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Well-being: The only resolution you need for 2021
In this month’s well-being column, executive coach Tracy Forsyth discusses the most important resolution for…
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Mark Miller on Great Pacific’s scripted move, a factual boom and writing words vs cheques
Great Pacific Media’s Mark Miller tells TBI deputy editor Mark Layton about the company’s move…
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What Spanish hero ‘El Cid’ can teach us about global production
Jose Velasco, founder & president of Spain-based iZen Group, tells TBI about his company’s epic…
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Marblemedia CEO Mark Bishop on turning lemons into lemonade in 2020
Mark Bishop, co-CEO of Toronto-based indie Marblemedia, says that the unprecedented challenges of the past…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Global TV Production in 2020
Tim Westcott, senior research manager for channels, programming & advertising at research powerhouse Omdia explores…
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The fast-evolving world of markets & festivals (Part 2)
Barely a handful of live industry events took place this year, due to the Coronavirus…
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Five takeaways from World Congress of Science and Factual Producers 2020
Gemma Greene, head of development at British factual indie Icon Films, shares with TBI what…
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The fast-evolving world of markets & festivals (Part 1)
Barely a handful of live industry events took place this year, due to the Coronavirus…
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Why Covid’s ‘engagement kick-start’ might save broadcasters
Samuel Westberg, chief commercial officer at interactive tech firm LiveLike, tells TBI how the pandemic has…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Six Southeast Asia streaming super-trends for 2021
Jun Wen Woo, senior analyst for TV & online at research powerhouse Omdia, offers six…
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Relationships, resilience & rebates in Western Australia
Briege Whitehead, founder of Australian producer White Spark Pictures, tells TBI how the past year…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Where next for pay-TV in a streaming future?
Fateha Begum, principle analyst at TBI sibling OMDIA, tells Richard Middleton about the key trends facing pay-TV…
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How do you Zoom? What your virtual background says about you
TBI’s favourite corporate wellness coach Tracy Forysth discusses Zoom calls, contrasting colours and visually interesting…
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TBI in Conversation: Taking Grandpa’s wisdom to the world
UK producer Caroline Roberts-Cherry, MD of Saffron Cherry Productions, tells Mark Layton how her new BFI-funded…
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Diversity: Offering the right kind of support
In the latest instalment of her monthly column, the Creative Diversity Network’s executive director Deborah…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Exploring TV revenue raisers as streaming surges
Traditional TV markets are, at best, in slow-growth mode with the reality often being stagnation…
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TBI Weekly: What comes after the streaming revolution?
Covid-19 has accelerated a swathe of trends that were already apparent across the business prior to the…
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Bridging the gap: Solving viewer fatigue with scripted series
Serialised drama has soared in popularity over recent years, but as the number of shows…
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TBI In Conversation: Courting co-pros & counting every shot in ‘No Man’s Land’ with Maria Feldman
Israeli producer Maria Feldman talks to Mark Layton about her new war epic ‘No Man’s…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Six streaming super-trends for 2021
Tony Gunnarsson, principal analyst for media & entertainment at TBI sibling OMDIA, reflects on a…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Channels & programming super-trends for 2021
Covid-19’s impact on production has radically changed acquisition activity for streamers and channels in 2020,…
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TBI Weekly: Georgia Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff on democracy & the media
As the US elections play out to a global audience, TBI returns to a column we…
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How next generation thinking is prompting green production push
Helen Dugdale explores how content consumption is affecting the world’s climate and finds out what…
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Why shorter, more flexible dramas might be the future
Scripted seasons have been getting shorter over recent years and Covid-19’s impact on production looks…
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Why diversified thinking & nimble operations are key to producer survival
Stephen Stewart, MD of Northern Ireland-based producer Green Inc., discusses why now is the time…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Reflecting on Apple TV+ one year in
Apple TV+ might have the world’s most expensive company behind it, but intense competition in…
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Producer Sean Dulake shares five takeaways from filming during a pandemic
Sean Dulake, co-founder and president of Los Angeles and Seoul-based production company Third Culture Content…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Emerging super-trends for 2021
2020 has brought unprecedented change for the content business, with Covid-19 acting as an accelerant…
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Well-being: Why owning beats moaning
In this edition’s well-being column, executive coach Tracy Forsyth explains how to own situations rather…
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Arrow Media’s Anna Davies talks 2020’s key factual trends
Anna Davies, executive producer, development, at UK-based factual producer Arrow Media discusses some of the…