Sam Barcroft


Media publisher Future buys Barcroft Studios for $30m

Media publisher Future plc has wholly acquired Sam Barcroft’s award-winning production group Barcroft Studios for £23.5m ($30m). The deal will enable the business to grow its pipeline of series, and will see CEO Barcroft  staying on to oversee day-to-day operations of the Barcroft Studios brand under Future plc’s ownership, alongside chief operating officer Caspar Norman […]

One to One: A year of Facebook Watch

TBI’s ‘One to One’, in which industry heavyweights put each other in the hot seat, returns with the powerhouse coupling of Facebook’s Dan Biddle and Barcroft Studios’ Sam Barcroft, who lift the lid on the challenges and opportunities of producing for Facebook Watch. By Manori Ravindran Biddle and Barcroft are no strangers to innovation. They’ve […]

Barcroft Studios appoints former Vice exec for 4Real

Factual production company Barcroft Studios has appointed a former Vice exec to oversee content output for 4Real, the youth programming strand from UK broadcaster Channel 4. Al Brown becomes executive producer at Barcroft and is tasked with overseeing the content output for 4Real, working with the prodco’s founder and CEO Sam Barcroft to create over […]

Channel 4 commissions Barcroft Studios for slate of ‘4Real’ films

Channel 4 has commissioned Barcroft Studios for a slate of short-form digital shorts under the ‘4Real’ banner.  The commission is the first originating from Channel 4’s recently formed Digital Creative Unit (DCU) — a Leeds-based initiative intended to commission and produce digital content to reach audiences on social and digital platforms. 4Real is the venture’s […]

Snapchat acquires slate of Barcroft titles

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 […]

Barcroft wins Facebook commission for Incredible Homes

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 […]

Barcroft goes D2C with TV app

UK-based factual prodco Barcroft Productions is leaping on the success of its YouTube channel by going direct-to-consumer with free TV app. This will comprise with 700 episodes of Barcroft programming – the company’s entire catalogue – and third party content at launch. The Barcroft TV app will offer its in-house content exclusively for 24 hours […]

Barcroft hires ex-Maverick, Zinc execs

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 […]

Barcroft adds execs after Channel 4 investment

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 […]

Channel 4 buys into Barcroft

Channel 4 has bought a stake in multiplatform content company Barcroft. The UK broadcaster has set up a £20 million (US$28.5 million) Growth Fund to invest in UK content companies and has bought into several indies. This is the first Growth Fund investment in a company that has an extensive presence in the digital space […]

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