Send us a text 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 a…

Send us a text 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 w…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 sub…

Send us a text 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 Publ…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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, mi…

Send us a text 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 pa…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 i…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 P…

Send us a text 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 v…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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, assessi…

Send us a text 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! …

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 y…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 wh…

Send us a text 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 PRm…

Send us a text 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, …

Send us a text 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 AA…

Send us a text 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 Powe…

Send us a text 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 t…

Send us a text 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 progr…

Send us a text 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 20…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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. Alongs…

Send us a text On the show today, I’m chatting with Jo Ogunleye, B2B Communications Lead at Google UK and Laura Wheeler, Head of Communications UKI, Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Google Cloud. Both are B2B communicators, and we’re going to talk about what creativity looks like in B2B communications, how it can be used and how it can be integrated…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On today's show, I’m chatting with Charlotte West, executive director of corporate communications at Lenovo, and Jo Patterson, UK MD at Zeno. Today, we’re discussing the findings of the Global Women in PR Annual Index, a research programme that aims to measure the status of women working in PR and com…

Send us a text Welcome to our February Creativity Review. Here, we are talking about the best bits of PR creativity we’ve seen this month. On the show today are: James Gordon-MacIntosh, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Hope&Glory Leila Mountford, Partner, Creative Director at Portland Kim Allain, Creative Lead, MSL UK To remind the listener…

Send us a text Welcome to our February 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 consulta…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. Today, we’re talking PR Ethics, basically because Mary Beth West, who is a senior strategist at Fletcher Marketing PR in the US, has funded research by the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), which compares and contrasts 24 global ethics codes of PR. On the show today, Mary Beth is going to talk throu…

Send us a text On the show today, I’m chatting with Delphi co-founder Ellie Thompson and ZOE’s communications director, Danielle Restivo, about how to find your organisation's reputation North Star. Ellie was previously CEO at Harvard. She launched Delphi alongside Louie St Clare and Pete Marcus in May last year. Danielle has had in-house experienc…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. This is a bonus podcast where we chat about RAJAR results for Q4 2023 with Alex Blakemore, newsroom producer at Markettiers. 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. Each qu…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, we've got Matt Neale, Golin's global CEO. I first met Matt just after we launched PRmoment in around 2008 when he was co-CEO of Golin in London. Since then, Matt's moved to New York, been promoted goodness how many times and now runs Golin globally. It's great to see a Brit in a glo…

Send us a text Welcome to our January 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 consultan…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Sharon Bange, joint managing director at Kindred. Sharon has been at Kindred for an extraordinary 20 years. In that time, the business has seen huge change, including nearly going out of business when the then-new Conservative government came into power in 2010. It…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Ashwani Singla, founding managing partner of Astrum - Reputation Advisory. Astrum is an Indian PR firm which specialises in reputation management and corporate communications. It employs 30 people in India and one in America! Ashwani set up Astrum in 2015, previous…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with Lewis Iwu, founding partner at Purpose Union, about the intersection of Purpose, ESG and CSR. Are the terms interchangeable? Has Purpose superseded CSR and how much confusion is there both amongst communicators and consumers about the crossover between these terms?…

Send us a text Welcome to the PRmoment Podcast. On the show today, I’m chatting with one of my favourite people, the wonderful Bieneosa Ebite. Bieneosa is head of communications and government affairs, inclusion & diversity at GSK. In this regular format of the PRmoment Podcast with Ben Smith, we’ll be catching up with UK public relations leaders -…

Send us a text Welcome to our 2023 Creativity Review, where we talk about the best bits of PR creativity we saw last year. On the show today to help us review some of the best creative work are: Clare Morris, Clare Morris, associate director, Premier Don Ferguson, Don Ferguson, deputy MD, Hope & Glory PR Lora Martyr, creative director, Taylor Herri…

Send us a text It’s been a funny old PR year. Some firms have had a tough time. Some firms have sadly gone bust, but many, possibly the majority, have seen growth of 5-10%. And in a decent number of cases, they’ve grown more than that. So it’s a difficult year to try and sum up, but on the show today, I’m joined by W founder Warren Johnson, and we’…

Send us a text Welcome to our 2023 Year in 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 consultan…