PRmoment Podcast

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our May 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 se...

Welcome to a new PRmoment Podcast format where we look at the PR job market with Dean Connelly, founder & PR recruitment director at Latte. We talk about all things PR recruitment - looking at some of the biggest moves we’ve seen recently and discuss some of the trends in the PR job market at the moment If you haven’t taken a look already - do check out the Creative Moment Awards website, the...

On the show today we’re talking about the results of the PRCA’s Governance Review with Ray Eglington, who is a board member of the PRCA and Group MD of Four Communications. Before we start a quick plug for our next couple of webinars: LinkedIn as a Marketing Channel and The March of PR: The increasing dominance of earned media ideas in integrated marketing . Here’s a summary of what Ray and PRmome...

This week we are talking creativity with a review of some of the best bits of creativity our panel has seen in the past month or so. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Lora Martyr, creative director, Taylor Herring Daniel Glover, co-founder & creative director, The Academy Indy Selvarajah, chief creative officer, Global Markets, Ketchum This is the second e...

On the show this week we talk to Rich Dawes, managing director of DawBell.  DawBell is one of the UK’s largest entertainment PR firms, working across talent, music and events. Clients include The Brits, Paul McCartney, Harry Styles, Elton John, James Corden and The Prince Estate. The firm has over 40 employees. Today we’re going to talk about the role of a modern publicist - and how it's chan...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our April 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...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting about how generative AI change PR. To be frank, there’s been no shortage of articles and LinkedIn posts on this but on the podcast today we’ll get to have a proper chat to talk about generative ai in PR. On the show, I’ve got a wise panel to chat about these issues including: Maya Koleva, head of research and insight, Commetric Rosie Bannister...

An insiders view of the structure, skill set and role of a modern in-house communications team Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Bibi Hilton, CEO of Creative Access  Known to PR people everywhere for her first career working in public relations which included stints and The Red Consultancy and Golin - Bibi was appointed CEO of Creative Access in September last year. Creat...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with 3 of Google's communications team to give us an inside view of how a modern PR and communications team works. On the show are Jo Ogunleye, B2B communications lead, UK, Julie Dilger, head of external communications, Google Ireland and Olivia O'Brien, senior associate, product communiou can still purchase your tickets for The PRmo...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Lucy McGettigan, partner at The Romans. Lucy was the 7th employee at The Romans when she joined Frank in 2017. The Romans has 80 employees, 70 in London and 10 in New York. It had a fee income of £8m globally in 2022 and grew by a remarkable 97% last year. On the show, Lucy is going to talk about the challenges of growing a consultancy bu...

This week we are talking creativity with a review of some of the best bits of creativity our panel has 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 James Gordon-MacIntosh, co-founder and chief creative officer, Hope&Glor y This new regular episode of the PRmoment pod...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today is Jenny Halpern, founder and CEO of Halpern. Today we are talking about PR in the cost of living crisis. Halpern has a fee income of £5m. It's a consumer PR firm based in London. It was founded in 1993 by Jenny. Halpern is owned by The&Partnership, which is part owned by WPP. Jenny sold to business in 2013 to what has become The &Par...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Dee Gibbs, founder of Liberty Communications. Liberty is an independent tech PR firm, with a fee income of £1.7 m and this year Liberty celebrates its 25 birthday! So we thought it would be good to get her on the show to chat about 25 years of agency ownership hindsight. Do check out our latest webinar The implications of changing consume...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Welcome to our March 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...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Clarity CEO Sami McCabe.  For PR industry observers, Clarity has been an interesting watch over the past few years. It’s had investment from Matthew Freud (which was bound to draw attention), it’s hired some expensive senior talent and it’s acquired 7 or 8 businesses. So today we’re going to talk to Sami about the business, its acquisitio...

From losing £500K of client fees in 3 weeks in Q2 2020 to selling Taylor Herring to Publicis in April 2021 - we get the inside track on perhaps the most tumultuous couple of years of any agency in recent history On the show this week we talk to James Herring about the story of the last few years of Taylor Herring.  In Feb 2020 things were looking rosy and James and Cath were no doubt planning thei...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Rachel Allison founder and CEO of Axe & Saw about whether there is a tension between using inclusive communications that are able to reach a diverse audience and the most one size fits all approach in most marketing campaigns.  We’ll also talk about what Gen Z and minority groups want and need from their PR employers. Axe & Saw ha...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Welcome to the latest PRmoment Podcast with me Ben Smith. Today we’re catching up with David Hart. David has had over 20 years of experience working in corporate affairs - both in-house at the likes of Coca-Cola and SAB Miller and agency side at Fleishman Hillard and Burson Marsteller (now BCW.) Before Christmas, I saw him posting about the lessons he wished he’d t...

 Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast .  Welcome to our February 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 Head of PR at the new business consultancy firm AAR . He is also a partner at PCB Partners where he advises on buying and selling marketing services agencies.  Thanks to our PR...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with 3 Monkeys Zeno UK managing director Jo Patterson about the encouraging trend of female leaders occupying more of the big PR agency roles in the UK. When Jo and I talked about this in our pre-show chat it got us thinking and here is a non-exhaustive list of top female PR agency leaders in the UK: We’ve got Jo at 3 Monkeys Zeno, Jo-ann Robe...

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...

On the show this week we talk to Howard Kosky, founder and CEO of Markettiers4DC. Kosky founded Markettiers4DC in 1994. Clients include Rolls-Royce, Linkedin and Unilever. The business employs a team of 150 people in the UK and UAE As many of our regular podcast listeners may know, last week Waterland Private Equity took a majority stake in Markettiers4DC for a reported amount of £50 million. The...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with Andrea Hartley, founder and CEO of Skating Panda about the role of communications in organisations' approach to ESG. For those of you that are not aware -  ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is a set of standards measuring a business's impact on society, the environment, and how transparent and accountable its governance...

Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast . Today we’re chatting with the senior team at John Doe:  Pamela Scobbie, managing partner and CCO, Gin Trewhella, partner & group CEO and Lee Beattie Partner/Joint CEO. We cover a few different themes. Wire was merged into John Doe almost 2 years ago to the day - so we’re going to talk about why 2 independent agencies decided to merge and what Pam, Lee and Magi...

This week on the PRmoment podcast I’m interviewing Greg Jones, European chief executive at Smarts . Smarts has a fee income of approximately £12.5m and employs 150 people. It’s an agency headquartered in Belfast with offices in  London, New York and Edinburgh.   Smarts is owned by MSQ. Greg started his career at Shine, before stints at Slice, M&C Saatchi, Splendid and finally back to Engine jo...