The PRCA has more than doubled in size over the last three years, a reflection of the professional body's growing reputation and influence. With over 400 agency members and 270 in-house teams, the Association provides an excellent platform for suppliers looking to reach PR professionals in agencies and in-house. There are numerous ways to become involved with the PRCA, reflecting different levels of commitment:
PRCA Partners
Partners are the only organisation in their sector that the PRCA will endorse. They come recommended by our members and are known for the quality of their product and/or service. PRCA Partners benefit from significant access to members, numerous networking opportunities, industry insight and business referrals.
Sponsorship
The PRCA offers a range of sponsorship opportunities for suppliers looking for profile and/or networking opportunities. These include: the PRCA Awards, the National Conference, the PRCA’s quarterly events calendar, collections of insight articles, lunches and dinners for senior industry professionals, member drinks evenings.
3GEM
3Gem global market research helps you to understand your audience, get a measure of your market, gather feedback on new concepts and drive PR and marketing campaigns. We deliver accurate research data and actionable insights so you can make informed decisions about your business.
E : hello@3gem.com
T : 02036673232
CARMA
CARMA is a global leader in Media Intelligence. With over thirty years experience working with the world’s leading brands, it brings knowledge, understanding and insight to the evolving media landscape by helping you monitor, measure and evaluate your PR and communications successfully. CARMA’s powerful combination of experience, expertise, and technology delights clients. As a result, across five continents our team is entrusted to help many of the world’s biggest brands gain true media insight and demonstrate the effectiveness of their PR across its media monitoring, measurement, and evaluation services. CARMA works with its clients to identify and understand the media, data and metrics that prove the value of communications programmes, helping demonstrate success and empower better organizational decision making.
E : hello@carma.com
T : 02088773314
Creative Access
Creative Access offers first-class training to support both individuals and organisations. Workshops are either delivered in person or virtually. They create safe spaces to explore topics in the context of current social justice movements, mental health and the constantly evolving DEI landscape in the creative sphere.
All our trainers have lived experiences of underrepresentation and have worked at senior levels in their fields. We are able to create and deliver training that you have a particular requirement for and build in time for planning and co-curation with your team to ensure workshops meet your objectives.
E : lucy@creativeaccess.org.uk
T : 07719408725
Cubit Technology
Cubit Technology is an IT Managed Services Provider based in London with 18 years of managing IT for agencies where IT and cybersecurity are critical to their operations. H onesty and transparency These values stem from our MD’s founding concept that agency execs who were used to enterprise IT support from an in-house team, should be able to get the same quality of support in a smaller business using an outsourced service.
Cubit’s core values show what we are all about:
E xcellence
L ove of Technology
P eople and Partnerships
T : 08458387132
ISMA (International Stress Management Association)
The International Stress Management Association [ISMAUK] is the leading professional body for workplace and personal stress management, wellbeing and performance.
As a registered charity and membership-based organisation for over 30 years, ISMAUK promotes sound knowledge and best practice in stress management, resilience, wellbeing and mental health, both nationally and internationally. We provide advice and training to a wide range of individuals, businesses, private and public sectors including voluntary organisations. ISMAUK’s professional members consistently help, train, support and advise well in excess of 40,000 people every year.
Our theme for 2022 is Collaboration, aiming to reach out and collaborate with individuals and organisations, such as the PRCA, who have an interest in stress management and mental health and work to support people and communities improve their levels of wellbeing and resilience.
ISMAUK are founders of International Stress Awareness Week 7-11 November 2022, our annual event focusing on stress management and campaigning against the stigma associated with stress and mental health issues which attracts media attention worldwide. The highlight is ISMAUK's Online Global Stress & Wellbeing Summit on International Stress Awareness Day, 9 November 2022.
Our key strategic objectives include –
• Enabling our members to support initiatives that combat stress in the workplace, focusing on mental health, wellbeing and resilience
• Increasing our relationships with like-minded organisations and communities, so we can work together collaboratively to raise awareness and increase support for those experiencing stress and mental health issues
• Increasing global awareness of stress and mental health issues through initiatives such as International Stress Awareness Week
T : 07823745056
JournoLink
JournoLink is the full-service PR platform for small agencies and freelancers looking to manage their client base on a budget and in a user-friendly flexible way. Enabling more clients to be managed but at a lower cost, and without the hassle of complicated over engineered functionality.
The platform provides easy Press Release distribution both to targeted UK wide journalists and to dedicated media lists, as well as giving agencies and freelancers access to the database of 55.000 UK journalists’ Contact Details.
Media Requests are part of the platform, with an easy response function, and customised Hosted Media Rooms for each client are included without additional cost, meaning that agencies and freelancers can improve both recruitment of new clients and retention of existing ones as ‘owners and managers’ of their media rooms as well as distributors of press releases.
The useful Analytics and the straightforward CRM system are both designed to help answer the inevitable cost justification questions that clients ask and help to pinpoint the journalists that are showing an interest in releases.
And to keep up to date with what might be trending in the news and provide good hooks for client stories, JournoLink also includes a Dynamic Calendar of upcoming events, awards, data releases etc that can be used to plan client strategies.
All available at a discount through the PRCA membership.
T : 07903951152
Lewis Silkin
Lewis Silkin is a commercial law firm based in London, Oxford and Cardiff. The firm has particular expertise in Advertising and Marketing; Technology; Brand Management; Employment, Reward and Immigration; Corporate and Commercial; Real Estate and Regeneration; and Litigation and Dispute Resolution.
T : 02070748000
M&A Advisory
M&A Advisory is the PRCA’s exclusive mergers and acquisitions partner. If you are looking to realise and maximise shareholder value or make an acquisition, M&A Advisory will guide you through the process.
For further information or a confidential discussion please contact David Blois or Michelle Underwood on +44 (0)207 680 9849.
E : davidb@mandaadvisory.com, michelleu@mandaadvisory.com
T : 02076809849
markettiers
Markettiers is the UK’s leading broadcast PR specialist, with 30+ years’ experience of delivering market-leading, award-winning work for clients ranging from innovative start-ups to the world’s biggest PR agencies and brands. With multi-purpose (TV, radio, podcast and virtual events) studios in London, on location capabilities, an industry leading brand funded newsroom (circa. 20 media facing broadcast specialists) and team of client facing broadcast consultants, it provides local, regional, national and international broadcast solutions. markettiers is also a market leader in live streaming, social video production and podcasting.
E : info@markettiers.com, daniel.stainsby@markettiers.com
T : 02072538888
Moore Kingston Smith
We are the only firm of accountants and advisers with a dedicated office of over 100 media specialists that proactively support the extensive range of needs of independent media businesses – covering marketing services, film & TV and entertainment, theatre and createch.
We know it’s not just about the numbers. As well as providing accountancy, tax and corporate finance services, over the years, by working with some of the industry’s most successful companies, we have developed a deep understanding of what drives media businesses. As your trusted advisers we use this experience to work in partnership with you to help maximise your growth and profit potential. We conduct extensive research into industry performance every year with a view to understanding not just the benchmarking data, but also identifying what the best performers do to achieve exceptional results. Our well-developed structured approach to our strategic advisory services helps you effectively manage risks, build revenues, attract and engage people and identify key opportunities to improve performance and enterprise value.
All this means we are well placed to support you throughout the whole of your business lifecycle:
• Start up and small businesses – let our one stop shop approach take care of all your needs, including set up, company secretarial, legal, outsourcing, payroll, accounts and tax
• Growing and mature businesses – we can support you as your business grows with our award winning technology enabled audit approach, accounts preparation, tax compliance and advisory services such as HR and employee incentives
• International – we can leverage off of our membership of Moore Global – a network of accountancy and advisory firms in over 100 countries, to take the pain out of expanding into unfamiliar territories. We can co-ordinate your international audit requirements, and advise on international tax
• Exit planning – our media specialist award winning M&A team, with hundreds of transactions under their belt, will ensure you are well prepared for any transaction and maximise the proceeds from the value you have created within your business
We have hundreds of clients across the media sector who all benefit from our very personal partner led approach, providing the very best guidance, expertise and specialist sector insights.
In short, we’re more than just accountants who count your numbers – we’re business partners whose ambition is to help you grow your numbers so that you realise your fullest potential.
E : hgill@mks.co.uk
T : 02073044646
Mynewsdesk
Mynewsdesk helps companies create awareness, find the right audience and build strong relationships. By providing a user-friendly online solution, Mynewsdesk simplifies and streamlines the publishing, distribution, and measuring of your PR and communication efforts. All in one digital place. By consolidating all aspects of PR in one platform, brand and media monitoring is also made easy, helping companies track their engagement over time. Mynewsdesk has 1.6 million unique visitors monthly and publishes 80,000 news stories per year. Over 4,000 companies across the globe trust Mynewsdesk’s platform to improve their PR efforts and 70% gain media uptake on their news.
E : malena.bjalkdahl@mynewsdesk.com
T : 02076452355
Paprika
As specialist suppliers of job costing and accounting software within the Public Relations industry, Paprika provide a central resource for all your agency data. Paprika software joins up all departments of an agency, enabling agency staff to gather clear financial insights and make informed decisions. Paprika has more than 30 years’ experience working within the marketing and communications sector. Collaborating with PR agencies of all sizes, their software is used in over 20 countries and is available in 6 language versions; English (UK, US and Australian), French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
E : adelined@paprika-software.com
T : 01732811600
Polpeo
Polpeo’s realistic and immersive crisis simulations prepare brands and agencies to communicate successfully in a crisis. Its interactive crisis simulation technology recreates the experience of managing a crisis as it unfolds and spreads over social media and traditional media. A Polpeo simulation will stress-test your crisis communications response, plans, teams, resilience and strategies, all within a safe and secure environment. Behind the scenes, a live team role plays the public response to the crisis, making this the closest thing possible to managing a real crisis.
Nothing prepares you for a crisis as effectively as experiencing one. Polpeo gives you that experience without any of the risk.
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PRWeek
At PRWeek our aim is simple: to offer all the key news, analysis, data and opinion about the PR industry in the UK, US and Asia. Read by leading decision makers within the PR sector, our brand has a proud history of breaking exclusives, offering in-depth analysis from the best commentators in the business and organising an annual awards, known as the 'Oscars' of the industry. PRWeek also publishes intelligence crucial to the industry, including PRWeek Power Book and the Global Agency Business Report. An events portfolio sees PR's leading experts present case studies and thought leadership to audiences from all industry sectors. The annual PRWeek Awards honor the best campaigns, companies and people in the industry, while our annual global conference, roundtable events, webcasts and other forums are tailor-made to help professionals exchange ideas and share best practices.
E : prcamembersjobs@haymarket.com
T : 02082674354
Reuben Sinclair
As 'Official Talent Partner' to the PRCA, Reuben Sinclair is perfectly positioned to help with your PR recruitment needs. Reuben Sinclair PR & Communications works with a broad cross-section of the PR world from large and small agencies to global organisations and smaller businesses. We help our clients recruit for permanent, interim and contract positions across all areas of PR & communications. Voted 'Best Agency Side Recruiter 2017 & 2018' for our PR recruitment services, Reuben Sinclair has over ten years experience recruiting for world-class PR agencies and in-house PR teams. Alex Lewington leads our PR recruitment function and was the 2016 winner of 'UK's Best Recruitment Consultant' for her work within the PR industry and is the chair of The PRCA Recruitment Forum.
E : enquiries@reuben-sinclair.com
T : 02038261206
The AI Journal
Your go-to platform for progress, announcements, events, market analysis, trends, and career opportunities within the field of AI and emerging technologies. The AI Journal provide businesses of all sizes from startups through to publicly traded with the market intelligence to make exceptional decisions that deliver successful and progressive results. We do this through 3 core services: Market Research, Awards, and Targeted Marketing Campaigns.
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