As part of my work with TV, film, content producers as well as content organisations of all shapes and sizes, often I get asked ‘where can I find out more information about industry trends?” or ‘who can I follow online to keep me up to date?’.

My answer is a long list of interesting accounts to follow, publications to read, podcasts to listen to and online channels to watch. And at that point, their faces sink and you can see them thinking ‘how on earth do I have the time to do all of that as well as run my business, be in production, pitch and develop ideas, fire fight whatever is the latest problem…’

So that is what the Business of TV newsletter aims to solve. A single weekly newsletter that gives busy TV, film and digital content professionals a selection of interesting articles, insights, podcasts and more. I choose trends that (I think) are of strategic importance in the medium to longer term; those which may have an impact on our industry in the not too distant future. I do the sifting and trawling for you, meaning you have more time to run your company and make top notch TV shows, films and digital content (which then everyone enjoys watching, so thank you).

The core audience is UK-based TV/film and digital professionals (although anyone is welcome!), and this newsletter includes insights into the global market - especially the US and streamers - which are likely to have an impact on the UK TV production sector.

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