The Media Podcast With Olly Mann

In the first of Screen International’s awards season podcast series, Screen editor Matt Mueller is joined by features editor Charles Gant and joint managing director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment Clare Binns to discuss the kick-off to the 2019/20 awards season.Who are the early front-runners in the major categories, how is the date change impacting the release schedule and can anything beat Parasite in the international feature film category?Matt, Clare and Charles discuss the shorter window for capitalising on awards contenders this year following the US Academy’s decision to move the Oscar ceremony forward to February 9 and Bafta responded in kind, shifting to February 2 – what ripple effect will that have on exhibitors, distributors and audiences?Others topics include examining the contenders across all major categories that are making the biggest impression so far, and how the US Academy’s expanded international membership is exerting a stronger influence on the overall shape of n

Maggie Brown, Steve Ackerman and Matt Deegan join Olly Mann for more media news and analysis, including how podcasts are helping Spotify grow their profits, can audio help the Mail dominate online news and where will Ben Cooper go after Radio 1?PLUS Samira Ahmed and Ofcom give the BBC more headaches.AND in the media quiz, we take a look at the first reviews for Apple TV’s original series.A PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Consider supporting this podcast by creating a voluntary subscription of a few pounds a month. Full details at themediapodcast.com/donate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Olly Mann, Renay Richardson (Broccoli Content) and Alex Hudson (Metro.co.uk).This week, all these have gone: A quiz show on Facebook, magazines at Aldi and free Telegraphs at Smiths. Plus - June Sarpong to be the BBC’s first ‘Head of Creative Diversity’, funding for science podcasts and Sky News’ blanket ban on Brexit.The Media Podcast is a PPM Production. Produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media industry insight, analysis and gossip presented by Olly Mann with guests Trevor Dann (secretary of AudioUK and presenter of the monthly roundtable editions of Radio Today), Karin Robinson (host of ‘Primarily: 2020’ and senior analyst at Edelman) and Faraz Osman, (managing director, Gold Wala)This week: How one complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty cast doubt on the BBC’s judgement. Why adverts work better in podcasts than on TV. And why the Royals are taking on the tabloids.And in the Media Podcast Quiz, we celebrate the British winners at the 71st Emmy Awards.The Media Podcast is a PPM production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry.Please help support the show by taking out a voluntary subscription. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media news and analysis, with Olly Mann and guests Rebecca Gillie (theweek.co.uk) and Maisie McCabe (Campaign Magazine).In this bumper 'back to school' edition, the panel cover Channel 4 joining Sky’s Adsmart scheme, the BBC and FAANG attempt to halt the spread of disinformation online, and we remember the halcyon days of extravagant press trips.PLUS, in the media quiz, we wave goodbye to some media stalwarts.A PPM production, produced by Rebecca Grizedale-Sherry. Please help support the show by taking out a voluntary subscription.#podstrike! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a special edition of the Media Business Podcast from this year’s Edinburgh Television Festival, podcast host and chief executive officer of Media Business Insight, Conor Dignam, looks at the best of the festival’s commissioning panels, to help indies get the right programme idea to the right people.Recorded over the course of the festival, the podcast features insights from Charlotte Moore (BBC1/pictured), Ben Frow (Channel 5), Georgia Brown (Amazon), Ian Katz (Channel 4) and Kevin Lygo (ITV). Each commissioner reveals what’s on their commissioning wish list, and casts a look back over the past year’s successes and failures. Also offering their insight into the current commissioning landscape are Alexandra Zeevalkink, managing editor and Hannah Bowler, senior media researcher from the Commissioner Index. The Media Business Podcast is produced by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast. Please subscribe atscreendaily.com or broadcastnow.co.uk or wherever yo

Boyd Hilton presents a special edition of The Media Podcast from the 2019 Edinburgh TV Festival with guests Cat Lewis (CEO, Nine Lives Media) and Jim Waterson (media editor, The Guardian).The panel discuss the news and gossip from the annual TV shindig - including Dorothy Byrne’s powerful performance at the festival’s 44th MacTaggart Lecture. Plus: Will making shows available on iPlayer for longer help attract younger viewers; How The Athletic’s aims to rewrite football coverage with the help of deep pockets; And, as margins are squeezed, what are the rewards of making public service television in a global marketplace?And in the The Media Podcast Quiz can you spot the difference between real commissions announced at the festival and pitches we made up?The Media Podcast is a PPM Production. Produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Photo: Courtesy of Edinburgh TV Festival / Copyright Greg MacVean Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann is joined by managing director of Gold Wala, Faraz Osman and founder of the Don’t Skip podcast network Christina MooreThe BBC goes pop with a brand new controller, the tabloids are rocked by a big legal settlement, and there’s more drama with the tax status of on-air talent.Plus why you might be a celebrity without even knowing it (it’s all to do with your follower count) and can Channel 5 make money by going highbrow?And in the Media Podcast Quiz, dead formats get the kiss of life as we play In With The Old.We’ll be back in August with a special podcast from the Edinburgh TV Festival.The Media Podcast is a PPM Production. Produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media insight and analysis with Olly Mann and guests Iain Dale (LBC), Karin Robinson (senior analyst at Edelman and host of the podcast “Primarily: 2020”) and Boyd Hilton (entertainment director at Heat magazine and host of PilotTV Podcast).On this week’s show: Can Facebook’s new currency save its relationship with media companies? How rewriting the gender balance in ITV comedy writing and why the televised lie detector has been permanently unplugged. Plus news of another delay to the government’s ‘porn block’ legislation and there’s precinct predictions in the Media Podcast quiz.The Media Podcast with Olly Mann is a PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode of The Media Business Podcast we join Managing Editor of Broadcast’s Commissioner Index, Alexandra Zeevalkink, as she welcomes a panel of drama commissioners to the podcast.Listen in to discover the pitch preferences and individual programming strategies of Lee Mason (Channel 4), Huw Kennair-Jones (ITV) and Philippa Collie Cousins (UKTV).If you’re looking to get your drama show made by a broadcaster, then this podcast is for you!A PPM Production for Media Business Insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann presents insight, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries recorded live at Podcast Day 2019. Olly’s guests this week are radio futurologist and editor of Podnews, James Cridland, and managing director of Somethin’ Else, Steve Ackerman.This week: The Obamas take up podcasting; Brexitcast transfers to TV; a change in Google’s search algorithm stems the flow of visitors to Mail Online by half; Youtube’s struggle to maintain order against homophobic vloggers PLUS, in the Media Podcast Quiz, we play Regulation For The Nation.The Media Podcast with Olly Mann is a PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Radiodays Europe: Podcast Day – the continent’s premier conference for the podcast industry – is taking place at Kings Place on Thursday 13th June 2019.Speakers include Brexitcast’s Katya Adler and Laura Keunsberg, George The Poet, Beef & Dairy’s Benjamin Partridge, plus representatives from Spotify, the BBC, NPR, The New Yorker.To celebrate, The Media Podcast is giving you the chance to win win free entry (worth €300) and the chance to witness Olly Mann recording the next edition of The Media Podcast at the event.ENTER NOW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann and guests Jake Kanter (executive editor, Business Insider UK and Rebecca Gillie (TheWeek.co.uk) discuss the latest news from the creative broadcasting industries. This week: A judicial review into the treatment of two Northern Irish journalists has raised questions about what their arrest means for press freedom, ITV axes the Jeremy Kyle Show after the death of a contributor and a Broadcast survey highlights the struggle for minority-led companies to win commissions. Plus, how Chris Evans won a million, but lost eight.Also: In this week’s Media Podcast Quiz we play Top Of The Pods to discover if our guests can identify the latest developments in the podcasting universe.The Media Podcast with Olly Mann is a PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Screen International reports from the Cannes Film Festival in the second of our new Media Business Podcasts, brought to listeners monthly by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast. In this special edition recorded on the ground at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs until May 25, Screen International editor Matt Muelleris joined by critics Wendy Ide and Jonathan Romney for a rundown of their highlights thus far at this year’s festival.In the second part of the episode, he speaks to key industry players about their own first-hand experiences of bringing films and talent to the world’s most iconic red carpet.Sharing their recollections of Cannes red carpets past and present are producer Rebecca O’Brien, who makes her 12th visit to Cannes alongside Ken Loach with his Competition contender Sorry We Missed You; Gabrielle Stewart, managing director of international sales company HanWay Films; publicity doyenne Liz Miller of Premier PR; and Lawrence Atkinson, CEO of public relat

Olly Mann presents your regular insight into the media industries with Channel 4 historian Maggie Brown and deputy editor of metro.co.uk, Alex Hudson.This week: The Guardian turns a profit for the first time in decades - so should other newspapers liberate their news from behind a paywall? Danny Baker gets his marching orders from the BBC; As Channel 4 opens its new HQ in Leeds, PACT launches an accelerator programme for independent production companies in the region; plus, could negative coverage of sensitive issues turn newsrooms into hostile environments? Plus, it’s a battle of legends in the Media Podcast Quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The Media Business Podcast, ALF Insight’s MD Fraser Murdoch is joined by partner and founder of agency start-up HMS16 Richard Hammond and Goodstuff’s co-founder Andrew Stephens to discuss how each wins new business at their respective advertising agencies. Given their different models, HMS16 a start-up and Goodstuff a network agency breakaway, this makes for a frank and compelling listen. In the second part of the episode, Fraser is joined by Adeline Bonnet, ALF’s head of content, who discusses her plan to launch an imminent new service, ALF Accelerators, which covers tomorrow’s big spenders in advertising. For more from ALF Insight, visit alfinsight.com A PPM Production for Media Business Insight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann presents insight, analysis and gossip from across the creative media industries with guests Faraz Osman (managing director of production company Gold Wala) and BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Jane Garvey.This week, will a cash injection bring children back to TV? Elsewhere, in the magazine industry, we discuss which face of 80s pop culture is getting a lift, Global’s billboard ambitions and the results of the second ever gender pay gap survey. All that and more - including the Media Podcast Quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Matt Hill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our European correspondent Paul Robinson reports from the recent Radiodays Europe conference, with full interviews with Radio 1 Breakfast show host Greg James about his first year at the helm, and the BBC Managing Editor Bob Shennan on refreshing breakfast on all their national music stations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Olly Mann presents insight, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries - this week with guests Paul Robinson (director of Creative Media Partners) and Matt Deegan (managing director, Folder Media).This week, as the ink dries on the BBC’s biggest deal in history to take control of Dave and his sisters Gold and Eden, will a licensing agreement with Discovery be enough to fund a looming gap in the licence fee?Also, who should archive user-generated content - and does it matter if it disappears into the ether? Reality TV stars ask for more support from producers, and we preview the first slate of shows you (may) be watching on Apple TV+.Plus, as always, the Media Podcast quiz.Please consider taking out a voluntary subscription to help fund and support the show: themediapodcast.com/donateA PPM Production, produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Broadcast continues its 60th anniversary celebrations with a Media Business Podcast of its Broadcast Indie Survey Reveal event.Indie Survey editor Jesse Whittock introduces the top-line findings of this year’s survey, before Broadcast editor Chris Curtis presides over the ‘State of the Nation’ panel.He is joined by Naked Entertainment chief operating officer Susie Dark; Curve Media joint chief executive Camilla Lewis; Endemol Shine UK chief executive Richard Johnson and All3Media chief operating officer Sara Geater to discuss the health of the indie sector, and identify the opportunities and challenges facing production companies.The panel was recorded at London’s Southbank Centre in March.There will be further B60 Gamechangers panels throughout the year, and new episodes of the Media Business Podcast will be released monthly. The latter is produced by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast.Please subscribe at screedaily.com or broadcastnow.co.uk or wherever you get your p