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Real stories, from real comms professionals. You know that request. The one that landed in your inbox on a Friday afternoon. The one that made you stare at your screen for a full ten seconds before typing a reply. The one you still think about. Every comms team has a drawer full of them, and now they finally have a home.
Wins that weren’t
In the pilot, we open two files from the folder marked “Wins that weren’t”.
File 001: Viral. A social media manager writes the post every comms team dreams of. It goes viral, journalists start calling, and then somebody calls a meeting.
File 002: The presentation. Forty beautifully researched slides, a boardroom booked for two o’clock on Thursday, and a whole section on brand voice.
Straight from the comms request form
Comms professionals deal with some of the most baffling, bewildering and occasionally unhinged situations of any team in any organisation. Pending approval gives those stories the airtime they deserve.
Every story actually happened
Each file comes from a real comms professional, told in their own words.
Names changed, details adjusted
Organisations are anonymised, so people can finally say what happened.
Made for your commute
Episodes are bite-sized, delivered very, very straight, with a few laughs of recognition along the way.
Listen wherever you like
Follow the show on your favourite app and new files will arrive as soon as they’re approved.
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Your story belongs in the files
If something happened to you that was escalated, filed away and never spoken of again, we’d love to hear it. Names are changed, organisations are anonymised and details are adjusted, so you can tell it exactly as it happened.
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pendingapproval@commscreatives.comShow credits
A PODCAST BY
Comms Creatives
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Zander Mills
HOST VOICE
Steve Hayes
EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN
Zander Mills
Pending approval is a Comms Creatives production, from the team behind the Comms Creatives Academy, the annual training membership for communications professionals across the public sector, private industry and non-profits.
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