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Let’s make some world-class media: Media trends forecast 2011-20

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories: Media sector | Tags: business, Alex Connock, media, digital, UK, growth, video, online, trends, TV, forecast, television, RTS, apps, global economy, WPP Stream, formats

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What will make British media businesses world class in the next decade? It’s a big question but there is consensus on the answer. Pretend TV founder, Alex Connock, reports back from the Royal Television Society convention and WPP Stream and finds out what the world’s biggest media and internet players are thinking about – from dual screen and interactive TV to social video and BRIC markets…

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All aboard the App Store

Friday, January 14, 2011 | Posted by: Alex Connock
Categories: Media sector, Technology sector | Tags: Alex Connock, media, finance, technology, digital, Ten Alps, business models, trends, funding, TV, ITV, Apple, rights, software, apps, App Store

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The world is mutating into one enormous and non-hierarchical content supermarket, says the CEO of Ten Alps, Alex Connock. And that is having a transformational effect on TV business models and funding channels.

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TV at a turning point in Edinburgh

Thursday, September 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: business, Alex Connock, media, BBC, Edinburgh, broadband, TV, Google, ITV, Channel 4, television, James Murdoch, YouTube, Mark Thompson, Sky, Paul Abbott, festival, local TV

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The North goes mad for decentralised media

Monday, February 22, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories: Media sector | Tags: Alex Connock, entrepreneurs, media, investment, digital, Digital Britain, BBC, TV, Media City, culture, Mark Thompson, regional, animation, North, Northwest

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Work-life balance? In the media?

Tuesday, September 08, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Media sector | Tags: Alex Connock, media, diary, Ten Alps, retirement, football, TV, sport, work-life balance, entrepreneurs,, Ryan Giggs, Peter Reid, Kevin Keegan, famil, exercise, Peter Fincham, Entrepreneur’s Diary

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