the show today, I’m chatting with Will Hart, who is the CEO of PRmoment Leaders. Before becoming CEO of PRmoment Leaders, Will was the group MD of Unlimited Group and, before that, the managing director of PR agency Nelson Bostock for over ten years. Will joined PRmoment in January this year to lead its subscription training programme for agency directors - PRmoment Leaders . The first semester...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast , I’m interviewing Mitch Kaye, co-founder and CEO of The Academy, as we look back on ten years since he and Dan Glover launched The Academy . The Academy is an independent PR firm in London with a fee income of approximately £7m. It has 56 employees and was co-founded by Mitch Kaye and Dan Glover in 2014.  If you want to join your PR peers, don’t forget to buy you...

Welcome to our March 2024 Review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch, where we will discuss the biggest, most seismic pitch wins and mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in 2023. 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...

Braver co-founders Darain Faraz and Mike Levaggi on the PRmoment podcast Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast .  On today's show, I’m chatting with two of Braver's co-founders: Darain Faraz and Mike Levaggi. Previously, Darain spent 11 years in-house at LinkedIn. Mike's career has included roles at Seventy Seven, Hope&Glory and Snap. Alongside Sheeraz Gulsher, they launched Braver in...