PRmoment Podcast

Thank you for joining us today! Our guest is Anouschka Menzies, co-founder of Bacchus PR.

Bacchus PR was founded 27 years ago and now has over 130 employees across 5 offices - London, New York, Miami, Dubai and most recently Riyadh.

It works across the fashion, restaurants, hotels and real estate sectors and has a fee income of approximately £14m. Annouska describes the type of business that Bacchuss does as 70% consumer and 30% corp...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast's weekly News Review.

We're joined by Angie Moxham, founder of 3 Monkeys and Fourth Angel and Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR.

In this new show Mark, Angie and PRmoment founder Ben Smith review the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective.

This week we compare the communications styles of Trump verses and the BBC. Does Trumps fearless, confident style threaten to overwhel...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in November 2025.

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 marketing services agencies.

Andrew a...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast. Today, we're joined by Angie Moxham, founder of 3 Monkeys and Fourth Angel and Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR and PR commentator.

In this new show Mark, Angie and PRmoment founder Ben Smith review the biggest news stories of the week from a PR perspective and this week we’re talking about Traitors, Meghan Markle’s return to acting and whether the Royal Family can survive Andrew Mountbat...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast. Today, we're thrilled to be joined by Lou Hoffman, founder and CEO of Hoffman. Hoffman is an independent US based PR firm with a fee income of approximately $30m. Lou founded the business in 1987.

Hoffman specialises in tech PR and recently bought CCGroup in the UK. Hoffman has offices in North America, the UK and Asia. It employs about 460 people globally.

Before we start,our PR Masterclass the ...

In the fifth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment give their best attempt at a spooky Halloween special episode. 

Earlier in the week, Elizabeth asked PR professionals to submit anonymous recruitment horror stories, whether that be a candidate of nightmares, or an terrifying interview process — we wanted to hear about it, warts and all. Dean, a willing victim, must blind react to the tales of recruitmen...

Welcome to the PRmoment podcast. Today, we're thrilled to be joined by Lorraine Emmett, the founder and MD of the award-winning B2B tech PR agency, EC-PR.

EC-PR is a boutique specialising in B2B PR for engineering, science, and technology scale-ups. They typically partner with high-growth B2B tech brands and companies with 50 to 999 employees, working with Strategic Marketing Leaders and CMOs to elevate brand awareness and infl...

In the fourth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment and Elizabeth are joined by Shruti Gupta, account executive at Harvard and her colleague Joe McDermott, head of enterprise technology practice at Harvard. 

Following Gupta's inspirational My PRmoment interview, in which she discussed having imposter syndrome after moving from India to the UK to work in PR, we asked her and McDermott how that presen...

Welcome to our review of PR pitches and mergers and acquisitions in the UK PR scene with Andrew Bloch. Here we discuss the biggest pitch wins, mergers and acquisitions that the PR sector has seen in October 2025

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 marketing services agencies.

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A recent survey by Fairtrade, with research undertaken by Kantar, finds 86% of shoppers want brands to be upfront about sourcing and more than half (55%) think businesses should take a ‘large amount’ or ‘full responsibility’ for protecting the human rights of workers in their supply chains.

The study found that 59% of UK adults support Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) legislation, while just 9% oppose it, showing...

PRmoment founder Ben Smith is interviewed by Eilizabeth Giles about the speaker line up for PR Masterclass series The Agency Growth Forum and why it has become a bit of a personal challenge.

What PR Masterclass: The Agency Growth Forum covers in one day is incredible. You get to hear the real experts talk about how to overcome the key challenges that PR firm owners are having right now when it comes to growth.

As always with our PR M...

Thank you for joining us today. Our guest is at the sharp end of what makes a successful PR campaign tick in 2025: data and insight. She is the managing director of Censuswide, a respected international market research consultancy, who help agencies and brands write the headlines that drive media coverage.
For years, PR has known that original research can fuel earned media coverage, but in the post-AI era, the need for credibl...

Thank you for joining us today! Our guest is here to discuss a topic that is fundamentally changing the role of a PR professional. She’s the Chief Strategy Officer at Golin and a driving force behind their research looking at the intersection of LLMs, GEO and earned media.

She's going to talk about Golin’s Modern Communications Effectiveness Study and is here to tell us that some of PRs old approaches simply don't hold up....

Thank you for joining us today! Our guest is Kunal Mehta. He is here to discuss how changes in B2B communications are fundamentally changing how businesses connect with their customers. 

Kunal is the global head of marketing, communication, and brand at DSM-Firmenich, a leading company in nutrition, health and beauty.

With over two decades of experience navigating the marketing world, from iconic B2C brands like KitKat and Britannia ...

Following the release of Outrage Inc on BBC iPlayer Mark Borkowski comes onto the PRmoment podcast to talk about the PR Stunt.

Mark is also a well-known lecturer and speaker on the art of publicity. He is a frequent media commentator on TV and radio and writes for several nationals. Mark has authored two books on publicity stunts.

Outrage Inc is a journey through the archive to rediscover the creative genius, conviction and...

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 2025

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 marketing services agencies.

The Creative M...

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 2025. 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 PR salary bands.

If you’re interested ...

In the fifth episode of the season, Dean Connelly, founder of Latte Recruitment is joined by Nyree Ambarchian, co-founder at Jack and Grace and Ella McWilliam, co-founder and CEO at Full Fat to discuss the We Show The Salary pledge and the practicalities of making wages transparent in a PR agency. 

Many thanks to our podcast sponsors the PRCA

1 min: Dean and Elizabeth say hello and introduce the We Show The Salary pledge

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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 2025

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 marketing services agencies.