The Media Club with Matt Deegan

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...

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...

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 Bro...

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 Mueller is joined by critics Wendy Ide and Jona...

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...

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 compel...

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 an...

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...

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...

Jim Waterson (Media Editor, The Guardian) & Caroline Crampton (writer, Hot Pod & The Listener) join Olly Mann to debate the week's UK media news. They discuss how an unlikely alliance is forming to try and change the way Google, Facebook and others dominate the media market, as well as the new research showing the divide between podcast audiences in the US and UK. Also on the programme, th...

Broadcast kicks off its 60th anniversary celebrations with a Media Business Podcast of its Gamechangers session, featuring Stephen Lambert and Sir Peter Bazalgette . Recorded at The Soho Hotel in February, the Studio Lambert founder and ITV chairman shared a stage to discuss their varied careers, the health or drama and non-scripted programming, and the current challenges and opportunities facing...

Are the BBC’s politics programmes still cutting the mustard, can Snapchat beat Netflix at their own game? Plus, the government-backed plan to save local newspapers, and the secret group of journalists stoking online harassment. Olly Mann is joined by Lis Howell (City University) and Susie Marsh (ITN Productions) to discuss these stories and more, with Olly Mann. A PPM Production, produced by Rebec...

Media news and analysis, this week with Renay Richardson (Broccoli Content) and Alex Hudson (metro.co.uk). The panel discuss what the Spotify takeover of Gimlet means for podcasters, the solution to digital journalism’s crisis as The Pool closes and BuzzFeed shed jobs... and how Instagram’s new ‘sensitivity screen’ may protect users. All that, plus chatter on the week Sky News turned the cameras o...

In the first of a series of specials, we've partnered with the team at Media Business Insight to take a closer look at the media business - brought to you monthly by Media Business Insight, the publisher of Screen International and Broadcast.   In this inaugural episode, Screen International editor Matt Mueller is joined by the director of Film4 Daniel Battsek and Screen International’s chief...

Fortnightly news, gossip and analysis from across the media industries with Olly Mann and guests Leon Wilson (Managing Director, Talkback Thames) and Iain Dale (Presenter, LBC). On this show: Buzzfeed UK announces staff cuts after losing its UK editor. All change at breakfast time as Zoe Ball takes over Radio 2 and Chris Evans returns to Virgin. Bauer launches a new classical music station as the...

'Tis the season for our bumper predictions special, where we invite our roster of industry insiders to reveal their trends for the year ahead in tv, radio, print and online - and hold other account for what they predicted in 2018... with Jake Kanter, Steven D Wright, Maggie Brown, Steve Ackerman, Rebecca Gillie and Faraz Osman. Presented by Olly Mann and produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry. A PPM...

Media news and analysis with guests Faraz Osman (Gold Wala), Steve Ackerman (Somethin' Else) and Rebecca Gillie (theweek.co.uk). We put the best and worst journalism of the year under the microscope, and discover why the cost of rebuilding Albert Square has gone millions over budget. Plus, we plot the trajectory of personalised podcast ads, and, in the Media Quiz, challenge our guests to name the...

Media news and analysis, with presenter Olly Mann, broadcast consultant Paul Robinson and journalist Nastaran Tavakoli-Far. Could the I’m A Celebrity grand final be a mere warm up to the Brexit debate? We discuss the many ways broadcasters have tried to make the political debates palatable to British viewers.  Also on the programme: why freelancers in radio may force a change in pay, how Mark...

Media news and analysis, with guest presenter Jake Kanter and guests Maeve McClenaghan and Rebecca Gillie. On today’s show - Trump versus journalism, Nick Clegg’s journey from Downing Street to Silicon Valley, and what’s wrong at Radio 2? Plus our panel discuss the gift of Iceland’s Christmas advert ban and the argument for giving controversial figures a platform. ...and, can you spot the worst po...

Shouting at Prime Ministers was off-limits at BBC Westminster before Paul ‘Gobby’ Lambert . He was the Producer who cried, ‘ ANY MONEY IN THE BOX, CHANCELLOR? ’ at George Osborne on Budget day and got Bill Clinton to talk to the News Channel by shouting, ‘ OI, BILL! ’. In this interview with Olly Mann, Paul recalls how his inspired pursuit of Cherie Blair made several front pages, bemoans the curr...

News, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries with Olly Mann and guests. On this week’s show are managing director of Kerfuffle TV , Steven D Wright and CEO of the ShoutOut podcast network and host of careers podcast Wanna Be , Imriel Morgan . This week: Viral content king LADBible has rescued its arch rival Unilad from administration - is there room for both brands in the crowded v...

Media news and analysis, with Olly Mann and guests. This week, Steve Ackerman (MD, Somethin' Else) & Matt Deegan (Folder Media) discuss where Chris Evans can take Virgin Radio this time, Wireless and News UK. Plus our panel ponder Global’s foray into street ad marketing, The Telegraph's new paywall tweaks, and we catch up on all the summer's big business moves. AND in the Media Quiz, we pit th...

This bonus episode of The Media Podcast features Anna Richardson interviewing Lisa McGee, creator of Channel 4’s hit comedy Derry Girls . Lisa is joined by other cast members to discuss the process of bringing the series to screen and the overwhelming responses from audiences. Recorded at the Edinburgh Television Festival 2018. This podcast contains some strong language. A PPM Production, produced...

In this bonus episode, we hear the full, unedited recording of this year’s MacTaggart Lecture, delivered at the Edinburgh International TV Festival by actor, writer and producer Michaela Coel. You’ll hear her rise to fame - from an estate in Tower Hamlets to the BAFTA-winning success of Chewing Gum on E4 - as well as a brutally honest account of what it took go get that series made. This podcast c...