What clients want from agencies, mergers and acquisitions plus top and flop of the week

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. Appearing this week are UK news editor Siobhan Holt, reporters Elizabeth Wiredu and Evie Barrett, and UK editor John Harrington.Download the podcast via Apple, Spotify, or listen on your favourite platform.This week the show focuses on recent mergers and acquisitions, including private equity firm KKR’s investment in FGS Global in a deal that values the consultancy at $1.425bn, plus the rise in Employee Ownership Trusts. The show also discusses what clients want from agencies, as part of PRWeek’s new four-part series, plus brand collaborations - are they brilliant or a cliche? And finally, the team reveals its comms 'top' and 'flop' of the past two weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.