3 WELCOME
WELCOME TO FEED
What if you could build a broadcast tech magazine from the ground up? How would you do it? What would you cover? Would you stick to the same stories about the same infrastructures at the same incumbent institutions, peppered with an occasional thought leadership piece
about a far-o connected media future? Or would you (clever as you are) realise that connected media future is here. it’s now. We’re living it. And that broadcast has changed so much in the past five years, that the term has almost lost its meaning. In the current media landscape, some of our biggest stars are twenty- somethings operating out of their basements. A small church in Ohio can broadcast its message anywhere in the world. OTT TV companies command more respect from talent than big movie studios. And politicians are circumnavigating traditional gatekeepers and talking to followers directly online. FEED is the first magazine dedicated to exploring and explaining the tech and tools behind this streaming video ecosystem. Oh, and a magazine? On paper? Really? Yes, really. We’re all striving to have healthy boundaries around our media-saturated lives, but in the meantime, our ability to concentrate deeply is taking a beating. We reflexively respond to the email, the tweet, the text, the click- bait, the Like button, and our thought life gets broken into bits, mosaic tiles that can be hard to piece together into long-term visions and goals. There’s no time to think, no time to plan. We end up reacting, rather than creating. A print magazine – solid, tangible, analogue – oers a valuable gift. Time. Time to discover something unexpected. Time to think. And the opportunity to think, deeply and creatively, will be your most valuable business asset in the coming years. The future won’t belong to technologists and engineers. It will belong to thinkers. So whether you’re a YouTuber, a major lifestyle brand, a small business with a video oering, an eSports athlete or even a traditional broadcaster, we welcome you to our first issue of FEED . Flip through it, keep it a while, sit with it, use it as an excuse to think – about your business, about the future, about how to better serve your users and your stakeholders. Let us know how we can help.
EDITORIAL EDITOR Neal Romanek +44 (0) 1223 492246 nealromanek@bright-publishing.com CONTRIBUTORS Ann-Marie Corvin Heather McLean Adrian Pennington SENIOR SUB EDITOR Lisa Clatworthy SUB EDITORS Jo Ruddock Siobhan Godwood Felicity Evans ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR Matt Snow +44 (0) 1223 499453 mattsnow@bright-publishing.com SALES MANAGER Krishan Parmar +44 (0) 1223 499462 krishanparmar@bright-publishing.com
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Andy Jennings DESIGN MANAGER Alan Gray DESIGNERS Flo Thomas, Man-Wai Wong, Mark George PUBLISHING MANAGING DIRECTORS Andy Brogden & Matt Pluck
NEAL ROMANEK, EDITOR
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