Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so. Appearing this week are UK news editor Siobhan Holt, reporters Elizabeth Wiredu and Evie Barrett, and UK editor John Harrington.

Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, listen in the browser above or on your favourite platform. This week the show focuses on the upcoming launch of PRWeek UK’s Top 150 and takes a closer look at PR budget data from the IPA Bellwether report. We look at what clients want from agencies and offer insights from Google, Virgin Atlantic, Ovo and Sodexo interviews. The rise of AI technology and how it’s disrupting the PR and comms sector is also discussed. Meanwhile, the team reveals their comms 'top' and 'flop' of the past two weeks or so.

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Alex Doorey, VP Corporate Affairs & Sustainability at energy supplier, OVO says the modern corporate affairs director is heavily reliant on PR consultancies and that these relationships “keep us lean, they keep us nimble and they keep us honest.” 

Jen Jamie, director of comms and public affairs, for the UK & Ireland at Google, also joined the podcast to explain how “innovation” is now the key attribute that she looks for in agency partners.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.

The two comms leads joined regular hosts PRWeek editor-in-chief, Danny Rogers and founder of New Society, Frankie Oliver to discuss the evolving role of the client side comms lead; the types of agency they work with; the skills they are looking for; traditional writing skills versus AI-generated content; the agency pitching process; strategic versus creative input; overservicing and underservicing; what makes a client-agency relationship break down; and looking after the mental health of agency teams.

PR agencies mentioned include Ogilvy, Teneo, CCGroup, The Romans, Strand Partners, Childhood PR and Flint.

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Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so. Appearing this week are UK news editor Siobhan Holt, reporters Elizabeth Wiredu and Evie Barrett, and UK editor John Harrington.

Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.

This week the show focuses on recent mergers and acquisitions, including private equity firm KKR’s investment in FGS Global in a deal that values the consultancy at $1.425bn, plus the rise in Employee Ownership Trusts. The show also discusses what clients want from agencies, as part of PRWeek’s new four-part series, plus brand collaborations - are they brilliant or a cliche? And finally, the team reveals its comms 'top' and 'flop' of the past two weeks.

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The new business pitching process is under the spotlight in PRWeek's latest Beyond the Noise podcast.

Our guests this week are Isobel Coney, MD at Red Consultancy, and Mark Lowe, co-founder of Third City. They are joined by usual host Frankie Oliver, the founder of New Society, alongside PRWeek UK editor John Harrington.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify or on your favourite platform.

This week's discussion focuses on different aspects of the client pitching process from an agency perspective, looking at how it has developed over the years and the impact of the COVID-19 period.

The guests explain what they like, and don't like, about the process. They reveal their personal pitching 'red flags' - and horror stories.

The agency bosses discuss what makes an ideal pitch, the role of procurement, whether guidelines or codes of practice can help, and whether agencies should expect to be paid for pitching.

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Noise in Brief – a shorter offshoot of PRWeek’s Beyond the Noise podcast – is released fortnightly and features PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the previous seven days or so. Appearing this week are UK news editor Siobhan Holt, reporters Elizabeth Wiredu and Evie Barrett, and UK editor John Harrington.

Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.

This week the show pays tribute to Francis Ingham, the director general of the PRCA who sadly died earlier this month, with reflections on his career and his legacy in the industry.

We look at pay gaps in PR, as major agencies and holding companies start to release their statutory pay gap reports.

The controversial restructure of John Lewis, and what a ban on TikTok could mean for comms professionals, are also discussed.

Meanwhile, the team reveals their comms 'top' and 'flop' of the past two weeks or so.

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In this episode of Beyond the Noise Agency M&A expert Jim Houghton, partner at Waypoint Partners talks about the current market in consultancy mergers and acquisitions. Houghton shares his extensive experience of the best way to go about buying and selling PR agencies in a changing market.

David Andrews is partner and co-head of the London investment team at LDC, the largest private equity firm in the mid-market and responsible for many successful PR agency deals in recent years.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, listen in the browser above or on your favourite platform.

Andrews talks about investment strategies for PR firms and what buyers and sellers are looking for in terms of deals and long-term growth.

Between them, Houghton and Andrews have been involved in deals and investments involving Omnicom, Teneo, Blue Rubicon, Instinctif and Headland.

Both talk of a slightly subdued Q1 this year but recognise growing interest from private equity in certain times of comms consultancy.

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PRWeek UK has launched a podcast series focused on news in the comms industry.

This week's episode was recorded before the very sad announcement on Thursday (16 March) that Francis Ingham, director-general of the PRCA, had died.

Noise in Brief – a 'bite-sized' offshoot of PRWeek's Beyond the Noise podcast – will run fortnightly and feature PRWeek journalists discussing major issues from the past seven days or so.

Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.

The PRWeek UK Power Book and PR freelance trends are among the topics discussed this week.

Noise in Brief will be recorded and published on alternate weeks to Beyond the Noise.

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How far away is the comms industry from reaching gender equity, and what barriers still exist? That's the focus of PRWeek's latest Beyond the Noise podcast, published on International Women's Day (IWD).

Guests this week are Jo-ann Robertson, CEO of global markets at Ketchum; Sanjani Shah, global head of PR at The Body Shop; and Jo Carr, co-founder of Hope&Glory and the new president of Women in PR.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify or listen on your favourite platform.

Speaking to host Frankie Oliver, the founder of PR agency New Society, the guests discuss a range of issues, from the impact of COVID-19 and the post-COVID era, ageism in the industry, and employer policies.

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The CEO of one Ukrainian agency tells her story in PRWeek's Beyond the Noise podcast.

As the first anniversary of the invasion approaches, Viroslava Novosylna, of Ukraine-based tech comms consultancy Slova Tech PR, discusses the origins of the 'PR Army' and how it has operated since the early days of the war.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, listen in the browser above or on your favourite platform.

Novosylna shares personal experiences of operating a comms business headquartered in Kyiv, with some employees still based in the Ukrainian capital.

The scale of Russian cyber attacks and the types of disinformation are discussed, as is the challenge of keeping the war at the top of the global news agenda.

Novosilnaya urges communications professionals to volunteer as part of the comms effort - they can do so via the website https://pr.army/.

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Joining Rob Mayhew and Imogen Coles in the discussion is Gordon Glenister, global head of influencer marketing for the Branded Content Marketing Association. The BCMA worked with PRWeek on the recent in-depth look at the key trends in influencer marketing from a PR perspective.

PRWeek UK’s Beyond the Noise podcast, which is published on alternate weeks, looks at some of the biggest issues affecting comms and PR. Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, listen in the browser above or on your favourite platform.

The podcast begins with an insightful and entertaining look at how Mayhew and Coles combine their agency ‘day jobs’ with being social media creators themselves.

Mayhew has grown a big following among the marcomms community through his short TikTok videos gently mocking the minutiae of industry life. Coles, who was recently promoted to UK influence lead at Ogilvy UK, has 162k followers on her Instagram account oneslowsunday.

This week’s lively discussion looks at what clients want from influencers; payment and closing influencer pay gaps; the growth of b2b influencers; and whether to involve social media stars from the start of the creative process.

The guests discuss which platforms are becoming more important, with the rise of TikTok and LinkedIn examined alongside the status of Instagram and post-Musk-takeover Twitter. The future of livestreaming, OnlyFans, AI platforms such as ChatGPT and ‘virtual influencers’ are also put under the microscope – as is PR’s role in influencer marketing.

Elsewhere, the guests predict how influencer marketing might evolve in 2023 and beyond.

Asking the questions this week are regular host Frankie Oliver, the founder of PR agency New Society, and John Harrington, editor of PRWeek UK.

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