PRmoment Podcast

On the PRmoment Podcast today, Pangolin PR co-founders David Phillips and Will Cookson reflect on ten years of running their agency. Pangolin is a consumer PR shop in London with a fee incline of £1.75m. Clients include Pernod and Pepsi, and it employs 17 people. On the show today, we will reflect on their regrets, lessons and achievements as they look back on ten years of owning their own busines...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our October review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He 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 services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank P...

Welcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our October Global Creativity Review, so we are talking creativity with a gorgeous panel who will identify and chat about some of the best bits of creativity they have seen in the past month or so.  On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are:  Daniel Glover, co-founder & creative director of The Academy Olivia Mushigo, soc...

Welcome to a new PRmoment Podcast where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connolly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We talk about all things PR recruitment - discussing some of the trends in the PR job market, including the latest numbers from Latte’s 2023 PR salary guide. If you’re interested in keeping an eye on the best PR jobs out there each week,  subscribe for free to PR...

On the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Katie De Cozar, director of CCgroup about how to improve the DE&I of PR agencies. CCgroup has made major changes to its business over the past 5 years which has seen significant improvements in the diversity of its employees. CCgroup is a £6m revenue PR firm based in London with 46 employees. In 2020 17% of CCgroups employees were BME, in 2023...

On the PRmoment Podcast this week we’re chatting with Andy Peake, London CEO of creative agency VCCP. I’ve known Andy for about 25 years so, to an extent, we’ve followed each other's careers with interest over a couple of decades! As Andy is now CEO of one the largest creative agencies in London I thought it would be interesting to get him on the show to chat about the intersection of PR firm...

On the PRmoment Podcast today we’re chatting with Jo Carr, the president of Women in PR. Jo is also co-founder of PR agency Hope&Glory. Women in PR was founded in 1962. So it’s just turned 60! It has 350 members and the profile of the organisation has grown a lot over the last 10 years or so. Of all the trade associations in public relations, I’d suggest Women in PR is the one with the greates...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our September review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. He 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 services agencies. Andrew was also a co-founder at PR agency Frank P...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you that 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. Each quarter it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio and this offers a really interesting insight for PR people on ho...

Today on the PRmoment Podcast we’re talking about values. We’re going part history lesson, part comms theory and part future gazing. To help talk us through that kaleidoscope we’ve Rebecca Grant, UK CEO and Global Chief Brand Officer of BCW on the show. We’re going to talk about the importance of values in successful communication campaigns.  The hope is that in 30 mins' time, you'll kno...

In this new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and 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 Paul Joseph MD of Full Fat. Full Fat is a consumer PR and social agency with 18 employees. It specialises...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our July review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners advising on buying and selling marketing services...

This week on the PRmoment Podcast we talk about what CEOs want from PR and we also identify the 7 top attributes that CEOs want in the comms directors. The folks at PR recruitment firm VMA have recently interviewed 20 CEOs and today we’re going to chat with VMA’s MD Lucy Cairncross about what she’s found out about CEO communication priorities. Thanks so much to the PRmoment Podcast sponsors of the...

 In a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with Greg Double, creative director of consumer PR agency Mischief. Mischief is the consumer PR arm of MHP. MHP and Mischief are own...

Ready 10 founder David Fraser is the next guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. In this new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Today we're chatting with the founder of Ready...

Welcome to PRmoment Podcast. This week it’s our June Global Creativity Review so we are talking creativity with our wonderful panel who will identify and chat about some of the best bits of creativity they have seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Kim Allain, creative lead, MSL Ottilie Ross, creative director, Halpern Tom Rouse, crea...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our June review of PR Pitches and mergers & acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Andrew is a co-founder and non-executive director at Frank PR and is now lead consultant - PR, Social, Content and Influencer at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing s...

The Academy co-founder Mitch Kaye is the first guest in our new In Hindsight series on the PRmoment Podcast. In a new regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders - and our guests will share their in hindsight secrets that they wish they'd known when they started their businesses! Mitch co-founded The Academy with Dan Glover in 20...

Can AI revolutionize journalism and help us create more compelling stories? Join us in this fascinating conversation with Jane Wakefield, a former senior tech journalist at the BBC, and Aaron Kwittken, founder/CEO of PRophet, as we explore the impact of AI on newsrooms, PR teams, publishing models, and the free press.  We'll discuss the potential of AI for spreading misinformation, its role i...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast, on the show today we’re discussing how to improve the connectivity between public relations and journalism - is there a way to create a more efficient workflow between PRs and journalists? We’ll ask whether the relationship between PR and journalists is becoming damaged beyond repair and look and the reasons why this mutually beneficial relationship isn’t working b...

Every six months or so I like to catch up with the shy and reserved Warren Johnson from W Communications on the podcast to talk about the financial state of UK PR. And to my surprise- it’s that time again. The first 6 months of 2023 are basically done and dusted. My sense is that it’s been a bit of a phoney 6 months or so - the PR sector has been expecting a downturn but beyond a significant tech...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today we’re revealing the six key themes from AMEC’s Measurement Summit 2023. To reveal those trends we have Steph Bridgeman, founder of Experienced Media Analysts and Richard Bagnall who is a co-managing partner of Carma.  Before we start if you haven't taken a look already, the final entry deadline for The Creative Moment Awards is Friday 30th Ju...

Today we're chatting with industry legend a long-time owner of Propeller - Martin Loat. We look back on his 30 years working in public relations and including 22 years as a PR agency owner at Propeller. Martin talks about the ups and downs of agency ownership and why he decided now was the right time to exit. In March Martin sold the business via an MBO to Kieran Kent, Jody Osman and Rose Ben...

 Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast with PRmoment founder Ben Smith. Today on the show we’re chatting with Fran Ashcroft, senior director, of EMEA Communications at Intel.  Fran has worked for Intel for nearly 15 years at the firm and is currently preparing for an 8-week sabbatical. We’re going to talk about Fran’s 15 years in-house at Intel. We‘ll cover what modern international communications looks...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about Rajar’s latest results. For those of you that 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 Each quarter it publishes the listenership figures for UK radio and this offers a really interesting insight for PR people on how...