Breaking news and deep dives: How podcasts are changing news consumption

In recent years, podcasting has become mainstream. Spotify is home to more than 3.2 million podcasts alone, and people’s favourite shows have become must-listens as part of their regular media consumption.

The format is now established as an important communications channel for many media outle...

We made it to New York. Spark steps challenge 2023 completed!

As you may have read in my previous post, in March we set out on a rather ambitious challenge to walk from the Spark office in Central London to the Statue of Liberty in New York City. I’m really pleased to report that we made it – with 30 members of the team clocking in a whopping 7,954,456 steps (...

Is PR for me? A deep dive with the Spark team – Part 2

If you’re still wondering ‘is PR for me?’, here’s the second half of our blog post giving a deep dive into why some of our team members joined us from other industries and how they found the career switch. In part one we looked at two of our former journalists, but this time we’re widening the sc...

Is PR for me? A deep dive with the Spark team – Part 1

I’m one of many Spark team members who moved to PR from a different industry. I used to work at a public affairs agency specialising in planning and development – but realised PR would give me more of an opportunity to get creative.

Don’t get me wrong, some of the Spark team have had PR in their b...

Power up and take note – Five tech tools for remote working success

In flexible workplaces, technology has been playing an increasingly important role in recent years. This goes just beyond video calls and sharing files, however – many of us are increasingly drawing on the power of tech to drive everything from background noise to the way we think. Here are five tec...