Last week we were shortlisted for the PRMoment Independent Agency of the Year 2022 award. The bad news: we didn't win. That glory went to the mighty agency which is Manifest. There were 8 agencies on the shortlist! Shows what we were up against. We were thrilled to make the cut. The good news: we got the whole PRN team together for the first time since before Covid! Every single social occasion we've planned since 2020 has been thwarted by one of our team or one of our 16 kid

I’ve always been a stickler for client services, but I suppose that’s why I love doing the role that I do. But over the years and the various client relationships I’ve encountered along the way, I’ve always found that some have flourished into beautiful long-term friendships whilst others have perhaps floundered by the wayside. But why is that? Having thought on it further, I’ve boiled the success of the agency client relationship (and it is just that - a relationship, not a

The PRN Consumer team is excited today to reveal what we’ve been working on to promote our client Purplebricks’ sponsorship of Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. Working alongside Sportsbeat and the in-house team at Purplebricks, this week we’ve unveiled a creative sponsorship initiative working with three British athletes who are also talented artists to support Team GB at the Olympics! The athletes are professional boxer Joe Joyce, former rugby player Henry Fraser,

We were founded in 2005 when remote working wasn’t easy. Skype was newfangled, laptops were a luxury and there was no free wifi! Even if you could get access to the tech, flexible working was for mothers and others who’d stepped off the career path. It couldn’t possibly deliver business efficiencies and keep brilliant people at the top of their game. Could it? Fast forward 15 years and the world of work is unrecognisable, galvanised by the pandemic. Entire industries, organis

It's been a busy autumn so far with another exciting win: handling PR and analyst relations programmes for software firm Onna. Onna is leading a new category of software called Knowledge Integration Platform (KIP) helping firms integrate and centralise workplace applications and joins a stable of tech pioneers that favour The PR Network's innovative and scaleable model. Onna is fast becoming one to watch having just raised $27m in Series B funding led by Atomico, and $43m to

In the words of Coldplay's The Scientist - "Nobody said it would be easy" - never has a truer line been uttered about 2020. With that anthem whirring away in my mind (and now the ear worm in yours - sorry) we kicked off our second session of our PRN Client Collective with the esteemed scientist Professor Georgina Ellison Hughes and our collective of senior leaders in the PR and communications world from UK, France and Italy. Georgina is a leading expert in how stem cells and

As recorded by our first work experience intern, Katie Headley... I graduated from University at the beginning of this summer and gradually I began the ever-challenging task of having to search for a job in the real world - made even harder by the current climate. I have previously worked for a marketing team and a PR agency. I really enjoyed both roles and found them very interesting, so these are definitely my starting point of what I want to do in the future. I was put in

We're delighted to announce that we've won the UK PR brief to handle PR for disruptive estate agency Purplebricks. PRN is handling all consumer PR campaign work for the company, to cover brand PR, media relations and sponsorship support. Purplebricks is working with Buchanan for its investor relations and corporate PR activity. The brief is to help Purplebricks build consideration and engagement with consumers in the competitive UK property market. We've already completed our

The #Covid-19 lockdown meant the closure of production facilities for our client, Toyota GB, as well as the cancellation of all press launches, loans and press trips. As these activities provided the majority of content for our PR programme, the PRN team was presented with a yawning gap in communications for both the Toyota and Lexus brands. Our challenge was how to maintain the dialogue with the media, and remain front of mind for the consumer. We brainstormed remotely and

Last week George and I hosted a Twitter chat on behalf of the PRCA Virtual PR Agencies Group that we co-chair. The topic was "Virtual Agencies: Vices, Virtues and Viability" - #VirtualPReality. We organised the chat to provide insights from experienced virtual agency leaders into the reality of running a PR business set up from day one to be virtual. Now that all agencies are virtual, albeit temporarily, there's been a lot of interest in the model and the pros and cons. We wa

When I received a call late last year from an old colleague and friend I really rated telling me about a role going at The PR Network (PRN), I jumped at the opportunity to meet the team for a chat. I was coming to the end of my second maternity leave, and pondering my next move. I’m an agency stalwart, having worked for many big and mid-size agencies across London and Sydney over a lot of years. Having done the “Big Move” to the countryside 18 months previously, my heart dipp

Sometimes it is quite irritating to work in PR. Far too much time is still spent on worrying about who and what we are, sparked by TV programmes such as Flack. Where’s our confidence? If we are generally helping our clients to build a positive profile and helping to diffuse any negativity around their brand or proposition then we are doing our job, as per Francis Ingham's tweet last week. Sometimes we are doing a great deal more and making change in the world - read the ode t

We are delighted to announce (as published in PR Week, July 2018) that Toyota Great Britain (TGB) has re-appointed PRN, as we approach three years of working together. A new two-year contract will see the PRN team continue to manage consumer and lifestyle PR activity for both the Toyota and Lexus brands in the UK through to 2020. Over the past few years, we have been responsible for the UK press coverage of some of Toyota and Lexus’ most successful campaigns - including Origa