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AI, Micro-Drama and the New Digital-First TV Economy
At MIPCOM, amid the usual frenzy of speed meetings, Spirit Studios founder Matt Campion was calm, confident and clearly a man with a plan. His company, long regarded as one of the UK’s most innovative digital-first studios, is now pushing boundaries in two of the most...
LOST iN CEO Jonathan Skogmo unveils UGC licensing division Voyager
Jonathan Skogmo, founder and CEO of travel media and lifestyle publisher LOST iN, has launched a user-generated content (UGC) licensing division called Voyager within the LOST iN business. The division marks Skogmo’s return to a space he pioneered with Jukin Media....
Arcade names former YouTube exec Pete Cory as chairman with goal to grow brand partnerships
Arcade, the management company behind The Sidemen, has announced the appointment of Pete Cory as chairman. The company said Cory’s arrival marks “the beginning of an exciting new phase following investment from Lumina”. Most recently, Cory served as managing director...
Channel 4 orders digital news podcasts from Strong Watch and Zandland
Channel 4 has announced two new podcasts designed to maintain its connection with younger audiences. Untangled, fronted by Stacey Dooley and Ben Zand, and A News Thing, hosted by the comedians from A Comedy Thing by Channel 4, will offer audiences “an impartial and...
TheSoul restructures and puts Louisa Ioannidou in charge of media division
Creator business platform TheSoul Group (formerly TheSoul Publishing) has announced the launch of TheSoul Media, a new division encompassing all of the company’s owned & operated digital media brands as well as its creative agency. Louisa Ioannidou has been named...
Why Creators Are the New Studios: Viral Nation’s Paul Telner on the Next Phase of Social Video
If proof were ever needed that the creator economy has arrived on the global media stage, it could be found this week on the beach in Cannes. Among the yacht parties and back-to-back meetings of MIPCOM, Viral Nation’s Paul Telner sat down to talk about how the creator...
Sydney Lima and Tern TV to explore Findoms for Channel 4 Documentaries
Glasgow-based Tern TV has been commissioned to make Findoms: Uncovered, a 1x25’ film that will air on Channel 4 Documentaries on YouTube. The one off doc was greenlit in response to Channel 4’s Nations and Regions Digital Factual Brief. Made in partnership with Screen...
Channel 4 Dispatches claims first with use of AI presenter
Channel 4’s Dispatches has become the first British TV programme to use an AI presenter – as part of an on-screen stunt to show just how convincing artificial intelligence has become, and to highlight the speed at which the tech is developing. Airing on Monday October...