123 Episodes

  1. What Happens When Your Influencers Refuse to Use Their Own Names

    Published: 25/11/2025

  2. EP 90: The Body Shop Line That Haunted Vikki Ross

    Published: 18/11/2025

  3. From helping DJ Bob Sinclair to almost getting fired.

    Published: 13/11/2025

  4. EP 89: The Secret Brain Hack Powering the World’s Biggest Brands with Claire Koryczan

    Published: 11/11/2025

  5. Three PR Nightmares That Cost Brands Millions

    Published: 6/11/2025

  6. EP 88: How I Built a PR Agency from Zero During COVID - Darryl Sparey

    Published: 4/11/2025

  7. EP 87: From KFC’s Pricing Error to Expedia’s Deck Disaster: Lessons from Sam Benton on Creative Courage

    Published: 28/10/2025

  8. She controlled her narrative by revealing her darkest secrets first

    Published: 23/10/2025

  9. EP 86: When Google’s AI Stole Their Clicks: How Prohibition Turned a Traffic Crisis into GEO Strategy

    Published: 21/10/2025

  10. Breaking the BBC Homepage: Tales from the Trenches

    Published: 16/10/2025

  11. EP 85: AI-Written RFP Fail: Why Pitches Collapse

    Published: 14/10/2025

  12. Knowing When to Fold: A Transatlantic Marketing Lesson

    Published: 9/10/2025

  13. EP 84: Cracking the YouTube Algorithm: Lessons from Raw Data, Not Hype

    Published: 7/10/2025

  14. The Gap Year that Almost Became a Career Gap

    Published: 2/10/2025

  15. EP 83: Demoted at Deliveroo: Alice Ter Haar's Career-Shaking Failure

    Published: 30/09/2025

  16. Webinar FAIL: That Time I Forgot to Record Our Huge Influencer Webinar

    Published: 25/09/2025

  17. EP 82: Mastering LinkedIn Visibility: Four Steps to Turn Followers into Clients

    Published: 23/09/2025

  18. Direct Marketing Fuck Up that Taught Me Everything Advertising Couldn't

    Published: 18/09/2025

  19. EP 81: How a Prestige Client Nearly Cost Alexandra Galviz Her Authentic Brand

    Published: 9/09/2025

  20. Food Marketing Gaffe: My Culinary Embarrassment with Meena Patak

    Published: 4/09/2025

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Welcome to the world's number one podcast on Marketing Mistakes by Prohibition PR. This podcast is specifically for senior marketers determined to grow their brands by learning from real-world screw ups.Each week, join hosts Chris Norton and Will Ockenden, seasoned PR professionals with over 45 years of combined experience, as they candidly explore the marketing failures most marketers would rather forget. Featuring insightful conversations with industry-leading marketing experts and value-packed solo episodes, the show tries to uncover the valuable lessons from genuine marketing disasters and, crucially, the tips and steps you need to take to avoid them.Chris and Will bring practical experience from founding the award-winning PR agency Prohibition PR, where they have successfully guided top brands to significant growth through PR strategy, social media, media relations, content marketing, and strategic brand-building.Tune in to turn f*ck ups into progress, mistakes into lessons, and challenges into real-life competitive advantages. Well, we hope so anyway.

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