Public Relations and Advertising have never really seen eye-to-eye - but increasingly we're seeing creative ideas executed through earned media taking centre stage in awards, brand campaigns and marketing budgets.

Join Harrie Jack, Head of Creative Services at Magnum & Co, David Coupland Group Strategy Director at Haus , and co-hosts Shane Allison and Mylan Vu to discuss the role of creativity in communications, the battle with adland for creative ownership and how to deliver the best creative results in communications.

To learn more about the new PRIA x Compton School partnership and the Creative Advisory Panel David and Harrie are on, visit: https://www.pria.com.au/events/pria-compton-school/

The world is filled with COVID-19 crises currently - with many agencies helping their clients prepare for any eventuality, and in-house teams drafting up contingency plans for the end of the world.

Join Taryn Williams, CEO and founder of theright.fit, David Leahy the Head of Marketing and Communications at JDRF, and co-hosts Shane Allison and Mylan Vu to discuss whether there really is a need for crisis planning for every situation, unpick the best and worst of COVID-19 comms and dive into how - and when - communications will get back to normal.

We're back!

Talk Track, the podcast for the PR, communications and marketing industries, is back for a second season with a twist. This year, Shane Allison is joined by Mylan Vu as Co-Host, and the rebranded (off the) Talk Track is back from Tuesday12 May for an initial season of 10 episodes. This season will focus on the news and opinions in the world of communications which are all too often swept under the rug or put in the "too hard" basket.

Shane and Mylan will be joined by in-house and agency industry leaders to discuss everything from visas, diversity and talent, to salaries, burnout and the persistent allure of in-house jobs. Listen in for an exclusive preview of Season 2.

It's measurement month! The Public Relations Institute of Australia and the International association for the measurement and evaluation of communication host measurement month every year in November. It's a time to dive deep into one of the most crucial - and often overlooked - parts of communications in practice.

Join Stuart Wragg, Strategy Director at Herd MSL, Symon Madry Practice Head, Technology and Business at Red Havas AU, David Leahy, PR Lead at JDRF and host Shane Allison, CEO and Founder of Public Address, as they dive in to the thorny side of measurement and discuss what you should be measuring, how you should measure it and the skills required for measurement in the 21st Century.

The Melbourne Cup. Yet another public holiday for Victoria, an afternoon off work for the rest of the country and an absolute mystery to the rest of the world.

This year the Melbourne Cup attracted more than a crowd to the races - controversy over the treatment of retired horses, discussions about gambling and the six horses that have died since 2013 participating in the Cup caused a large number of Australians to say nup to the cup.

Join Susan Redden-Makatoa, Executive Director at Temple Search, Benjamin King, CSR and Public Affairs Manager at Finder and TalkTrack host Shane Allison, CEO and Founder of Public Address as we dive into the controversy, tackling the communications response, what employers' actions demonstrate about the cup and how a company's operational response about these issues can speak volumes about their purpose.

Podcasting. You'd have to have been living under an internet-free rock to have missed the proliferation of podcasting in Australia and around the world. This wave of new content has created opportunities and threats for public relations practitioners around the world.

Join podcast producer Daren Lake, Smoke Signal host Paul Cheal and TalkTrack host Shane Allison as they take a deep dive into the ins and outs of podcasting for PR professional. We'll tackle how to create a podcast for your company or a client, how to come up with a podcast concept and how to pitch a guest into a podcast.

Porque no los dos? Motherhood and PR, can you do both?

Agency life is known for being fast-paced and demanding. Finding balance as a working parent amongst that can be hard (is there even such a thing?).

While we've come a long way - equal rights are getting better, flexible working is for most the norm, and the idea of both parents working or dad staying home is much more accepted - it's only natural to question how having a baby will impact your career.

In this special edition of TalkTrack, guest host Clementine Crowther, Partner at Loam Partners gets into the nitty gritty of returning to work after starting a family. With guests Skye Lambley, MD atN2N Communications, Kelly Stambanis, GM at Thrive Communications and Carla Webb, Senior Account Director at Edelman dive into the age-old question 'Can PR agency life and motherhood really go hand in hand?".

opr's Futures report is one of the hotly anticipated trends reports that sets off discussion on the year ahead and how agencies and companies will respond.

This episode of TalkTrack dives into the Decade of Do, how ugly is beautiful again and the meta-advertising phenomena, all of which are in the fifth annual Futures report which examines 19 new insights that will shape marketing and communications in the next decade, with the report's authors, the CEO of opr Richard Brett and Chief Creative Officer Bridget Jung, and our host Shane Allison, CEO and co-founder of Public Address.

2GB's bad, no terrible, no really awful week, what went wrong for PwC and Facebook, and one of the perils of working in PR - whether you manage an in-house team or work in an agency, public relations professionals tend to be demanding and not leave a significant amount of time to spend future-gazing or pondering the trends that will shape our industry.

Fortunately there's a range of resources out there for PR professionals to pick up and utilise in their day-to-day work, from university research reports like the USC Annenberg's Global Communications Report through to reports from Australian and global agencies on the trends that will shape the evolution of PR. Join Jackie Crossman, one of the Authors of Red Havas' Res Sky Predictions, David Leahy, PR Consultant at Volt and PR Lead at JDRF, and David Skapinker, the Head of ANZ at Telum Media for a deep dive into the PR news of the fortnight.

Public Relations seems to be the home of the cynic - whether by nature, nurture or conditioning, cynics seem over-represented in the profession. Woolworth's Ooshie's campaign has taken Australia by storm, resulting in positive, and negative, coverage in every major outlet across the country.

When the supermarket chain launched a new green Discovery Garden campaign, it piqued the inner cynic in Karen Porter, the founder and creative director at social-impact-led Underground Communications. Join TalkTrack as we discuss Ooshies, ethics and cynicism in the Public Relations industry.