Snapchat has acquired five new titles from Barcroft Media. The London-based factual producer has sold eight programs into the mobile-first platform, including Ridiculous Ride, Snapped In The Wild, Beast Buddies, Born Different (pictured) and Shake My Beauty, which are now available on Snapchat’s Discover page. Born Different premiered on the platform last month and its first […]
Facebook has commissioned Barcroft Media for five-part series Most Incredible Homes. The 5 x 12-minute interactive series, which will premiere on Facebook Watch on November 3, will focus on unique homes around the globe, from luxurious jungle tree houses in Costa Rica to car-shaped homes in Austria. Facebook Watch users are to vote for their […]
Factual indie Barcroft Media and TCB Media Rights have inked a co-pro deal for an 8×60-minute series based on Barcrofts digital series Shake My Beauty. In the agreement TCB will take the worldwide distribution rights for the title. It follows a similar collaboration for Barcroft’s Extreme Love, that has seen We TV co-producing the series for […]
Youth-focused media group Complex Networks and UK-based Barcroft Media will coproduce original programmes in the US. Complex in its current guise was form last year after telco Verizon and publisher Hearst jointly acquired Complex Media in a bid to attract younger, pop culture-influenced millennials audiences. The company has now struck a multi-year advertising and content […]
Fledging distributor Drive Media Rights has picked up a raft of content from Barcroft Media. Drive is the UK-based funding and copro specialist that officially launched its distribution arm last week, with former Zodiak exec Laura Masson heading up sales. It said today that it has added a 1,000 short films from Barcroft, which has […]
UK-based Barcroft Productions has added heads of development and production – a move CEO Sam Barcroft says “completes the jigsaw” of its management team. Paul Woolf has been named development chief at the London-based prodco, which is part of the Barcroft Media group. Woolf was most recently director of development at All3Media-owned Maverick Television, where […]
UK-based digital content business Barcroft Media has hired execs from News UK and Bloomberg for new senior editorial and commercial posts. Dom Smith, a former FHM Australia editor and FHM managing editor, has become head of editorial and will oversee the flow of content to the Barcroft video business, which has one of the UK’s […]
Next-generation UK streaming platform Sky Q has acquired 400 short-form videos from indie Barcroft Media, and content from Electus Digital and Funny Or Die. This marks some of the first deals Sky Q has closed since parent satcaster Sky revealed the OTT service in November last year. Sky Q launches early this year, with a […]
Digital-first businesses Endemol Beyond USA and Barcroft Media have launched separate direct-to-consumer video platforms. Endemol Beyond USA, part of the Endemol Shine Group, has partnered with TV tech firm Piksel to create its owned-and-operated platform, GetBeyond.US. UK-based Barcroft has also launched its own free-to-watch platform, Barcroft.TV, which will focus on ‘the amazing side of life’. […]
Barcroft Productions has hired Zig Zag Productions’ Peter Wyles as director of programmes. Wyles is moving to the UK prodco, which has recently secured commissions such as Preposterous Pets for Animal Planet and OAPs Behaving Badly for Channel 5. He had only joined Troy producer Zig Zag as head of development last year after leaving […]
