Elevate - for business leaders
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector,
Technology sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: media,
digital,
report,
Twitter,
social media,
Facebook,
risk management,
guide,
risks,
guidance,
PR,
crisis,
reputation,
Alan Joyce,
Qantas,
monitoring,
Internet Intelligence
Qantas has been the talk of negative social media once again this weekend after CEO Alan Joyce took the unprecedented step of grounding all Qantas jets. Can firms prepare for a social media backlash? Yes – but they need to introduce some risk management strategies that address the modern world first.
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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
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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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
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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Thursday, December 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Media sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
media,
investment,
digital,
report,
UK,
growth,
M&A,
trends,
recovery,
private equity,
money
There are signs of life in the UK media sector as investors look to new growth areas and M&A activity picks up. Grant Thornton’s 35-page research report reviews the investment environment with a particular eye on digital. Read on to download a free copy of the report or to find out more…
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Financing ,
Women in business
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
investment,
entrepreneur,
technology,
digital,
women in business,
CEO,
financing,
My Big Decision,
Julie Meyer,
Ariadne Capital,
First Tuesday,
backing,
dot com,
Dragon’s Den
Setting up a technology-oriented investment firm just six months after the dot com bubble burst may sound like risky business. But as entrepreneur and BBC Dragon Julie Meyer explains, in Grant Thornton’s
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Media sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
media,
digital,
Ten Alps,
online,
social media,
Facebook,
tool,
Coca-Cola,
Aston Martin,
Barclays Football,
Google News,
Ning,
Disney,
monopoly
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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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