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Creatorville hires Future PLC’s Dean McDonald as Head of Production
The final gatekeeper: why independent filmmakers should own distribution too
Electric Entertainment licenses YouTube hit Sideswiped to VIZIO streamer WatchFree+
Nutopia launches Youtopia, a digital-first studio built on A-list partnerships
BBC seeks multi-platform commissioning chief in bid to connect with young audiences
A brand world is not a visual style
World building has become one of the creative industry’s favourite phrases. Brands have worlds. Creators have universes. Production companies are building IP across film, social, live experiences and interactive platforms. But there is a risk that we are using “world”...
ScreenSkills and BBC study highlights skills gaps facing UK creators
ScreenSkills and the BBC have co-published a study examining the skills, career opportunities and challenges facing the UK’s digital content creator sector. Conducted by consultancy Olsberg•SPI, Creator Skills: Progression, Provision and Priorities draws on existing...
Jamie Oliver fronts Life360 social microseries
Jamie Oliver has partnered with family safety app Life360 on a shortform comedy series for YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Finding Jamie While He’s Finding Himself follows a fictionalised Oliver as he abandons the kitchen during a midlife crisis and experiments with...
Disney orders 20 episodes from Dhar Mann Studios
The Walt Disney Company has struck an original content deal with Dhar Mann Studios, marking the latest partnership between a major entertainment group and a digital-first creator business. Under the agreement, Dhar Mann Studios will produce an initial 20 episodes for...
Why institutional capital is finally backing social video
For most of the last decade, investing in YouTube channels and creator businesses was treated as a speculative sideshow: interesting, occasionally lucrative, but not the kind of asset class that a pension fund or private equity house would touch. That has changed...
ChaiFlicks acquires streaming rights to Hen Mazzig YouTube series
ChaiFlicks, a streaming platform dedicated to Jewish content from around the world, has acquired YouTube series And They’re Jewish with Hen Mazzig. The deal gives ChaiFlicks exclusive SVOD rights to both seasons of the series. Hosted by Israeli writer, presenter and...
Bell Media revamps CTV’s The Social as a video podcast style production
Bell Media is reworking Canadian daytime talk show The Social as a multiplatform video podcast for its 14th season, while retaining the programme’s weekday slot on linear broadcaster CTV. The revamped show will continue to air weekdays on CTV and stream on Crave,...
Goalhanger appoints Tom Miceli as head of IP development to lead TV and film expansion
Goalhanger has appointed Tom Miceli as head of IP development, a newly created role focused on expanding the company’s television and film business. Miceli (pictured) joins Goalhanger from WME, where he spent more than a decade in the agency’s television division,...