Agency fees, PRWeek UK Awards, consumer PR, pay gaps - PRWeek Noise in Brief podcast

<p>Big themes and stories in comms from the past week or so are put under the microscope in the latest edition of Noise in Brief, PRWeek UK’s bite-sized podcast.</p><p>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.</p><p>Download the podcast via&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/beyond-the-noise-the-prweek-podcast/id1513615965" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0onUHcQsn5ITC1lYtW89jZ?si=c965c18c49724d2c&nd=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or on your favourite platform.</p><p>This week, the team talk about the latest installment of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1831983/agencies-wary-raising-fees-%E2%80%93-prweek-top-150-monthly-trading-tracker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PRWeek’s Top 150 Monthly Trading Tracker</a>, which this month asked UK agencies from the Top 150 database whether they’ve altered their fee structures as costs rise.</p><p>The trio also discuss whether&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1831267/uk-editor-pure-consumer-pr-agencies-future" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">‘pure’ consumer-focused PR agencies have a future</a>&nbsp;and how the downturn in consumer spending is impacting this PR speciality.</p><p>Elsewhere, PRWeek UK editor John Harrington speaks to David Fraser, founder and managing director of Ready10, about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1828843/prs-ethnic-gender-pay-gaps-provide-figures-major-prweek-project" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Pay Gap Project for 2023</a>&nbsp;and urges UK PR agencies to provide data on their ethnicity and gender pay gaps.</p><p>And finally, following the launch of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prweek.com/article/1830937/prweek-uk-awards-2023-%E2%80%93-shortlist-revealed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PRWeek UK Awards shortlist</a>, the team discuss their favourite campaigns from the shortlisted finalists.</p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>